2012 CBS Diversity Sketch Comedy Showcase casting call in Los Angeles
(Examiner.com) CBS will sponsor its seventh annual talent showcase for diverse sketch comedians in January 2011 in Los Angeles. The CBS Network is known as "The Tiffany Network" and their showcases...
View ArticleDGA gives TV producers failing grade on hiring women, minorities
(Los Angeles Times) Further evidence has emerged that Hollywood has made little progress in hiring women and minorities to work on prime-time television shows. A survey conducted by the Directors...
View ArticleSurvey Sheds Light on TV’s Diversity Problem
(The Root) The near-whiteout at the 2011 Emmy Awards drew criticism from The Root and other sources. But the problem for this show, or for its sibling, the Oscars, is about who the directors are....
View ArticleMinority hopefuls perform in CBS diversity showcase
(Los Angeles Times) LMFAO’s head-pounding “Party Rock Anthem” pulsated through North Hollywood’s El Portal Theatre as a multiracial group of young performers stormed the stage, promising in song to...
View ArticleSotomayor: Affirmative action changed my life
(CBS News) Sonia Sotomayor was appointed four years ago by President Barack Obama, but she gave her first broadcast interview to "60 Minutes." She grew up in a public housing project in the Bronx, the...
View ArticleCBS Daytime seeks writers of color for CBS Daytime Writers Initiative Program
(Examiner.com) CBS Daytime continues to support diversity in daytime television. Along with the recent additions of cast members Redaric Williams, Lamon Archey and Ignacio Serricchio to "TheYoung...
View ArticleGeorge Lopez jokes “Argo” star Ben Affleck “our finest Latino actor right now”
(CBS News) George Lopez has built a career finding humor in just about everything, from politics to his Hispanic roots. On "CBS This Morning," the stand-up comedian and actor — one of the voices...
View ArticleABC News Poaches Black Anchor From CBS
(The Root) ABC News officially named CBS correspondent Byron Pitts as an anchor and its chief national correspondent Monday, moving Pitts to a network where "diversity is as important as it is to...
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