Thursday, May 17, 2007

TV just got a lot 'whiter,' says a canceled George Lopez

The race card again:

"George Lopez, the first Latino to lead a television series successfully, isn't laughing. "TV just became really, really white again," he said.

ABC, he said, has "unceremoniously" canceled his self-titled comedy, which over the years chronicled his personal life from his sad childhood growing up with an abusive grandmother, to his alcoholism and kidney transplant.

"The George Lopez Show" will live on in syndication, but that's not making Lopez feel better about not getting the chance to tell one final season of stories. Lopez said Steve McPherson, ABC president of prime-time entertainment, called him over the weekend to explain that "financially" it wasn't working out, that the network would lose money if it picked up the show again.

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Anything rather than admit that he is a has-been whom too few people now want to watch. And we see again that it is OK for Hispanics to accuse whites of racism but not vice versa.