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An all-star cast has been unveiled for next week’s live staging of Good Times and we couldn’t be more thrilled!
Viola Davis will play Florida Evans and Andre Braugher will take on the role of James Evans in ABC’s Live in Front of a Studio Audience’s Dec. 18 show. We’re sure Tiffany Haddish will have us in stitches as Willona Woods. Florida and James’ kids will be played by Jay Pharoah as J.J. Evans, Asante Blackk as Michael Evans and the lovely Corinne Foxx as Thelma Evans, according to Deadline.
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Jharrel Jerome has also been cast, but his position wasn’t divulged. Perhaps, Bookman?
And who will perform the theme song to the Norman Lear classic, you might ask? Anthony Anderson and Patti LaBelle, and they’ll also be live, Deadline reports.
All the yesses in yesville!
Last month, ABC announced it would take on Good Times and All in the Family, as their latest throwback series to hit Live in Front of a Studio Audience. In the special, just as the network did early this year with The Jeffersons and All in the Family, ABC will recreate episodes from the classic shows.
The recreated episodes for Good Times and All in the Family will air live at 8 p.m. on Dec. 18. Woody Harrelson, Marisa Tomei, Ellie Kemper, and Ike Barinholtz will once again star in the recreated All in the Family, playing Archie Bunker, Edith Bunker, their daughter, Gloria and son-in-law, Mike, according to Today. They will be joined this go around by newcomers, Kevin Bacon, Jesse Eisenberg, and Justina Machado, but we’ll have to tune in to see who they will play.
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The first time ABC ran its Live in Front of a Studio Audience special, it proved to be successful. The program received a 2.9 rating in adults 18-49 age range and 14.3 million viewers in the Live+35 ratings. It also collected an Emmy for “Best Live Variety Special,” Variety reported. The special was nominated for three Emmy’s and won one in the category of “Outstanding Variety Special (live).”
Good Times was originally created by Mike Evans, Eric Monte and was developed by Lear. Kerry Washington joins as an executive producer for the live event. Other producers include Lear, Jimmy Kimmel, Brent Miller, Will Ferrell, and Justin Theroux.
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College football doesn’t give black coaches many chances when it comes to getting and/or keeping a job, according to analysis from FiveThirtyEight.
From 2008 to 2018, there were 250 head coaching changes at the Football Bowl Subdivision level. Out of the changes over that time, only 2% of those opportunities saw a head coach who was black being replaced by another one. Fifteen percent of the coaching changes showed a non-black coach being replaced by a black one, while 12% involved a black coach being replaced by someone who isn’t black.
Black coaches had no part in the vast majority of the transitions—in more than 70% of the coaching changes, neither coach was black.
In other words, over the last decade, a college football program that made a head coaching change was 68 percentage points more likely to have a change that included no blacks than to have one that included two. And there was a less than 20% chance that if a black head coach was let go or left, the replacement coach was also black.
Over the course of NCAA history, Division I programs have replaced one black head coach with another one, on a non-interim basis, just seven times. In almost all of those cases, the coach left for another opportunity; only one came after a firing.
At the beginning of the 2019 college football season, there were just 14 black head coaches out of the 130 schools in the NCAA’s Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, according to The Shadow League. Three had been fired by the beginning of December: Frank Wilson at University of Texas at San Antonio, Charlie Strong at University of South Florida, and Willie Taggart at Florida State University. None of their replacements are black.
There has always been a lack of minority representation in positions of power in college athletics. “College sport continues to have some of the lowest grades for racial hiring practices and gender hiring practices among all of the college and professional sports covered,” wrote Richard Lapchick, director of The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES), in its 2018 College Sport Racial and Gender Report Card.
