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‘Murphy Brown’ To Tackle Trump’s Wall & ICE, Casts Adan Rocha As DACA Dreamer
Deadline ^ | September 13, 2018 | Nellie Andreeva

Posted on 09/13/2018 10:25:26 AM PDT by EdnaMode

As an inherently political comedy, CBS’ Murphy Brown revival was fully expected to take on the Donald Trump presidency, and now we know it will include his controversial immigration policies.

Relative newcomer Adan Rocha has been cast as a new series regular on the new Murphy Brown, from original creator Diane English and Warner Bros. TV.

First appearing in the show’s second episode, he will play Miguel, a Mexican Dreamer who came to the United States at the age of one. Now he’s a college student working at Phil’s Bar alongside Phyllis (Tyne Daly) for extra money to put toward tuition. Quick with a quip, he’s always making cracks about “The Wall” and ICE.

English previously had said that the revival would address Trump’s attacks on mainstream media and its coverage, which he brands “fake news.”

Candice Bergen is back as intrepid investigative journalist and news anchor Murphy Brown. Faith Ford, Joe Regalbuto and Grant Shaud reprise their roles from the original series. Charles Kimbrough, who was the newscast anchor in the original, is set to do three episodes of the remake as a guest star. New series regulars include Daly, Jake McDorman as Murphy’s grown-up son Avery, and Nik Dodani as Pat Patel.

Rocha previously did arcs on IFC’s Brockmire and Freeform’s The Fosters.


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Chit/Chat; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: aliens; candicebergen; cbs; daca; dianeenglish; hollywood; ice; murphybrown
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Most Americans are against illegal immigration. That is why Trump won. This revival will flop.
1 posted on 09/13/2018 10:25:26 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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‘Black-ish’ creator opens up about an ‘anti-Trump’ episode shelved by ABC that was reportedly one reason he left for Netflix

https://www.businessinsider.com/black-ish-creator-left-abc-after-it-shelved-an-anti-trump-episode-report-2018-9


2 posted on 09/13/2018 10:26:54 AM PDT by SMGFan ( .)
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To: EdnaMode

I never liked the show. even as a kid i could spot liberal b.s. a mile away. Not going to watch the reboot either.


3 posted on 09/13/2018 10:27:34 AM PDT by Ikeon (I'd rather be hated for who I really am, than loved for something I'm not. K. Cobain)
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To: EdnaMode

Didnt watch this garbage when it first aired, and wont watch it now


4 posted on 09/13/2018 10:27:54 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: EdnaMode

I never watched the original series. I sure as hell won’t watch the reboot....................


5 posted on 09/13/2018 10:28:34 AM PDT by Red Badger (July 2018 - the month the world learns the TRUTH......Q Anon.......Timelines change. Aug 16)
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To: EdnaMode

Resist! with 80’s sitcoms. That’s the ticket.


6 posted on 09/13/2018 10:29:18 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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With that set-up the episodes will write themselves.

But I will predict MS-13 will not be in any of them.

7 posted on 09/13/2018 10:29:57 AM PDT by AU72
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To: EdnaMode

Note to Trump. Ignore this show.

Don’t do a Dan Quayle and give it any publicity


8 posted on 09/13/2018 10:30:10 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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Isnt she like a million years old?


9 posted on 09/13/2018 10:30:22 AM PDT by dsrtsage (For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
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To: EdnaMode

What day and time is this show supposed to be on? I ask because there are probably re-runs of “Bonanza” or “Gomer Pyle” on at the same time, and I’ll be watching them instead.


10 posted on 09/13/2018 10:30:58 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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Another liberal entertainment icon, famous for a single victory against a weak Republican, gets a turn in the batters box.

Now they're reaching back 25 years. The title character is now over 70, and more resembles Bea Arthur's Maudethan she does the cute, charming ingenue of the '60s and early '70s.

11 posted on 09/13/2018 10:31:36 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: dsrtsage

‘Murphy Brown: The Memory Care Years’


12 posted on 09/13/2018 10:32:06 AM PDT by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: EdnaMode
Candace Bergen is back as a pussy hat wearing SJW investigative jorno- only this time she’s 80 something and smoking hot . .

Must C TV /s

13 posted on 09/13/2018 10:33:20 AM PDT by atc23 (M*NKEY - there, I said it!)
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To: EdnaMode

Hmmm, Adan Rocha is that a Mexican name? Isn’t that cultural appropriation?


14 posted on 09/13/2018 10:33:36 AM PDT by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jeffersons)
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This series won’t last long.


15 posted on 09/13/2018 10:33:41 AM PDT by marron
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Remember the “NO NRA” sign on the back of murph’s door?


16 posted on 09/13/2018 10:35:44 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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Disappointed Jake McDorman is doing this piece of trash.

He was great in the one season of "Limitless", a show that never should have been cancelled.


17 posted on 09/13/2018 10:37:22 AM PDT by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" @HOROWITZ39, DAVID HOROWITZ)
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To: EdnaMode

The DVD’s of this show will sit around the thrift bargain bins until someone finally throws them in the dumpster.


18 posted on 09/13/2018 10:38:16 AM PDT by Leep
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To: EdnaMode

There was a time when I liked Candace Bergen.

That was a long time ago.

The first Murphy Brown was horrible. I am sure this one will be just as shrill.

It will attract some folks. But not enough of the key demographic to make any money.

The folks in Hollywood are just so blind to what the country wants.


19 posted on 09/13/2018 10:40:47 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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Murphy Brown in the original show was a mean, vindictive recovery alcoholic who one claim to fame was she was a hard hitting interviewer...as long as her subject was a white conservative.

The world has passed her by and for the most part her “fans” from the old days have pretty much given up on TV and the young people have no idea who she is (or was) and they don’t watch TV in any case.

The show will fail.


20 posted on 09/13/2018 10:41:50 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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