Pass the Mic

Safiyya Ingar as Muna and Ebada Hassan as Doe in Brides lying down with plain face expressions while sat on a swing together.

Brides director Nadia Fall: "This film is much more tender than people will assume"

Angela Griffin and a still from Blue Lights season 3 featuring Sian Brooke holding a gun.

Angela Griffin on directing Blue Lights season 3, Waterloo Road and the need for better behind-the-scenes representation

Staz Nair in Virdee and Adjani Salmon in Dreaming Whilst Black season 2.

Is UK TV still committed to diversity? The BBC says yes – and has the numbers to prove it

Kaamil Shah standing in a grey shirt, smiling with trees in the background.

Writer Kaamil Shah: "TV's missing a trick by not supporting Muslim creatives in the way we potentially should"

Simone Ashley in Bridgerton season 2.

Beyond Bend It Like Beckham: 15 impactful films and TV shows spotlighting South Asian Britain

Ashley Thomas looking scared as he sits in a small room, tied up and with a masked figure sitting next to him.

Hostage's Ashley Thomas: "I want things that I do to be seminal and meaningful, have an impact"

George Bukhari in Ridley season 2, standing in front of a police car wearing his uniform and taking notes in his notepad.

Ridley's George Bukhari on stereotypes, colour-blind casting and the need for "complex" South Asian stories

Poppy Jay in Young, British and Anti-Abortion, holding a camera while standing in the middle of an empty road.

Director and podcaster Poppy Jay: "I think South Asian women are so starved of content"

Kaedon Skerritt and Kerry-Ann Waison in Beyond the Divide embracing in fear and looking to the side of them while standing on a pavement.

Beyond the Divide's Imoje Aikhoje on bringing an ex-Neo-Nazi and Black British activist together for new film

Idil Ahmed and Posy Sterling laughing while sitting on the edge of a bed, being illuminated by daylight. The words "Pass the Mic" are in the top right

Lollipop's Idil Ahmed: "I believe that being cast in this film saved my life"

Abbey Lee and Nicholas Pinnock sitting in a car and arguing in Beth.

Beth's Uzo Oleh: "The best type of sci-fi is something that is kind of plausible"

Noma Dumezweni in Murderbot standing in front of an illuminated background with a dial, looking downwards.

'Blake's 7's Josette Simon made me realise I could be an actor,' says Murderbot's Noma Dumezweni

Grace Ofori-Attah and a still from Malpractice featuring Tom Hughes.

Malpractice's Grace Ofori-Attah: "We had a real opportunity to depict severe mental illness accurately"

Channique Sterling-Brown as Dee-Dee in Coronation Street, sitting up in a hospital bed and looking heartbroken.

Corrie's Channique Sterling-Brown: 'Racial injustice storyline makes issue individual and human'

Nathaniel Martello-White and a still from Just Act Normal.

Just Act Normal's Nathaniel Martello-White: "We need more mainstream depictions of the Black experience"

Tamara Lawrance as Millie-Jean Black in Get Millie Black.

Morgan CormackDeath in Paradise comparisons are just lazy – Get Millie Black breaks the crime drama mould

Tamara Lawrance in Get Millie Black, walking on a balcony wearing a white shirt and blazer.

Tamara Lawrance on Get Millie Black: 'Excuses are made but a show like this can be done'

David Olusoga and a still from A Thousand Blows with Malachi Kirby and Erin Doherty.

David Olusoga on A Thousand Blows: "This series is an example of why inclusivity is wonderful"

Mark Rylance in Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light and Michaela Coel in I May Destroy You.

Morgan CormackWhy the UK scripted show 'crisis' could spell disaster for many TV fans

Staz Nair as Harry Virdee, standing in a meeting room at the police station and looking serious.

Morgan CormackVirdee achieves what countless other detective dramas attempt – with a marked difference

Victoria Asare-Archer smiling on the red carpet for Missing You.

ExclusiveMissing You writer Victoria Asare-Archer on finale twists and championing "incredible" Black TV talent

Sharon D Clarke as DCI Ellis getting out of her car, wearing a black jumper and jacket.

Morgan CormackEllis is the British detective drama that the genre has been crying out for