Top Inclusive Show Creators
Top Creators of 2021 to 2023
The creators who have worked with the most women and/or people of color as cinematographers, editors, production designers, or assistant directors across 3 years.
Mindy Kaling
Never Have I Ever S3 & S4; The Sex Lives of College Girls S1 & S2
Issa Rae
Rap Sh!t S1 & S2; Insecure S5
Lena Waithe
The Chi S5 & S6; Twenties S2
Tyler Perry
Sistas S4 & S5; The Oval S4
Top Creators of 2023
The creators who have worked with the most women and/or people of color as cinematographers, editors, production designers, or assistant directors in 2023.
Danielle Sanchez-Witzel
Up Here S1; Survival of the Thickest S1
Jenny Han
The Summer I Turned Pretty S2; XO, Kitty S1
Craig Rosenberg
Gen V S1; Based on a True Story S1
Brad Falchuk
9-1-1: Lone Star S4; American Horror Story S12
Ryan Murphy
9-1-1: Lone Star S4; American Horror Story S12
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Tyler Perry
Sistas S6; The Oval S5
Top Inclusive Editors
Top Editors of 2021 to 2023
Women and/or people of color working as editors whose work appears most often on the Inclusion List across the last 3 years.
Pam Marshall
Call Me Kat S2 & S3
Nina M. Gilberti
Sistas S4 & S5; The Oval S4
Edwin Rivera
Boo, Bitch! S1; Freeridge S1; This Fool S1 & S2
Lynarion Hubbard
Rap Sh!t S1 & S2; Reasonable Doubt S1; Twenties S2
Angel Gamboa Bryant
The Upshaws S3; The Upshaws S2
Debra Weinstein
Good Trouble S4 & S5
Sue Federman
How I Met Your Father S1; With Love S1
Andrea Folprecht
BMF S1 & S2; Mo S1
Leah Breuer
4400 S1; East New York S1; The Crossover S1
Varun Viswanath
Reservation Dogs S2 & S3
Angela Latimer
Bel-Air S1; First Kill S1; Grown-ish S6; Swagger S2
Top Inclusive Series of 2023
Top Overall
The series from 2023 that scored highest on the representation of girls/women, underrepresented racial/ethnic groups, LGBTQ+, disabilities, and age on screen and behind the camera.
Neon
Season 1
Swarm
Season 1
Fantasy Island
Season 2
XO, Kitty
Season 1
The Upshaws
Season 3 Part 1
Awkwafina is Nora From Queens
Season 3
The Chosen One
Season 1
American Born Chinese
Season 1
The Other Black Girl
Season 1
This Fool
Season 2
Gender
The series from 2023 that scored highest on the representation of girls/women on screen and behind the camera.
Tiny Beautiful Things
Season 2
Up Here
Season 1
Awkwafina is Nora From Queens
Season 3
Survival of the Thickest
Season 2
The Power
Season 1
Dead Ringers
Season 1
School Spirits
Season 1
Harlem
Season 2
Fantasy Island
Season 2
Based on a True Story
Season 1
Race/Ethnicity
The series from 2023 that scored highest on the representation of underrepresented racial/ethnic groups on screen and behind the camera.
Neon
Season 1
American Born Chinese
Season 1
Johnson
Season 3
The Chi
Season 6
The Chosen One
Season 1
Swagger
Season 2
The Crossover
Season 1
Kold x Windy
Season 1
Rap Sh!t
Season 2
Swarm
Season 1
LGBTQ+
The series from 2023 that scored highest on the representation of the LGBTQ+ community on screen.
Swarm
Season 1
What We Do in The Shadows
Season 5
Dead Ringers
Season 1
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Season 16
Riverdale
Season 7
Our Flag Means Death
Season 2
Glamorous
Season 1
Good Omens
Season 2
Disability
The series from 2023 that scored highest on the representation of people with disabilities on screen.
Swarm
Season 1
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Season 1
Drops of God
Season 1
The Last of Us
Season 1
Lessons in Chemistry
Season 1
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Season 16
All the Light We Cannot See
Season 1
Our Flag Means Death
Season 2
A Million Little Things
Season 5
Shrinking
Season 1
Age
The series from 2023 that scored highest on the representation of people age 65 and older on screen.
Barry
Season 4
Tyler Perry’s Assisted Living
Season 4
Only Murders in the Building
Season 3
The Company You Keep
Season 1
Frasier
Season 1
Bupkis
Season 1
Awkwafina is Nora From Queens
Season 3
All the Light We Cannot See
Season 1
Secret Invasion
Season 1
Top 150 Inclusive Series
The most inclusive series from 2021-2023, determined by on screen and behind the camera scores.
| # | Title | Season | Year Released | Originator | Type | Total Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Raising Dion | 2 | 2022 | Netflix | Streaming | 13.4 |
| 2 | Queen Sugar | 7 | 2022 | Oprah Winfrey Network | Cable | 12.9 |
| 3 | Gentefied | 2 | 2021 | Netflix | Streaming | 12.5 |
| 4 | The Baby | 1 | 2022 | HBO Prime | Cable | 12.1 |
| 5 | Neon | 1 | 2023 | Netflix | Streaming | 12.1 |
Top Inclusive Originators
Top Overall
The originators based on the highest score and most series on the Inclusion List across the last 5 years.
Netflix
Top Inclusive Originator
Hulu
Amazon Prime
HBO Max
Apple TV+
Methodology
We identified every prime time, live action, scripted series airing on broadcast and cable channels owned by major companies and scripted, live action series on major streaming platforms in the 2023 season. Points were awarded when the series met our inclusion criteria, described in the full methodology.
Read Our MethodologyPartnership
The Annenberg Inclusion Initiative partnered with the Adobe Foundation to create a data-driven tool that would allow the public to understand who has taken inclusion seriously and been a driving force for industry change. We seek to inform, challenge, and congratulate the entertainment industry and point out where there is room to grow.
Read About Our PartnershipProject Credits
We would like to express our gratitude to the individuals and organizations who have assisted and supported us, in addition to our outstanding team. Amy White and Brycie Jones, along with Lexie Riegelhaupt and Elise O’Neil and their colleagues at the Adobe Foundation have provided unwavering support for this project since its inception. The dedicated team at the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative also played a significant role in making this project possible, and we extend our appreciation to our hardworking students for their contributions.
Annenberg Inclusion Initiative Founder: Dr. Stacy L. Smith
Program Director: Dr. Katherine Pieper
Program Manager: Ariana Case
Project Administrator: Katherine Neff
Development Team: Sam Wheeler and Anvitha Chegu Ashokkumar
Design Team: Brooke Kong and Isabelle Lim
Research Assistants: Amy Andrade, Angela Bogosyan, Anish Lahorani, Aryana Dizadji, Danielle Hsieh, Halle Thompson, Hrushikesh Lavate, Jaden Sibrian, Janelle Nwakuche, Kally Yuan, Katie Lee, Nelson Lou, Olu Ajayi, Sanjana Senthil, Sophia Pelaez, Tyrese Shaffer
Annenberg Inclusion Initiative Staff Team: Aimee Christopher, Braxton Albers, Bryan Davis, Karla Hernandez, Matthew A. Davis, Sarah Neff, Zoe Moore, Zoily Mercado, W. Michael Sayers
This project was led by Samuel Wheeler (Data Management Coordinator) and Brooke Kong (User Experience Designer). Authorship should be cited as: Wheeler, S., Kong, B., Pieper, K., & Smith, S.L. (2024). The Inclusion List.® Annenberg Inclusion Initiative. Los Angeles, CA.
Interested to see how we did from 2021-2023?
Last year, we measured the 100 most inclusive broadcast and cable series from the 2021-22 broadcast season and streaming series from 2021 to 2023.
See Our 2021-2023 Report