Recently I was exploring the TV Guide website, looking for the season premiere date of my favorite show Law & Order (the original) and I came across this article: NBC Greenlights New Dick Wolf Show. Now anyone who knows anything about the Law & Order franchise knows that Dick Wolf is the guru of cop shows, especially the Law & Order formula. Well it seems that NBC is exploring the concept of a new L&O featuring a lead female detective similar to The Closer with Kyra Sedgewick and Saving Grace with Helen Hunt, both the TNT Network. Click on the link below to read the article, then read my reply to the article below.
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I think the way that Dick Wolf can bring a show about, yet another female detective (and I like the Closer and Cold Case), is to maybe, here's an idea...put a BLACK woman in the lead role. Now I love my Law & Order, probably the number one fan, know every episode inside and out, however, the one thing I have been dissatisfied with over the years is the fact that this franchise has been unable to put a black woman in any other significant leading role (other than Tamara Tunie as the Medical Examiner on SUV, but black women always get those roles, Alex on CSI: Miami is African American, she recently left the show and they replaced her with, yep, another young black woman).
So, all I'm asking is that, yeah, it's great to have a few black men here and there, but for once, can a black woman be Jack McCoy's assistant DA or a lead detective for that matter (other than S. Epatha Merkerson as the fabulous Lt. Van Buren - love her, great actress! -- Lackawanna Blues).
And as a side note, over all, most of the networks today act like Black people don't exist, there is not a single black sitcom, let alone a drama on the Big 3 networks. Cosby signed off of NBCs airwaves in the 90s, can we please get a new show, other than on the CW Network? Is there no respect for the contributions Black people make to society. Are our lives not worth chronicling through a dramatic television show. We have so many televisio shows based in New York City but somehow the writers of shows continue to leave black people out of the script (i.e. Seinfeld, Sex & the City). You gotta be kidding when you continue to have shows based in the multicultural diaspora of NYC but no one on the shows ever, EVER run into black people or have black friends and business associates?
I challenge the television industry to create shows that reflect culture, and that is not, anymore, a majority white culture.
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Kellea
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