24 Nov 2014 6:19 PM PT
ABC picked up 9 more episodes of Cristela, giving the show a full season of 22 episodes.
Cristela is about Cristela, a woman in her sixth year of law school and is finally on the brink of landing her first big (unpaid) internship at a prestigious law firm. The only problem is that her pursuit of success is more ambitious than her traditional Mexican-American family thinks is appropriate. She’s stuck straddling the old culture she’s trying to modernize at home with her working-class family and the modern world she’s trying to embrace in her professional career. Breakout comedian Cristela Alonzo stars in this hilarious comedy about laughing your way down the path to the new American dream.
Cristela Alonzo was little known before being cast in the lead role, and the show has been shot on a very tight budget, yet debuting at 1.3 in the demo 18-49 adult rating, it has remained consistent with that number in subsequent weeks. Cristela Alonzo, along with showrunner, Kevin Hench co-created the series and it is produced by Marty Adelstein, Becky Clements and Shawn Levy for 20th Century Fox TV.