Brian Young, an executive producer and writer of the CW teen series
The Vampire Diaries.
“I feel great,” says Chavez in a video tweeted by the streamer this week showing the cast members coming together for a table read in Ireland. She should. Her character almost didn’t happen.
Flora, widely believed to be Latina, was magically absent in season one. That in spite of being among the original pixies of the Nickelodeon animated series
Winx Club that served as the basis for the Netflix live-action drama. (The animated Flora was reportedly inspired by
Jennifer Lopez and voiced by actress
As calls for improved inclusivity on-screen and off grow louder in Hollywood, some inspiring changemakers are working to showcase a broader spectrum of Latinx artists and experiences in film and television.
Murrieta to create original content for Universal Television
26 May, 2021 - 02:22 PM IST | By indiantelevision.com Team
Popular American producer and writer Peter Murrieta has signed a first-look deal with Universal Television. According to a report published in Variety, Murrieta, will develop exclusive and original content for broadcast on cable, and streaming platforms. We couldn’t be happier to be working with Peter in this new way. Besides being a hilarious writer and an all-around great guy, he has the amazing track record of championing and supporting fellow LatinX voices and talent. We look forward to all the great projects we get to collaborate with him on, said Universal Television, executive vice president of comedy development Jim Donnelly.
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When Peter Murrieta’s show “Greetings From Tucson” premiered in the fall of 2002, he thought it was the beginning of a Latinx boom in television. His show, based on his own experience growing up, came months after the ABC premiere of “George Lopez,” another sitcom about a middle-class Mexican American family.
“I guess because I was a young writer then and I wrote my first pilot and it got shot, I just assumed that we were edging towards that kind of storytelling,” he said.
Nearly 20 years later, the promise of brown faces telling brown stories on prime-time TV remains unfulfilled, and it’s not hard to understand why.