Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
Rashida Jones is attached to executive produce the new Hulu x Oynx Collective series The Other Black Girl along with showrunner Danielle Henderson. The series is an adaptation of Zakiya Dalila Harris’ debut thriller novel of the same name. The novel is described by Cosmopolitan as “Get Out” meets “The Devil Wears Prada”. READ: Emayatzy […]
Snoop Dogg is set to star in the upcoming comedy The Underdoggs for MGM. Snoop will produce the project under his Death Row Pictures banner alongside Kenya Barris. The Underdoggs is based on an original pitch from Snoop Dogg and his longtime producing partner Constance Schwartz-Morini with Danny Segal and Isaac Schamis attached to pen […]
Chris Rock’s autobiographical series Everybody Hates Chris is getting an animated reimagining with Everybody Still Hates Chris. The upcoming series received a straight-to-series order by MTV Entertainment and will premiere on both Paramount+ and Comedy Central. Sanjay Shah wrote the pilot script which like its predecessor is inspired by the comedian’s teenage years growing up […]
Jordane Christie has signed on for a recurring role in The Big Cigar. He joins previously cast André Holland, Alessandro Nivola, Tiffany Boone, PJ Byrne, Marc Menchaca and Moses Ingram in the Apple TV+’s limited series. The series, which is about how Black Panther leader, Huey P. Newton eluded a nationwide manhunt and escaped to […]
The Walking Dead universe is ever expanding with the latest addition to the franchise involving fan favorites, Richonne. The announcement was made when Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira, who played Rick and Michonne Grimes, made a surprise appearance at The Walking Dead panel during SDCC. AMC+ new limited series will center on the epic love […]
Aunjanue Ellis, Sanaa Lathan, Uzo Aduba are set to star in The Supremes At Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat Adaptation for Searchlight Pictures. The film is an adaptation of Edward Kelsey Moore’s 2013 NY Times best-selling novel. Tina Mabry is directing from a script by Gina Prince-Bythewood with revisions by Mabry. READ: Godfather of Harlem: Jason Alan Carvell […]
Shanola Hampton is set to lead the cast of Nkechi Okoro Carroll’s missing-person drama Found, which was just handed a series order from NBC. Arlen Escarpeta, Gabrielle Walsh, Karan Oberoi, Kelli Williams, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, and Brett Dalton are also cast. READ: Denzel Washington is Reuniting with ‘Man on Fire’ Co-Star Dakota Fanning For Equalizer 3 […]
We’ll be seeing more of fan favorite janitor, Mr. Johnson on Abbott Elementary season 2. William Stanford Davis, who portrays school janitor Mr. Johnson, has been promoted to series regular. Davis recurred in all 12 episodes of the ABC comedy’s Emmy Award-nominated freshman season. This news marks Davis’ first series regular role in his 27-year […]
In celebration of its 30th anniversary, Beauty and the Beast is getting an animated/live-action hybrid special on ABC with H.E.R. attached to star as Princess Belle. Titled, Beauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration, Jon M. Chu is executive producing with Hamish Hamilton directing. H.E.R.’s casting marks the first time an Afro Filipina woman will […]
Alexis Floyd is continuing her journey within the Shondaland universe. After her break out role in Shonda Rhimes’ Inventing Anna, Floyd will join season 19 of Grey’s Anatomy as a series regular. Floyd will play a new surgical resident, Simone Griffin, at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital. Griffin is a funny, whip smart, high achiever with […]