Television
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OWN's Love Is ___ Canceled Amid Abuse Claims Against Salim Akil [Updated]
It’s official: Love Is… no more. According to Variety, the OWN television show from Mara Brock Akil and Salim Akil, purportedly based on their epic love story, has been canceled amid allegations brought forth by Amber Dixon Brenner, Salim Akil’s alleged former mistress. Warner Bros. Television has completed its internal investigation and have found no…
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Television for Colored Girls: CLEO TV Cozies Up to Black Millennial Women
For the new year, a new cable channel dedicated to young black women will hit the airwaves. And it promises to be more than just reruns, rehashed specials, depressing docuseries and R&B music videos viewers have seen elsewhere. The channel, CLEO TV—a nod to the Egyptian queen of two centuries past mostly known in pop…
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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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Power Shuts Down Filming After Production Assistant Dies On Location [Updated]
Sad news to report in regards to the Starz hit drama, Power. According to Deadline, Pedro Jimenez, a production assistant, was fatally struck by a 2006 Ford Explorer at around 4:30 Monday morning while setting up for a Brooklyn shoot that day. He was pronounced dead at Brooklyn hospital this morning. Jimenez has been on…
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Netflix Orders Its First Ever African Original Series
Netflix, also known as “The Trillest Acquisition Company In The Industry,” is now setting its sights on Africa. According to South African publication IOL Entertainment, the streaming juggernaut will be developing Queen Sono, a dramedy starring Pearl Thusi (Quantico) about a top-level spy on a mission to improve the lives of South Africa’s citizens. While…
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Bloody Beefs in the Social Media Age: Ice Cube and MTV Studios to Reboot Celebrity Deathmatch
Celebrity Deathmatch back. Well, it will be, thanks to Ice Cube. Many of us remember sitting down in front of the TV and watching stop-motion animated bloody fights between celebrities as part of our wildest fantasies. It gave us the opportunity to see what would happen if celebrity beefs were transported to the ring in…
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'You Know What That's Called? Growth': Natasha Rothwell Secures Overall Deal With HBO
Birds of a feather do, indeed, flock together. When your crew is glowed-up, that light is bound to shine on you as well. Such is the case for Natasha Rothwell, who just inked an overall deal with HBO, Deadline reports. Her first project is said to be an original idea, which she’ll write, executive produce,…
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There Are Plenty of Black Women TV Writers, Hollywood. Y'all Just Don't Want to See It
It was 2017, and I was sitting in a packed theater in Salt Lake City, Utah watching horror-themed short films directed by women for Sundance’s midnight showcase. After the films faded to black and the lights went up, one particular white male producer went on a spiel during the panel about not being able to…