The WB SAPs ‘Greetings From Tucson’.

The WB has joined forces with Big Ticket Television to broadcast The WB’s new family comedy Greetings From Tucson with a Spanish simulcast, beginning with the premiere episode on Friday, September 20 (9:30-10:00 p.m. ET). The network, in conjunction with its affiliates, will provide Hispanic viewers the ability to watch the new comedy in Spanish via Second Audio Programming (SAP).

Greetings From Tucson is the first television comedy featuring a Latino family written from the personal experience of a
Mexican-American executive producer and creator,” said Jordan Levin, President, Entertainment of The WB. “We are pleased to offer a simulcast for this distinctive family comedy with broad crossover
appeal.”

Seen through the eyes of 15-year-old David (Pablo Santos, “American Family”), Greetings From Tucson is an autobiographical comedy about the challenges of growing up sane in an ethnically mixed, upwardly mobile family. Dad (Julio Oscar Mechoso, “All the Pretty Horses”) is a proud yet impossibly pragmatic Mexican American, Mom (Rebecca Creskoff) a fierce Irish American. David’s diva of an older sister (Aimee Garcia) rejects her Mexican roots and insists she’s Spanish, and his irreverent uncle (Jacob Vargas, “Traffic”) and grandmother (Lupe Ontiveros, “As Good As It Gets”) are both hipper than most teenagers. Caught in the middle is David, whose mixed heritage only adds to the eternal adolescent dilemma of exactly how — and if — he fits in. Sara Paxton and Bobby Chavez also star. An unconventional family comedy, GREETINGS FROM TUCSON is from executive producers Peter Murrieta (“Second City”), Rob LaZebnick (“The Simpsons”), Howard Klein (“King of the Hill”) and David Miner for Big Ticket Television, A Paramount/Viacom company.