Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James and his teammate’s wife Gabrielle Union are now working together on a new comedy series in development at ABC, reports Variety. Titled “White Dave,” the single-camera series would follow a young African-American teenager who has grown up in an all-white suburb who suddenly moves to an all-black neighborhood when his […]
ABC’s The Mayor is one of the few new shows this fall we are looking forward to. The show centers around rapper Courtney Rose (Brandon Micheal Hall) whose publicity stunt gets him elected as the Mayor of his hometown in California. Yvette Nicole Brown plays Mr. Rose’s mom on the show. “I play his mom. […]
The Disney|ABC Television Group will air special programming across all of its TV and radio networks this week in support of its “Day of Giving” initiative to benefit victims of Hurricane Harvey, the company announced Wednesday. The special programming launches tonight [Aug. 30] at 10 p.m. with an ABC News primetime special “City Underwater: Catastrophe […]
Shonda Rhimes is on her way to become the most powerful woman in TV, if she’s not already, although a woman named Oprah might have her beat a little. Rhimes, the woman behind the ABC hit shows Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal and How To Get Away With Murder has just left her longtime deal with ABC […]
Shonda Rhimes is on her way to become the most powerful woman in TV, if she’s not already, although a woman named Oprah might have her beat a little. Rhimes, the woman behind the ABC hit shows Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal and How To Get Away With Murder has just left her longtime deal with ABC […]
It’s handled. According to multiple reports, Scandal the popular show that upgraded Kerry Washington‘s profile, helped Shonda Rhimes dominate TV and kicked off a Golden Age of Black TV, is ending after 7 seasons. Variety.com reports: In January, ABC Entertainment chief Channing Dungey indicated that the network was expecting the finale to come sooner rather […]
Michael Strahan’s role at Good Morning America may be viewed as lucrative by honchos but sources claim fellow anchors on the show are sick of ABC bosses giving him preferential treatment. “They roll out the carpet for [Strahan] while seasoned talent is treated like dirt. He’s been given a lot of opportunity, flexibility, when the others […]
Khandi Alexander is returning to CBS with a co-starring role opposite Alan Cumming and Bojana Novakovic in the drama pilot “Instinct,” reports Deadline. Based on the upcoming book by James Patterson and directed by Marc Webb, “Instinct” centers on Dylan (Cumming), a former CIA operative who has since built a “normal” life as a gifted […]
ABC surprised its next “Bachelorette” during the season finale of “The Bachelor” Monday night by trotting out four of the men who will compete for her final rose, two of whom were African American. The unprecedented move of beginning the next season on the previous season finale kicks off the show’s unprecedented casting of its […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actress Laverne Cox has signed on to an ABC buddy-cop comedy pilot. Variety and Deadline report that Cox will star on “The Trustee” as ex-con Amanda Jones alongside Meaghan Rath. “The Walking Dead” star Michael Cudlitz will play a police captain on the show. Cox says on Instagram that she’s “excited […]
Lance Gross is returning to TV in a series regular role opposite Meaghan Rath in “The Trustee,” ABC’s comedic one-hour pilot from “The Smurfs” writers Jay Scherick and David Ronn, Warner Bros. TV and Brownstone Productions, reports Deadline.com. Written by Scherick and Ronn and directed by Michael Engler, “The Trustee” is described as a fun, […]
Channing Dungey, the First Black president of ABC Entertainment, has finally broken one of the most long-standing racial biases in TV – her network has cast a Black Bachelorette. Despite the show’s popularity, it has remained a mostly white dating show which links a bachelor or bachelorette with suitors competing for an engagement. From The […]
