Why isn’t the Cosby Show for a new generation on network TV?

[lovedforaday]

By Reniqua Allen, Published: July 13

Today, the only way some Americans get insight into what life is like for a black family is by watching snippets of the Obamas on the nightly news. No English-language network program centers around a black family - or an Asian or Hispanic family either - except Fox’s “The Cleveland Show.” And that’s animated

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[qable]

I would love to have a good Hispanic show on mainstream TV. It gets really old seeing Hispanic folk stereotyped as con-men, sex workers, and undocumented immigrants. That said, I have severe doubts in contemporary writing making anything I could watch without cringing.

[killerforhire]

The first two Hispanic shows I could think of were the George Lopez show and The Brothers Garcia. They still weren't even remotely relatable for myself, but it's a start, I guess.

[imnotasquirrel]

Shelby Woo, but that was ages ago and it was on Nickelodeon.

The one show with an Asian-American lead that I can think of right now is Nikita, and she is SURROUNDED by white people. And they just added another white male regular to the cast. SMH.

[imnotasquirrel]

Well, if you're gonna go with animated shows, there's also Avatar: The Last Airbender. But while animation is cool, it's not the same as live-action, if only because you get a lot of dumbasses who think that the characters in the cartoons are actually white.

And Nikita is still worth watching bb! It just has its share of problems. And Maggie Q is indeed awesome. She did a stunts demonstration at this year's SDCC (there's actually a video of that, if you want to google), which was amazing.

I've heard people say that Maggie Q as Nikita just feeds into more stereotypes about Asians and martial arts, which is stupid because Nikita isn't a martial arts show.