Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
Nafessa Williams joins the cast of the Whitney Houston biopic, I Wanna Dance With Somebody for Sony and its TriStar division. She will replace Moses Ingram as Houston’s longtime assistant Robyn Crawford. Crawford later became Houston’s creative director while also remaining one of her closest friends. Ingram recently parted ways with the role. She joins […]
Sydney Park and Tyrone Marshall Brown join the cast of the upcoming Showtime drama pilot, Coercion. They are cast as series regulars opposite Sydney Chandler. Written and to be directed by Susannah Grant, Coercion is inspired by the life of Rebecca Bender, a national leader on and survivor of sex trafficking. READ: Khris Davis, Sullivan […]
Nia Long rounds out the cast of the upcoming untitled comedy for Netflix. She joins previously cast Lauren London, Eddie Murphy, Jonah Hill, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Sam Jay and Molly Gordon. David Duchovny was also recently cast. Kenya Barris is making is feature directorial debut with the film that he co-wrote with Hill. The untitled comedy […]
Freeform just gave Phoebe Robinson’s Comedy Everything’s Trash a series order after the Disney-owned network picked its pilot up earlier this year. Pheobe Robinson’s Freefrom pilot comedy Everything’s Trash stars Jordan Carlos, Toccarra Cash, Nneka Okafor, and Moses Storm. They all join Robinson in the half-hour comedy that is inspired by Robinson’s book Everything’s Trash […]
Disney’s Onyx Collective has greenlit its first scripted series to stream on Hulu with legal series Reasonable Doubt. Emayatzy Corinealdi is set to star in the lead role of the legal drama that comes from writer/executive producer Raamla Mohamed, executive producer Kerry Washington, and ABC Signature. Reasonable Doubt centers on Jax Stewart (Corinealdi), a lawyer […]
Toni Braxton is set to star in and executive produce, The Fallen Angels Book Club (working title), a TV movie series based on R. Franklin’s Hollis Morgan mystery book series. Braxton will play the titular character, Hollis Morgan, an ex-con turned amateur sleuth who sets out to investigate a series of murders at her Fallen […]
Coming off of her Tony Awards win for best actress in a musical, Adrienne Warren and Sheila Atim join the cast of The Woman King for TriStar Pictures. Warren and Atim join Viola Davis and Thuso Mbedu who topline the film and John Boyega and Lashawna Lynch who were previously cast in the film. Gina […]
Mara Brock Akil has set her newly launched production company story27 under her previously announced overall deal at Netflix. “At story27, thoughtful and entertaining projects centering the humanity of the marginalized is the priority and that starts with identifying the best and most unique storytellers,” Akil said. READ: Rosario Dawson Joins Tiffany Haddish, LaKeith Stanfield […]
The Tony Award-winning play, A Solider’s Play is being adapted into a limited series by Sony Pictures Television with David Alan Grier, who starred in the play, starring in the limited series. The series adaptation, spanning multiple wars and several decades, will center on Sgt. Vernon Waters and the emotional impact he is subjected to […]
Season 2 of The Flight Attendant has expanded its cast. Mo McRae, Callie Hernandez, and JJ Soria join the cast as series regulars. They join returning season 1 cast that includes Kaley Cuoco, Rosie Perez, Zosia Mamet, Griffin Matthews, and Deniz Akdeniz. In the next season of The Flight Attendant, we see Cassie Bowden (Cuoco) […]