Most of the top 30 TV bigwigs have one thing in common…
Australian TV’s most powerful and influential people for 2015 have been declared.
Fairfax Media canvassed a “panel of experts – critics, executives and industry insiders” before naming “the big 30” movers and shakers.
The list includes heavy hitters such as The Project co-host Waleed Aly, Power Games: The Packer-Murdoch War actor Patrick Brammall, actor/writer/producer Sean Micallef, and Go Back To Where You Came From producers Matt Campbell, Nick Murray and Michael Cordell.
You can see the full list here.
Congratulations to them.
But, the thing is, only six of the top 30 are women.
Those women include:
ABC journalist Sarah Ferguson: “One of Australia’s best journalists, below, who has delivered a broad range of impactful work (including The Killing Season) and played a role in breathing new life and relevance into Four Corners.”
ABC journalist Leigh Sales: “The presenter of the ABC’s current affairs flagship and, with a surgical precision which is rarely seen in modern television journalism, Australian television’s best interrogator.”
ABC’s head of Indigenous television Sally Riley: “A powerful figure in bringing Indigenous voices to the screen, and a stylish knack for exploding genres, from the brilliant Redfern Now to the mischievous Black Comedy.”
Screentime’s head of non-fiction Jennifer Collins: “Former head of factual at the ABC with credits as varied as Poh’s Kitchen and Who’s Been Sleeping in My House who has made the jump into the commercial space.”