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No More All-Male Panel Shows on the BBC
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Panel shows such as QI and Mock the Week will no longer have all-male line-ups, the BBC's director of TV has said.
"We're not going to have panel shows on any more with no women on them," Danny Cohen told the Observer. "You can't do that. It's not acceptable."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-26107011
So now any woman on a BBC panel show is going to be there as the token woman. What a crazy idea.
"We're not going to have panel shows on any more with no women on them," Danny Cohen told the Observer. "You can't do that. It's not acceptable."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-26107011
So now any woman on a BBC panel show is going to be there as the token woman. What a crazy idea.
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Bet Shappi Khorsandi isn't seeing it like that.
As one of the truly funny female comedians, I would guess she feels insulted that anyone would think she, or her fellow female comedians, need a helping hand from nanny.
Will they waive the rule for husbands of important women like the Labour party with their all women selection lists?
Is it goodbye to Woman's Hour?
Haven't read the article, so don't know what the reasoning is behind this.
Then again he's come out with some bollox I disagree with before in relation to cancelled shows.
There will be loads more scrutiny now surely and they will have to very funny to escape any "there to fill up the quota" comments! If it's to be fair then surely all panels/ teams should be 50/50
The No1 campaigner against Sexism and ageism at the BBC has been the Daily Mail are they PC as well??:D
It just doesn't
Whereas QI works well with say Sandi Torksvig and Jo Brand.
Surely it should be quality before who is what sex? (Not saying women are not funny, Just saying what if...) If 3 amazing male panellists were available one week only, One gets rejected so they can have a female on?
Either the guest bookers on these shows are sexist or they're already giving everyone an equal opportunity based on their talents regardless of gender. If they are sexist, they should be fired. If they're not sexist and are being fair, then why are women being shoehorned in under some agenda?
Well actually it was a DM link as that was was linked to on Google news
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2555111/All-male-comedy-panels-BANNED-BBC-pledges-include-women-shows.html
Two things that stood out were
1) QI is mentioned but over the last few series there have been plenty of female guests.
In a couple of episodes in the last two series the three guest panelists were all female and in several others there were two female guest panelists.
2) Victoria Wood was complaining about it, even saying that she doesn't like appearing on panel shows, but personally I felt she was pretty useless on QI - maybe she shouldn't have bothered appearing on it if she doesn't like that type of show.
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The series of QI where they became obsessed with female comedians from Austrailia had some very unfunny guests. I'm all for equality but if it so happens that the best people for the job are male then I don't see the problem. The only thing I would object to would be an entire series of a show with just men.
Danny Cohen is saying that we will never see another BBC panel show without at least one woman on the panel
This is the link to the original article in which the comment is just an aside:
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/feb/08/danny-cohen-bbc-director-television-tv-panel-shows
The article contains quite a lot of Danny Cohen's opinions about TV, if anyone is interested in them.
Agree with this (mostly - wouldn't say never works).
MTW is a bit of a bear-pit. Not many of the female panellists are very good at jumping in. Too many of them seem to be just making up the numbers.
QI is more relaxed and better suited to female panellists. Sandi Toksvig is very much in my list of favourite QI participants - the ones whose name in the cast list makes me look forward more to the episode.
Agreed. With the BBC expect to see Gina Yashere and Sarah Millican soon.