While Shonda Rhimes has put the world on notice that Black women can run successful TV franchises, women in television’s executive suite ranks have been few and far between with Black women fewer and farther between than anyone else. Channing Dungey’s appointment to the head of ABC Networks is one of the glass-ceiling breaking […]

How To Get Away With Murder star Viola Davis is about to step behind the camera for her next project…yet another ABC drama, about another powerful female lawyer. Davis and her husband/producing partner Julius Tennon have teamed with producer Debra Martin Chase  (Sparkle) for Conviction, a legal drama inspired by the life of Kym Worthy, […]

The Black Beat

Scandal actor Jeff Perry joined Arsenio Hall on the couch Friday night and spilled details about what’s in store for his character, Cyrus. Perry, who described Cyrus as “Dick Cheney meets Iago,” dug into the grave miscalculation his character made that now endangers those around him. Check out the clip below:

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An interview with 12 Years a Slave star and current Hollywood It Girl Lupita Nyong’o will be featured on ABC’s Countdown to the Oscars, a backstage pass to the Academy Awards, featuring Q&As with the nominees, rare footage of them before they were famous, and a special celebration of the 20th anniversary of Forrest Gump. Good […]