one balked. everyone got it. you talk about sitcoms, dramas, and comedies that theoretically have a black audience. there s a huge part of america that is not spoken to in terms of entertainment. 1999 6.5% of the leading and supporting roles on fox were black characters. now it s up to 21%. this is a good trend. it seems like a no-brainer that this show would do well. it is going to shift more now because of empire. pilot season there s this thing called the empire effect. they re trying to cast lots of african-american characters on their shows. i knew from the numbers on the butler and what a hit that was that this is a large community in the united states of america that is wildly underrepresented in entertainment. if we could do a show that you