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Analysis: The BBC & Netflix Unveiled Their Landmark Five-Year Disability Partnership With Fanfare In 2021, But Two-And-A-Half Years Later, The Industry Is Questioning Where The Shows Are
The BBC and Netflix unveiled a disability partnership at Edinburgh TV Festival in 2021, and now sources are questioning where the shows are.
In recent months, sources from the UK drama and disabled TV communities have begun questioning the partnership, getting in touch with Deadline unprompted to query why a tie-up that was unveiled with such fanfare has so far failed to bear fruit. Positive and authentic portrayal is critical and features across a range of shows including EastEnders, Silent Witness, Call the Midwife, Doctor Who, Waterloo Road, His Dark Materials, Best Interests and Sherwood; and in comedies Jerk, Dinosaur and We Might Regret This.” She added: “Elsewhere across the BBC, disabled presenters and contributors feature in Strictly Come Dancing, The Traitors, Race Across the World, Rose Ayling-Ellis: Signs for Change, Tommy Jessop Goes to Hollywood and Liz Carr on assisted suicide.
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