Television
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And the Category Is…Grand Closing: FX's Pose 3rd and Final Season Will Debut in May
Much like the song that became Candy’s (portrayed by The Root 100 honoree Angelica Ross) theme song, “Never Knew Love Like This Before” by Stephanie Mills, we never knew joy quite like Pose gave us. The breakout FX series is special. In a press release sent to The Root on Friday morning, FX announced that…
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Exclusive Clip: The Largest Armed Black Militia in the U.S. Uphold Their 2nd Amendment Rights in Season 2 Launch of Showtime's VICE
As Black folks, we are constantly given sobering reminders that we can’t actually depend on a national organization designed (in theory) to serve and protect us when that very organization is founded on white supremacy and is consistently terrorizing us to this very day. Nah, we just have to protect our damn selves. Showtime’s VICE…
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I Know That’s Right: E! to Kick Off Season 2 of True Hollywood Story With 'Up' Rapper Cardi B
It looks like things are continuing to go up for Cardi B these days. In addition to holding the No. 2 spot on the Hot 100, Billboard has announced that the “I Like It Like That” rapper will be kicking off season two of E!’s popular True Hollywood Story docuseries. Episode one will take a…
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Lifetime and A+E to Debut New Docuseries on the Life and Career of Janet Jackson
Fans and followers of Janet Jackson will be getting a closer look into the life of their favorite artist soon, thanks to Lifetime and A+E. Variety reports that the network will debut JANET (working title), a new four-part, two-night documentary series of Jackson that’s set to come out sometime in early 2022. Directed by Ben…
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The Bachelor Executive Producers Publicly Support Rachel Lindsay Against 'Severe' Racist Online Bullying
Rachel Lindsay, the first Black Bachelorette of the long-running ABC reality competition franchise of the same name deactivated her Instagram following racist online harassment following an interview with series host and producer Chris Harrison. The now-viral interview, which took place in mid-February, regarded racist allegations involving a contestant of the current season of The Bachelor…
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O-T Fagbenle Will Be the Barack to Viola Davis' Michelle in Showtime Anthology Series, The First Lady
In 2019, we first heard that Viola Davis would be portraying former (and forever) first lady Michelle Obama in an upcoming Showtime anthology series aptly titled, The First Lady. After quite a wait, we finally know who will be portraying Barack Obama in the series. Variety has confirmed that O-T Fagbenle (The Handmaid’s Tale) will…
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Nostalgia-palooza: Paramount+ Is Rebooting Behind the Music, Yo! MTV Raps and Unplugged
Remember when music videos used to play on television? Of course you do, because nostalgic internet users talk about it all the time, often with wistful sighs. Recently, a graphic floated around on Twitter showing the programming slate for MTV’s current television shows. Which show dominated damn near every damn broadcast time slot? Ridiculousness, a TV…
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'I Wants Us to Feel Seen So Bad': Amber Ruffin to Air on NBC, Making Her the Only Black Woman With a Network Late-Night Show
Since the very start of late night television talk/variety shows (Broadway Open House was the first to air in a late night slot in 1950 on NBC), we’ve all become accustomed to watching a succession of white men sitting at a desk and interviewing famous folks—after warming us up with a relevant monologue, of course.…
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Q Is Smart, Q Is Kind, Q Is Important: A Response to Tucker Carlson's Allegation That QAnon Doesn't Exist
Dear Mr. Carlson, Between my morning briefing on the status of the Democratic Party’s sex trafficking and my afternoon insurrection workout (mostly just police-beating exercises with a flagpole), I was informed by one of my most loyal parishioners (who may or may not represent Georgia’s 14th Congressional District) that you have been spreading lies and…
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The Devil Has a New Blue Dress to Wear—Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins Books Are Being Adapted for TV
The leading character of the 1995 neo-noir mystery Devil in a Blue Dress, Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins is getting his own TV series. Originally portrayed in the feature film by Denzel Washington, Rawlins is a character created by author Walter Mosley and is featured in his bestselling books. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Amblin Television is…