Article: A No-Nonsense Sitcom // `South Central' Looks Honestly At Urban Woes

South Central (STAR) (STAR) (STAR) 1/2 WFLD-Channel 32, 7 to 7:30 tonight

In the 22 minutes of its premiere, Fox's "South Central" touches on more issues - teenage pregnancy, urban unemployment, single mothers, drug traffic, gangs and street crime - than "Meet the Press" tackles in a month. This is, after all, a series that begins with a blast of dark humor as a teenage girl jokes that "nothing gets me going like the scent of gunpowder in the morning."

It's easy to see why the series, which replaces the failed "Monty" at 7 tonight on WFLD-Channel 32, has been hailed by one critic as a "bold, realistic sitcom about inner-city life that breaks the mold of black comedies."

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