OWN announced today its new original one-hour romantic drama from award-winning producers Mara Brock Akil ('Being Mary Jane,' 'The Game,' 'Girlfriends') and Salim Akil ('Black Lightning') will premiere on Tuesday, June 19 at 10 p.m. ET/PT (after Tyler Perry's 'The Haves and the Have Nots at 9 p.m. ET/PT). Brock Akil serves as showrunner on the series, which she and Akil created and executive produce through their company Akil Productions, in association with Warner Horizon Scripted Television.
OWN announced today its new original one-hour romantic drama from award-winning producers Mara Brock Akil (“Being Mary Jane,” “The Game,” “Girlfriends”) and Salim Akil (“Black Lightning”) will premiere on Tuesday, June 19 at 10 p.m. ET/PT (after Tyler Perry's “The Haves and the Have Nots at 9 p.m. ET/PT). Brock Akil serves as showrunner on the series, which she and Akil created and executive produce through their company Akil Productions, in association with Warner Horizon Scripted Television.
TV One today announced that production is underway in Atlanta, Georgia for the new film, Dinner For Two, starring R&B sensation and actor Tristan 'Mack' Wilds ('HBO: The Wire', '90210', 'The Secret Life of Bees', and 'Shots Fired'), Chaley Rose ('Nashville'), Prince Hammond ('Claws'), and Shaun Baker ('House Party'). The film is slated to premiere at the end of Summer 2018.
When viewers watch young, upcoming actor David Busby in his debut recurring role on the third season of Bounce TV's sizzling series 'Saints and Sinners,' they are witnessing the passion of a young man who has had his own personal run-in with real life saints and sinners. Working alongside the show's veteran stars, including Vanessa Bell Calloway, Clifton Powell and Keith Robinson, most would never guess that twice in two years, the determined 26-year-old thespian almost lost his life to street gun violence.
The much-anticipated third season of the hit drama series Saints & Sinners will debut on Bounce on Sunday, April 8, with new episodes premiering every Sunday night at 9:00 p.m. (ET/PT) through the season finale on May 27. Watch a sneak peek here.
And all hell breaks loose in season three.
The 36 th Annual McDonald's Gospelfest comes to Newark Symphony Hall (1030 Broad Street, Newark, NJ) on Saturday, May 12th for the gospel event of the year. This year will feature a stellar line-up of gospel artists including Bishop Hezekiah Walker, Jekalyn Carr, VaShawn Mitchell, Le'Andria Johnson, Wes Morgan, Cissy Houston, Melba Moore, and Keith 'Wonderboy' Johnson. McDonald's Gospelfest tickets are on sale now at the Symphony Hall Box Office at 973-643-8014, or by calling Ticketmaster at 800-745-3000, or online at www.ticketmaster.com.
Breaking Glass Pictures has acquired North American TVOD rights to award-winning producer Tommy Oliver (Kinyarwanda, 1982, The Perfect Guy) and co-creator Codie Elaine Oliver's touching 4-part documentary series BLACK LOVE. Breaking Glass acquired rights to the series in August in a deal negotiated between Breaking Glass CEO Rich Wolff and Tommy Oliver of Confluential Films. BLACK LOVE will be available on Amazon Instant on December 22.
Breaking Glass Pictures has acquired North American TVOD rights to award-winning producer Tommy Oliver (Kinyarwanda, 1982, The Perfect Guy) and co-creator Codie Elaine Oliver's touching 4-part documentary series BLACK LOVE. Breaking Glass acquired rights to the series in August in a deal negotiated between Breaking Glass CEO Rich Wolff and Tommy Oliver of Confluential Films. BLACK LOVE will be available on Amazon Instant on December 22.
Docu-series BLACK LOVE highlights love stories from the Black community and seeks to answer the question, “What does it take to make a marriage work?” “Black Love” pulls back the curtain on how love begins while showing the reality of what life-long love looks like, and offers proof that while it can happen for everyone, it isn't a cakewalk.
Today, Starz announced the highly-anticipated Season Four return of critically-acclaimed STARZ Original comedy series SURVIVOR'S REMORSE on Sunday, August 20th at 10PM ET/PT.
Today, Starz announced the highly-anticipated Season Four return of critically-acclaimed STARZ Original comedy series SURVIVOR'S REMORSE on Sunday, August 20th at 10PM ET/PT.
Jammins Events proudly presents the T.J. Hemphill powerful stage play, 'Perilous Times' at Brooklyn's Kings Theatre. Grammy award-winning Gospel recording artist, Fred Hammond alongside multi-award winning Gospel legend, Vickie Winans join forces with recording artist Tim Bowman Jr., Actors Clifton Powell, Christian Keys and VH1 Love & Hip NY cast member and The Wire actress Snoop, just to name a few to headline the Easter weekend festivities.
Following sold-out performances at The PIT, Dixon Place, and Abingdon Theater Co. THE MOTHER LINE STORY PROJECT is coming to the HERE Arts Center Main Stage in a double bill with Alicia Raquel as part of Sanctuary for a one-night-only engagement on Thursday, February 9th at 8:30pm.
Black-ish, Angie Tribeca star and two-time EMMY nominated writer and actor Deon Cole and Rosewood, The Real Husbands of Hollywood and seven-time NAACP Image Award nominated actress Nicole Ari Parker host an exciting night of inspiration, history and crowd-rousing performances at the 25 th Annual TRUMPET AWARDS
Bounce will world premiere the 25 th Annual Trumpet Awards, the prestigious annual event celebrating African-American achievements and contributions, on Sunday, January 29 at 9:00pm ET.
TV ONE announced today Love Under New Management: The Miki Howard Story will premiere on Sunday, June 12 at 7 p.m. ET (encore presentation at 9 p.m. ET). Starring Teyonah Parris (Chi-Raq, Survivor's Remorse) in the title role and featuring a special cameo appearance from Grammy Award-nominated R&B songstress Miki Howard herself, this is the network's first-ever bio-pic inspired by TV One's signature series Unsung.
Bounce TV's first-ever original drama series Saints & Sinners was a smash-hit success on all fronts and the show's inaugural season finished with a bang Sunday night, April 24 with the shocking finale becoming Bounce TV's #1 most-watched program in its nearly five year history.
The second episode premiere telecasts of Bounce TV's new original drama series Saints & Sinners on Sunday, March 13 combined to deliver the most-viewers in the network's history, reaching 1.5 million unduplicated viewers, an increase of 15% over last week's series debut.
Michelle Mitchenor will join A+E Network's hip-hop crime drama pilot, 'The Infamous' as a series regular and will play Eva Adams, a young female artist who receives a record deal and has a chance to become a star.