Lifetime will celebrate Black HISTORY Month in February with The Trip to Bountiful, featuring two-time Emmy winner, Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee, and SAG and Tony winner Cicely Tyson (The Help), Emmy and Grammy nominee Vanessa Williams (Ugly Betty), Golden Globe nominee and Grammy winner Blair Underwood (In Treatment) and SAG nominee Keke Palmer (CrazySexyCool).
The ABFF (American Black Film Festival) today announced that it is reviving the Black Movie Awards (BMA), which recognizes and celebrates the accomplishments of persons of African descent in the motion picture industry, as an Internet-based awards presentation.
Joyeuses Ftes! Felices Fiestas! Buone Feste!
Mariska Hargitay was honored in Los Angeles with the 2,511th star on the Walk of Fame yesterday. Her star was placed next to her late mother's, Jayne Mansfield, star.
According to Deadline, NBC has cancelled its struggling freshman series WELCOME TO THE FAMILY, starring Mike O'Malley and Mary McCormack, and its reboot of IRONSIDE, lead by Blair Underwood. FAMILY's cancellation is effective immediately, while IRONSIDE will air one additional episode next Wednesday, Oct. 23.
As directed by Mark Rucker and fueled by a strong performance by Sarah Sokolovic as Stella and a fascinating characterization by Rene Augusen that takes Blanche utra deep, this production ends up being more of a study of the relationship between the sisters. Stanley, despite the display of his very finely chiseled abs and physique several times, seems to have fallen off this streetcar.
NoHo Arts District, CA, September 19, 2013 – “65th Primetime Emmy Awards” Executive Producer, Ken Ehrlich, has revealed the final presenters who will take the stage during the Emmy telecast on Sunday, Sept. 22, (8:00 PM, ET / 5:00 PM, PT) on the CBS Television Network.
Emmy nominee and film star Danny Glover ('Lethal Weapon,' 'The Color Purple') will guest star in an episode, titled 'Minor Infractions,' on NBC's 'Ironside' as Ironside's (Blair Underwood) father, Frank.
Theatre Planners presents Greeks 6 - Trojans 5, a world premiere comedy with music written by Chuck Faerber, directed by Rick Kuhlman, similar in style and spirit to 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum' but whackier, involving Greek soldiers embedded in the fabled Trojan Horse. Although set in the ancient world, Greeks 6 - Trojans 5 is a hilarious, eccentric, and irreverent send-up of modern warfare, technology, and mores (yes - mores!). The play begins performances tonight, Saturday, August 10th at 8pm. Runs: August 11 - September 8. Saturdays at 8pm. Sunday Matinees at 3pm. Buy Tix/info: www.plays411.com or (323) 960-7774. Whitefire Theatre 13500 Ventura Blvd Sherman Oaks 91423.
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Date: August 3rd, 2013 Time: 11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. ET Call in number: 646-929-0368 URL: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/joykeys/2013/08/03/joy-keys-chats-with-author-roj-augustin When Desiree Washington ventures into the darkly glittering world of legendary singer Bebe Jones, she gets more than just a job. She gets a family in crisis, a diva meltdown, and a head full of stitches... The Unraveling of Bebe Jones revolves around the rich and famous Jones family and the people who work for them as they cope through an array of personal dramas. The Joneses refers not only to the family at the heart of the story but also to the insanity of keeping up-to illusions of perfection, prosperity and even happiness-inherit in modern Western culture. Rojé Augustin is a native New Yorker, currently based in Sydney. She is a graduate of Columbia University with a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors in literature and writing. She has had a number of articles published in B.E.T. Weekend Magazine, a former weekly insert in the New York Daily News. For more than a decade, she has worked as a television journalist, writer and producer for Good Morning America Weekend Edition with Diane Sawyer, 20/20 with Barbara Walters and John Stossel, CBS News Productions, The Tyra Banks Show and E! The Unraveling of Bebe Jones is her first novel. www.rojeaugustin.com 'Saturday Mornings with Joy Keys' is an interactive, live Internet talk-radio show that focuses on providing people with tools to enrich and advance their lives mentally, physically and emotionally. You can listen to archives of previous shows by going to http://www.blogtalkradio.com/joykeys. Check out the podcasts with CNN Journalist Soledad O'Brien, Actress Angela Bassett, Actor Blair Underwood, Singer Tyrese, Singer Ledisi, Activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Singer Lira, Poet Rita Dove, Poet Sonia Sanchez, Author Isabel Wilkerson, Author Michelle Alexander, Former CBS Anchor Mark McEwen and Stroke, Singer Charlie Wilson and Prostate Cancer, Lupus, Breast Cancer, Celiac Disease and many more. For more information about 'Saturday Mornings with Joy Keys' call: 267-288-7386 or email: saturdayswithjoykeys (at) hotmail.com. Follow on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/joykeys. Become a fan on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/saturdaymorningswithjoykeys Download on iTunes.
Theatre Planners presents Greeks 6 - Trojans 5, a world premiere comedy with music written by Chuck Faerber, directed by Rick Kuhlman, similar in style and spirit to 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum' but whackier, involving Greek soldiers embedded in the fabled Trojan Horse. Although set in the ancient world, Greeks 6 - Trojans 5 is a hilarious, eccentric, and irreverent send-up of modern warfare, technology, and mores (yes - mores!). The play previews Saturday, August 10th at 8pm. Runs: August 11 - September 8. Saturdays at 8pm. Sunday Matinees at 3pm. Buy Tix/info: www.plays411.com or (323) 960-7774. Whitefire Theatre 13500 Ventura Blvd Sherman Oaks 91423.
NBC has announced plans for the upcoming Comic-Con International gathering in San Diego running from July 18-21.
NBC has announced premiere dates for its fall schedule, which will include a slew of Broadway veterans. Included will be 'The Blacklist,' starring James Spader (Race) as an international criminal who works with a rookie FBI agent in order to bring down some of the world's most wanted, begins Monday, Sept. 23 at 10 p.m.
NBC has announced premiere dates for its fall schedule, which include the launch of two highly-anticipated new shows: “The Blacklist” on Sept. 23 and the series debut of “The Michael J. Fox Show” with back-to-back episodes on Sept. 26.
NBC has announced a new lineup of primetime shows for the 2013-14 season that provide a winning combination of popular returning series, fresh new comedies, compelling new dramas and the latest season of "The Voice," the top reality program on television.
GO ON, NBC's comedy starring Broadway regular Laura Benanti, has been officially cancelled, according to The Washington Post.
Today, NBC added to its roster of upcoming series with the comedy UNDATEABLE, starring 'Whitney's Chris D'Elia and a reboot of the 1967 drama classic IRONSIDE, starring Blair Underwood.
William Shakespeare's most horrific and bloody tragedy, MACBETH, is getting an update via a new all-African American feature film adaptation, with no less than Terrence Howard and Sanaa Lathan headlining the cast.
Deadline reports that Tony-nominated actor Pablo Schreiber has signed on to star in an upcoming drama pilot for NBC titled IRONSIDE. The 'Weeds' actor will star opposite Blair Underwood in the reboot of the 1960's police procedural series.
