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Hulu orders Sammy Davis Jr. limited series from Lee Daniels, starring Elijah Kelley
The streamer has given an eight-episode order to the limited series that was first revealed in 2019.
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Posted Tuesday 9/21/21 at 8:40PM EDT
Fox's Our Kind of People is hindered by choices that make it clunky and forgettable
The Yaya DaCosta-led drama series about a single mom who's trying to build her hair-care business in the wealthy Black...
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FOX’s Our Kind of People Reveals America’s Black Upper Class
In his bestselling 1999 book Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class, Lawrence Otis Graham broadcast a taboo...
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Posted Friday 4/09/21 at 2:13PM EDT
Check out the first image of ABC's The Wonder Years reboot featuring a Black family
Lee Daniels shared the first image of the ABC pilot focusing on Elisha “EJ” Williams as Dean Williams, with Dulé...
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Posted Monday 2/08/21 at 6:30PM EST
FX orders The Spook Who Sat by the Door pilot from Lee Daniels
Sam Greenlee's 1969 novel on a fictional first Black CIA officer is being adapted as a TV series from Daniels,...
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Posted Friday 1/29/21 at 4:16PM EST
ABC orders a pilot for Lee Daniels' The Wonder Years reboot
The Black-themed, Alabama-set reboot of the classic ABC comedy will begin shooting its pilot this spring.
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Posted Wednesday 11/18/20 at 5:51PM EST
Lee Daniels' Waiting to Exhale TV series reboot lands at ABC
The network has given a script commitment to a TV adaptation of Terry McMillan's 1992 novel, which was turned into...
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Posted Friday 11/13/20 at 12:37PM EST
A Waiting to Exhale TV series is in the works, Terry McMillan announces
“So, WAITING TO EXHALE is going to be a TV series,” the author tweeted Thursday.
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Posted Thursday 9/24/20 at 1:49PM EDT
ABC developing Lee Daniels drama Mason Dixon
Daniels will executive produce and direct and Julian Breece will write the drama that was originally developed at Fox during...
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Taraji P. Henson reprising her Cookie Lyon role for a potential Empire spinoff on Fox
The untitled potential Empire spinoff will likely follow Cookie as she moves to Los Angeles, according to The Hollywood Reporter,...
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The Wonder Years is getting a Black family reboot at ABC, with help of Lee Daniels and Fred Savage
ABC has given a pilot production commitment to a new iteration of its 1988-93 classic comedy The Wonder Years, focusing...
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Empire creators express hope for a "proper" series finale
The Fox drama was only able to complete 18 of 20 of its sixth and final season episodes due to...
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Posted Tuesday 1/21/20 at 1:16PM EST
Amazon rejects #MeToo-themed college comedy pilot Good People from Lee Daniels and Whitney Cummings
Cummings starred on the pilot with Lisa Kudrow, Martin Short and Greg Kinnear.
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Posted Friday 12/20/19 at 2:17PM EST
Lee Daniels teams with Florida Georgia Line's Brian Kelley on ABC's Moss Landing, a country music-gospel mashup series
The potential series is set in a small Florida coastal town and follows Marion James, a disgraced country star, and...
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Posted Tuesday 12/17/19 at 3:45PM EST
Empire is considering bringing Jussie Smollett back before wrapping up the series
“It would be weird in my mind to end this family show and this family drama of which he was...