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Frontline: Baby Brokers (2026) – Adoption on Television (opens the original)
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E040 | Frontline: Baby Brokers (2026) – Adoption on Television As Haley works on her investigative series podcast On Adoption , other docs are also telling real stories about the adoption industry, including PBS's Frontline, which in June of 2026 aired an episode titled "Baby Brokers." Produced in collaboration with the not-for-profit, independent news organization Retro Report, the episode looks at the adoption tourism industry — the luring of pregnant women to adoption-friendly states and pres
The Blind Side (2009): Adoption at the Movies (opens the original)
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E039 | The Blind Side (2009) – Adoption at the Movies When the summer heat burns itself out, kids head back to school, and a hint of fall breeze rustles the trees, one thing becomes clear: football season is upon us. And while Hollywood has made many a football movie, there is one that scores bigger with audience than all the rest. 2009's The Blind Side follows the story of Michael Oher, a once-homeless Memphis teen who, with the help of a community of people throughout his young life, works his
Two and a Half Men – "The Ol' Mexican Spinach" (2014): Adoption on Television (opens the original)
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E038 | Two and a Half Men "The Ol' Mexican Spinach" (2025) – Adoption on Television The CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men aired for 12 seasons from 2003 to 2015, and originally starred 1980s film icon Charlie Sheen as Charlie Harper, alongside his brother Alan, played by Jon Cryer. Sheen exited the show in the ninth season and was replaced by the aughts-television-famous Ashton Kutcher (we cannot bring ourselves to type "icon" but, for a while there, he was everywhere), playing a billionaire named W
Silicon Valley "Maximizing Alphaness" (2019) – Adoption on the Small Screen (opens the original)
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E037 | Silicon Valley "Maximizing Alphaness" (2019) – Adoption on the Small Screen Workplaces outside of the home have long been fodder for television entertainment. The first workplace comedy, Our Miss Brooks, premiered way back in 1952 and centered a high school teacher. And while we still have school-based workplace comedies (shout-out to one of Haley's favorites, Abbott Elementary), other shows involve workplaces of a kind that did not exist in 1952, such as HBO's Silicon Valley, a parody of
Black Cake (2023) – Adoption on the Small Screen (opens the original)
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E036 | Black Cake (2023) – Adoption on the Small Screen Certain foods can be a strong connection to the geographies and cultures that we come from, even after physical separation from those geographies and cultures. It is this universal experience that undergirds the 2023 Hulu limited series, Black Cake. Adapted from the novel of the same name by Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake follows a multigenerational story with a woman named Eleanor Bennett at its center. The film touches on themes of ident
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