Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
AnnaSophia Robb is set to join Will Smith in Supermax, the Amazon MGM Studios and Miramax thriller directed by David Gordon Green, Deadline has learned exclusively. Robb will play Smith’s young partner as the two detectives enter the depths of a Supermax prison to solve a mysterious murder. Smith plays Rex, one of the lead […]
Famous Amos is making its streaming debut. Ferrero North America has announced Famously You, the brand’s first original streaming series, premiering exclusively on The Roku Channel on July 24. Created and hosted by musician and NAACP Image Award-winning author Rev Shawn Amos, the son of late Famous Amos founder Wally Amos, the show celebrates the […]
Twice Emmy-nominated director Morenike Joela Evans has been attached to direct Switch, an upcoming body swap rom-com starring and produced by Alexis Louder. The film centers on Imani, a Black elementary school teacher who butts heads with Ben, a White executive, only to wake up the next day in his body after a mysterious escape […]
Tuskegee University is making history on the soccer field for the first time in its 145-year history, and cameras will be there to capture every moment. Production begins July 31 on Unveiling History, a documentary series chronicling the inaugural season of Tuskegee University’s first NCAA men’s and women’s soccer programs. Filming begins as student-athletes arrive […]
Production has wrapped on Not Like Us, a romantic comedy filmed in East London starring Sabrina Elba and Ashley Thomas. The debut feature is written and directed by Ramla Ali and Richard A. Moore. The film follows Amina Hassan, a forty-something Somali pharmacist and single mother who has built everything herself, her business, her reputation […]
Tubi announced an expanded partnership with comedian, filmmaker and creator Bigg Jah at Dream Con on July 11, bringing three new titles to the platform this fall as part of the streamer’s broader push to champion digital-first creators and expand access to Hollywood for emerging talent. Bigg Jah, born Jahdai Pickett, is one of the […]
The law meets its match in family. Netflix has released the official trailer for Umthetho, the gripping seven-episode South African drama launching exclusively on the platform on August 14, 2026. Public prosecutor Mbali Dlamini, played by Nqobile Nunu Khumalo, believed her brother Moses was dead. Fourteen years later he resurfaces, played by Tony Kgoroge, not […]
Kevin Carroll is joining the cast of The Earliest Show, the officially greenlit six-part television revival of Ben Schwartz’s cult Funny or Die comedy. The series is based on the original Funny or Die comedy in which Schwartz and Lapkus played the hosts of America’s earliest live morning show, broadcasting at 3 a.m. sharp from […]
ABC’s Scrubs revival is heading into its second season with some cast changes. Joel Kim Booster and X Mayo, who played Dr. Kevin Park and Nurse Raymond respectively in Season 1, will not be returning. At the same time, Ava Bunn, who played intern Sam Tosh, has been promoted to series regular. Bunn joins original […]
The Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger hit its most significant roadblock yet Monday when U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín granted a 14-day temporary restraining order blocking the $110 billion deal from closing, siding with a coalition of 12 state attorneys general who sued to stop it. The ruling marks the first official legal pause on a […]