Last year, CBS was heavily criticized on their lack of diversity in almost every every new series they picked up, all featuring prominently white males (Bull, MacGyver, Pure Genius, The Great Indoors, Kevin Can Wait, Man With a Plan) with only Doubt and to some extent Training Day going on another direction but considered as second thoughts on the schedule. They promised to do better next year. And here we are. We’ll have to wait for the orders to see if they improved but by the look of things right now, apart from SWAT starring Shemar Moore, Higher Ground which is a long shot and sitcom pilot Brothered Up, it’s once again very male and very white. Mission Control is the perfect example of what’s going wrong at the Eye: the two leads were supposed to be a bilingual Latina and an African-American man, they chose Poppy Montgomery and David Giuntoli. Mindfuck.
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