Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
CBC, Canada’s public broadcaster, and BET+ have begun casting on its drama series The Porter. Aml Ameen will lead the series about a group of 1920s railway workers who unite to form the world’s first Black union. Ronnie Rowe Jr. and Mouna Traoré are also cast. The series was created by Arnold Pinnock, Annmarie […]
Nikki Amuka-Bird and Simon Russell Beale have joined the cast of The Outfit. They join previously cast Mark Rylance, Dylan O’Brien, Zoey Deutch, and Johnny Flynn. The Outfit follows Leonard (Rylance), an English tailor who used to craft suits on London’s world-famous Savile Row. But after a personal tragedy, he’s ended up in Chicago, operating […]
Eli Goree and T’Nia Miller are set to star in Amazon’s sci-fi thriller The Peripheral. Goree will lead opposite Chloë Grace Moretz and Jack Reynor. Miller will co-star alongside previously announced series regulars Gary Carr, Charlotte Riley, JJ Feild, Adelind Horan, and Alex Hernandez. READ: Tisha Campbell and Tichina Arnold to Host Talk Show Tisha & […]
Hawaii Five-O alum Chi McBride will lead opposite Pete Holmes in the untitled bowling comedy pilot for CBS. It is based on professional bowler Tom Smallwood’s life. The multi-camera bowling comedy centers on a seemingly ordinary man named Tom (Holmes). However, after he gets laid off from the assembly line at the GM factory […]
Renée Elise Goldsberry is in talks to star in Disney+’s upcoming limited Marvel series She-Hulk. She will co-star opposite Tatiana Maslany and Ginger Gonzaga. Directed by Kat Coiro and Anu Valia, She-Hulk is a legal comedy that centers on the eponymous heroine (Maslany), aka Jennifer Walters. Walters is an attorney and Bruce Banner/The Hulks’ […]
Adepero Oduye and Cornelius Smith Jr. are set as leads opposite Vera Farmiga in Apple TV+’s limited series Five Days at Memorial. The series comes from John Ridley, Carlton Cuse and ABC Signature and is based Sheri Fink’s nonfiction book of the same name. Ridley and Cuse are also writing, directing, and executive producing […]
Ebonee Noel, Rance Nix, Karen LeBlanc, Yaani King Mondschein are set to star in OWN’s new drama The Kings of Napa. Created by Janine Sherman Barrois, who serves as showrunner, The Kings of Napa is focused on a picturesque Napa Valley, California, vineyard owned by the Kings, an aspirational African American family whose wealth and […]
Adrienne Wells joins the cast of Showtime’s 80s Wall Street comedy series Black Monday for its third season. She will star in a recurring capacity alongside Thomas Barbusca who also joins. Wells will play Nomi, a self-possessed young talent with the voice to prove it, who quickly becomes the crown jewel in the new business […]
Rappers Vic Mensa and Da Brat join Lena Waithe’s The Chi for its fourth season. Mensa joins in a recurring capacity as Jamal. He is a passionate but high-strung man who is fighting to get help for his girlfriend and younger sister. His efforts place him at odds with Trig (Luke James) and Tracy […]
Ava DuVernay’s drama Queen Sugar season 6 has added a few new characters and directors. Tammy Townsend joins as a new series regular while Paula Jai Parker, Marquis Rodriguez, and McKinley Freeman join in a recurring capacity. Based on Natalie Baszile’s book, the series centers on the Bordelon siblings (Dawn-Lyen Gardner, Rutina Wesley, and […]