Across almost all genres, we see slightly higher levels of disabled representation on-screenthan off-screen; the exception is Factual entertainment, where representation off-screenis slightly higher than on. Disabled on-screen representation is highest in Children’sprogrammes where disabled people account for 11.9% of contributions, but even hererepresentation remains significantly lower than UK population figures (18% of peopleidentify as disabled).
People who identify with mixed or multiple ethnic groups are represented most strongly bothon (7.5%) and off-screen (5.4%). These figures are relatively high compared to…
Disabled people are still very under-represented across UK programmes. Off-screen, disabledpeople make just 6% of contributions, and on-screen contributions are only slightly higher at8.3%. These…
Across most genres, Black people are more stongly represented on-screen than off-screen.Off-screen, Black people are making fewest contributions in Drama (1.6%) and Lifestyle(1.1%), which is…
There is little variation in women’s representation across genres. Off-screen, women aregenerally better represented in Current Affairs (55.4%) and Factual programmes (56.9%) andleast well represented…
Given that less than 1% of the UK population identifies as transgender and people whoidentify as transgender are under-represented in the industry, it is difficult…
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