Paramount+ has renewed Tulsa King for a fifth season ahead of the show’s fourth season premiere on October 16. Production on Season 5 is already underway, with the series relocating from Atlanta to New York to align with a storyline that sends Dwight “The General” Manfredi back to his mafia roots. The new season brings […]

Apple TV has renewed Imperfect Women for a second season, taking a spinoff approach that will follow Kerry Washington’s character Eleanor rather than continuing the original ensemble story. Washington returns to star and executive produce through her Simpson Street banner alongside Pilar Savone. Season 1, based on Araminta Hall’s novel, centered on best friends Eleanor […]

Anthony Mackie is heading back to Broadway next spring to take on the title role in Macbeth, he revealed to Deadline. The New York production is a transfer of director Max Webster’s celebrated staging, with rehearsals set to begin in February 2027, previews launching that spring, and the run continuing through July at a venue […]

Crystal Renee Hayslett will star as the lead in Conditioned, the psychological thriller marking writer-director Courtney Glaudé’s first film release through Maxscene, Tyler Perry Studios’ new specialty division. Glaudé and Antoinetta Stallings, Maxscene’s head of development and acquisitions, debuted the film’s key art and shared new details about the project during a Maxscene-focused panel at […]

Reggie McFadden, the actor and stand-up comic best known for his run on In Living Color and his breakout appearance on Def Comedy Jam, has died at 57. His sister, author Bernice McFadden, told The Hollywood Reporter that the U.S. State Department notified the family of his death in Tanzania, where he had lived for […]

Peacock has given a series order to its first television series based on the Fast & Furious franchise, which has grossed more than $7 billion at the global box office over the past 25 years. The series comes from writers and co-showrunners Mike Daniels and Wolfe Coleman, with franchise star Vin Diesel attached as an […]

Nicholas Boggs’s biography Baldwin: A Love Story has been optioned for a film adaptation by Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground and production house Anonymous Content. Boggs and his partner, The Disappearers author Marlon James, will write the script and executive produce. Boggs’s biography, published by FSG in August, became the first major biography of […]

Prime Video released the first teaser for its Barbershop series adaptation Saturday at CultureCon, revealing the identity of the shop’s new owner ahead of the show’s February 10, 2027 premiere, when all eight episodes drop on the platform. The series stars Jermaine Fowler as Travis “Trav” Porter, who sets out to follow in the footsteps […]

Shane Paul McGhie and Dasan Frazier Set to Lead Issa Rae’s Untitled HBO Male Friendship Comedy Pilot — Prentice Penny Attached as Showrunner Shane Paul McGhie and Dasan Frazier are set as the leads in Issa Rae’s new untitled half-hour comedy pilot at HBO, Deadline reports exclusively. Written and executive produced by Rae, the pilot […]