Lincoln Heights Wins 2008 Gabriel Award for Best Entertainment

Kathleen in NYC

CONGRATULATIONS to Lincoln Heights Producers, Cast and Crew for a great Season Three and receiving 2008 Gabriel Award for Best Entertainment.

KATHLEEN’S STATEMENT:

I’m ecstatic about doing a new season of Lincoln Heights!

… It is indescribably empowering, not just for me, as the Executive Producer, but for all of us, audiences and artists alike. First, it disproves the often quoted, but antiquated wisdom that says a dramatic television series with a black family at its core, cannot survive. Secondly, it proves that TV viewers are smarter than the naysayers, (I always thought so.)

Lincoln Heights is a mirror of the real world, which is populated by people of all colors—trying their best to live together safely and harmoniously. We may move and vibrate to different rhythms but the beat of our hearts is just the same. The family at the heart of this show represents humanity not just ethnicity.

This second season portends the vision of many great writers, philosophers, politicians and gurus—who believe that one day people will be judged by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin. Those “better days” those “mountain top days” those “amazing grace days” are beginning to dawn. Our Lincoln Heights characters connect to an ever-expanding audience who want to see and be a part of this unique vision.

Producing these stories is what keeps me up late nights at the studio, to get up before sunrise some mornings, to work alongside an amazing cast, a great crew and a staff that is committed beyond simply having a gig in show business. This season we’ll try to live up to the task that ABC/Family has emboldened us with—to produce even more powerful episodes about something that really matters. Most of all, just trying to keep it real…

REVIEWS AND ARTICLES:

“ABC Family brings Lincoln Heights back. The Suttons will continue to stick it out in the old neighborhood.

ABC Family has renewed the family drama Lincoln Heights for a second season.

“We’re just in love with this show and truly believe it’s one of the best on television,” said network President Paul Lee. “It’s brought us the most diverse audiences ABC Family has ever had, and I can’t wait to see what (executive producer) Kathleen (McGhee Anderson) and this superb cast do with Season 2.”…”

CONTACT:

Manager: Bruce Brown
email – brucebrownmgt@gmail.com
phone – 310 395-9071