Big things are continuing to unfold for Natasha Rothwell. Onyx Collective gave her comedy series How to Die Alone a straight to series order at Hulu. Rothwell will write and star in the series. She will also co-showrun the comedy along with Vera Santamaria. READ: Sinclair Daniel, Ashleigh Murray, Brittany Adebumola and Hunter Parrish Cast […]
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8 Interesting Harlem Nights Facts You Probably Didn’t Know
33 years ago, Harlem Nights was released. It had an all-star comedy cast that included Richard Pryor, Robin Harris, Eddie Murphy, Redd Foxx, Charlie Murphy, Arsenio Hall. The film tells the story of “Sugar” Ray and Vernest “Quick” Brown (Pryor and Murphy) as a team running a nightclub in the late 1930s in Harlem while […]
Random Acts of Flyness Season 2 Premieres in December on HBO [TRAILER]
Four years after it was renewed and its first season premiered, Terence Nance’s late-night sketch comedy series Random Acts of Flyness is returning for its second season this December on HBOMax. The show is described as a “fluid, mind-melting stream-of-conscious response to the contemporary American mediascape” in which each episode will “feature interconnected vignettes that […]
Riele Downs Sees Dead People in Horror Comedy Darby and the Dead for Hulu
Riele Downs sees dead people in the teen horror comedy Darby and the Dead for Hulu. It is set to be released by 20th Century Studios on Hulu on December 2, 2022. Auliʻi Cravalho, Chosen Jacobs, Derek Luke, Genneya Walton, Asher Angel, Tony Danza, and Wayne Knight also star in the feature. After suffering a […]
17 Celebrities One Award Away From EGOT Status
UPDATED VERSION There are only 17 EGOT winners since the first recipient, Richard Rodgers, of this coveted awards won all four in 1962. Interestingly enough the actual term “EGOT” was coined two decades later in 1984 by Philip Michael Thomas. When his role on the new hit show Miami Vice brought him instant fame, and […]
Vanessa Bell Calloway Leads a Coven of Black Witches in New ALLBLK Series Wicked City [TRAILER]
ALLBLK just released the trailer to their upcoming series Wicked City, that centers on a coven of Black witches. The series stars Vanessa Bell Calloway who leads a coven of Black witches portrayed by Taylor Ellene Polidore, Shaquita Smith, Mercedez McDowell, and Chanel Mack. The five of them push their supernatural powers to new heights […]
Chloe Bailey to Star in Wall Street Drama ‘Midas Touch’ About Black Trader Lauren Simmons
Chloe Bailey has nabbed her first big feature film role in AGC Studios’ upcoming Wall Street drama Midas Touch. The film tells the true story of Lauren Simmons, the youngest equity trader ever to take the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Simmons is also only the second African American woman to hold that […]
[TRAILER] Priah Ferguson, Yvonne Orji, Laz Alonso Star in Netflix Series My Dad The Bounty Hunter
A family who accidentally hunts criminals in another galaxy together, stays together… Netflix released the first trailer for My Dad the Bounty Hunter, an upcoming animated series that follows a family whose life turns upside down when siblings find out their father is an intergalactic warrior. Laz Alonso, Yvonne Orji, Priah Ferguson, Yvette Nicole Brown, […]
Will Smith and Antoine Fuqua’s Slave Film Emancipation Teaser [VIDEO]
Check out Will Smith, who gave his blood, sweat, and tears, in Emancipation official trailer. The slavery thriller Emancipation will be released in theaters, December 2 followed by a December 9 release on Apple TV+. READ: The Marathon Continues with a Nipsey Hussle Docuseries [TRAILER] Antoine Fuqua is directing the Apple Original Film and Willam N. […]
The Marathon Continues with a Nipsey Hussle Docuseries [TRAILER]
The marathon continues with a Nipsey Hussle docuseries from Lebron James’ The SpringHill Company and the late rapper’s production company Marathon Films. Per a press release SpringHill — the media studio cofounded by LeBron James and Maverick Carter — has announced a partnership with Hussle’s Marathon Films to recall the late rapper’s life story in […]








