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" Tinsel Town certainly does not reflect the face of America today. The New York Daily News noted earlier this year that whites currently make up 63 percent of the U.S. population. That figure is expected to peak in 2024 and then begin a steady decline, dropping to 50 percent by 2043. The percentage of the population that is Hispanic is expected to increase from 17 to 24 percent. Yet the lack of diversity in Hollywood is due to the upper ranks of the film and television industry being made up of predominantly Caucasian males, Forbes reports Academy Award voters were more than 90 percent Caucasian and nearly 80 percent male. Despite the current inaccurate reflection of society in entertainment today, television networks are trying to reflect these changes. English-language television execs and advertisers have attempted to appeal to the more than 50 million Latinos in the U.S., but Latino viewers have mainly tuned in to watch Spanish-language networks in huge numbers. For example, the final episode of the 2012 season of &amp;quot;Modern Family,&amp;quot; starring popular Columbian actress Sofia Vergara, drew only about six percent of all show viewers, with an average of 798,000 Hispanic viewers in the season. The Mexican telenovela, &amp;quot;La Que No Pod\u00EDa Amar,&amp;quot; on the other hand, attracted 5.2 million viewers, The New York Times reports. Can this fall season&amp;#039;s television shows starring Latina women encourage a wider diversity of viewers to tune in? We hope so. Here are our five best bets for this coming season: Once Upon a Time\u2028 &amp;quot;Once Upon a Time&amp;quot; is a new twist on the storybook legends and fairy tales most of us know from childhood. The show is original, riveting and set in two worlds\u2014the real world and an alternate fairy tale version of real life. There is a lot to love about this new series, including three great female leads: Ginnifer Goodwin, previously of &amp;quot;Big Love,&amp;quot; Jennifer Morrison of &amp;quot;House&amp;quot; fame and half-Puerto Rican actress Lana Parrilla, formerly of &amp;quot;Swingtown.&amp;quot; The latter plays the evil queen in a stunning performance. Check it out this fall on ABC. Read more "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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