TV & Film
It’s official – the 1999 romantic comedy “The Best Man” will get a sequel. Universal announced Thursday that Taye Diggs, Terrence Howard, Nia Long, Regina Hill, Morris Chestnut and Harold Perrineau have all signed on to return for “The Best Man 2,” to be released on Nov. 15, 2013. Also returning is director Malcolm D. […]
Robin Roberts returned to the NYC set of “Good Morning America” this morning for a private trial run to see if she’s physically ready to resume her co-hosting duties. It was her first visit to the show since undergoing a bone marrow transplant in September. Last week, Roberts explained that she would be doing a series […]
Director Lee Daniels is feeling a bit “muzzled” while making his first PG-13 film. “It’s very un-‘Precious’ and un-‘Paperboy,’” he tells The Hollywood Reporter of “The Butler,” about a White House staffer (Forest Whitaker) employed through eight presidential administrations. “I can’t go into my bag of tricks on this one: no urination, no baby falling […]
On last night’s season finale of “Totally T-Boz,” T-Boz received the results of her annual MRI and after seeing some of the symptoms of what…
CBS has given a pilot order to “Beverly Hills Cop,” reports Deadline.com. As previously reported, a TV version of the Eddie Murphy film franchise had a pilot production commitment and had already cast Brandon T. Jackson as the lead. The show would be a continuation of the movies, but centered instead around the police officer […]
The United Negro College Fund helps thousands of college students with the financial help they need to achieve their higher education goals. One of the ways that they raise money is via their annual star-studded special, the UNCF Evening of Stars. This special event, hosted this year by “Guys With Kids” star Anthony Anderson, features […]
The reality series “R&B Divas,” which followed Faith Evans, Nicci Gilbert-Daniels, Monifah Carter, Syleena Johnson and Keke Wyatt working together to produce a compilation album, begins production in Atlanta this month for a second season on TV One. The show will be joined on the network by a spinoff series to take place in Los […]
On a recent episode of Wendy Williams, Faith Evans–Biggies’ wife at his time of death–revealed that she caught BIG in bed with Lil Kim. I…
Thanks to the hit TV One show, “Unsung” dozens of R&B, soul, disco, funk and hip-hop artists are now getting their just due. The sixth season of “Unsung” begins with Isaac Hayes, whose “Theme From Shaft” is one of the most famous movie theme songs in history, Though Hayes won an Oscar for the song, […]
Gabourey Sidibe became known for her starring role in “Precious,” a film that was produced, written and directed by African Americans. So it’s fair to say she knows a little something about art and culture from the black perspective. That must be why producers of the public television show “AfroPop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange” tapped […]
“Casting is going on right now. It’s so weird casting yourself,” Chilli shared. “We did not want famous girls playing us, we wanted fresh faces.”…
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Anita Hill made national headlines in 1991 when she testified that then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas had made sexually inappropriate comments toward her, giving prominent exposure to the idea of sexual harassment. Hill was verbally attacked, and Thomas was confirmed. More than 20 years later, director Freida Mock explores Hill’s […]
