Directed by Gil Tejada Jr., it stars Barbie Forteza in the title role.

It premiered on February 14, 2011 on the network's Dramarama sa Hapon line up.

According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila People/Individual television ratings, the pilot episode of Nita Negrita earned a 7.8% rating.

[3] The show's use of blackface was criticized in the media[4] and by foreign academics.

[5][6][7] Axel Honneth professor of philosophy at both the University of Frankfurt and Columbia University stated that the show "presents the stereotypical theme of poverty being ascribed with skin colour",[8] while Dr. Elaine Marie Carbonell Laforteza, Lecturer in Cultural Studies Macquarie University, Australia, stated in her book The Somatechnics of Whiteness and Race: Colonialism and Mestiza Privilege, that "Nita does not appear 'authentically black', but painted as black.