{"id":3353,"date":"2018-09-21T16:51:42","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T16:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/?p=3353"},"modified":"2018-10-19T16:49:40","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T16:49:40","slug":"upcoming-abc-drama-focuses-on-a-towns-criminal-justice-system-run-exclusively-by-women-of-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/upcoming-abc-drama-focuses-on-a-towns-criminal-justice-system-run-exclusively-by-women-of-color\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming ABC Drama Focuses On A Town\u2019s Criminal Justice System Run Exclusively By Women of Color"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3354\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3354\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3354\" src=\"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/newshowabc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/newshowabc.jpg 800w, https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/newshowabc-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/newshowabc-768x528.jpg 768w, https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/newshowabc-220x150.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nkechi Okoro Carroll<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>ABC has given the green light to a new drama written by <i>Rosewood\u2019s<\/i> Nkechi Okoro Carroll, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2018\/09\/abc-nnkechi-carroll-cop-drama-women-of-color-leads-put-pilot-greg-berlanti-elizabeth-banks-producing-1202457007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deadline<\/a> reports. The currently untitled drama will highlight a North Carolina town whose criminal justice system is run exclusively by women of color. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chelsea Barnum, the show\u2019s protagonist, is seeking a fresh start after a failed marriage and recently becoming unemployed. When she accepts her new job as a police chief in Sutter, North Carolina, she discovers that women of color run the town\u2019s judicial system. \u201cWhat started out as a second chance at a career ends up becoming a second chance at life, as together these women revolutionize crime and punishment while restoring hope, community and humanity to a town that desperately needs it,\u201d wrote Deadline. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The series is quite timely, as our nation is currently experiencing a record number of women of color in high positions of government, such as in Jefferson County, Alabama, where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghamtimes.com\/2016\/11\/jefferson-countys-historic-number-of-black-female-judges-come-highly-qualified\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nine extremely qualified black female judges<\/a> were elected. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Carroll will executive produce the show with Elizabeth Banks and Max Handelman of Brownstone Productions, along with Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter of Berlanti Productions.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC has given the green light to a new drama written by Rosewood\u2019s Nkechi Okoro Carroll, Deadline reports. The currently untitled drama will highlight a North Carolina town whose criminal justice system is run exclusively by women of color. Chelsea Barnum, the show\u2019s protagonist, is seeking a fresh start after a failed marriage and recently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,176],"tags":[388,391,31,390,389,33],"class_list":["post-3353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film-tv","category-news","tag-abc","tag-announcement","tag-featured","tag-new-tv","tag-nkechi-okoro-carroll","tag-tv-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}