So a...Chicano can't be on TV but a...caveman can?
George Lopez, the first Latino to lead a television series successfully, isn't laughing.
ABC, he said, has "unceremoniously" canceled his self-titled comedy, which over the years chronicled his personal life from his sad childhood growing up with an abusive grandmother, to his alcoholism and kidney transplant.
Lopez said Steve McPherson, ABC president of prime-time entertainment, called him over the weekend to explain that "financially" it wasn't working out.
That explanation was painful to hear, Lopez said, considering the way the network has shuffled his show over the years -- four different time slots in five years -- and putting it up against "American Idol" time and time again.
According to Lopez, "TV just became really, really white again."
Lopez scoffed in particular at another ABC pickup: "Cavemen," about two brothers and one best friend, described as sophisticated cave dudes living in modern-day Atlanta, who will continually find themselves at odds with contemporary society.
"They dealt with us from the bottom of the deck," Lopez said. "Which is hard to take after what was a good run."
Still, the comment Lopez that got us was, "I get kicked out for a...caveman...?"
You know Black performers feel your pain George. Check out the post below one of the brother's wrote earlier this year about race and Hollywood.
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