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The Alvarez family will be back! Netflix renews ‘One Day at a Time’ for a 3rd season

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After a wave of support on Twitter from fans and stars alike, the Alvarez family will be back. Netflix has renewed their Norman Lear reboot for a third season.

From creators Gloria Calderon Kellett and Mike Royce, this contemporary One Day at a Time, set in Echo Park in Los Angeles, features a Cuban-American family led by Justina Machado as a newly-single mom and military veteran and EGOT winner Rita Moreno and her feisty and frisky mother. The returning cast also includes Todd Grinnell, Stephen Toblowsky, Isabella Gomez and Marcel Ruiz.

The gained tremendous social support for its pro-immigrant storylines (specifically Moreno’s Lydia and her immigrant status), daughter Elena discovery of her sexuality and superbly tackling the language of gender and sexual fluidity, and engaging its audience on Latinx identity.

Executive Producers include Norman Lear, co-creators/co-showrunners Gloria Calderon Kellett and Mike Royce, Michael Garcia and Brent Miller. It is produced by Sony Pictures Television for Netflix.

13 new episodes will return to Netflix in 2019.

Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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