in black-centered shows at that time and what happened in the intervening years? it s very interesting because both with fox and then again with upn, what happens is looking for audiences. these upstart networks found that black television watchers were very loyal to content they felt spoke to them. so they used that with shows like girlfriends and we re talking about the fresh prince and martin and rock and what then does happen is once they build that audience they then move to the quote/unquote more mainstream white-facing sitcoms that allow them to then sort of scale themselves to a whole host of new advertisers. and it s a sad story that s happened over and over again. the death of the black television renaissance could be pretty much tracked to the merger of upn turning into the cw. that s really interesting. so over time, you saw more and more black characters in sitcoms on tv like we were just talking