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Anne Mensah, Netflix's UK content chief, has called on the TV industry to confront its built-in biases and help diverse creatives “find their truth.”
Speaking at a spotlight session here at the Edinburgh TV Festival ahead of James Graham's MacTaggart lecture, which is expected to focus on the industry's problems with class divides, former BBC and Sky executive Mensah said she was "super-hyper-focused" on tackling diversity on British television.
The Netflix VP of UK Content pointed to shows like Supacell, which focuses on a group of black working-class superheroes in East London, as examples of how Netflix UK is tackling the issue. She urged audiences to address their own unconscious biases, though she also admitted to having them herself.
