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January 19, 2021 4:00 AM Matt Roush, TV Insider
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A selective critical checklist of notable Tuesday TV:
Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (8/7c, PBS, check local listings at pbs.org): You never know what skeletons lurk in someone’s genealogical closet. In the seventh-season premiere of Harvard professor Gates’ captivating series that explores celebrity guests’ ancestries, actress Glenn Close and cult director John Waters are dismayed to learn of slaveholders in their families’ privileged pasts. “It makes me feel a sense of shame,” says Close, who nevertheless feels “stronger” when told of Quaker and Puritan forebears who helped found the nation in its Colonial days. (She’s also delighted to learn one of her ancestral lines connects with Princess Diana.) Waters loves hearing Gates declare, “Your family tree drips with drama,” and blurts, “It sounds like a movie scene I’d write” when treated to a newspaper cli
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Prodigal Son boss discusses season 2 s police brutality storyline Sam Warner © Warner Bros. Prodigal Son co-creator Chris Fedak has opened up about the show s police brutality storyline following the season 2 premiere.
Prodigal Son co-creator Chris Fedak has opened up about the show s police brutality storyline, following the season 2 premiere.
The Fox crime drama series returned last night (January 12) for its second outing, though one particularly disturbing scene sees Detective JT Tarmel (Frank Harts) assaulted in an alleyway by other cops who think he is a criminal.
Speaking about incorporating the storyline, Fedak admitted that given their show is a police procedural and in the wake George Floyd s death and Black Lives Matter protests last year, they knew that they would have to address this story .
Lou Diamond Phillips: Prodigal Son to address police issues head on
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Season 2 of Lou Diamond Phillips crime drama Prodigal Son starts on Fox Tuesday. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo
Yvonne Boismier Phillips (L) and Lou Diamond Phillips arrive for the 90th annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles in 2018. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo
Lou Diamond Phillips (L) and his wife Yvonne Boismier Phillips attend the 20th annual Hollywood Film Awards in Beverly Hills in 2016. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
NEW YORK, Jan. 12 (UPI) Lou Diamond Phillips said his cop drama
Lou Diamond Phillips: Prodigal Son to address police issues head on
UPI News Service, 01/12/2021
Lou Diamond Phillips said his cop drama Prodigal Son may be out there in terms of its over-the-top storylines, but it still is rooted in contemporary New York, and will address the real-life police issues at the heart of recent social-justice movements.
ADVERTISEMENT We re going to meet the racial inequality and the profiling and that sort of systemic racism in the police force head on, the 58-year-old actor told UPI in a phone interview ahead of the show s Season 2 premiere Tuesday on Fox. I don t see how you cannot. It has been such a hot-button topic this past year, he added. I think we have as a few other shows do a very authentic perspective in the respect that my team, we are all people of color and, even beyond that, we are all mixed heritage.
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