BEVERLY HILLS – CCH Pounder knows a little something about women’s prison dramas, and she thinks “Orange is the New Black” gets it right.
Pounder was part of the ensemble cast of “Women in Prison,” a 1987-88 Fox sitcom that lasted only 13 episodes.
That was “was kind of like ‘Eight is Enough’,” she says. “It was plugged as a really hard-hitting comedy and it never achieved that.”
But “Orange,” which Pounder says “I had a lot to do with in the beginning,” does.
“It’s far more realistic and therefore, actually more cryptic and a really different kind of humor,” she says. “I think that we’re ready for that now. How long that kind of person can last in prison, how many stories that you can keep creating for her to exist in prison is going to be interesting.”
