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John Amos Wants to Join the Coming to America Sequel and Hopes to Sell Zebra and Hippo Burgers at McDowell’s
In case you didn’t know, Coming to America is … coming back. In fact, they’re going full cheesy and titling it Coming 2 America. Anyway. In 2017, interests were piqued when it was announced Kenya Barris (black-ish) would be rewriting the script, originally penned by Barry Blaustein and David Sheffield, who wrote the 1988 original.…
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First Look: Inside The Boomerang Writers' Room
Beloved film Boomerang is the latest modern classic to be slated for a reboot as a series. But ahead of its premiere, the overarching question in the writers’ room is: How do you tell an age-old tale of romance and dating in a fresh new-age world? From BET.com: Boomerang is a half-hour subversive, smart, serialized…
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New York Undercover Is Getting a Reboot. Here Is Where Detective Eddie Torres May Have Been, Instead of Dead
It looks officially official: New York Undercover is coming back. A deal has been struck for a pilot production with ABC. If you’ll remember back in the ’90s, New York Undercover was a FOX television show, following Martin and Living Single on Thursday nights in that murderer’s row of black television watch-hood. The show followed…
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Would You Be Here for a Martin Reboot?
Admittedly, I’m an avowed ’90s stan. Most of my favorite musical projects came out in the ’90s. My favorite television show, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, is a time capsule of ’90s music, fashion and culture. My favorite black movies are mostly from the ’90s. I even throw a monthly dance party in Washington, D.C.,…