{"id":393028,"date":"2026-01-27T11:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T11:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/393028\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T11:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T11:18:07","slug":"class-confident-edinburgh-orgs-include-bbc-itv-channel-4-paramount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/393028\/","title":{"rendered":"Class Confident Edinburgh Orgs include BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Paramount"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: The BBC<\/a>, ITV<\/a>, Channel 4<\/a>, Paramount<\/a> and major UK production groups have signed up to be the Edinburgh TV Foundation\u2019s first tranche of Class Confident<\/a> organizations.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe idea emerged from James Graham<\/a>\u2018s 2024 MacTaggart address and crystallized last year when a series of Class Confident Actions were drawn up by the TV Foundation.<\/p>\n

\n\tBanijay<\/a>, All3Media<\/a>, Fremantle<\/a> and BBC Studios<\/a> have signed up to show they are meeting the series of prompts to remove barriers for people from working\u00a0class backgrounds to work in TV.\u00a0The actions include putting class on the agenda of a company\u2019s culture and leadership; bringing back job interviews in recruitment; levelling the playing field by paying the real living wage for entry level roles at the least; and supporting the next moves of staff with potentially longer contracts.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnother nine key players have pledged to be Class Confident including Hat Trick Productions, The Traitors indie Studio Lambert and Squid Game: The Challenge co-producer The Garden.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe aim of the actions is to improve the woefully poor landscape for working class people in the British TV industry. Recent research has \u202ffound that nearly one in four people in senior TV roles have the cultural and economic advantages of a private school education, which is more than three times higher than the 7.5% of the general population who are privately educated.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tDear England creator Graham argued passionately <\/a>for greater working class representation during his MacTaggart, claiming the industry was \u201csqueamish about defining it, and as a result, we quite often still exclude it from industry measurements around\u00a0diversity<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cTaboo topic\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTV Foundation Impact Director Gemma Bradshaw said: \u201cWhen we first started talking about working class voices in the industry it was a taboo topic. Now some of the biggest players in the industry are putting their hands up, ready to do more.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShe added: \u201cWe\u2019re\u202fthrilled to see so many organisations already\u202ftaking action to improve\u202fclass representation and\u202fwe\u2019re\u202fkeen to hear from more TV companies that want to join us. This is not a checklist\u00a0or the end point;\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0the start of\u202fa movement to make the industry accessible to all.\u201d\u202f\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: The BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Paramount and major UK production groups have signed up to be the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[52532,717,243,13469,1633,147858,10513,39792,96,29144,347,9767,3770,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-393028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-all3media","tag-banijay","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-studios","tag-channel-4","tag-class-confident","tag-diversity","tag-edinburgh-tv-festival","tag-entertainment","tag-fremantle","tag-itv","tag-james-graham","tag-paramount","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}