Yo HBO, Where's The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency Season 2?

One of the joys of the 2009 television season for me was getting to watch Jill Scott and Anika Noni Rose and the rest of the cast of the wonderful Peabody Award winning television series on HBO entitled The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency.

It was such an enjoyable show for me when it hit DVD I bought it for my collection as I eagerly awaited news along with the rest of its fans for the announcement it had been renewed for a second season.   There were rumors pro and con, but no confirmation of filming for new episodes, much less word from HBO about the popular show getting a second season.     

Finally came the August 2010 announcement from HBO Michael Lombardo that the show wasn't being renewed for a second season, but two feature length films were being considered.  

Frankly, I and the shows fans would rather have the television series.     

It's rare that you have a dramatic series featuring a predominately African descended cast portrayed in a non stereotypical manner.  It's even rarer that said show is based and set in an African nation like Botswana, one of the nations that since independence in 1966, has been well run and wisely managed its mineral wealth to the benefit of its people.         

If any show deserved to be on the air, The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency was it.   But since it portrays African descended people in a positive light, it's gone.

We'll see if the feature length films based on the series get made, but not holding my breath on that one.

Texans Pass A 'What Would You Do' Test

There have been more than a few times either in the liberal progressive blogosphere or in various TransGriot blogposts I've had to remind people to chill with their anti-Texas hateraid

While some of our politicians here are straight up buttholes and haters, there are also some good politicians and good people here as well.

Oh yeah, need to remind you my hometown has a lesbian mayor who is unopposed (so far) for reelection.

There was a recent episode of the ABC-TV show called What Would You Do in which they set up a situation in a Farmers Branch, TX restaurant in which a gay couple with kids were being hounded by a waitress.  

The What Would You Do crew wanted to see how the restaurant patrons would react at seeing the blatant bigotry.

Farmers Branch is a conservative leaning suburb in the Dallas area.    Before you start cursing Texas under your breath, you may wish to watch the video.  The results of this What Would You Do episode will probably surprise you.



It drives home my point that we TBLG peeps who are from and love our so-called red home states like Texas need to be willing to stand up for what we believe in.    We need to fight to make our states reflect our values as well.

Yes, we know the politicians can be inflexible.  We're aware we have much work to do to accomplish that and we will have far more disappointing setbacks.  We have to fight tooth and nail to not only get our rights, but even harder to avoid any slippage.    But when we win, the victory is even sweeter.

But when we fight, are out and proud about who we are and openly living our lives, we can and do change hearts and minds.   And as this video demonstrates, we may not have as much work ahead of us in that hearts and minds changing department as you non-Texans think we do.

ABC's Work It=FAIL

ABC dumped several shows at the end of the last television season and this Bosom Buddies 2K11 retread is what they replaced them with.  

Note to ABC programming execs:  You need to bring one of the shows you dumped back as soon as fracking possible.

If you were intent on getting a show with a trans theme on the air, I can think of more than a few ideas which would have been much better than this steaming pile of fail.  

This is called Work It.   Note the song from a certain self hating drag queen in the music track of this video. 




ABC, Bella Maddo would have been light years better than this video bull feces.   Any bets TransGriot readers on how long it will last?