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Cable at its Best: Latinos Up Front on Seven Cable Shows with New Programming Monday Night

L-r: Nadine Velazquez, Raymond Cruz, Tony Denison and Mary McDonnell in Major Crimes

The best invention of the 21St century has to be the DVR. Otherwise we’d have a heck of a time catching all the Latino performances and characters that cable offers one on top of the other. So warm it up for:

Constance Marie on Switched at Birth at 8P on ABC Family

Carlos Gómez and Kiele Sanchez on The Glades at 9P on A&E

Cierra Ramirez, Jake T. Austin, Bianca A. Santos, Alexandra Barreto and more to come on Jennifer Lopez’ The Fosters at 9P on ABC Family

Nicole Muñoz on the alien-apocalypse political drama Defiance, 9P on SyFy

Raymond Cruz, Jonathan del Arco and Nadine Velazquez on Major Crimes, 9P on TNT

Tyler Posey breaking hearts and biting throats in MTV’s Teen Wolf, in a new episode at 10P

A Martinez in a continuing, powerful role on Longmire, 10P on A&E

The rest of the week is pretty thin–Fourth of July and all–but if you can find space on your recording machine, you can gather up a whole week’s worth of quality TV, complete with Latinos, in a single night. Enjoy!

Thank God for Cable: New Episodes of Half a Dozen Shows Premiere this Monday

The broadcast networks have gone to sleep, but new cable shows with Latinos in the mix are all over the place, especially (for some reason) Monday night.

Constance Marie is the challenged but heroic mom in Switched at Birth, 8P on ABC Family

Carlos Gómez and Kiele Sanchez quip and solve crimes on The Glades, 9P on A&E

Cierra Ramirez and Jake T. Austin are tempestuous twins on Jennifer Lopez’ new family drama, now Bianca Santos as joined the cast as Lexi Rivera and Alexandra Barreto continues her arc and Norma Maldonado guest stars on The Fosters on ABC Family.

L-r: Cierra Ramirez, Teri Polo and Jake T. Austin

It gets forgotten there sometimes, way down the dial, but Latino heart-throb Tyler Posey is still center stage (although in a non-Latino role) in the cult-fave Teen Wolf. And there’s a new episode this Monday at 10P on MTV.

Nicole Muñoz is part of one of the (many many) ruling families in the post-apocalyptic remains of St. Louis in Defiance, 9P on the SyFy Channel.

Raymond Cruz, Nadine Velazquez, and Jonathan del Arco are all part of the sprawling cast on Major Crimes, TNT’s semi-sequel to The Closer. Catch it at 9P on TNT.

Half a dozen shows all over cable. Who says there’s nothing on? And be sure to DVR what you can; other than Monday, it’s a pretty thin week

Monique Gabriela Curnen

The networks may be sleeping for the summer, but Latinos in powerful roles are all over cable, including Constance Marie in a new season of Switched at Birth (8P, ABC Family) followed by Jake T. Austin and Cierra Ramirez on Jennifer Lopez’ The Fosters at 9P, also on ABC Family…opposite Carlos Gómez and Kiele Sanchez on The Glades (9P, A&E), then after, A Martinez is continuing his arc in a new episode of Longmire and guest stars, Monique Gabriela Curnen and Christiann Castellanos (10P, also on A&E).

Photo: David Lambert, Cierra Ramirez, Jake T. Austin, Teri Polo, Sherri Saum, Maia Mitchell

“The Glades” Keeps Us on the Edge on A&E and “Teen Wolf” Keeps Howling on MTV

 

Carlos Gómez, Kiele Sanchez and Matt Passmore in the new season of The Glades. More adventures continue at 9/8C on A&E. Then Tyler Posey is one of the wolves running wild in Teen Wolf, one of the few new hours of programming in June. You can catch it at 10P and again at 11:05 on MTV, or in repeats throughout the week.

Carlos Gómez, Kiele Sanchez and “The Glades” are Back!

We welcome back Carlos Gómez, Kiele Sanchez and Matt Passmore in the premiere of season 4 of The Glades. The new adventures begin…Mondays at 9/8C on A&E.

A Good, Long Talk with Carlos Gómez of “The Glades”

A while back, we had a chance to sit down with Carlos Gómez of The Glades and talked about his long and successful career in Hollywood and on Broadway. Now you can see it here…and on YouTube.

It’s easy (and wrong!) to forget that Carlos Gómez is more than ‘just’ a TV actor. True, he’s been at it–and successfully–for the better part of twenty years. But he began on stage in New York–in the ensemble of Zorba with Anthony Quinn, no less–and worked on Broadway for more than seven years in musical theater before he packed his bags and came to Hollywood, and we began seeing him in quality TV product and the occasional movie, from ER to Charmed to 24 to Sleeper Cell…and, most recently in three seasons on The Glades. (Actually, Gómez is busy right now, filming Season Four of the popular A&E crime drama, with Kiele Sanchez and Matt Passmore.)

In our on-camera conversation, he talked about his time on Broadway and how live performance differs from work in film and on TV, and he talked about the inevitable early days when he was forced to take roles he didn’t exactly love. “I tried to find something good in the character,” he said “rather than complain. Just take the job.” And he talks about the actors who influenced him early on, like Hector Elizondo and Tony Plana, Best of all, he tells us a bit about his future plans, including how he’s currently shadowing directors on his TV show, with the goal of directing a future episode himself, and his larger ambition to become a TV director and producer. And he talks about Latino Broadway (“There isn’t one. There’s West Side Story, and then there’s In the Heights, and that’s about it.”) and in greater depth about Latino Hollywood. ‘That’s a different story,” he said. “I’ve dealt with it many, many times, and I still think that that unless we do projects and movies that Latinos are going to get behind, and go to that opening weekend to see that movie, it’s very difficult for Hollywood as a business corporation to invest in that. As a business owner, I don’t see it.”

Get a close look at this talented actor in our exclusive interview with Se Fija! publisher Angela Ortíz. You can see it below, or click through to the SeFija Online YouTube Channel for this and other one-of-a-kind videos.

Photos: ©2012 Angela María Ortíz S.

Let’s not forget “The Glades”

A&E’s cool little action-adventure show starring Kiele Sanchez and Carlos Gomez is one of the few shows with new episodes this July…and it’s worth a watch 

There are a number of smart and talented Latinos working on cable series these days (take a look at this recent post for just a few of them)…and one of the best and least appreciated is The Glades, starring Kiele Sanchez and Carlos Gomez are two of the three stars of this smart and fast-moving action/cop drama. Along with Matt Passmore (who’s looking more like Jeremy Renner every day), The Glades is every bit as entertaining as Castle or Burn Notice and should appeal to the same fan base. We’ve been keeping an eye on it for quite a while, and talked about the slightly amazing Kiele Sanchez here.

We were reminded of all this when we noticed that the second season of The Glades has just been released on DVD, and that the newest episode, airing July 15, gets the group involved with a branch of a real-live extremist group, the Sovereign Citizens. It’s not a show to shy away from actual events or from actual emotion, as the current storylines show. Maybe it’s the odd scheduling (9P on Sunday nights) or the quiet arrival of new episodes in the middle of the summer that somehow makes the series slip out of view, and makes it one of the most time-shifted shows on the tube (we talked about that back a ways, right here.

Recent episodes are available online here on A&E’s web site, and hulu.com will give you almost all of Season Two as well as much of Season 3 thus far. Check that our here. So next time someone says, “There’s nothing to watch!”, you’ve got a good response: The Glades.

Latino Hollywood Hidden Oasis: Cable TV

 

We spend a whole lot of time–maybe too much–monitoring the ups and down, comings and goings of Latinos on network TV, when in truth there are a great many Latino entertainers working every week, in front of millions of viewers, all year round:

Cable TV is taking over the world. We’re just not paying enough attention.

This week is emblematic of how much is happening at what was once called “the lower end of the dial.” But there’s nothing “lower” about it anymore, especially in this age of TiVo and timeshifting. Check it out: in the last few days alone:

  • Royal Pains had its season premiere on USA
  • Hot in Cleveland had its season finale on TVLand
  • Necessary Roughness had its season premiere on USA
  • Happily Divorced has its season finale on TVLand
  • Fast n Loud premiered on Discovery
  • Adam Richman’s Best Sandwich in America premiered on The Travel Channel
  • Million Dollar Listing had its season premiere on Bravo

…and other reality shows premiered on CMT and truTV. In a single day.

Not all of those are Latino-involved (though Rita Moreno continues to be the funniest thing about Happily Divorced, and you’ll see Latino guest starts like Adam Rodriguez and Alexa Vega on Necessary Roughness and Royal Pains coming up in the next few weeks), but the point is there is tons of activity on cable in general, unrelated to the programming on the Big Three and Little Two. And at this point, what with migration away from the broadcast nets (and often from TV in general), the numbers that some of cable’s more popular shows are generating meet and even exceed the viewership for some CW and FOX shows, especially in key demographics.

In short: Cable is a force to be reckoned with, and Latinos are a major part of the movement.

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Ratings weirdness: “Psych” & “The Glades” are top timeshifters; “Desperate Housewives,” “Chuck,” “Revenge” among the most “engaging”

Reading the ratings ain’t as simple as it used to be. In the old days, it was easy: a given program broadcast one time only; the nets used Nielsen boxes, diaries, and phone calls to measure how many people were watching that particular show at that particular time vs. the other shows on at that moment, and…, you knew your ratings and your share. Badda-boom.

Today, however, that same show may be broadcast two or more times within the same week–sometimes twice in a row. It may be digitally recorded on TiVo/DVR and watched at some future moment, or caught the next day on Hulu or the network’s web site, or picked up for a couple of bucks on iTunes and only some of those media may accommodate advertisers.

All in all, then, how ‘popular’ a show might be is far more difficult to know…and its popularity may or may not have a bearing on its financial success.

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The four faces of Miami on TV this season

…and what they tell us about America’s view of Latinos in general

There’s no question that Latinos are all over the tube this season, with bigger and better days to come…but just how “integrated” are Latino faces and culture into the American psyche? Sometimes it seems like we’re all rubbing elbows and other body parts in workplaces, movie theaters, and concert venues, as well as in TV casts and crews. And other times the two cultures seem a million miles apart.

With the recent renewal of The Glades for a third season, one strange indicator of that dual identify came to light. There are four different series currently in production that feature Miami as a hometown or home base (there are five, in fact, but Charlie’s Angels is already cancelled and didn’t have much time to define itself). But the views of Miami as a unique place–and the inclusion of Latinos in the foreground or the background–vary wildly on the programs…as wildly as America’s own self-image of Latino life in this country. Read the rest of this entry »

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