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Lincoln Heights (2006)
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Lincoln Heights is an American family drama television series about Eddie Sutton, a Mission Vista police officer who moves his family back to his old neighborhood, Lincoln Heights, to start a new life and to help out his old neighborhood. It is a dangerous place to raise a family, and through the many trials the family goes through, they soon learn that settling in is not as easy as it seems. While Officer Sutton struggles to cope with every day life as a street cop in Los Angeles, his kids try to fit in at their new schools and with their new neighbors.
The show premiered January 8, 2007 on the ABC Family network with 13 episodes ordered for the first season. It was approved for a second season, which premiered September 4, 2007. Vanessa Hudgens' song, Say OK had been used in a commercial to promote the second season. To promote the third season, they showed clips of Cassie and Charles's relationship to the song, Crush by the American Idol's seventh season runner-up, David Archuleta. To promote season 4, they're using the song, Avalanche by Marie Digby. The show's theme song was written and performed by bassist Stanley Clarke and singer-songwriter Blaire Reinhard.
On January 29, 2010, ABC Family announced the cancellation of the series after four seasons.
Style:
touching, realistic, sincere, serious, hood, crime drama
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
high school student, family relations, african american, workplace, homecoming, parents and children, love and romance, family values, new job, siblings relations, marital problem, black, black family, housewife, dysfunctional family, interracial love relationship, young adult, school, high school life, high school, friends, family life, couples, ordinary person, urban ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
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Duration: 60 min.
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