NEW YORK, New York (The Adobo Chronicles, New York Bureau) – When NBC announced that it was coming out with a new television sitcom about an American widower who takes a Filipina mail-order bride to help raise his kids, there were protests not only from the Filipino community but many women’s groups. Many had accused NBC of glorifying sex trafficking.
Responding to the protests, NBC today announced that it has renamed the new sitcom to “Pen Pals.”
The story line remains the same.
NEW YORK, New York (The Adobo Chronicles, Washington Bureau) – NBC has put in development ‘Mail Order Family,’ a half-hour comedy from ‘Superstore’ writer-producer Jackie Clarke.
Written and executive produced by Clarke, ‘Mail Order Family‘ is loosely based on Clarke’s family. It follows a widowed single father who orders a mail-order bride from the Philippines to help raise his two preteen daughters.
Today, NBC announced it has launched a search for a Filipina or Filipina American actress who will play the lead role in the series.
NBC said that no previous acting experience is required but that the actress they are looking for must be a real-life mail-order bride. “We want the acting to be very realistic,” the producers told The Adobo Chronicles.
Interested Filipinas are advised to contact NBC directly by mailing a selfie photo in a wedding gown.
NEW YORK, New York (The Adobo Chronicles, Washington Bureau) – It was the morning after the first U.S. presidential debate, and Republican candidate Donald Trump shows what the most pressing issue is in America today: Miss Universe.
Trump called into FOX News to defend what he had previously said about 1996 Miss Universe Alicia Machado.
During the televised debate at Hofstra University, Hillary Clinton admonished Trump for his misogynist statements on the campaign trail and beyond. Clinton mentioned that the Donald had called Machado “Miss Piggy” and “Miss Housekeeping.” She was a Latina beauty who represented Venezuela at the Miss Universe Pageant.
Trump owned the Miss Universe Organization before he sold it a few years ago.
“Beauty contests will make this country great again,” Trump told FOX News. “I don’t regret what I said about Miss Machado. She was the worst Miss Universe ever. And she really did gain a lot of weight. We can’t let that happen to a beauty queen, not under my watch!”
Miss Machado has recently become a U.S. citizen, and we can only guess who she’s voting for this November.
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