Posted on 11/10/2020 5:14:28 PM PST by conservative98
CBS has announced that at least half the cast of the popular and long running reality game shows, including Survivor and Big Brother, will be made up of nonwhite contestants.
“The reality TV genre is an area that’s especially underrepresented, and needs to be more inclusive across development, casting, production and all phases of storytelling,” George Cheeks, president and chief executive officer for the CBS Entertainment Group, said in a statement. “As we strive to improve all of these creative aspects, the commitments announced today are important first steps in sourcing new voices to create content and further expanding the diversity in our unscripted programming, as well as on our network.”
The network made a pledge on Monday that half of future casts will be made up of blacks, indigenous, or other people of color, according to Entertainment Weekly. The network is also applying the new casting rule to its other reality game show Love Island.
The change in hiring comes on the tail of charges from a group of contestants who claim that Survivor and producer Jeff Probst are biased in favor of white players. The group, calling itself the Black Survivor Alliance, aimed to bring “light to our collective experience with implicit bias and racism on and off the show.”
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Need a dopey white guy in their for comic relief and that the audience can love to hate.
America would be well served by focusing on good vs evil instead of skin color.
“Whoop de whoop. Does that really mean anything? What am I missing?”
The 19,239th example of successful bullying by the politically correct thought police. Not really “news”.
I haven’t watched Survivor since the first season in 2000; however, this hate for white people and particularly old white men needs to stop. Cut the racist crap!
Theft will be going up on “the Island”.
Will they scrape “Black Lives Matter” on the beach?
This year they had 4 black people.
One was Black/Asian Male
One was Black Male
Two Black Females.
The two males are not speaking to the black female because
1. She called one of them an Uncle Tom
2. She didn’t think Black/Asian is black enough
They are going to want to vote in a Black Group and it wont go over well.
That Bobbie Jo on Petticoat Junction was a whole lot easier on the eyes than a multicultural cast. Entertainment used to be so much simpler, basic and damn good looking.
I’m a Betty Jo fan, myself.
Half the country that Hollywood alienated really doesn’t care who you put on that stupid trashy show really doesn’t give a crap.
Re: 1moretime
BS. Different article! Search the title for Survivor and nothing comes up. This article mentions the shows.
Why don’t they just not have any whites?
OK Go for it.
Just like the NBA.
Jungle Survivor...
maybe a few Christians?...hetersexuals happily married in the church?
Ridiculous Burnett.
Whatever happened to the best, strongest people?
Watch your ratings being flushed away.
I never watched it anyway...so I could give two $hits.
There was an old white guy who made the ratings shoot up.
It was a few years ago so I can’t remember the man’s name.
I lost interest when they started pushing queers and dykes really heavily :P
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