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BBC TV boss: No all-male panel shows
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Zippy
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 Female QI panellists I would be quite happy to see more of:
Sandi Toksvig, Jo Brand, Ronni Ancona, Katy Brand, Liza Tarbuck, Sue Perkins, Sarah Millican, Linda Smith (before she died) Susan Calman, Victoria Coren-Mitchell, Cal Wilson, Nina Conti (and Gran), Jessica Hynes, Victoria Wood, Pam Ayres
Female QI panellists I could happily do without seeing again:
Josie Lawrence, Shappi Khorsandi, Anneka Rice, Meera Syal, Helen Atkinson-Wood, Jan Ravens, Ruby Wax, Doon Mackichan
There are quite a lot of female repeat panellists on QI, one of my favourite episodes was an all-girl panel apart from Alan. In fact the person with the greatest number of appearances on the show is Jo Brand (32 as of May 2013) so I don't think they have much to worry about. I do love the dynamic when you get groups like Phil Jupitus/Sean Lock/John Sessions together so I hope we don't have to have a female in every single episode. I think QI actually did a question about female comedians (in the boys vs girls episode) where it had been determined that women as a gender laugh more, but both genders laugh less at women which is certainly my experience.
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That all-girl episode's on iPlayer right now, watched it last night, great laugh.
As you say, it's often about the dynamic too. And that goes for any show with guests, I particularly remember that awful Graham Norton episode with Madonna.
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 | | | | Quote: Dara Ó Briain hits out at BBC ban on men-only panel shows
Mock the Week presenter says corporation should not legislate for 'token woman' in attempt to tackle gender imbalance
The comedian Dara Ó Briain has criticised the BBC's ban on all-male lineups for panel shows, saying the move will make female guests appear as the "token woman".
The Mock the Week presenter said more emphasis should be placed on tackling gender inequality in other areas, such as "women in computer coding".
"I wish a tenth of the energy that was put into the women-on-panel-shows debate was put into women in computer coding, in which there are hundreds of thousands of jobs in Europe, and 11% of them are done by women," he told the Radio Times.
"It seems a more sensible challenge than these 300 people [in stand-up comedy] and how they are represented."
Ó Briain's intervention comes after the BBC director of television, Danny Cohen, announced that the corporation would ban all-male panel programmes in an attempt to address the gender imbalance on shows such as Mock the Week and Have I Got News for You.
The comedian said the corporation should have "evolved" instead of "legislating for token woman".
Ó Briain told the Radio Times: "I wouldn't have announced it, is what I'd say, because it means [comedians] Katherine Ryan or Holly Walsh, who've been on millions of times, will suddenly look like the token woman.
"It would have been better if it had evolved without showing your workings, if you know what I mean. Legislating for token women isn't much help.
"A certain number of women want to go into comedy and they should be cherished and nurtured, but you're not going to shift the fact that loads more men want to do it."
Appointed BBC director of television in April last year, Cohen announced the blanket ban on all-male comedy panels in an interview with the Observer this month. "We're not going to have panel shows on any more with no women on them. You can't do that. It's not acceptable," he said. | | | | |
Vic Coren was saying the same thing last night on ITV. I've no idea why they keep mentioning HIGNFY and Mock the Week either; they have female guests most weeks. I suspect it'll be quietly shelved once they can't actually book a woman for whatever reason and nobody actually kicks up a fuss. _________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
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jonbwfc
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here's the thing.. What he actually criticised was making the requirement public, as it is going to make people assume that the female comedians they were going to have on anyway are now only on it because they have to be, rather than because they might be good. He's actually in favour of better gender balance in TV but it's quite hard for a show like Mock the Week, because about 90% of stand up comedians are male and you can't present what isn't there in the first place. The radio interview I heard, he actually admitted that he wouldn't be a panelist on Mock The Week as his style of stand up isn't appropriate for it - MTW is very much about one liners and reactive comedy, whereas his style is more long form. This is true of a lot of female standups who do stories rather than jokes.
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