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2021 Catch-Up: 10 TV Shows You Missed and Should Binge During the Holiday Break
Here are the 2021 TV shows you missed and should catch up on before the year ends
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A Black Lady Sketch Show’s Ashley Nicole Black Signs Overall Deal at Warner Bros. TV
Ashley Nicole Black, writer and star on A Black Lady Show, has signed an overall deal with Warner Bros, TV.
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Best Black Ensemble Performances of 2021
Our favorite TV series and movies of 2021 featured some spectacular ensembles and these are the best of the year.
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Black Ad Agencies Matter
So does Hyundai’s recent campaign targeting Black women
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Vivrant Things: Our Stars Kept It Bright and Brilliant at the 2021 Emmys
The acting winners were exclusively white, but color won the night on the Emmys red carpet—and Jurnee Smollett wore a stylish tribute to Michael K. Williams.
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AAFCA TV Honors 2021: Barry Jenkins, Jurnee Smollett, Jonathan Majors Among Winners
The third annual African American Film Critics Association TV Honors recognizes outstanding work that profoundly and refreshingly portrays the Black experience.
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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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Here's the Rundown—Robin Thede Is Winning With Her New Warner TV Overall Deal
A Black Lady Sketch Show? More like A Black Lady Success Show! Robin Thede, the creator and co-star of the aforementioned Emmy-nominated variety show, has recently signed an exclusive overall deal with Warner TV, Deadline reports. Here’s the rundown (*wink wink*): Under the pact, Thede will develop new television programming for all platforms including on-demand,…
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Per Usual, Black Women Tried to Tell Y'all: A Black Lady Sketch Show's Apocalypse Sketch Was Ahead of Its Time
Somewhere lying on a couch awaiting a kid to come hand her the remote that’s only a few inches away from her is a black woman twisting her face in an incredulous smirk because she knew this was coming—and she tried to tell y’all. That woman is portrayed by Robin Thede, creator of HBO’s A…