TV & Film
NEW YORK (AP) — The "American Idol" judges' panel is now complete with the naming of singer-rapper Nicki Minaj and country crooner Keith Urban. The Fox network officially tapped the pair with an announcement Sunday, confirming rumors surrounding them both just hours before the first round of auditions for next season was due to begin […]
There are TV shows that for one reason or another may not be popular in the mainstream, but they become critic’s darlings or cult hits. The HBO series “The Wire” was both. It may be the most well-known TV show ever that never won an Emmy Award. Now that it’s gone, its actors have moved […]
A couple of months back rumors spread that ex-wife of Keenan Ivory Wayans would be added to the hit series "Hollywood Exes" and now those rumors have come to fruition. Keenan Ivory Wayans is the super producer, director, and actor with huge flicks under his belt like "Scary Movie" and "White Chicks" which he produced […]
NEW YORK (AP) — "Saturday Night Live" has elected a new Barack Obama: Jay Pharoah will take over the plum role of impersonating the president. "SNL" creator and executive producer Lorne Michaels announced the casting switch in an interview with The New York Times posted Wednesday. Michaels said it was time "to shake it up." […]
Just weeks after his custody battle with ex-wife Tameka Foster ended, R&B superstar Usher Raymond is slated to appear on "Oprah's Next Chapter." In what Oprah is calling Usher's final interview discussing his marriage, divorce, and custody battle; the singer reveals the most intimate details of what has been happening these past couple of years. […]
When NBC’s franchise comedy sketch show “Saturday Night Live” heads into its 38th season on September 15th, Kenan Thompson will be there. He’s going into his tenth year on the show, which has made stars out of black comedians Eddie Murphy, Tracy Morgan and Maya Rudolph. But he didn’t expect it to last this long […]
TV personality Katie Couric can say she’s done it all. She’s been a morning show host on “The Today Show” an evening news anchor on “The CBS Evening News” and a correspondent on the venerable news magazine show “60 Minutes.” Now she’s back to daytime in her own show, “Katie,” which debuted earlier this week. […]
Christina Ha has defeated the odds and won a cooking competition as a blind woman, the first vision impaired woman to do this in reality TV history. Ha wins $250,000 grand prize and her own cookbook. She is not completely blind, she says that her vision can be compared to seeing things through smoke or […]
This year, fall TV has more than a few black faces. While you’ll still have to look to Tyler Perry or Shonda Rhimes to see more than just one or two black faces on any given show, several black actors are happily cashing network checks this fall TV season. There are a few compelling questions […]
NEW YORK (AP) — While its rivals covered the solemn commemoration of the first plane striking the World Trade Center on Tuesday, NBC's "Today" show aired Kardashian family matriarch Kris Jenner talking about her breast augmentation. It was an embarrassing moment for the once-dominant morning show, now often beaten by ABC's "Good Morning America" in […]
A little over a week after it was announced that Randy Jackson would no longer be a judge on "American Idol" it has been announced that he has been re-hired. According to reports, Jackson was only hired back because "Idol" execs were not able to come to terms with singer Enrique Iglesias. Jackson was paid […]
Are we ready for another “unscripted” demonstration of Bobby Brown's life? Apparently BET is willing to take that risk. A new project starring the New Edition singer and ex-husband of Whitney Houston is currently in the works. Sources say the new series will revolve around Brown’s “life and businesses.” The project will be executive produced […]
