Kevin Alejandro
…or not. It’s always hard to tell exactly what the commitment is at the Tiffany Network.
It’s been a lot of on-again/off again, start-and-stop with Latinos as part of CBS series this season. On the one hand, Felix Solis is already gone, along with Made in Jersey; Tracy Vilar and Partners is cancelled; and Manny Perez–despite the promos–never quite made it past the pilot of Elementary. Meanwhile, Miguel Ferrer–without much fanfare–is not a permanent regular on CSI: Los Angeles, Natalie Martinez is part of the team on CSI: New York (she even had a whole episode built around her recently) and Aimee Garcia has showed up rather unexpectedly–and so far inexplicably–as a sassy secretary in Vegas.
Now there’s word of more changes: CBS has just announced the premiere of Golden Boy, previewing on Tuesday, Feb. 26 and Tuesday, March 5 at 10P both nights, then settling in to a regular Friday slot at 9P beginning March 8. It’s about “the meteoric rise of an ambitious cop (Theo James) who becomes the youngest police commissioner in the history of New York City”–apparently a slightly younger-skewing Blue Bloods–whose supporting cast includes Chi McBride and Kevin Alejandro, most recently seen in True Blood and Southland.
Meanwhile, as part of the midseason shuffle, CBS finishes one series with a Latino in it and maybe brings back a second: CSI: NY will have its season finale on Friday, Feb. 22 at 9P, and then almost three weeks later Vegas will return to its Tuesday night, 10P slot on March 12. Will Aimee Garcia be part of the second-half cast? Your guess is as good as ours, but even with the show’s return, the comings and goings on CBS yield a net gain of…well, we really don’t know. Outside of Cote de Pablo’s permanent berth in the impregnable juggernaut of NCIS, Latinos in solid positions on CBS continues to be the opposite of a sure thing…even in supporting roles.
