The Racialicious TV Roundup

May 1st, 2012 by Guest Contributor

Tambay also points out that as of Tuesday morning, ABC still hasn’t renewed the show for a second season, but the numbers do seem to favor a return:

It’s telling that ABC hasn’t renewed it for another season yet; the numbers, which aren’t mindblowing, but, from all I’ve read, are steady: roughly 7 million viewers, taking the number 2 spot during that Thursday 10pm hour, behind CBS’ The Mentalist, with about 11.9 million. Compare that to Shonda Rhimes’ other ABC series, Grey’s Anatomy, which comes on the hour before Scandal, with 9.7 million viewers.

With three weeks to go until the season finale, Racializens, how do you feel? Should Kerry Washington and her crew come back?–AG

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  • Ada

    I can’t watch 30 Rock anymore… It has too many rape jokes, racist jokes and Tracy Morgan hates queer people and those with disabilities. 

  • http://twitter.com/mezz98 gillian rosheuvel

    I want to like Scandal. I like Kerry Washington. I like seeing a network TV show with a black female lead. But after watching 2 episodes, I’ve found that I *still* don’t like Shonda Rhimes’ writing style (I can only take so much lightning-fast/overly precious dialogue).

  • Mike

    No Game of Thrones!? Maybe next time, I hope :)

  • Anonymous

    On one hand you’re saying this is problematic, then saying we should get over it. Even if people outside of the US do not know the historical context for such images, they are still picking up negative images and stereotypes from them. The images of different groups in America globally is linked to media images and we know how biased those are. I don’t think this is something we should find acceptable.

  • Kendra

    I don’t think any of us watches while it airs aside from Latoya. Personally, I’m waiting until I have time to rewatch S1 before diving into the current season. (Also, after speeding through the books, I needed a Westeros breather…)

  • Kendra

    I don’t think any of us watches while it airs aside from Latoya. Personally, I’m waiting until I have time to rewatch S1 before diving into the current season. (Also, after speeding through the books, I needed a Westeros breather…)

  • Anonymous

    I do! We also have a new contributor w/ a GOT perspective that we are editing now. Hopefully, it will run Monday.

  • Anonymous

    I do! We also have a new contributor w/ a GOT perspective that we are editing now. Hopefully, it will run Monday.

  • Mickey

    To say “get over it” is a lazy cop-out. People like to travel and like to escape any indignations they suffer in their home country. I would like to visit a place without some idiot assuming that because I am X that I am they way they see X people portrayed on television. I should not have to travel and say to myself “Okay, how much armor am I going to need when I step outside and encounter someone’s stereotypical bullshit and have to educate them?” We should not have to educate everyone we encounter because eventually it gets tiresome. Racist images from America go around the world and, trust me, people pick up on those things and think, for better or worse, that is what the targeted group is like.

  • http://twitter.com/Ellington3 Rhonda Yearwood

    Thanks for saying that gillian rosheuvel. I feel exactly the same way about Scandal and I am not a fan of Shonda Rhimes other shows either. I find the writing style a tad too twee and overly dramatic.

  • http://twitter.com/Ellington3 Rhonda Yearwood

    I am a fan of 30 Rock I find it funny, witty and clever. 
    As for the blackface use in 30 Rock I find that I concur with Toure’s assessment of it.

    http://www.mediaite.com/online/tina-fey-and-30-rock-persistently-touch-the-third-rail-that-is-blackface/