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The UK TV industry needs to attract another 13,500 disabled people to be truly reflective of the workforce and population, according to a landmark disability in TV report issued today by diversity body Diamond. Analyzing disability progress over the past five years, the report said the scale of…

The Paramount Global Summit on Disability will be held virtually and in-person at the company's Hollywood Gower office in Los Angeles on October 31. Presented by the Paramount Office of Global Inclusion, the daylong summit for employees and external partners will feature discussions with performers…

EXCLUSIVE: Britain’s major broadcasters and streamers are taking a stand on “clear and disturbing” access issues impacting the industry’s disabled population and have demanded change from studios and post-production facilities. Deadline can exclusively reveal that the flagship cross-industry initiative to be launched…

Diverse representation in the UK TV industry’s most senior ranks remains poor, according to the latest landmark Diamond diversity report, which showed representation of disabled people at the top is going backwards. The report, which is the fifth since the Diamond project was launched to monitor diversity across all…

Nearly three-quarters of disabled people working in UK animation believe that the sector is discriminating against them, according to a first-of-its-kind report from industry training body ScreenSkills. The Accessibility in Animation report, which paints a “bleak picture,” also found the majority of disabled people…

A landmark disability report from Jack Thorne’s Underlying Health Condition lobbying group has urged the creation of two industry funds: one to upgrade studios and facilities and the other to help disabled freelancers. Today’s Everyone Forgot About The Toilets report into disability in UK TV also called for mandatory…

Climate Change TV Fund Launches An organisation has been launched to help develop more TV shows and films about climate change. Climate Spring has attracted funding from the National Lottery Community Fund and Gower Street Trust and is being led by film producers James Durrant and Josh Cockroft, along with climate…

EXCLUSIVE: Jack Thorne has said the British TV and film industry could be a “world leader” on disability if “radical thinking” is implemented, while the Help writer has raised concerns over the death of social realist drama. Ahead of the unveiling of a landmark report into disability in TV compiled by his Underlying…