Someone find Lee Daniels, Kenya Barris, Shonda Rhimes and Jennie Snyder Urman and hug them: their television successes with Empire, Black-ish, How to Get Away with Murder and Jane the Virgin are opening doors for other diverse shows. Give thanks!
Star of Jane The Virgin Gina Rodriguez won The CW network's first Golden Globe, grabbing the award for Best Actress in a TV Series Musical or Comedy and BOY was she excited! (As are we!) "This award is so much bigger than myself. It represents a culture that wants to see themselves as heroes," Rodriguez said through…
Gina Rodriguez is having a banner day: Jane The Virgin was just renewed on the CW for a second season, AND she's ready to dominate the Golden Globes, where she's nominated for Best Actress in a Comedy Series.
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This fall, two television shows starring Latinas, and featuring American Latina culture, made it to primetime. In Cristela, we've seen a milestone: it's the first-ever primetime sitcom not only starring a Latina (any Latina!) but also created, written, and produced by her as well. Cristela Alonzo, a 35-year-old,…
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How to Get Away with Murder is beating Scandal and Kerry Washington's quivering bottom lip in ratings. ABC's Shondaland strategy — diverse casts, inappropriate husbands (with dick pics!), confused faces (Wes, he never knows what's going on!) and good wigs (Viola, we see you!) — is working.
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There were many things to love about last night's premiere of Jane the Virgin, the CW's new series based on a young Chicana virgin who accidentally gets pregnoncé after her ob-gyn screws up her rounds and artificially inseminates her—with her boss's sperm! (It's based on the Venezuelan telenovela Juana la Virgen,…
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Not content with reliving the eventual demise of Mary Queen of Scots, the CW is attempting a remake of the Venezuelan show Juana La Virgen for their next block of For Teens But Grown Women Love It programming. And yes, translated, Juana La Virgen means Jane The Virgin.
