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Amanda Warren has been tapped as the lead in CBS’ police drama pilot East New York. Co-written by William Finkelstein and Mike Flynn, East New York centers on Regina Haywood (Warren), is the newly promoted deputy inspector of East New York, an impoverished, working-class neighborhood at the eastern edge of Brooklyn. She leads a diverse […]
Taraji P Henson is set to star in the adaptation of Alessandro Camon’s award-winning play Time Alone. Camon’s play tells two different stories of prison and solitude as it tells the story of Anna (Henson), the traumatized shut-in mother, whose police officer son was murdered in the line of duty, and Gabriel, a young man […]
Jonathan Majors has found his next project in the adaptation of Walter Mosley’s novel The Man In My Basement. Nadia Latif will make her directorial debut on the film. Majors will star in as well as executive produce under his Tall Street Productions banner. The novel follows Charles Blakey, an African American man living in […]
Three more new faces are joining the Pynk family. John Clarence Stewart, Shamika Cotton, and Miracle Watts are set to recur on the second season Starz’s P-Valley. Season 2 of P-Valley will take place five months after the Season 1 finale. It will center on The Pynk’s struggle to thrive amid the Covid-19 pandemic and […]
Frankie Faison joins the cast of The Rookie spin-off, led by Niecy Nash. Kat Foster and Felix Solis have also been cast in the proposed series. The spinoff, follows the premise of The Rookie, which centers on the oldest rookie in the LAPD. However, the new version will center on the FBI’s program. READ: Human […]
Gbenga Akinnagbe, Kyle Vincent Terry and Caroline Chikezie are set to recur on season three of Power Book II: Ghost. Season three picks up after the explosive finale of season two in which Monet was informed her nephew/son Zeke was dead. Also, Zeke’s father Daniel Sunjata’s Mecca/Danté Spears was also found dead by his handler, […]
Netflix revealed the cast of their new animated movie Wendell & Wild which is led by Key and Peele‘s Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele. Angela Bassett, Lyric Ross, Saweetie, Tamara Smart, Ving Rhames, James Hong, Gabrielle Dennis, Igal Naor, David Harewood, Tantoo Cardinal, Natalie Martinez, Maxine Peake, Saweetie, Ramona Young, Sam Zelaya, Seema Virdi, and […]
BET has greenlit, Carl Weber’s The Black Hamptons , a new four-part original limited series. The series is based on Weber’s novel of the same name and stars Lamman Rucker, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Elise Neal, Brian White, and Karon Riley. Mike Merrill, Blac Chyna, Acaron Spears, Daya Vaidya, Cameo Sherrell, Franklin Ojeda Smith, Jordan Smith, Jennifer Freeman, […]
Giancarlo Esposito is leading the reboot to the British series The Driver for AMC and its streaming platform AMC+. Created by Sunu Gonera and Danny Brocklehurst, Esposito stars as a taxi driver whose life is turned upside down when he agrees to chauffer a New Orleans-based Zimbabwean gangster. His new boss is notorious for exploiting […]
Reign Edwards and Bokeem Woodbine have been cast in Bill Burr’s upcoming comedy Old Dads for Miramax. Burr, Bobby Cannavale, and Kate Aselton also star in the film. Burr is making his feature film debut with this project that centers on a middle-aged father (Burr) who, along with his two best friends (Woodbine and Cannavale), […]