Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
Black Lighting may have just ended but Nafessa Williams already has her next role lined up and it’s going to be dope! Nafessa Williams joins previously cast Y’lan Noel and Christina Jackson in FX’s The Spook Who Sat By The Door. Lucas Till, Nathan Darrow, and Tom Irwin have also been cast. The pilot is […]
Sherri Shepherd, Ashleigh Murray, Mike Manning, and Jonny Beauchamp are set to star in the indie drama The Way Out. The founder of Barry’s gym franchise, Barry Jay is writing, directing, and producing the film under his newly launched production company Fight Or Flight Films. READ: Lil Rel Howery, Ego Nwodim to Star in Indie Comedy […]
Gabrielle Dennis lands the lead role in NBC romantic comedy pilot, Someone Out There. The potential series is based on a Spanish series Pequeñas Coincidencias created by Javier Veiga. READ: Keith Powers to Co-Star Opposite Gabrielle Union in The Perfect Find The single-camera romantic comedy is about two set-in-their-ways adults, Derek (yet to be cast) and Chloe […]
Khris Davis and Sullivan Jones have been cast in the George Foreman biopic for Sony’s AFFIRM Films label. George Tillman Jr. is set to direct the biopic and co-wrote it with Frank Baldwin. It is based on the original screenplay by Dan Gordon. The film will follow the remarkable life and times of George Foreman […]
The HBO adaptation of The Last of Us is bringing back Merle Dandridge to reprise her video game role for the TV series. Also starring in the series are Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, and Gabriel Luna. The story takes place twenty years after modern civilization has been destroyed. Joel, a hardened survivor, is hired to […]
Malcolm Barrett and Cedric Joe are among 17 to join the cast of the Disney+ anthology series Just Beyond. They join previously announced series leads Lexi Underwood and McKenna Grace. Christine Ko, Sally Pressman, Riki Lindhome, Tim Heidecker, Gabriel Bateman, Cyrus Arnold, Arjun Athalye, and Jack Gore have been also cast. Seth Grahame-Smith’s supernatural anthology series […]
Jason Robert Moore, Aubin Wise, Phillip Mullings Jr., Dominic Goodman, Gracie Dzienny, Elizabeth Mitchell, Will Swenson, and Dylan McNamara round out the cast of Netflix’s vampire series First Kill. They are all set to star alongside series leads Imani Lewis and Sarah Catherine Cooke. READ: 17 Actors Who’ve Written Children’s Books The series is written by […]
One hundred years ago, in 1921 thirty-five blocks of the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma was a thriving town of black entrepreneurs, businesses, and wealth. The segregated town was famously coined Black Wall Street. However, on May 30, 1921 when “[a] chance encounter between two teenagers lit the fuse that set Greenwood District alight,” that […]
Jayln Hall and Amir O’Neil are co-starring in the drama pilot, The Crossover for Disney+. George Tillman Jr is directing the pilot which is based on Kwame Alexander’s bestselling novel of the same name that is told entirely through verse. Alexander and Damani Johnson are scripting with Dee Johnson supervising. The Crossover is the coming-of-age […]
Newcomer Alana Bright is set as a lead opposite Yaya DaCosta and Morris Chestnut in Fox drama series Our Kind of People. This role marks as Bright’s professional acting debut. The project comes from Lee Daniels and Karen Gist with Tasha Smith attached to direct two episodes of the series. Our Kind of People is […]