FX's John Landgraf says more than half of the network's writers are not white men
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In 2015, a Variety study on diversity among TV directors discovered that only 12 percent of the directors working on FX shows that season were women or people of color, the lowest across all networks that year. Since then, FX boss John Landgraf has evidently made it his personal mission to change that—which makes sense, since that’s the sort of thing that is his literal job—and at a recent event with USC’s Institute On Entertainment Law And Business, he explained just how much progress his network has made. As reported by Variety, Landgraf says that he was “really embarrassed” by the report and it made him realize that there had been a “failure of leadership on [his] part.”
