Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
50 Cent’s TV career continues to flourish with a new series Confessions of a Crime Queen heading to Discovery+. The network gave a straight-to-series order to Confessions of a Crime Queen, a true-crime anthology series. 50 is developing the project through his G-Unit Film & Television banner, Rich Bye and his Goodbye Pictures and Lionsgate […]
Pheobe Robinson’s Freefrom pilot comedy Everything’s Trash has rounded out its cast of series regulars. Jordan Carlos, Toccarra Cash, Nneka Okafor, and Moses Storm join Robinson in the half-hour comedy. It is inspired by Robinson’s book Everything’s Trash But It’s Ok. Chioke Nassor is directing the pilot and Robinson is penning the script. The series […]
Jessica Williams, CP Powell, Janet Hubert, Jordan Rock and Maya Kazan join Season 2 of HBO Max’s romantic comedy anthology series Love Life. They will all star alongside previously cast series lead William Jackson Harper, who will also executive produce. Williams and Powell join as series regulars while Hubert, Rock, and Kazan will guest star. […]
Taylour Paige is cast as the female lead in the Toxic Avenger remake opposite Peter Dinklage and Jacob Tremblay. Macon Blair is directing the reboot of Troma Entertainment’s 1984 low-budget action-comedy franchise. The film centered on Melvin, a social misfit who works as a janitor at the Tromaville Health Club. However, one day the mayor’s […]
Blair Underwood is directing, producing, and starring in the indie thriller, Viral, from Your films. Joe McClean wrote the film which is about a man dealing with his wife’s disappearance. Underwood and McClean are producing alongside Daniel Cypress and York Films’ John Kalafatis, Joanna Kalafatis, and Andreas Ignatiou. READ: Blair Underwood to Reprise Role in L.A. […]
Congrats are in order for Insecure actress Natasha Rothwell. The actress/comedian inked a multi-year overall deal at ABC Signature. Under the deal, Rothwell will develop new television projects via her Big Hattie Productions. The deal is also in conjunction with Disney General Entertainment’s BIPOC Creator Initiative led by Tara Duncan. “Natasha is the real deal […]
Talk about a blast from the past of how-did-we-forget-about-this-show. HBO Max is giving Nickelodeon’s sitcom The Brothers Garcia, a sequel entitled The Garcias. If you don’t remember, The Brother’s Garcia aired on Nick for four seasons from 2000 to 2004. It was an original series that was billed as the first English-language sitcom to have […]
Season 2 of Netflix’s Russian Doll is coming together and adds Ephraim Sykes (Hamilton) to the cast. Russian Doll follows Nadia (Natasha Lyonne) who is caught in a time loop as the guest of honor at a seemingly inescapable party one night in New York City. She dies repeatedly, always restarting at the same moment […]
Annelle Olayele to star as a series regulars in Showtime’s sci-fi limited series The Man Who Fell to Earth. She will star opposite Chiwetel Ejiofor and Naomie Harris. Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet are writing the series based on Walter Tevis’ novel of the same name. Kurtzman is also directing multiple episodes. READ: Jamie Foxx, […]
Lovecraft County and Snowfall writer Ihuoma Ofordire is penning the remake of the 1973 Blaxploitation film, Cleopatra Jones for Warner Bros and Charles D. King’s Macro. The original film centered on Cleopatra Jones, played by Tamara Dobson, who is an undercover government agent who uses the day job of supermodel as her cover and an […]