Latinx Files: What will the future of Latinx television look like?
When Peter Murrieta’s show “Greetings From Tucson” premiered in the fall of 2002, he thought it was the beginning of a Latinx boom in television. His show, based on his own experience growing up, came months after the ABC premiere of “George Lopez,” another sitcom about a middle-class Mexican American family. “I guess because I was a young writer then and I wrote my first pilot and it got shot, I just assumed that we were edging towards that kind of storytelling,” he said. Nearly 20 years later, the promise of brown faces telling brown stories on prime-time TV remains unfulfille...
Source: latimes.com