Tonita Castro Dads
Kevin Hernandez Finding Jack
Dads, Enlisted, and Surviving Jack won’t make it past their first year, and Tonita Castro, Angelique Cabral, and Kevin Hernandez are moving on.
To no ones surprise–unfortunately–Fox has lowered the boom on three of their newer sitcoms, each with a Latino actor in the cast. Dads, a raunchy joke-fest from Seth McFarland of American Dad! and Ted fame, featured Tonita Castro as the only not-crazy character in the cast, while Kevin Hernandez played a part in the especially short-lived family comedy built around Christopher Meloni formerly of Law & Order.
Angelique Cabral Enlisted
The greatest surprise is the cancellation of the well-received but low-rated Enlisted, a gentle comedy about a life in the stateside army; Angelique Cabral played the non-nonsense officer in the series. Angelique and the rest of the cast were deeply committed to the series, to the point of leading grassroots “Renew Enlisted” campaigns and even staging live Twitter events for each episode to try and attract viewers. Even after its suspension, the cast complained that the Nielsen ratings for the show didn’t take into the account the high viewership at military bases, and that the program deserved some time to grow. Clearly the execs at Fox didn’t agree.
This is far from the end of the road for any of these talented Latinos. Hernandez is just finishing up a co-starring role in the feature film Sex Ed, Cabral has already appeared in an episode of The Mentalist this season and will next be seen in a rom-com TV movie, Two to Go, while Tonita Castro, who lost her spot on Go On just a year ago, is one of the voices in Jorge R. Gutierrez’ innovative animated feature The Book of Life. There’s a good chance we’ll see more from all of them in the near future.
