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A black Nancy Drew? Rebooting old favourites with new faces
bbc.com ^ | Taylor Kate Brown

Posted on 01/18/2016 8:11:13 AM PST by rktman

Beloved detective Nancy Drew is returning to TV - but she'll look different from how fans remember. American network CBS is pledging that the new Nancy Drew won't be white.

At the Television Critics Association press previews last week, the head of the CBS entertainment division, Glenn Geller, told reporters his network wanted to focus on diversity, including shows designed around characters who were black and Latino.

"We're not casting colour-blind, we're casting colour-conscious," he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: culturalrevolution; endwhiteshaming; nancydrew; revisionisthistory; seebs; sheesh
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To: rktman
Nancy Drew ?

Wouldn't they then have to change the name to Nateesha Shanice Drew?

41 posted on 01/18/2016 8:43:23 AM PST by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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To: rktman

Reverse discrimination. Will black Nancy be bustin’ gang-bangin’ perps in da hood?


42 posted on 01/18/2016 8:44:17 AM PST by ozzymandus
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To: moovova

“In da Hood”. “Sup dawg?”


43 posted on 01/18/2016 8:45:03 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: rktman

Years ago a black Odd Couple tv series using the exact scripts of the original Tony Randal and Jack Klugman show was a complete flop. So was the Wiz (a black remake of the Wizard of Oz with Michael Jackson, Diana Ross, etc.


44 posted on 01/18/2016 8:45:34 AM PST by r_barton
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To: rktman

That’s nothing. Wait till you see what they’re planning for the ‘Hardy Boys.’


45 posted on 01/18/2016 8:46:26 AM PST by WorkingClassFilth (Go Ted!!)
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To: ozzymandus

Hmmm. She may pop a cap in your azz if you dis her.


46 posted on 01/18/2016 8:46:45 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: WorkingClassFilth

They will be renamed the Tardy Boys.


47 posted on 01/18/2016 8:47:02 AM PST by SamAdams76
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To: rktman

48 posted on 01/18/2016 8:47:39 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: rktman

Nancilasquisha Drew? Nancy just won’t cut it.


49 posted on 01/18/2016 8:47:46 AM PST by CodeJockey
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To: Maceman

Saw a black Ralph Cramden last week. Read their looking for a black, well, “diverse” Jack Bauer for an upcoming.


50 posted on 01/18/2016 8:49:01 AM PST by HeartlandOfAmerica (How can God bless a country that's BUTCHERED 53 million babies?? Almost as many as ALL killed inWWII)
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To: rktman

It would be better to have Black Nancy Drew books. As I recall, Nancy Drew was about a third or fourth grade reading level and was a great hook to get young girls reading.


51 posted on 01/18/2016 8:49:03 AM PST by Eva
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To: odawg

There’s potential here... we could see game shows like “What’s My Unemployment Line” and “The Price Is Free”.

Comedy night should be great: “I Love Lushawnda”, “All In The Single Parent Family”, and “Bebitched”. There will be one show for token majorities: “The Crosby Show” features an upper-middle class family in suburban Utah where the father is a doctor who wears ugly ski sweaters.


52 posted on 01/18/2016 8:53:20 AM PST by Dr.Deth
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To: r_barton
(a black remake of the Wizard of Oz with Michael Jackson, Diana Ross, etc.

Did Michael Jackson play "Dorothy"?

53 posted on 01/18/2016 8:56:11 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: HeartlandOfAmerica

Well it’s only fair considering that Amos ‘N Andy were played by white guys.


54 posted on 01/18/2016 8:57:04 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

“Wonder how Casablanca or Treasure of the Sierra Madre would be rewritten.”

There’d be a black guy playing the role of Sam Spade.

(Somehow, I don’t think that’s going to fly.)


55 posted on 01/18/2016 8:57:48 AM PST by Stormdog (A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
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To: Maceman

Why are they pledging to do this. Just issue a press release, and move on.


56 posted on 01/18/2016 8:58:39 AM PST by healy61
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To: BwanaNdege; Chode

Waiting for the Eleanor Roosevelt Story, starring Michelle or Barry Obama in title role.

All three have plenty in common aside from very large feet.


57 posted on 01/18/2016 9:02:04 AM PST by Covenantor (Men are ruled..e.by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern - Chesterton)
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To: Stormdog

Easy fix, for “Casablacka” they’ll rename the character “Sam Honky” :)


58 posted on 01/18/2016 9:02:14 AM PST by Dr.Deth
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To: rktman

No. Just no.


59 posted on 01/18/2016 9:07:25 AM PST by TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed (Yahuah Yahusha)
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To: rktman

I really do look forward to seeing Andy and The Kingfish in whiteface.


60 posted on 01/18/2016 9:13:32 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Falcon 105)
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