BBC Sets Quotes for Disabled TV Actors
LONDON, ENGLAND, Feb. 10, 2004 -- BBC television viewers should notice more people with disabilities on programs in the coming months, because of new guidelines set by network executives.
Jana Bennett, the corporation's director of television, announced new quotas which the four BBC networks are to use to increase the number of such actors and extras in dramatic programs, the numbers of contestants with disabilities in game shows, and the number of such participants in "factual" shows.