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I'm joined by my co-banterer, John Horn of the Los Angeles Times. Hello, John.

Hello, Kim. So, John, a new report from the Directors Guild of America looking at the representation of women and minority directors in television on broadcast networks and cable channels. Unsurprisingly, since I think women and minorities have been stuck for some time in the industry in film and television. Unsurprisingly, the news is not

especially good. No, the news is, in fact, I'd say terrible. This was a study of more than

3,100 episodes produced in the 2011-2012 network television season and the 2011 cable television

season where there's 190 scripted TV series.

And the findings were basically that if you're a woman or a minority, you're going to get a tiny sliver of the jobs.

And even though the DGA has tried very hard to get production companies to hire more people of color and more women, the needle is barely moving.

Yeah, and the DGA came out with a list of the best of and

worst of. Strikingly, I found one of the worst with zero percent women or minorities directing

an episode is Veep, which is sort of ironic. That's HBO's series with Julia Louis Dreyfus. She just

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