TV industry is still a boys’ club – Catastrophe star Sharon Horgan
Writer and comedian says executives too often seek ‘safe pair of hands’, usually meaning an experien..
Writer and comedian says executives too often seek ‘safe pair of hands’, usually meaning an experienced male director
The writer and comedian Sharon Horgan has spoken out against the “overwhelmingly male-dominated” lists of directors that still dominate the television industry, ensuring that it remains a “boys’ club”.
Horgan, known best as the co-writer and star of Channel 4’s Catastrophe, was critical of the entrenched instinct of TV executives to always opt for the “safe pair of hands”, which inevitably meant choosing “a male director who has been doing it for 20 years”.
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