Salli Richardson-Whitfield has signed on to recur on BET’s Being Mary Jane, reports Deadline.com. The series stars Gabrielle Union as a successful TV news anchor with a not-so-successful love life. Richardson-Whitfield will appear in at least five episodes as Mary Jane’s (Union) longtime friend. The wife of actor Dondre Whitfield currently recurs on Lifetime’s The […]
Think you have a crazy family? Well in Terry McMillan’s 2001 book, while Viola is in the hospital recovering from a near-fatal asthma attack, she decides that if she lives, she’s going to have to do something about her family, including her estranged husband and troubled children. Now that book is a Lifetime Network movie […]
Niecy Nash has made a name for herself starring in TV show after TV show and even penning a relationship book, Its Hard To Fight Naked. Next week, she’ll return in her role as Lolli Ballentine, the wife of singer turned pastor Boyce “The Voice” Balllentine, played by Cedric The Entertainer on the TV Land […]
As the star of two young adult shows, Disney’s Good Luck Charlie and Nickelodeon’s Just Jordan, 21-year-old Raven Goodwin had to take a leap of faith to star in more adult fare. On Being Mary Jane, she makes that leap, playing Atlanta based TV anchor Mary Jane Patterson’s pregnant niece, Niecy. On the show, Goodwin […]
For iPhone users: Tyler Perry has had a run of hit movies so when Oprah Winfrey tapped him to help save her struggling network, he responded. His soapy The Haves and the Have Nots is just one of the shows (Another Perry show Love Thy Neighbor is also part of the OWN lineup) that has […]
The BET original scripted series “Being Mary Jane” now has an airdate for its first season. It will premiere on Tuesday, January 7th at 10 p.m. The show, starring Gabrielle Union as Mary Jane Paul with Omari Hardwick, Richard Roundtree, and Lisa Vidal was seen by 4 million viewers in its hour-and-a-half summer “pilot” episode. […]
She’s not the other Vanessa Williams – she’s the one you know from “Soul Food” the TV series and as Keisha from “New Jack City.” She is the one without the middle initial; it’s Vanessa L. Wiliams that is the blue-eyed former Miss America. “It’s a mistake that is perpetuated around the Internet,” Williams says. […]
Actress Maia Campbell has battled her share of demons including a diagnosis of bipolar disorder and her mother – author Bebe Moore Campbell – dying from brain cancer. Some time ago, videos of Campbell surfaced that showed her incoherent and out of it, which worried her family, friends and fans. But with the help of […]
Get the dinner cooked, get the laundry done, get the kids to bed. “Scandal” is back tonight on ABC at 10 p.m. and according to star Kerry Washington; you don’t want to miss anything. (SPOILER ALERT: Do not watch the clip if you don’t want to know more about tonight’s episode.) “I have seen the […]
