The show based her character in part on executive producer Mike Royce’s recently out teen daughter and Michelle Badillo, a 24-year-old member of the writing staff.

Cuban-Americans Take Spotlight In Netflix Reboot Of 'One Day At A Time' Netflix releases a new take on an old show, Norman Lear's One Day at a Time.This time, the show follows a Cuban-American family.

This One Day, whose 13 episodes begin streaming on Friday, stars Justina Machado as Penelope Alvarez, a 38-year-old single mom who’s also a nurse and an Afghanistan War veteran.

In general, One Day at a Time risks falling through our cultural cracks. It’s not remembered as reverently as Norman Lear’s other shows or The Mary Tyler Moore Show.It doesn’t quite have the ...

The first three seasons of One Day at a Time marched to their own beat. Often, the show’s rhythms were predictable: a light, expository Act 1; a fretful, complicating Act 2; then a dramatic ...

Season 4 of “One Day at a Time” debuts Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. on cable channel Pop TV. In March 2019, Netflix canceled the show to howls of protest from both fans and critics.

“One Day at a Time” was originally canceled at Netflix in early 2019 after three seasons. Pop rescued the show a few months later and began airing Season 4 earlier this year.

One Day at a Time is the latest show to join the small list of series that have got canceled twice. After first being axed by Netflix in February 2019, Pop TV (and its parent company ViacomCBS ...

Still, the show feels both old and light in the best of ways. ... One Day at a Time is a comedy, and it is earnest, and it has heart. Its lightness does not make it easy.

Valerie Bertinelli in 'One Day at a Time' in the 1970s. CBS via Getty “Wow, I can still smell the smells. I can still see the audience,” she said.