Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
In Living Color premiered on April 15, 1990, created by Keenen Ivory Wayans at a time when sketch comedy on network TV rarely looked or sounded like this. Built on risk, satire, and a refusal to soften its edges, the series didn’t just launch careers—it challenged what television comedy could be. But behind the cultural […]
Fresh off their recent collaboration on The Life of Chuck, Chiwetel Ejiofor is officially reteaming with filmmaker Mike Flanagan for a bold new chapter in The Exorcist franchise. Ejiofor has joined the cast of Flanagan’s upcoming Exorcist film, which also stars Scarlett Johansson, Jacobi Jupe, and Diane Lane. Universal Pictures has set the film for […]
Phylicia Rashad, Kerry Washington, Nnamdi Asomugha, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Samuel L. Jackson, and Alan Alda have joined the production team of the upcoming Broadway revival of Ossie Davis’ “Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch.” Previews commence this Thursday, September 7, with the official opening set for Wednesday, September 27, at The Music […]
Dave season 3 returns with two episodes on April 5th at 10 p.m. ET/PT on FXX and stream the next day on Hulu. The upcoming season will feature an impressive list of guest stars, including Usher, Demi Lovato, Don Cheadle, Killer Mike, Machine Gun Kelly, Megan Fox, Rick Ross and Travis Barker. Rapper Lil Dicky […]
Kirstie Alley has passed away. The actress best known for starring in Look Who’s Talking, Cheers, Drop Dead Gorgeous and more died after a short battle with cancer. She was 71. Alley’s children Lillie and William True Stevenson shared the news in a statement posted to their late mother’s Instagram Monday. We are sad to […]
Season 2 of Your Honor will premiere on Showtime on demand and on streaming Friday, January 13, 2023, and on-air on Sunday, January 15 at 9 pm. Bryan Cranston stars in the series as Michael Desiato, a respected New Orleans judge whose teenage son Adam (Hunter Doohan) kills another teenager in an accidental hit-and-run collision. […]
CBS is developing multi-camera family comedy, The Hilsons from Malik Sanon, Cedric the Entertainer, production companies Kapital Entertainment and TrillTV, and studio CBS Studios. Sanon wrote the comedy which centers on a mother and her two adult sons who thought they knew each other until they are forced to live under the same roof for […]
The marathon continues with a Nipsey Hussle docuseries from Lebron James’ The SpringHill Company and the late rapper’s production company Marathon Films. Per a press release SpringHill — the media studio cofounded by LeBron James and Maverick Carter — has announced a partnership with Hussle’s Marathon Films to recall the late rapper’s life story in […]
Martin Lawrence teams up with a serial killer to catch a serial killer in ‘Mindcage’ — in theaters and on VOD Dec 16th, 2022. Mindcage follows detectives Jake Doyle (Martin Lawrence) and Mary Kelly (Melissa Roxburgh) as they seek the help of an incarcerated serial killer named The Artist (John Malkovich) when a copycat killer […]
Yaya DaCosta is joining the Netflix legal drama series The Lincoln Lawyer season 2. The series follows the redemption of Mickey Haller (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo), a Los Angeles attorney who regains much of what he lost due to addiction with hard work and hustle. His success is also thanks to his devoted supporters which include his […]