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Melissa De Sousa and McKinley Freeman are set to recur on Fox’s Freshman series Our Kind of People. They are set to star opposite Yaya DaCosta, Morris Chestnut, Nadine Ellis, Lance Gross, and Joe Morton. The Fox drama Our Kind of People comes from Lee Daniels and Karen Gist and is inspired by Lawrence Otis […]
ABC has given a pilot green light to a new incarnation of Steven Bochco’s legal drama L.A. Law. The L.A. Law sequel that has been in the works since Decemeber has Blair Underwood attached as executive produce as well as reprising his role as attorney Jonathan Rollins. Anthony Hemingway is directing from a script written […]
Sistas star KJ Smith is the latest cast addition to the second season of Starz/Lionsgate’s Power prequel series, Power Book III: Raising Kanan. Omar Dorsey, LeToya Luckett, Krystal Joy Brown, and Paulina Singer were previously added to Power Book III, season 2. All have been cast in recurring roles. Smith will star in a major […]
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 […]