A Latino former Lost producer calls B.S. on Magnum P.I. boss' excuse for Latinx writer excuse

The Hollywood Reporter

Javier Grillo-Marxuach, who co-created ABC Family's The Middleman, is taking Magnum P.I. executive producer Peter Lenkov to task for saying he had no Latino or Latina writer on his Latino-led series -- then backtracking the next day to say he did have a Latinx writer. "I neither know nor have worked for this showrunner," Grillo-Marxuach writes in a Hollywood Reporter column. "This is not a demand for him to be investigated or sanctioned. All he really did — regardless of what he meant — was express a still shockingly common opinion among many showrunners: 'Inclusion' is a nuisance, minority writers are a burden to hire and promote, and experienced minority writers are nigh-impossible to find."