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ITV Fires ‘Coronation Street’ Director After He Branded TV Industry Diversity Champions “Victim-Making Frauds”

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British broadcaster ITV has dropped a regular Coronation Street director after he wrote a series of Facebook posts undermining concerns about systemic diversity problems in the UK television industry.Steve Finn’s Facebook missives were spotted by HuffPost UK and were posted during the week of the Edinburgh TV Festival in August, when diversity was at the forefront of most virtual sessions at the industry talking shop.Headlining the festival was historian David Olusoga, who delivered an excoriating assessment of race and racism in the UK television industry in a deeply personal MacTaggart Lecture. “I’ve been so crushed by my experiences, so isolated and disempowered by the culture that exists within our industry, that I have had to seek

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