OT: Totally P!ssed off at UPN

[Starhawk]

Captain Kwok said:
Come on guys, it's got nothing to do at all with racial motivations. It's an expensive show to make and when the ratings weren't there initially - it got moved to a bad Friday night timeslot and add to that a massive split in the trek community about the series was enough to finish it off. To suggest otherwise is silly.

Well CK I don't know if you've watched UPN in it's early days or even in recent years except for ENT but I can certainly understand where the "anti-white" feeling is coming from, UPN said in it's early days that they saught to be a second BET (Black EntertainmentTelevision for those who are unfamiliar with the channel) and 90% of their shows would have been considered racist if it had been white folks talking about black folks, the way these black folks were talking about white people. They had all black casts except for the "inept or goofy stupid" white guy or girl. And they had humor barely above an 8th grade education.

Even these days the vast majority of UPNs shows are casted either entirely or mostly of African American persons, granted they have eased up on their "The White Devil" style talk but their views that "white folks are boring dorks" is still a prominant feature of several shows. They've also made some of their shows "smarter" now a days.

Their targeted demograph is clearly not white people, UPNs only shows with prominant white casts are lucky to survive 1 or 2 seasons so in a way we are lucky ENT lasted 4 because UPN has shown a remarkable lack of patience when it comes to giving "Diversified" shows a chance.


And UPN has stated that they are "unoficially" not happy with the demograph of enterprise, which imho sounds like they are not happy with the fact that the bulk of the cast is as follows:

Scott Bakula: White (or should I say European American these days?)
Conner Trinner: White
Dominic Keating: White
Anthony Montgomery: African American
Linda Park: Korean American
Jolene Blalock: Mixed Race
John Billingsly: White

Notice the issue by UPN's "Targeted Demograph"?