Nia Long may be gearing up for a return trip to the neighborhood that was part of her early launch of career. While speaking with Variety ahead of her upcoming Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony, Long teased that the Friday franchise could be bringing her back into the fold. Discussing her comedic roots and the […]

The trailer and key art are here for Season 2 of Sacrifice, the legal drama starring Paula Patton, and it offers fans a bittersweet look at two performers no longer with us: the late Erica Ash and the late Richard Roundtree, who played Ellis Shaw in Season 1, both appear in the new footage. Patton […]

Macro is making a bigger play in streaming. Macro, the entertainment company King founded and leads, has acquired AllBlk, the Black-focused streaming platform previously owned by AMC Global Media. The deal marks Macro’s first move into direct-to-consumer streaming and hands the company a built-in distribution channel for the stories it’s already producing. AllBlk’s roots trace […]

“If a dirt-poor country boy, with no education, no opportunities, faced with great troubles, can make it through life doing what he loves, so can you.” — Bobby Rush Casting is set for the world premiere of “Slippin’ Through the Cracks: The Bobby Rush Musical,” a new stage production telling the life story of blues […]

The faith-based drama, starring Ashley Olivia Fisher and Aspen Kennedy, transplants the Christmas story into a contemporary inner-city love story ahead of its November 13 release. The trailer has dropped for ‘God With Us,’ a faith-based reimagining of the Nativity story set in a modern inner-city landscape, giving audiences their first real look at writer-director […]

Fall is stacked with new premieres, and these 12 are worth putting on your radar, reboots, spinoffs and new originals landing across streamers and networks over the next few months. Route 187 | Series Premiere, September 16 | Paramount+ New drama limited series. Written and directed by Mark E. Swinton, executive produced in association with […]

The additions round out a Southeast Texas set world that’s shaping up to be Starz’s next major bet on premium Black storytelling, following the lane P-Valley carved out. Starz isn’t just building a show, it’s building a world. The network’s still-untitled Black rodeo drama has added five actors in recurring roles: SteVonté Hart, John Gabriel […]

Update with trailer: The latest franchise spinoff sends Special Agent Sam Hanna to lead a new team in New York, premiering October 6 on CBS and Paramount+. Sam Hanna is coming home. CBS has released the first trailer for NCIS: New York, and it makes one thing immediately clear: the character hasn’t lost a step […]

Paramount+ has unveiled first-look images for the Taylor Sheridan-penned series, which follows Jackson’s hitman-turned-hustler character as he builds his own criminal empire in Texas. Samuel L. Jackson isn’t just stealing scenes anymore, he’s getting his own show. Paramount+ has released the first images for Frisco King, the Tulsa King spinoff built entirely around Jackson’s character, […]

Netflix has dropped the official trailer for Animals, with Ben Affleck directing, co-writing, and starring as Mark Kimball, a Los Angeles mayoral candidate whose world implodes when his son is kidnapped. Kerry Washington plays his wife Abigail, and together the two scramble to raise a ransom while a campaign built on carefully managed optics threatens […]