TV & Film
If you haven’t caught “Key and Peele” on Comedy Central, tonight would be a good night to do so. The show airs weekly on Wednesday nights at 10:30 and since the second round of debates has aired, you can believe that the two will have something to say about them. One of their best sketches […]
Zoe Saldana has been cast to play the leading role in Nina Simone’s biopic. The casting wasn’t met without some disdain and a bit of protest, some saying that she just can’t be Nina and that she is too light-skinned for the role. Writer and director Cynthia Mort notes that the film will simply be […]
Actor/director/producer/writer Tyler Perry is in all measurable ways a success. The Atlanta-based Perry went from homeless to Hollywood with his gospel-influenced stage plays and then moved into movies and TV. But, like many successful people, he has critics. Industry veterans like Spike Lee and increasingly, some viewers, find his work stereotypical and his shows banal. […]
NEW YORK (AP) — "Saturday Night Live" parodied the vice presidential debate with a little help from the world's fastest man. Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt dropped by the NBC sketch show's mock debate after Taran Killam, playing Mitt Romney's running mate, Paul Ryan, claimed he won the 100-meter race at the London Olympics. Ryan has […]
Click here to listen to Claudia Jordan's announcement on the TJMS. Claudia Jordan is no stranger to competition. In her younger years, the Rhode Island native held the title of Miss Rhode Island Teen USA in 1990 and represented Rhode Island at the Miss Teen USA pageant, and in 1997 she became the second African-American […]
25 years ago, 19-day-old Nejdra Nance (born Carlina White) was abducted from Harlem Hospital in New York City. The kidnapper, Ann Pettway (played by Aunjanue Ellis), posed as a nurse and snuck the infant out of the hospital. Over two decades later, Nance solved her own kidnapping. The TJMS' Sybil Wilkes talked with Aunjanue Ellis […]
Quentin Tarantino has released a new trailer for his revenge film “Django Unchained,” and this one features more screen time for co-stars Kerry Washington, Saumel L. Jackson and Jonah Hill, who appears as a man riding with the Klu Klux Klan. The film stars Jamie Foxx as Django, a slave living in the Deep South […]
Did you see it? More than 6.5 million movie watchers had the “Steel Magnolias” experience on Sunday. This was the best audience drawn telecast since “Life is Not a Fairy Tale: The Fantasia Barrino Story” in 2006. But this telecast served as the most watched movie in Lifetime’s history. The new version of the movie […]
The cable network “Heart and Soul” is among the five new development titles for 2013 focused on young women in transition and the desires and interests of Generation O. The show centers on Miami’s exclusive matchmaking agency for urban professional women called “Heart & Soul International,” which is run by the outspoken and outrageous Natalie […]
There’s nothing like kicking back with a snack after a long day. Add your favorite television show, and you’ve got a recipe for great entertainment. Comedy, drama, suspense and everything in between, television has something for everyone these days. Check out Nielsen’s top TV shows for African-Americans in 2011. Note that these winners don’t include […]
Gary Owen is the funniest white man that black people like and Shaquille O’Neal is, well, Shaquille O’Neal. The two have joined up for the latest installment of Shaq’s comedy series “Shaquille O’Neal Presents All-Star Comedy Jam Live from Orlando” which Owen hosts. On the stage are Capone, Tony Roberts, Pharoah and Li’l Duval, all […]
From his days on MTV to his presence on the big screen, Bill Bellamy’s swagger has left a lasting impression on comedy. Now Bellamy’s funny and swagged out talents are presented in his new TV role as “Mr. Box Office.” The new series features a wide cast of some of Hollywood’s funniest and entertaining performers […]
