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Tshedza Pictures’ highly anticipated new telenovela The Four of Us has secured a Netflix home, with the streamer acquiring the series ahead of its premiere. The show debuts Monday, June 29 at 8:00 PM on e.tv, with episodes streaming on Netflix the following day. The dual-platform deal marks a significant milestone for South African storytelling, […]

Naturi Naughton-Lewis is heading back to Broadway. The actress and singer will join the cast of The Great Gatsby as Jordan Baker beginning July 31 at the Broadway Theatre, marking her first return to the stage in 20 years. Naughton-Lewis succeeds original cast member Samantha Pauly, who plays her final performance in the role on […]

Sky has released the first trailer for Possession, a five-part limited series led by Gugu Mbatha-Raw that weaves together colonial history, inherited trauma and the supernatural across the landscapes of Bristol and Jamaica. Formerly titled Inheritance, the series was created and written by Karla Crome and directed throughout by Storm Saulter. Mbatha-Raw stars as Claudia, […]

Two of Broadway’s most celebrated talents are taking their act to YouTube. Jordan E. Cooper and Kara Young have premiered The Ppl Police, a six-episode scripted micro-comedy now streaming on the platform. The series stars Cooper and Young as Ross and Pumpkin, two friends who set themselves up as a community alternative to the police […]

Channel 4 and See-Saw Films are developing a television adaptation of “Shifters,” the acclaimed play by Congolese-British writer Benedict Lombe, as the stage production prepares to cross the Atlantic for a run at A24’s Cherry Lane Theatre. Lombe will adapt the work herself, marking her first foray into television. The project is currently in development […]

Prime Video’s We Were Liars is expanding its cast ahead of its second season. Riley Voelkel, Madeleine Arthur, Jaelynn Thora Brooks, Layla Douglas, Callan Potter, Aidan Shaw, Shaun Sipos and Brendon Tremblay have all joined in recurring roles. Several cast members are also returning, including Emerson MacNeil as Bonnie, Manaia Wall as Liberty, Andrew Moodie […]

Brittany Bradford, Scott Foley, Kate Micucci, James Olivas and Dierdre Friel have joined the cast of August, the indie comedy marking the feature directorial, screenwriting and acting debut of Nick Borenstein. The film, which has already wrapped production in New York City, stars Borenstein as a young gay New Yorker who spirals into an obsessive […]

Peacock has set a return date for The Paper. The Office spinoff will be back for its second season on Wednesday, September 9, with all episodes dropping at once. The streamer also revealed the Season 2 guest cast, which includes Toks Olagundoye, Jon Lovitz, Andy Richter, Lisa Gilroy, Matt Braunger, and Phil Hendrie. The series […]

Imani Lewis and Tanya Wright have signed on to star in Killa, a horror-drama marking the feature filmmaking debut of writer-director Laci Dent. Production is set to begin in August. The film follows Asa Jones, a girl from Louisiana chasing a college basketball scholarship who begins to lose herself to a captivating force as her […]

Twenty-six years ago, Keenen Ivory Wayans and his brothers Shawn and Marlon walked into theaters with a raunchy, irreverent parody of the slasher genre and accidentally built one of comedy’s most enduring franchises. Now, Scary Movie has crossed $1 billion at the global box office. The milestone comes on the back of the sixth installment, […]