Yvonne Orji is helping us say goodbye to all the things we want to forget. Following the success of last year’s, Yearly Departed, Amazon greenlit the special for 2021 with Orji as this year’s host. The special will again feature an all-female lineup of guests (TBA) who will tackle some of 2021’s highlights we probably […]
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Sean Patrick Thomas, Frankie Faison, and More Join Till
MGM’s Orion Pictures’ film Till has rounded out its cast. Frankie Faison, Jayme Lawson, Tosin Cole, Kevin Carroll, Sean Patrick Thomas, John Douglas Thompson and Roger Guenveur Smith have boarded the project. They all join previously cast leads Danielle Deadwyler, Whoopi Goldberg and Jalyn Hall as Emmett Till, READ: Bokeem Woodbine, Raul Castillo Join Gabrielle […]
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Colman Domingo, Audra McDonald, Chris Rock, Glynn Turman Cast in Rustin
Colman Domingo is set to portray Bayard Rustin in the upcoming biopic, Rustin, about the gay, civil rights activist. Audra McDonald, Chris Rock, and Glynn Turman join Domingo in the feature. George C. Wolfe is directing from a screenplay he co-wrote with Dustin Lance Black. The film tells the story of how Rustin overcame an […]
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Bailey Bess Joins Jacob Anderson, Sam Reid in AMC Series Interview With a Vampire
Bailey Bass joins Jacob Anderson and Sam Reid in Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire series for AMC and its sister streamer, AMC+. Rolin Jones is creator, showrunner and executive producer of Interview With the Vampire. Based on Rice novels, the story centers on an 18th-century lord, Louis de Pointe du Lac (Anderson) who is […]
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Akende Munalula, Shacai O’Neal, Lily Keene, and Margot Catherine Terry Cast in Coercion
Akende Munalula, Shacai O’Neal, Lily Keene, and Margot Catherine Terry are the latest to join the cast of the upcoming Showtime drama pilot, Coercion. They are cast as series regulars opposite Sydney Chandler, Sydney Park and Tyrone Marshall Brown. Written and to be directed by Susannah Grant, Coercion is inspired by the life of Rebecca […]
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Larenz Tate Upped to Series Regular Power Book II: Ghost
Larenz Tate is becoming a much bigger part of the Power-sphere. Before the Power alum fronts his own spin-off, Power Book V: Influence, he’s set to serve as a series regular on season 2 of Power Book II: Ghost. READ: Tiffany Haddish Stars in and Produces Family Comedy I.F. Larenz Tate first made his debut […]
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Melissa De Sousa and McKinley Freeman Join The Fox Drama Our Kind Of People
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 […]
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ABC Gives L.A. Law Sequel a Pilot Order — Blair Underwood to Reprise Role
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 […]
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KJ Smith Joins Season 2 of Power Book III: Raising Kanan
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 […]
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Nafessa Williams Joins Whitney Houston Biopic I Wanna Dance With Somebody
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 […]