I lost my TV show for being white when UPN decided it would focus on an African-American audience. That was the third job I lost for being white. The other two in corporate America. (They told me directly.)
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Replying to @ScottAdamsSays @ahmedbest
If your show was top on the ratings on that network do you think they would have cancelled your show?
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Replying to @MchezoBwana @ahmedbest
It was doing well in the first season ratings, by UPN standards, and they renewed it. Then they gave away the time slot (which is death to a show) as they converted to a different audience. And the answer to your question is yes. One show would not have changed their focus.
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So did they cancel it for bad ratings, as you have previously claimed, or because you’re white? And why would viewers care if YOU were white? It was a cartoon.
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That's a good point.
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Viewers prefer shows they relate do. I can't introduce a black character in Dilbert for the same reason other white cartoonists don't do it. You either have to give the character no flaws (boring) or you get cancelled for giving them flaws.
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Replying to @ScottAdamsSays @MchezoBwana and
See Franklin (boring) in Peanuts, or the hacker kid from Bloom County years ago. Boring. I don't have the freedom you imagine I do.
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Oliver isn’t anywhere near boring, and he was a criminal.
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Do you think I could create a character in 2020 that was criminal and also the only black part of the cast?
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I dunno but you didn’t lose your job for being white. ***You said yourself*** you lost it because the network mismanaged it and the ratings were bad.
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"Mismanaged" was my kind interpretation of the past. The context was that they had already decided to transition to focus on a black audience. So my show got "accidentally" "mismanaged" out of existence, conveniently.
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