‘Diarra from Detroit,’ created by Diarra Kilpatrick,...
Diarra Kilpatrick recalls writing for NBC’s Debra Messing procedural “The Mysteries of Laura” when she got feedback from the network over wanting to have Messing’s character, a homicide detective with the NYPD, out on a date. “The network was like, ‘Do people hate her? There are still criminals at large.” And I remember thinking, ’What? She has to have something for her,” Kilpatrick said recently over Zoom. A date is now at the center of a new comedic mystery...