Showing 61 - 71 of 71 articles tagged "Lena Waithe"

• Posted Tuesday 1/30/18 at 1:33PM EST

  Showtime renews The Chi

  The Lena Waithe drama has been renewed for a second season after just four episodes.

• Posted Wednesday 1/17/18 at 11:05PM EST

  Lena Waithe is headed to This Is Us

  Waithe is trying something different from her work on The Chi and Master of None, playing an animal shelter worker...

• Posted Friday 1/05/18 at 11:08PM EST

  Lena Waithe’s The Chi is being compared to The Wire, but it has more in common with Shameless

  The Showtime series also has a lot in common with The Wire creator David Simon's acclaimed HBO series Treme, says...

• Posted Friday 12/15/17 at 1:14PM EST

  Showtime posts The Chi’s first episode on YouTube

  The Chicago-based series from Master of None’s Lena Waithe is also available on Facebook and Showtime’s website.

• Posted Thursday 12/07/17 at 1:12PM EST

  Lena Waithe joins Dear White People

  The Master of None star will recur on the Netflix series as P Ninnny, “a braggadocious MC who stars on...

• Posted Friday 11/17/17 at 7:14AM EST

  Lena Waithe’s The Chi releases its official trailer

  The coming-of-age Chicago-set drama from the Master of None star and Common has also unveiled its key art with the...

• Posted Wednesday 10/25/17 at 7:48PM EDT

  Lena Waithe nearly walked away from writing her Emmy-winning Master of None “Thanksgiving” episode

  At one point, she told creators Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang, “my plate’s too full.

• Posted Thursday 10/19/17 at 12:55AM EDT

  The Chi accused of throwing away a dumpster full of food in a neighborhood starving for grocery stores

  The Lena Waithe-created Showtime series built a fake corner store in a Chicago neighborhood located in a “food desert” where...

• Posted Wednesday 10/18/17 at 7:01PM EDT

  Check out The Chi trailer from Master of None’s Lena Waithe

  Fresh off her Emmy win, Waithe is coming out with a Showtime series about coming of age in Chicago.

• Posted Tuesday 9/19/17 at 11:03PM EDT

  Master of None’s Lena Waithe connects her historical Emmy victory to Halle Berry winning an Oscar

  “So many other people could have won, but I think that, for whatever reason, there’s a person that is the...

• Posted Saturday 9/02/17 at 3:23AM EDT

  Master of None's Lena Waithe: Aziz Ansari “let me lead” in writing the Thanksgiving episode

  Waithe, the first black woman to be nominated for an Emmy for comedy writing, says: “I’ll be honest, writing that...