The prolific screenwriter used his keynote MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh TV Festival to take aim at how the British TV industry has dealt with disability on and off screen.
But given the past year — “when disabled people were so recently forgotten, at a time when disabled people were left to die, at a time when disabled people are still being ignored” — he said that TV had a responsibility.
Thorne said there needed to be an “attitude change” as to the importance of disabled drama, describing how he was once asked to consider rewriting a series treatment about a wheelchair basketball team to make it about a non-disabled basketball team, because it was “full of good ideas” and it needed “the best chance it could.” He said that the fact it was about a disabled team was “dragging it down,” adding that, up until 2021 , he had never made a single disabled story on a full drama budget.
In order to get diversity — both on screen and off — Thorne said there desperately needed to be quotas.
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