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Laurence Dollimore — Daily Mail March 1, 2023

Almost half of Brits believe ethnic minorities and LGBT communities are over-represented on television, a survey has found.

Some 49 per cent of people in the UK think ethnic minorities are over-represented according to the new YouGov poll.

Meanwhile, 47 per cent of Britons believe gay, bisexual, lesbian and transgender people are over-represented on their TV screens.

It comes just weeks after a report by the Campaign for Common Sense suggested the BBC’s programmes portrayed a version of Britain unrecognisable to most viewers – as it accused the broadcaster of ‘over-representing minorities’.

Meanwhile the marketing departments of 500 major brands said in a 2017 survey that they were focused on promoting diversity to ‘prevent perceived discrimination’, with some admitting they had purposefully used fewer images of white and straight couples in their campaigns.

A spokesman for the Campaign for Common Sense said: ‘Too often in BBC dramas you can see only one side of an argument presented.

‘And it’s usually the side of a liberal, Left-wing, woke viewpoint that has more in common with the echo chambers of Twitter than the majority of licence fee payers who are forced to fund the BBC’s output. How can they show period dramas full of Asians, Indians, and blacks?’

The overwhelming majority that used images of gay couples or ‘non-traditional’ families said they did so even if it did not fit with their brand.

Half said they were using fewer white people because they no longer represented ‘modern society’.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11806633/Nearly-half-Brits-believe-ethnic-minorities-LGBT-communities-represented-TV.html