Tag: Becoming Ricardo web TV series

Speaking of BECOMING RICARDO…

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Just yesterday we carried an article about the 2nd episode of one of our favorite web series, BECOMING RICARDO, and today we’ve learned something else about the subject worth sharing.

Jesenia, the star and co-creator-writer-producer of the series has just been named one of the winners of the Sixth Annual PIT/NBC Diversity Scholarship, along with Kevin Yee. The NBC & The Peoples Improv Theater scholarship is for beginning students with strong performance skills and the desire to study the craft of improvisation. read article

Peer Production: BECOMING RICARDO is a Sitcom with a, erm, Twist

BecomingRicardoThere we were, mindlessly rushing through our pretty much equally mindless email, when we found something that actually piqued our interest.

It was an announcement of a new web series called BECOMING RICARDO, and the first thing we noticed about the show was that it’s filled with good intentions. The way co-writer-producer Jenni Ruizza put it was this: “Realizing there is a lack of a Latino presence in the entertainment and film industry, I’d like to introduce you to a Latina-created, focused, written, and produced webseries: BECOMING RICARDO.”

Now if we were being hyper critical we could argue that there isn’t necessarily “a lack of a Latino presence” in showbiz. Especially when it comes to television, where Univision has ratings that give a knockout punch to AMC, NBC, CBS, Fox, CW, and all the cable nets too. (Really? You didn’t know that? Check it out.) read article