BET Networks has set a new talk show, Black Coffee, hosted by Marc Lamont Hill.
According to the network, the half-hour daily morning show “will keep viewers up to speed on Black Twitter’s buzziest conversations and “feature news-making interviews with top celebrities, athletes, and social media stars.” The show will delve into pop-culture, relationships, music, politics, race, and social justice.
The series will debut on June 3 across multiple platforms including YouTube, Facebook Watch, Twitter, BET Now App and BET.com.
Additionally, David A. Wilson, co-founder of TheGrio, has joined as Senior Vice President of Digital Content of Studios. Wilson will oversee all aspects of digital content of BET non-linear platforms, BET’s digital and social strategy, content development, social programming, editorial, business development/partnerships, and digital business operations.
“We are excited to have Marc host our new irreverent digital series. Marc is one of the nation’s leading voices on culture, entertainment, sports, and politics, with equal parts unfiltered wit and raw street savvy,” said Wilson. “Powered by Viacom Digital Studios, Black Coffee, is an example of the forward-thinking content and engaging programming we plan to deliver our audience across BET’s digital properties.”
“BET Networks has been home to me for many years, and I am proud to expand our partnership with this innovative series. I look forward to galvanizing the Black community on our platforms and encouraging dialogue that moves the culture forward,” said Hill.
On Wilson’s new role at BET, network president Scott Mills said: “We are so thrilled to have David join the BET team, as he brings with him an unsurpassed knowledge of digital engagement and a shared vision of bold culture-driven content. He will be a tremendous asset to our group as we look to refine our digital editorial and social voice. Under his leadership, we look forward to developing the next iteration of BET digital’s offerings that better reflects our brand values and super serves our audience with best-in-class content.”
Season 3 of Disney Channel’s That’s So Raven spinoff, Raven’s Home is coming.
Season 3 picks up with the iconic character of Raven Baxter (Raven Symoné), her family and friends pursuing their creative dreams. Booker, Nia and Tess form a music group, The Chi-Lective, with Levi as their music video director, Raven is determined to launch her fashion line, while Chelsea has finally found her niche as a life coach.
Guest stars for this season include Jaleel White, Charles Robinson and Jonathan McDaniel returning once again as Devon. The season will also contain the television directorial debut of Symoné, who also executive produces the show.
The series stars Raven-Symoné, who reprises her role from the staple 2000s comedy, That’s So Raven (2003-07), Issac Ryan Brown as Booker Baxter-Carter, Navia Robinson as Nia Baxter-Carter, Jason Maybaum as Levi Grayson, Sky Katz as Tess O’Mally and, also reprising her role That’s So Raven role, Anneliese van der Pol as Chelsea.
Season 3 of the series is executive produced by Warren Hutcherson (Reed Between the Lines, The Bernie Mac Show), Raven-Symoné, and the late Eunetta Boone (One on One, Cuts). The series was created by original That’s So Raven creators Michael Poryes and Susan Sherman and developed by Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas.
The new season premieres June 17 at 8 p.m.
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Amandla Stenberg is attached to star in Universal’s reimagined take of the 1996 thriller Fear.
The original movie, released in 1996, starred Mark Wahlberg and Reese Witherspoon early on in their careers as young lovers David and Nicole. David is charming and affectionate, but Nicole soon sees a darker side to him.
Oscar nominee Jonathan Herman (Straight Outta Compton) is writing the pic. Brian Grazer, who produced the original film, again produces for Imagine Entertainment alongside Imagine’s Karen Lunder. EVP Production Jon Mone will oversee production for Universal.
Stenberg most recently starred in Fox 2000’s impactful drama The Hate U Give, which premiered at the 2018 Toronto Film Festival. She was also recently seen in Where Hands Touch, Everything, Everything, As You Are, and The Hunger Games.
In 2018, Stenberg appeared on the cover of Time Magazine for their next generation leaders issue and was given the Visibility Award by the Human Rights Campaign. She is currently in production on Damian Chazelle’s Netflix series The Eddy. She is repped by UTA and attorneys Nina Shaw and Gordon Bobb.
Source: Deadline
Fueled by a big turnout for “Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear’s ‘All in the Family’ and ‘The Jeffersons,’” ABC won the final night of the 2018-2019 season by strong margins, beating runner-up NBC on Wednesday with season finales of its three “Chicago” dramas by 8% in Total Viewers (7.8 million vs. 7.2 million) and by 30% in Adults 18-49 (1.3/7 vs. 1.0/5). In fact, ABC scored its most-watched, season-closing Wednesday in 12 years – since 5/23/07.
Alfre Woodard has signed on to play Kevin Hart’s mother-in-law in Fatherhood, the Sony Pictures film adaptation based on the memoir Two Kisses For Maddy: A Memoir Of Loss & Love by Matt Logelin. Paul Weitz is directing the motion picture from a screenplay by Dana Stevens. Weitz penned the current draft.
Logelin’s novel details his life after his high school sweetheart, Liz, passed away after giving birth to their daughter Madeline. There was little time to grieve a life-shattering loss for Logelin: his wife bore the brunt of their impending jump into parenting and suddenly he was the sole caretaker for a newborn daughter, his link to his beloved wife.
Temple Hill’s Marty Bowen, David Beaubaire, Free Association’s Peter Kiernan and HartBeat’s Hart are producing the project.
Woodard, an Oscar nominee and four-time Emmy winner, was last seen in Clemency, the Sundance film that picked up the Grand Jury Prize, making director Chinonye Chukwu the first black woman to win the award. Neon picked up the film and will release it in December. Furthermore, she stars opposite Jason Momoa in Apple’s original drama series See, and lends her voice to Jon Favreau’s highly anticipated The Lion King revamp, which Disney will release in July.
Woodard is repped by ICM, Circle of Confusion, and Gochman Law Group.
Source: Deadline
Kevin Hart Presents: Hart of the City is back with a new slate of 24 comedians from eight cities across the country. Season 3 premieres with back-to-back episodes on June 14 at 11:00 and 11:30 p.m. ET/PT on Comedy Central, and episodes are double stacked all season for I Hart Fridays power hours of all-new Kevin Hart programming.
Kevin Hart Presents: Hart of the City follows Hart and costars Joey Wells and Harry Ratchford on a mission to spotlight up-and-coming comics from cities with under-appreciated stand-up comedy scenes. Each episode features stand-up sets from fresh faces, conversations between Hart and the comedians, and interstitial segments with Hart, Wells and Ratchford. Leading into the June 14 premiere, Wells will appear on Comedy Central’s Friday-night interstitial series Stupid Questions with Chris Distefano, which guides viewers through the night’s programming. Comics and schedule are listed below:
June 14
St. Louis, MO, 11:00p, with Vincent B. Bryant, Princeton Dew, Tahir Moore
Dallas, TX, 11:30p, with Blaq Ron, Gerald Piper, KeLanna Spiller
June 21
New Orleans, LA, 11:00p, with Carissa Cropper, Shaddy McCoy, Arron “A.O.” Odom
Cleveland, OH, 11:30p, with Nelsin Davis, Mike Polk, Rob Ward
June 28
Rochester, NY, 11:00p, with Travis Blunt, Joel James, Zack Johnson
Baltimore, MD, 11:30p, with Ty Davis, Ivan Martin, Sir Alex
July 5
Oakland, CA, 11:00p, with Mario Hodge, G. King, Cody Woods
San Diego, CA, 11:30p, with Keith Johnson, Adrian “Adee” McCovy, Dustin Nickerson
Kevin Hart Presents: Hart of the City is executive produced by Hart, Wells, Dave Becky of 3 Arts Entertainment, and Leland “Pookey” Wigington. Anne Harris and Jackie Sosa are the Executives in Charge for Comedy Central.
Finally, after several years in the making Terminator Dark Fate is set to be released. The film stars Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger and Producer James Cameron returns with director Tim Miller. The film is picking up where Terminator Judgement Day leaves off.
Check out the trailer below;
In theatres 11.1.19.
Kevin Hart explains why his shoes were to blame for a hilarious fall he took at a friend’s wedding and discusses what it’s like closing in on 40.
ABC’s The Jeffersons and All in The Family event aired Tuesday night and demonstrated some of the side effects of doing live television.
From Jimmy Kimmel and iconic producer Norman Lear, the event recreated an original episode from both series. It was hosted Lear and Kimmel, directed by James Burrows and produced by Sony Pictures Television.
The stars were Woody Harrelson (Archie Bunker), Marisa Tomei (Edith Bunker), Jamie Foxx (George Jefferson), Wanda Sykes (Louise Jefferson), Ellie Kemper (Gloria Stivic), Kerry Washington (Helen Willis) Will Ferrell (Tom Willis), Ike Barinholtz (Meathead), Sean Hayes (Mr. Lorenzo), Amber Stevens West (Jenny Willis Jefferson), Jovan Adepo (Lionel Jefferson), Anthony Anderson (Uncle Henry), Stephen Tobolowsky (Mr. Bentley) and Jackée Harry (Diane Stockwell).
Original The Jeffersons star, Marla Gibbs, also reprised her role as Florence Johnston (One Day at a Time’s Justina Machado was originally set for the role).
Here’s what ABC said of the landmark shows:
From 1971 through 1979, All in the Family was in the homes of millions of Americans, tackling controversial subjects for the first time such as women’s rights, racism and homosexuality. The series followed Archie Bunker as the highly opinionated, working-class family man who viewed the world on his terms. When not arguing with his liberal son-in-law, Archie took refuge in his wife, Edith, who tried to understand Archie’s conservative ways and outdated beliefs. The award-winning series shaped ongoing political and social conversations among American families in the post-civil rights era.
The success of All in the Family launched The Jeffersons, running from 1975 to 1985. It was the first television series to feature an interracial couple, and it would go on to be one of the longest-running African-American shows on TV. The series followed George and Louise Jefferson moving on up to the east side and showcasing what it was like to be successful in a predominantly white world. The series changed the landscape and helped shift conversations about race and class, paving the way for other African-American actors and TV shows.
Portraying the role that was made famous by Sherman Hensley, Jamie Foxx as George Jefferson slipped up on a line, after which he turned to his castmates and said, “It’s live! Everyone’s sitting at home thinking their TV’s just messed up.” The crowd supported, cheering as they got everything back on track.
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Jamie Foxx as George Jefferson, the slight over exaggeration on the body movement. Perfect!
…and our first blooper. 😂#LiveInFrontOfAStudioAudience #TheJeffersons #JamieFoxx pic.twitter.com/0dTu636AUN— A.C. Junior (@OfficialMisterC) May 23, 2019