Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
Netflix has released the official trailer for How To Ruin Diwali: Meet the Parents, the latest entry in the network’s South African How To Ruin franchise, premiering October 30, 2026. The three-episode comedy comes from Burnt Onion Productions in collaboration with filmmaker Jayan Moodley, whose Kandasamys: The Baby and Meet the Khumalos are also […]
Jack’d is taking an unconventional approach to film distribution: instead of competing for placement on traditional festival circuits, the app is using its own existing user base of 15 million people as a built-in audience, a structural advantage queer filmmakers of color have historically lacked access to elsewhere. Jack’d, the largest dating app for queer […]
Hektik, Africa’s first homegrown microdrama streaming platform, has announced a new content partnership with Blue Pictures, one of the largest distributors in East and West Africa, alongside milestone viewership numbers for its debut original series, Exodus 20. Launched in February 2026, Hektik delivers short-form, vertical video content in 9:16 format, typically in one-to-three-minute episodes, built […]
Woody McClain will star as a younger version of Rod Paige, the nation’s first Black U.S. Secretary of Education, in the upcoming biopic Paragraphs of a Paige. Directed by Isaac Yowman, the film is set to premiere in 2027, with a trailer now released. McClain, known for Power Book II: Ghost, The Bobby Brown Story, […]
In the Shadows, the British boxing biopic based on the true story of British-Somali boxer Ramla Ali, will self-release theatrically in the U.K. after its original distributor, True Brit Entertainment, filed for administration in late September. The film still premieres as planned at the London Film Festival on October 9, with additional financial support from […]
Aldis Hodge and Wunmi Mosaku are set to star in One Night Out, a new thriller from Amazon MGM Studios’ Orion Pictures, Deadline reports exclusively. George Tillman Jr. will direct, with the film streaming on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories. Nelson Greaves wrote the script, based on his own short story, […]
Hulu has unveiled seven first-look photos and a premiere date for The Land, the new NFL drama from This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman. The series debuts February 15, 2027, the day after the Super Bowl, with the first two episodes dropping at 9 p.m. PT, followed by weekly episodes. Set inside the world of […]
Dewayne Perkins, known for The Blackening and The Studio, is independently releasing I Swear We’re Friends, a six-episode digital “skitcom” launching exclusively on YouTube this fall. Each episode is inspired by a different beloved show, including Girlfriends, Succession, 24, My Wife & Kids, Charmed, and Touched By An Angel, blending nostalgia with a distinctly modern […]
Elsbeth has added Uzo Aduba, Tyne Daly, and Christine Ebersole to its Season 4 cast. Ebersole joins in a recurring role as Elsbeth’s mother, while Aduba and Daly will each guest star. The fourth season of the CBS crime drama, a spinoff of The Good Wife and The Good Fight, premieres Thursday, October 8, with […]
David Banner has joined Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor and actress Kyanna Simone in Gumball, Simone’s directorial debut, which has officially wrapped principal photography in Atlanta. Written, directed by, and starring Simone, the short film is inspired by her complicated relationship with her late father. While the full story remains under wraps, the film follows Joy, played by […]