You know they like to get a little crazy with a redhead like Sarah Power
Speaking of Sarah Power, I've been loosely watching reruns of
The Good Witch (free with 1-2 10 second ads) on
YouTube. I've kind of had it on in the background while I am doing other things. I had never really watched it much before, as I don't care for Catherine Bell (Cassie) playing mysterious all the time. Just yesterday, two new characters were introduced that looked "whiter" and more bland than the Ken doll from Barbie ever looked.
It literally SHOCKED me that they cast two people so cardboard, but OBVIOUSLY chosen because they were white. These were recurring roles. One is supposed to be a good friend of James Denton's character, and his son seems interested in Cassie's daughter, and she in him. They could have cast a couple of people a bit more interesting, white or any race. But, it was so obvious that these two were cardboard cutouts of Ken.
That made me purposely start watching for minorities/diversity. Usually Hallmark has been good about hiring minorities for the supporting roles. NOT
The Good Witch. The only time I saw a minority was as a deep background extra player. Then I looked at the full cast list for the entire series on the IMDb .com. Out of 76 episodes, only one minority actor was hired twice, because he was a hotdog vendor. And a few other minority actors were hired for a few more episodes each. Everybody else on the show is white.
I knew that Hallmark got criticized for their lack of diversity. And they ended up with a new CEO the past few years, who made diversity her #1 change to the network, with some lead actresses as minorities. But, as I said, usually smaller roles have been going to minorities in their movies. So, it took a bit (when I finally paid attention to the TV,) to notice that this series didn't cast minorities, and then went to an extreme to get two Ken dolls for characters who couldn't really act. This went on for the
7 years of the series. I am beyond shocked.
(And there were yearly movies for 7 years before the series started. I haven't checked to see how the casting was in those.)
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My Hallmark channel is all messed up. I'm on DISH, and the guide listings are not matching up with what's actually on. Hope they get this straightened out.
Maybe it's an AI thing. Someone used AI to input the schedule but forgot to teach that there is an Eastern time schedule and a Western one. When they switched out a few movie here and there on one schedule, they forgot to teach it to properly transfer it to the Western schedule times too. 
