Blurb! "The fifth annual GLAAD Network Responsibility Index is an evaluation of the quantity, quality and diversity of images of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people on television. It is intended to serve as a road map toward increasing fair, accurate and inclusive LGBT media representations.
"Primetime programming on the five broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, The CW, Fox and NBC) was evaluated as well as 10 highly-rated cable networks (A&E, ABC Family, AMC, FX, HBO, Showtime, Syfy, TBS, TNT and USA). Based on the analysis, a grade was assigned to each network: Excellent, Good, Adequate, or Failing..."
In fine: Most "gay" representation on the American tellybox is of white gay men.
There aren't many lesbians, bisexuals or people of colour.
Trans people are almost invisible - 1% of all LGBT representation.
The bestest cable network is ABC Family - whatever that it is.
Oh, apparently it's a Disney (owned) channel, and they show teen shows like GREEK and Huge.
No. Me neither.
Big sister channel ABC make Ugly Betty, Modern Family and Desperate Housewives - they are "Good".
The CW (WTF?) was the best broadcast (terrestial) channel.
These ratings can be a wonky; CW scored extremely highly for gay man hours on TV, but "51 of the CW's 55 hours of LGBT content came from... America's Next Top Model".
GLAAD think "True Blood [is] the most inclusive show on television".
It's on HBO - HBO is rated merely "Good", which surprised me.
And at last there's some good news for Rupert Murdoch, Fox was rated the second best broadcast network.
GLAAD love teh Glee.
Read the report here.
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GLAAD gets a lot of stick on sites like Queerty.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure if it's entirely deserved or not.
One of GLAAD's founders was Barbara Gittings, who's like my hero and everything.
Also, I'm not sure if it's mainly down to size, but I think representations of gay characters on US TV in recent years put those on UK TV to shame.
There's better writing and production and more interesting things done on US TV anyway, so maybe that has something to do with it.
What does you think, Fagburn...?
*adopts serious face*
Yeah, probably.
ReplyDeleteI think it's hard to say from over here, cause US TV gets filtered, so we only get the best stuff, like Two A Half Men etc.
Ja, jejejejejeje.
ReplyDeleteI think US networks just do (intelligent) popular TV so much better all round; Simpsons, Glee, Modern Family, Ugly Betty etc etc et
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