Jennifer Lopez is moving into producing TV shows, with The Fosters due to start airing on ABC Family in the US this June. What makes it interesting for this site is that it’s about a female gay couple raising children, focussing on school vice principal Lena, her police officer partner Stef, and their children.
Lead actresses Sherri Saum and Teri Polo are set to attend the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) Media Awards in Los Angeles today (April 20th), and just ahead of that the first promo for the show has been released, which you can see above.
While Lopez is mainly behind the camera, cast member Jake T Austin, who plays one of the foster children, recently commented that she’s likely to appear in the series at some point. “She was maybe thinking about doing a cameo in the pilot…” he says. “But there was some apprehension in deciding how early they wanted to feature someone like her into the show. So she’ll definitely come on… but at this point we just don’t know when.”
As you’d also expect, there’s already a bit of controversy over the show with anti-gay harumphers One Million Moms, writing on their website of The Fosters, ‘None of this material is acceptable content for a family show. Hollywood is continuing to push an agenda that homosexuality is acceptable when the scripture states clearly it is a sin.’
The first episode is due to air June 3rd in the US, but there’s no UK date set.
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