Portrait Of: ‘Taina’ and the Love of Nostalgia TV

Latino USA

Futuro Media and PRX

Society & Culture

4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In 2001, Nickelodeon started airing "Taina," a show about a Latina teen who attends a performing arts high school in NYC and daydreams of being a star. While the show only lasted two seasons, "Taina" is seared into the memories of many who grew up watching it, because at the time it was rare to see an authentic portrayal of what it was like to be a Nuyorican teen in the early 2000s. In this episode from our vault, Maria Hinojosa talks to the show’s award-winning creator Maria Perez-Brown, who is Nuyorican herself, about jumping into the world of children's television after being a tax lawyer, and the surprisingly long legacy of “Taina.”

This episode originally aired in 2019.

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0:00.0	Futuro
0:02.0	Tainahina
0:09.0	I know
0:11.0	I can't wait to see my name in light
0:15.0	No one's going to stop me
0:18.0	you'll see I will go by
0:20.0	Tanya From Futuro I'm from Tijuana,
0:22.3	Tainna,
0:24.5	Tainna.
0:32.6	From Futuro Media and PRX, it's Latino USA.
0:33.8	I'm Maria Innojosa.
0:36.2	Today we dive into the world of Nost nostalgia television with the Nickelodeon cult favorite
0:39.6	Taina.
0:46.0	In the 1990s, a Puerto Rican lawyer named Mariet Perez-Brown decided to make a major career move
0:53.0	from law to entertainment.
0:55.5	Soon after, Marietaped is Brown made her mark on children's television with two multicultural shows.
1:01.2	One was Gullah Gullah Island, a show about an African-American family living off the coast of South Carolina in an indigenous community, which aired in 1994.
1:10.4	Let's all go to Gola Gola Gola Gala Gala. in an indigenous community, which aired in 1994.
1:21.4	The other TV show was Taina, a sitcom about a Latina teenager, which aired in 2001.
1:29.4	Both shows were on Nickelodeon, and both shows now have their own cult followings. In this episode, we're going to focus on the legacy of Taina. The show, which
1:36.3	premiered in 2001, is about a 15-year-old Latina from Queens, who attends a performing
1:42.5	arts high school in Manhattan, and who constantly
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