On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 3:14 PM Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: > > And as for Linc being a Black character white audiences would like to watch, well yeah. CWIII, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Jimmie Walker, Don Mitchell (I had to look up the Ironside cast), Greg Collier, Diahann Carroll, Nichelle Nichols, etc all had to play characters who appealed to white audiences or southern TV affiliates would have pulled the shows from their schedules and put the networks on the defensive. In 1979 CBS put The Dukes of Hazzard on the air with all of its confederate imagery and got no pushback.
Greg Morris. Getting older is no fun. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiGQ8_9Vx%2Bw4g-Zq3bJTXPi_E_%2BFVuY%2BNvMva5RcqLTdkw%40mail.gmail.com.
