{"id":340,"date":"2010-10-12T05:36:28","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T05:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/?p=340"},"modified":"2017-06-23T02:56:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T02:56:18","slug":"where-are-the-black-tv-shows-roles-for-minority-actors-at-an-all-time-high-but-programs-in-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/?p=340","title":{"rendered":"Where are the black TV shows? Roles for minority actors at an all-time high, but programs in decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/26613008\/\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"slice-1\">\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/msnbcmedia1.msn.com\/j\/MSNBC\/Components\/Photo\/_new\/100617-thereyet-hmed.grid-6x2.jpg\" alt=\"Image: Scene from &quot;Are We There Yet?&quot;\" width=\"474\" height=\"354\" \/><\/div>\n<div>With the premiere of sitcom \u201cAre We There Yet?\u201d on Wednesdays at 9, the\u00a0TBS is currently airing three sitcoms with black casts from 8-11 p.m.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>The broadcast networks have made great strides in recent years by diversifying the faces we see on primetime TV, a momentum that carries into new and returning shows on the 2010-11 schedule.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"intelliTXT\">\n<p>But it\u2019s a scattershot success. At the moment, the number of scripted, live-action shows on broadcast television with all-black (or predominantly minority, for that matter) casts is exactly zero.<\/p>\n<p>Just not all on the same screen.\u00a0The irony is in the past three decades, when a lack of minorities on TV was a measurable problem, programs with an African-American focus were in abundance: \u201cThe Jeffersons,\u201d \u201cSanford &amp; Son,\u201d \u201cGood Times,\u201d \u201cThe Cosby Show,\u201d \u201cThe Fresh Prince of Bel Air,\u201d \u201cA Different World,\u201d \u201cFamily Matters,\u201d \u201cMartin,\u201d \u201cLiving Single,\u201d &#8220;The Hughleys,&#8221; \u201cThe Bernie Mac Show,\u201d \u201cEverybody Hates Chris\u201d \u2026 the list goes on and on.<\/p>\n<p>Only NBC\u2019s \u201cCosby\u201d was a true crossover phenomenon \u2014 but each had a measure of success to illustrate that black shows have a place on the networks.<\/p>\n<p>And ad-supported cable doesn&#8217;t fare much better, with TBS \u2014 which premiered \u201cAre We There Yet?&#8221; on Wednesday night \u2014 standing head and shoulders above everyone in the genre.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the premiere of sitcom \u201cAre We There Yet?\u201d on Wednesdays at 9, the\u00a0TBS is currently airing three sitcoms with black casts from 8-11 p.m. The broadcast networks have made great strides in recent years by diversifying the faces we see on primetime TV, a momentum that carries into new and returning shows on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348,"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}