Immigration and TV
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Posted Friday 8/23/19 at 5:52PM EDT
ICE accused of blocking the number for a real immigrant hotline used in Orange Is the New Black's final season
In the seventh and final season, detained immigrants at the fictional Litchfield women’s prison were shown passing around a phone...
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Posted Thursday 8/01/19 at 7:47PM EDT
Chuck Lorre hands out "Immigrants Make America Great" hats to TV critics while promoting Bob Hearts Abishola
Lorre expressed his opposition to President Trump at the TV press tour with yellow "IMAG" hats, telling critics: “The story...
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Posted Wednesday 7/31/19 at 5:21AM EDT
ICE agents have become TV's newest bogeyman, from Orange Is the New Black to Superstore
TV has tended to glorify law-enforcement officials.
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Orange Is the New Black writers visited an ICE facility to prep for tackling the immigration crisis
Creator Jenji Kohan originally wanted to focus on ICE detention centers in Season 6.
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The Case For Coming Back to Orange Is The New Black
When it premiered in 2013, Orange Is The New Black was Netflix's first real attempt at a prestige-TV series launch;...
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Posted Sunday 7/21/19 at 2:23AM EDT
San Diego mayor denies Orlando Bloom's claim he left Carnival Row's Comic-Con exhibit over its immigration theme
Amazon offered an interactive Comic-Con exhibit that allowed attendees to play a human or creature character.
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Posted Friday 7/19/19 at 1:15PM EDT
America Ferrera says Superstore's ICE storyline could “possibly drag on for three to four seasons"
Don't expect ICE's apprehension of Nico Santos' Matteo to be a brief storyline, Ferrera said at Superstore's Comic-Con panel.
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Posted Friday 7/05/19 at 7:51PM EDT
Into the Dark's border-crossing immigration-themed episode aimed to be surreal to escape from reality
“The brutality and the inhumane subject matter is there, and unfortunately we see that every day for awhile now and...
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Posted Friday 6/21/19 at 1:37PM EDT
Hulu's Into the Dark returns with an immigration-themed Fourth of July episode that's in English and Spanish
Watch the trailer for Into the Dark: Culture Shock, a Get Out-like episode about a pregnant woman who enters the...
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Posted Tuesday 6/04/19 at 1:45PM EDT
Showtime orders Drake-produced documentary on deported veterans
Ready For War explores the cause and effect of United States deporting its immigrant military veterans, especially those who are...
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Posted Saturday 5/18/19 at 4:45AM EDT
The Twilight Zone's immigration-themed episode was clumsy in its execution
Ginnifer Goodwin was fine in this week's episode, but the lead-footed social commentary didn't work.
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Posted Friday 5/17/19 at 9:23AM EDT
Superstore's immigration-themed season finale was a "big, big swing for what is ultimately a pretty sprightly sitcom"
"The last 10 minutes of Superstore’s season four finale, 'Employee Appreciation Day' are unlike anything else the show has ever...
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Posted Friday 5/17/19 at 9:23AM EDT
Ginnifer Goodwin: The Twilight Zone's immigration-themed episode script actually "made me actually sick to my stomach"
Was she told what would happen before reading the script? "Oh, no, it unspooled for me as I read the...
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Posted Tuesday 5/14/19 at 1:29PM EDT
Cate Blanchett teams with Yvonne Strahovski and Dominic West for Australian immigration TV drama Stateless
Blanchett co-created and will appear on the limited six-episode psychological drama series for Australian broadcaster ABC about four people caught...
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Posted Thursday 3/14/19 at 1:42PM EDT
Real Housewives of New Jersey's Joe Giudice is out of federal prison and in ICE custody
The husband of Teresa Giudice finished serving a 41-month federal prison sentence for tax fraud this morning and was released...
