Canceling George Lopez = Racist?
http://defamer.com/hollywood/victims-of ... 260367.php
"While Friday's announcement that groundbreaking ABC/Geico sitcomfomercial Cavemen made the fall schedule was met with the popping of champagne corks in Defamer HQ and quickly followed by boozy expressions of admiration for the network's rare combination of business savvy and social conscience, not everyone was overjoyed to hear the news. The LAT Show Tracker blog reports that after president Steve McPherson called to break the news that his eponymous sitcom had grown too expensive to renew for a sixth season, George Lopez raged against the pro-Neanderthal programming policies that will deny him a timeslot:
"I get kicked out for a...caveman and shows that I out-performed because I'm not owned by [ABC Television Studios]...So a...Chicano can't be on TV but a...caveman can?" Lopez said.
"And a Chicano with an audience already? You know when you get in this that shows do not last forever, but this was an important show and to go unceremoniously like this hurts. One hundred seventy people lost their jobs." [...]
"TV just became really, really white again," he said.
That seems like a defensive remark if I've ever heard one. I don't know if you noticed old George, but your ratings were sucking for a while there and thus your show deserved to be canceled. Speaking of which, was According to Jim canceled or what? It's not on ABC's fall schedule but there wasn't an official announcement about its cancellation either.
