Courtney Kemp Agboh is doing big things considering she’s a black woman making moves in TV production, and although “Power” is a hit with the black demographic, she just wonders why it hasn’t become a huge hit with white TV viewers.
She expressed such at a keynote panel launching the New York Television Festival recently.
Deadline writes:
Sounding a bit like the techie who announces to his blank-faced friends that he’s going to work for GE, Agboh said her biggest challenge was getting viewers to sample a show that’s running on Starz.
“The thing that frightens me about my show is that I wonder if it’s ever going to reach an audience outside of its core demographic,” she said. “We’re the highest-rated show on Starz, and people still say, ‘What?’ It says something about how television is perceived and how people select themselves out of it. I was talking to a reporter about my next show, which is set in Connecticut, where I grew up, and she said — she didn’t mean to offend me — she said, ‘Well, I’ll watch that one.’”
Wow……but like to have a hit show White people have to watch it??? I am really tired of us Black people feeling like we need approval from White folks all the damn time. I don’t watch a lot of White shoes and don’t know the names I never hear of White folks checking for us to see if we seen them doing something smh
Who cares? The show is still a hit without them watching.
The things people worry about.
The need for white acceptance is disturbing.
She sounds like Lee Daniels.
Power is the most watched show because of black people and she’s still not satisfied. That’s crazy to me.
White people don’t need to watch because they’ll just think all those stereotypes are true. I hate how they did his wife’s character. It’s like they hate black women. They make his Latina gf home wrecker seem like an angel and Tasha is the money hungry hood rat holding him back from leaving the drug game. I just hate how all the darker skinned characters are portrayed.
I think 50 cent and his shenanigans definitely hurt his show. Power is a great show with/without him, but his constant ranting in the media against Empire definitely didn’t help his case any.
Start doesn’t get ratings like that anyway. Power’s success is unheard of. Does the demographic really matter at the end of the day when the show is the most watched on Starz?