<![CDATA[ Latest from Next TV in Have-and-have-nots ]]> https://www.nexttv.com/tag/have-and-have-nots Wed, 22 Jun 2016 18:15:00 +0000 en <![CDATA[ `Pretty Little Liars’ A Hit On Twitter ]]> https://www.nexttv.com/news/pretty-little-liars-hit-twitter-405886 v1VbeVhFZg7ZbSQJ1C2XWo Wed, 22 Jun 2016 18:15:00 +0000

The seventh season debut of Freeform’s thriller series Pretty Little Liars was the most tweeted show on Tuesday, according to Nielsen.

The series drew 150,000 tweets Tuesday night from 48,000 unique Twitter authors, according to Nielsen’s Twitter TV Ratings report. OWN’s premiere of its new original series Greenleaf as well as its Tyler Perry-produced drama The Haves and The Have Nots placed among the top five most social shows for the day along with NBC’s America’s Got Talent and CBS’ Person Of Interest.

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FS1’s telecast of the US/Argentina 2016 Copa America Centenario soccer match drew 619,000 tweets, easily finishing as the most talked about live sports event on Twitter throughout Tuesday, according to Nielsen.

]]> <![CDATA[ Time To Open Up Director Ranks ]]> https://www.nexttv.com/blog/time-open-director-ranks-384088 gJThuCHfQaB9LhxyrobkNz Tue, 23 Sep 2014 12:15:00 +0000

As the cable industry devoted last week to diversity efforts, a new report from the Directors Guild of America has found that minorities and women are not regularly being hired to direct television

shows.

The percentage of episodes directed by white and minority females remained even year-to-year at a paltry 12% and 2%, respectively, according to the DGA report, which looked at more than 3,500

episodes of more than 220 series produced in the 2013-14 network-television season and the 2013 cabletelevision season.

The only year-to-year gains were made by minority males, who directed 17% of show episodes compared to 14% last year. But a closer look reveals that all of those gains were made by one director,

Tyler Perry, who directed every episode of the three series that he has on OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network: The Haves and Have Nots, For Better or for Worse and Love Thy Neighbor. The percentage of

episodes directed by Caucasian males decreased from 72% in 2012-13 to 69% in 2013-14.

Translated, women and minority males combined still directed just three out of every 10 television series episodes, according to the DGA.

National Cable & Telecommunications Association CEO Michael Powell said during last week’s NAMIC Conference that the best way to ensure that the industry continues to make gains in minority and

female employment is to make sure there’s a strong and full pipeline of qualified executives waiting in the wings.

It’s hard to believe that there aren’t many talented female and minority directors awaiting their chance to showcase their skills behind the camera. They have to be given a chance.

DGA president Paris Barclay said as much in his statement regarding the report. “Unfortunately, it can be shockingly difficult to convince the people who control hiring to make even small

improvements to their hiring practices,” he said. “People often say, ‘Everybody is responsible for diversity,’ but in the end, that often means that nobody takes responsibility. It’s time for the people who

make the hiring decisions — be they studios, networks, production companies, or individual producers — to stop making excuses, stop passing the buck, and start living up to the country’s promise and

possibility by providing true equal opportunity.”

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