Bet You Didn’t Know: Secrets Behind The Making Of “Crooklyn”
Crooklyn was supposed to be a children’s tv show
In that same article Cinque explained that the original script was intended for a recurring children’s show, but lucky for us, that’s not how it panned out. Cinque also told the LA Times “Nickelodeon screened a pilot for the series, had it tested with a group of inner-city kids, and gave it thumbs down. It had no hip-hop music, no dancing. It had jazz.”