FX’s series Black. White. ends tonight, concluding a series that was originally conceived to be a show that just followed a black and white family living together. That was ultimately modified to change the families’ races. The show’s ratings broke records but then fell off sharply. Maybe that’s because the episodes together weren’t a strong …
After debuting with record-tying ratings three weeks ago, FX’s Black. White. has actually lost more than 2.5 million viewers. The show debuted with “close to 4 million total viewers three weeks ago, [but] ‘Black.White.’ last week drew just 1.45 million viewers, down 64 percent,” Media Life Magazine reports. “Its slide among 18-49s was even more …
FX’s social experiment Black. White. pulled in 3.98 million viewers overall on Wednesday night. With a 2.1 rating among people ages 18 to 49, the show “matched the basic cable record in 18-49 for a reality [show] by MTV’s ‘The Osbournes,’” Variety reports. And the premiere “did especially well among young men, with its 2.2/8 …
In an episode of Diff’rent Strokes that aired Feb. 20, 1980, Dana Plato, as Kimberly Drummond, dresses in blackface after she “discovers her new friend is a bigot,” as TV.com says. Today, a little more than 26 years later, producers RJ Cutler and Ice Cube use that same idea for their new FX show Black. …
A black family from Atlanta and a white family from southern California both changed their skin color with makeup and then lived together for six weeks for a new reality series. FX will air the results as Black, White, a six-episode series that debuts in March. The show is produced by American Candidate and American …
black and white families may live together for RJ Cutler’s new FX show. RJ Cutler is producing a show for FX that “will chronicle the lives of a white family and a black family, possibly living under one roof,” according to The Hollywood Reporter. He says, “It is a provocative examination of race relations and …