British TV network ITV is no longer ordering homegrown comedies from all-male writing teams
Schuster recently launched a Comedy 50:50 initiative to help female comedy writers reach hard-to-access indie producers with whom ITV and other U.K. broadcasters work. "An awful lot of my comedy entertainment shows are made up of all male writing teams. In scripted commissions there has been a significant lack of shows written by women or with women on the writing teams," sheshe has backing from ITV to encourage more female comedy writers to get ahead in the entertainment industry.
"The biggest change is I've changed my terms of commission. There is an element for change of having to force it. And my network is coming on board with this," Schuster added about her conversations with U.K. production companies that might make comedy shows for ITV.
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