TMZ reports that pre-sales of the Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta duo Mimi Faust and boyfriend Nikko Smith’s  sex tape, Mimi & Nikko: Scandal in Atlanta have collected more than $400,000. The success of the sex tape has instantly attracted attention from Vivid Entertainment founder Steve Hirsch, who admitted that his company has never seen pre-sale numbers […]
Black women have finally arrived, at least at BET, where Centric will be rebranded as the first TV network specifically geared to Black women. Fact: âAt more than 10 million strong, and in control of 20 billion dollars in buying power, the African American woman is an increasingly powerful, yet often overlooked consumer,â said Louis Carr, […]
Salli Richardson-Whitfield has signed on to recur on BETâs Being Mary Jane, reports Deadline.com. The series stars Gabrielle Union as a successful TV news anchor with a not-so-successful love life. Richardson-Whitfield will appear in at least five episodes as Mary Janeâs (Union) longtime friend. The wife of actor Dondre Whitfield currently recurs on Lifetimeâs The […]
Starz today announced that its new original series âPower,â from executive producer Curtis â50 Centâ Jackson, writer Courtney Kemp Agboh and director Eif Rivera, will debut on Saturday, June 7th at 9 p.m. ET/PT Watch the video here- WARNING some explicit lyrics. The cable channel also released 50âs new music video for âBig Rich Town,â […]
Love, peace and soul was the ‘Soul Train’ mantra and writer Nelson George has put all of the above into his new book, Soul Train: The Hippest Trip In America. George, a cultural critic whoâs written over 15 books, says that he wrote the book to tell the accurate story of the showâs history as […]
The Fox drama pilot Empire seems to be adding cast members by the hour. On the heels of Malik Yoba joining Terrence Howard, Taraji P. Henson and Jussie Smollet in the hip-hop themed project from Lee Daniels. Deadline.com is reporting that Gabourey Sidibe has now signed on for a recurring role. The story centers on Lucious Lyon (Howard), a charismatic, savvy music superstar who is […]
BET’s new hit show, Being Mary Jane, starring Gabrielle Union in the title role, has only been on a for a minute but already two fan favorites have emerged from Mary Jane Paulâs messy love life. That would be her lovers David and Andre, who have forced fans of the show to take sides on […]
For iPhone users: Tyler Perry has had a run of hit movies so when Oprah Winfrey tapped him to help save her struggling network, he responded. His soapy The Haves and the Have Nots is just one of the shows (Another Perry show Love Thy Neighbor is also part of the OWN lineup) that has […]
This weekend, Oprah Winfrey brings her interviewing talents to “Oprah’s Next Chapter” by interviewing her own co-star in The Butler, Forest Whitaker, along with Michael B. Jordan, Idris Elba and Chiwetel Ejiofor, all of whom turned in stellar movie performances this year. In the movies this week, Whitaker and Zoe Saldana are the only black folks […]
“12 Years A Slave’ opens nationwide this weekend. The movie, about free man Solomon Northrup‘s 12 years in slavery after he was abducted has received rave reviews, but as we say in our review and in our story about who might take caution before buying that ticket, it’s a difficult movie to watch. Thankfully we’ve […]
The BET original scripted series “Being Mary Jane” now has an airdate for its first season. It will premiere on Tuesday, January 7th at 10 p.m. The show, starring Gabrielle Union as Mary Jane Paul with Omari Hardwick, Richard Roundtree, and Lisa Vidal was seen by 4 million viewers in its hour-and-a-half summer “pilot” episode. […]
In a now classic âScandalâ scene, Rowan Pope told his only daughter Olivia that he was both âthe hell and the high waterâ and that it was time for her to hightail it out of Washington on the private plane he had at her disposal and disappear after it was revealed that she and the […]
