Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
Keesha Sharp is adding to her directing resume with three episodes across three different television series. Sharp has been tapped to direct an episode of Karin Gist and Lee Daniels’ freshman Fox drama Our Kind of People. She will also direct an episode on the upcoming fourth season of CWs’ Charmed reboot, as well as […]
Popular writer and New York Times bestselling novelist Colson Whitehead’s 2009 novel Sag Harbor is being adapted into an HBO series. Boat Rocker Studios has put the project in production with Daniel “Koa” Beaty attached to write the pilot. READ: Michaela Coel Joins the Cast of Black Panther 2 Set in 1985, Sag Harbor follows […]
Richard Roundtree and Terri J. Vaughn have been added to the second season of OWN’s romance anthology Cherish the Day. They will star opposite this season’s leads Henry Simmons and Joy Bryant. Cherish the Day is Ava Duvernay’s anthology series in which each episode chronicling a single day of one couple. READ: Joy Bryant, Henry […]
Facebook Series Red Table Talk has become a staple talk show known for its open conversation on some of the most personal and rarely discussed in-depth topics. And now the Jada Pinkett-Smith-led series is expanding into the world with sports with Toughest Opponent. With Brandon Marshall as host. Red Table Talk Productions is developing the […]
DeWanda Wise joins Shailene Woodley in Showtime’s series Three Women. The upcoming drama is based on Lisa Taddeo’s non-fiction bestselling book of the same name. Taddeo is adapting her book into an hour-long series which is described as an intimate, haunting portrayal of American female desire and follows three women, Sloane, Maggie, and Lina who […]
Ron Cephas Jones and Vinnie Jones are joining season 2 of NBC’s Law & Order: Organized Crime in recurring roles. Created by Dick Wolf, in Law & Order: Organized Crime, Meloni, reprising his role as Elliot Stabler, returns to the NYPD to battle organized crime after a devastating personal loss. However, the city and police […]
Danny Glover and Richard Grieco are joining Wesley Snipes among others in Robert Gilling’s new series Paper Empire. Denise Richards, Robert Davi, Steve Guttenberg, Michael Nouri, Robert Knepper, and Anne Archer are also starring in the picture. READ: The Thomas Crown Affair Remake Starring Michael B Jordan Has Found Its Writer Robert Gillings also wrote […]
Kerry Washington has found her next project with the Netflix adaptation of Diane Cardwell’s memoir Rockaway: Surfing Headlong Into a New Life. And the title is interestingly accurate as the film tells the story of the Cardwell’s own reinvention as she discovered the world of surfing. Washington will star in and produce Rockaway which centers […]
Mustafa Shakir, Charmaine Bingwa, Ben Foster, and Gilbert Owuor are joining Will Smith in Emancipation. Antoine Fuqua is directing the Apple Original Film and Willam N. Collage penned the script. Emancipation is based on the true story of runaway slave named Peter (Smith). He is forced to outwit cold-blooded hunters and the punishing Louisiana swamp […]
Updated with trailer: —- Teyana Taylor may be retiring from music, but she is expanding her acting resume. The multi-hyphenate entertainer is set to star in A.V. Rockwell’s feature debut A Thousand and One. The film follows Inez (Taylor), who kidnaps six-year-old Terry from the foster care system. Holding onto their secret and each other, […]