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Freeform cancels immigration-themed Party of Five reboot after one season
Freeform has opted not to renew the immigration-themed reboot of the 1990s Fox family drama.
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Posted Wednesday 3/04/20 at 7:15PM EST
Oprah Winfrey turned her American Dirt book club controversy into an Apple TV+ special that puts her and the author on trial
When Oprah's Book Club premieres Friday, it will feature Oprah, American Dirt author Jeanine Cummins and three prominent critics of...
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Posted Wednesday 2/12/20 at 1:50PM EST
Court orders restoration of immigration detention hotline featured in Orange Is the New Black
The National Immigration Detention Hotline, which was shut down last summer two weeks after it was included in the final...
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Party Of Five Is Freeform's Most Radical Drama Yet
Back in 2006, The New Yorker published "Life Lessons," a short article about Population Communications International, and how the group...
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Posted Friday 2/07/20 at 11:57PM EST
Joe Giudice's immigration battle brings the real world to Real Housewives of New Jersey
"The detainment and deportation of Teresa Giudice’s husband cracks the show’s apolitical fantasia," says Meher Ahmad.
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Posted Thursday 1/30/20 at 2:29AM EST
Brooklyn Nine-Nine is trying to figure out how to do an immigration-themed episode tackling ICE while still being funny
"It’s tough.
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Little America highlights Apple TV+'s misguided effort to appeal to as many people as possible
"For all that breadth of personal experience, it feels strangely homogeneous," Karen Han says of the immigrant anthology series from...
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Posted Sunday 1/19/20 at 3:25PM EST
Little America Season 2 may go "farther back in the past”
Executive producer Alan Yang says Season 2 of the immigrant anthology series will have a wider focus and may delve...
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Posted Saturday 1/18/20 at 2:58AM EST
Apple TV+'s Little America is dedicated to the immigrant experience -- not the politics of immigration
"The beauty of this production is that it never has to make that point with pro- or anti-immigration rhetoric, or...
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Posted Thursday 1/09/20 at 12:12AM EST
Freeform's Party of Five revival is sadder and more wrenching than the original, with a political edge
Chris Keyser and Amy Lippman's immigration-themed revival of the ir1990s Fox drama is "important with a capital 'I' insofar as...
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TV Today: Party of Five's Creators Re-Imagine Their Gen X Drama For Trump's America
It's unusual for a show's original creators to be involved in such a radical reboot, but that's just the case with...
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Posted Thursday 12/19/19 at 2:41PM EST
Watch Apple TV+'s Little America trailer
The immigrant anthology series from Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V.
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Posted Friday 11/22/19 at 2:36PM EST
Ben Stiller to produce an NBC depicting an American family who takes in Syrian refugees
The network has given a pilot commitment to Home, based on the Channel 4 British immigrant comedy of the same...
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Posted Wednesday 11/20/19 at 3:40AM EST
Kal Penn calls out the TV Academy for omitting Sunnyside from its panel immigration and TV
"So glad @TelevisionAcad did a panel on immigration & TV, + disappointed they chose to exclude the only majority-immigrant cast...
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Posted Thursday 10/24/19 at 3:57AM EDT
Bob Hearts Abishola really did its homework in bringing an authenticity to Abishola's immigrant story
Tambay Obenson, an American who was born in Nigeria, initially dismissed the CBS Chuck Lorre comedy.