TV & Film
Meeka Claxton was not very well liked when she joined the cast of “Basketball Wives” and she was well aware of that. She recently wrote a blog highlighting some of her experiences and opinions about the show and its cast. And somewhere down the way, it seemed as if she was directing some of her […]
Keke Palmer’s just 18, but while you were sleeping, she was earning money. This holiday weekend the young actress/ singer stars in “Rags” the latest update on the Cinderella story. “Rags” premieres on Nickelodeon on Monday May 28 at 8 p.m. Nick Cannon, who is already in the Nickelodeon family, is an executive producer. “Rags” […]
Can’t afford a road trip? Well, celebrity chef G. Garvin’s got you covered. The one time host of his own cooking show “Turn Up the Heat with G. Garvin” on TV One, Garvin is now heading up “Road Trip with G. Garvin” on the Cooking Channel which debuts on Tuesday, May 29th at 9 p.m. […]
The reports of Sony Pictures/Screen Gems’ “Think Like A Man” being banned in France because it was too black are false. Various media outlets, including EURweb, ran the story based on a report in Global Voices which used this quote: “Surprising as it may be, the answer lies in the fact that the film has […]
Storied “Star Wars” filmmaker George Lucas waited 20 years to get “Red Tails” done and earlier this year, the finished product hit screens. The film about the heroic Tuskegee Airmen, the black fighting squadron that served in WWII and helped desegregate the military, was a modest success due mostly to the support it received from […]
“Single Ladies” returns to VH1 on Monday, May 28th at 1 p.m., minus Stacy Dash as Val. Dash reportedly left the show to focus on “family,” “other opportunities” or whatever platitude that you’d like to believe. Insider gossip, which hasn’t been totally denied by anyone involved, including LisaRaye who dished on Dash over at Jet […]
Last night, Whitney Houston’s daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, was short and sweet as she accepted the Millenium Award in honor of her mother at the BIllboard Music Awards,she said while dabbing tears from her face, [I was }”blessed to have been in such an incredible woman’s life.” This was Bobbi Kristina’s first major public appearance […]
The lovely LisaRaye did not hold back in her JET cover story. The Chicago-bred actresses addresses longstanding rumors about the reported fight between she and Stacey Dash on the set of Single Ladies. LisaRaye also addresses her relationship with another former co-star, Duane Martin.
So much for the actor/comedian’s plans to return to network TV. At least for now. In February, CBS ordered a pilot of Lawrence’s project, a comedy about a single-dad, who at 46, loses his construction job and embarks on a new career as a police offer. Former “Wonder Years” star Fred Savage had signed on […]
Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates has been helping people discover their family history for some time now. His PBS show “Finding Your Roots” featured the compelling stories of Margaret Cho, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Cory Booker, Samuel L. Jackson, Branford Marsalis, Wanda Sykes, John Legend and others. On the season finale, airing this Sunday, May 20th […]
Bobby Brown has debuted his new song “Don’t Let Me Die,” about life since the death of his ex-wife Whitney Houston. In the song, the former New Edition singer says, “Didn’t realize that every breath I took was from you … You were my air.” He also sings, “I guess I messed up pretty bad […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The game is over for Tia Mowry: The star of the hit BET series “The Game” won’t appear in the show’s sixth season. Mowry’s representative confirmed the news Wednesday. No details were provided. Season five of “The Game” is currently airing on BET. Mowry stars as Melanie Barnett-Davis, a medical school […]
