# British TV’s Working Class Problem Is At Both Junior & Senior Level — Diamond Report

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/british-tvs-working-class-problem-is-at-both-junior-senior-level-diamond-report/
- Published: 2026-10-28T09:00:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-28T09:23:03+00:00
- Original publisher: Deadline
- Original article: https://deadline.com/2026/10/diamond-report-uk-tv-working-class-problem-junior-senior-1237206195/
- Topics: Art, Culture, Entertainment, TV, UK, World

## Key points

- Working-class people made about a quarter of UK TV contributions.
- Their share was similar in junior and senior roles.
- Class representation varied sharply between genres.

## Summary

A new Diamond diversity report finds that working-class people are under-represented across UK television, at both junior and senior levels. The findings provide evidence for long-standing concerns that the industry does not reflect the class make-up of the country.

Working-class people accounted for about a quarter of programme contributions in the year to 31 March 2026, compared with 39% nationally; privately educated people accounted for 13%, nearly twice the national average. Children’s TV had the lowest working-class share on screen, at 16.8%, while current affairs was closest to the national average on screen at 39.1%. Off screen, current affairs had the lowest share, at 19%; the report analysed 180,000 contributions using 12,000 diversity forms.

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