Is the nostalgia TV trend a kind of backlash to TV's increasing diversity? - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

TMC · 03-29-2018, 12:36 AM

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...gia-tv-1097193

"Let's first get this out of the way: There are definite exceptions to the Make (White) TV Great Again trend," says Inkoo Kang, pointing to Netflix's One Day at a Time and the planned reboots of Party of Five, Roswell and Charmed. But from Will & Grace to Roseanne to Twin Peaks to Fuller House, "it's hard not to interpret the current iteration of nostalgic programming as a backlash to TV's increasing diversity — a throwback to the days of Friends and Frasier when people joked that 'NBC' stood for 'No Black Characters,'" says Kang. "Yes, these reboots and revivals comprise only a handful of the hundreds of scripted shows on the air, but many of them tend to be TV's highest-profile projects. The fact that, in their totality, they inadvertently re-entrench the normalcy of all-white casts while erasing women of color and queer people is notable and worrisome."

Impressions · 04-01-2018, 03:08 PM

Uh, no...again this author is trying to make an issue where there isn't one. Some reboots are trying to show more diversity, take for example, One Day At A Time, which was brought back as an all Latino cast, so um, not exactly all Caucasian. And they're not exactly trying to erase any trace of diversity either. Take for example, the Roseanne reboot, which brought us the introduction of a black granddaughter and a gender fluid grandson.

Erasing women of color and queerness and Make (White) TV Great Again? Puh-lease.

mets82 · 04-03-2018, 04:41 PM

I don't agree either. So, now everybody who yearns for the old days of TV is a racist?

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Regulus · 04-03-2018, 05:32 PM

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stevea · 04-03-2018, 05:45 PM

Re-read that last sentence - blah, blah, blah. Just more Hollywood claptrap.

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03-29-2018, 12:36 AM	#1
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 125,621	Is the nostalgia TV trend a kind of backlash to TV's increasing diversity? https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...gia-tv-1097193 "Let's first get this out of the way: There are definite exceptions to the Make (White) TV Great Again trend," says Inkoo Kang, pointing to Netflix's One Day at a Time and the planned reboots of Party of Five, Roswell and Charmed. But from Will & Grace to Roseanne to Twin Peaks to Fuller House, "it's hard not to interpret the current iteration of nostalgic programming as a backlash to TV's increasing diversity — a throwback to the days of Friends and Frasier when people joked that 'NBC' stood for 'No Black Characters,'" says Kang. "Yes, these reboots and revivals comprise only a handful of the hundreds of scripted shows on the air, but many of them tend to be TV's highest-profile projects. The fact that, in their totality, they inadvertently re-entrench the normalcy of all-white casts while erasing women of color and queer people is notable and worrisome."

04-03-2018, 04:41 PM	#3
mets82 Member Forum Veteran Join Date: Mar 14, 2011 Location: Connecticut Posts: 5,058	I don't agree either. So, now everybody who yearns for the old days of TV is a racist?
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04-01-2018, 03:08 PM	#2
Impressions She died the way she lived Forum 4000 Club Member Join Date: May 08, 2002 Posts: 4,640	Uh, no...again this author is trying to make an issue where there isn't one. Some reboots are trying to show more diversity, take for example, One Day At A Time, which was brought back as an all Latino cast, so um, not exactly all Caucasian. And they're not exactly trying to erase any trace of diversity either. Take for example, the Roseanne reboot, which brought us the introduction of a black granddaughter and a gender fluid grandson. Erasing women of color and queerness and Make (White) TV Great Again? Puh-lease.

04-03-2018, 05:45 PM	#6
stevea 22 Years On Sitcoms Moderator Forum Legend Join Date: Aug 13, 2003 Location: Indy Posts: 44,536	Re-read that last sentence - blah, blah, blah. Just more Hollywood claptrap.

04-03-2018, 08:16 PM	#7
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