Equal hiring in the most well-liked TV sequence declined throughout the 2025-2026 season, ReFrame present in its newest annual report in collaboration with WIF.
Forty-two of the season’s prime 100 sequence obtained the group’s designation for parity productions, down 3 % from the earlier yr, The Hollywood Reporter realized.
“It confirms what I believe lots of people are seeing and experiencing, which is that we’re regressing relating to gender steadiness,” Kirsten Schaffer, CEO of the WIF, stated in an interview.
The group, based by the Sundance Institute and WIF in 2017, awards its “ReFrame Stamp” to tv productions that rent a enough variety of girls or non-binary or trans individuals in important roles corresponding to showrunner, lead actor, co-lead actor, director and numerous division heads. The group makes use of a degree system to find out eligibility.
Schaffer of the ReFrame system added: “We predict we have made it comparatively straightforward to get and so the truth that the numbers are going backwards relatively than forwards can be a downside. We’re in search of progress.”
She added: “Despite the fact that there are fewer TV reveals within the trade proper now, that is primarily based on percentages, so the odds ought to nonetheless keep there. »
This yr’s report discovered a marked decline within the illustration of girls, non-binary and trans individuals in main roles. Solely 39 girls or non-binary or trans individuals performed main roles within the season’s flagship sequence, which is the bottom quantity in seven years (and within the earlier TV season, the quantity was 44).
Illustration of girls of colour and non-binary and trans individuals of colour in main roles has additionally declined: within the 2024-2025 tv season, 55% of the most well-liked sequence contained no less than one girl of colour, non-binary or trans particular person of colour in essential supporting roles, whereas this previous season, solely 47% of sequence did so.
Behind the digicam, the report reveals a combined image when it comes to gender equality recruitment. The proportion of showrunners has elevated barely, but additionally demonstrates how underrepresented girls and non-binary and trans individuals stay on this function (this newest season 31 recognized on this class, in comparison with 29 the earlier season). Illustration amongst writers has elevated (the variety of sequence with no less than half of the episodes written by girls or non-binary individuals elevated from 49 within the earlier season to 51 within the final season) whereas that amongst administrators has decreased (sequence with no less than half of the episodes written by this group elevated from 38 sequence in 2024-2025 to 32 in 2025-2026).
Inside the crew, illustration decreased for first assistant administrators (by seven %), manufacturing designers (4 %) and cinematographers (three %), however elevated for stunt coordinators (12 %), composers (two %) and visible results supervisors (three %).
As ReFrame beforehand reported, a feminine showrunner is extremely predictive of getting a gender-balanced sequence. Final season, 87 % of the group’s Stamp-winning sequence had a feminine showrunner, whereas the earlier season it was almost 93 %.
The report additionally discovered that combined sequence have been barely extra more likely to be renewed and fewer liable to cancellation. Of the 27 first-season sequence that obtained the Stamp, 24, or 89 %, have been renewed, in comparison with 38 of the 45 sequence, or 84 %, that didn’t obtain the Stamp. Eleven reveals have been canceled on TV 2024-2025, 4 obtained the Stamp and 7 didn’t.
See the complete checklist of ReFrame’s Stamp recipients for the 2025-2026 tv season under.
56 days / Amazon Prime Video: Season 1
All his fault / Peacock: Season 1
Ballard / Amazon Prime Video: Season 1
The Bridgerton Chronicles /Netflix: Season 4
Down the cemetery highway / Apple TV: Season 1
Euphoria /HBO: Season 3
To fall / Amazon Prime Video: Season 2
Technology V / Amazon Prime Video: Season 2
Ginny and Georgia /Netflix: Season 3
Excessive potential /ABC: Season 2
His and hers /Netflix: Season 1
How you can get to paradise from Belfast /Netflix: Season 1
Trade /HBO Max: Season 4
Iron coronary heart / Disney+: Season 1
IT: Welcome to Derry /HBO: Season 1
Leanne /Netflix: Season 1
Love story: John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette / Hulu: Season 1
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters / Apple TV: Season 2
No person desires that /Netflix: Season 2
Solely murders within the constructing / Hulu: Season 5
Ponies / Peacock: Season 1
Shoe / Amazon Prime Video: Season 1
One thing very unhealthy goes to occur /Netflix: Season 1
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy / Paramount+: Season 1
Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds / Paramount+: Season 3
Stain /HBO: Season 1
The bear / Hulu: Season 4
The beast in me /Netflix: Season 1
The boys / Amazon Prime Video: Season 5
The diplomat /Netflix: Season 3
The golden age /HBO: Season 3
The girlfriend / Amazon Prime Video: Season 1
The Looking Wives /Netflix: Season 1
The Lincoln Lawyer /Netflix: Season 4
The Madison / Paramount+: Season 1
The miniature girl / Peacock: Season 1
The summer season I grew to become fairly / Amazon Prime Video: Season 3
The Wills / Hulu: Season 1
Insurgent /Netflix: Season 1
We have been liars / Amazon Prime Video: Season 1
Wednesday /Netflix: Season 2
Great man / Disney+: Season 1