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It’s About the Kids

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One of the most poignant projects I’ve seen this year in film or television is TLC’s My Life As A Child,” premiering Monday Feb. 26. Producers gave 20 children all over the U.S. hand-held cameras to document their lives.

The footage is fascinating. The kids control the cameras and what you see is raw, spontaneous, funny, heart breaking and frank. Each hour features their unfiltered views on parents, peers and growing up.

One of the stories features 8-year-old Cole, who is challenging perceptions about living with cerebral palsy. “I do what other kids do,” says Cole. “I just do it in a different way.” Then there’s 8-year-old Joshua who is growing up in a tough Baltimore neighborhood and knows way more about how the world works than he should. And Listanne (pictured) who thinks it’s kind of silly that people judge each other by the color of their skin. “If you didn’t have skin we would all just be a bunch of souls running around, and no one would care. We are all the same on the inside,” she says.

Take a look at this one, and the children who are the future of our country may just impress you.

I can’t get into “America’s Next Top Model” but most of my friends are obsessed with the show. It’s back on the CW Wednesday. If you think spending your evening with wannabe supermodels is fun, then this show is for you.

One show I can’t wait for you to see is BBC America’s new Robin Hood starring Jonas Armstrong and Lucy Griffiths. Talk about taking a cool twist with a well-known story. A very sexy cast, a great script you need to check this one out on Saturday, March 3.

The producers have taken elements of the Robin Hood story and fashioned a fun and adventurous tale. “We’ve taken things we were interested in and thought had resonance for today,” says executive producer Foz Allan. “There’s Little John leading a gang of thugs who are robbing people for no good reason other than to feed themselves in the woods is there. Robin giving them an ideological view of the future and having to sit on Little John because he’s much to big to fight is the way we’ve told the integration story. We’re taking little bits and molding them together so they feel like now.”

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