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  • Was Queen Charlotte Black? Here’s what we know.

    12/27/2020 8:32:38 AM PST · by C19fan · 71 replies
    Washington Post ^ | December 27, 2020 | DeNeen L. Brown
    In “Bridgerton,” the new Shonda Rhimes period drama on Netflix, the lords and ladies of early 19th century Britain are depicted as Black as well as White. Why? Washington Post television critic Hank Stuever explains it this way: “A Black character stops to explain, grandly, how and why this society came to be integrated. (Answer: because the queen is a person of color.) Not only does it not make much sense, but it seems like an unnecessary wrench thrown into a completely sensible and revisionary romp: People of color are here because they should have been here all along. Isn’t...
  • Big-budget TV drama seen making a comeback

    04/11/2011 5:24:46 PM PDT · by stylecouncilor · 49 replies
    Business World Online ^ | April 11, 2011 | AFP
    CANNES, France -- Lavish, high-end television dramas with star-studded casts are making a big comeback this year, many of them international co-productions which underline the global character of the genre, television industry experts say. "We’re seeing more very large TV drama productions with casts of well-known international stars," said Laurine Garaude, director of the television division at Reed Midem, which organizes the annual MIPTV audiovisual entertainment show trade show which took place in Cannes last week. "This is a trend that is growing and people are really trying to create global stories that work everywhere in the world," Garaude told...