Characters from the long-awaited drama set on the south side of Chicago, Jake, Papa and Kevin confront the reality of world and how it views young Black men in the aftermath of another act of police brutality. In Season 4 of ‘The Chi,“ the three friends reckon with a broken system, the aftershocks that ripple [...]
SHOWTIME has released the official trailer for the fourth season of its hit drama series THE CHI. Created and executive produced by Emmy® winner Lena Waithe (Twenties, Boomerang) and executive produced by Academy Award®, Emmy and Golden Globe® winner Common (Selma), THE CHI returns on Sunday, May 23 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. To watch and [...]
Karen Robinson will make her way from Schitt’s Creek to A Million Little Things as she joins the cast of the ABC drama in a recurring role. The Tiny Pretty Things and Frankie Drake Mysteries actress will take on Florence, a sweet, maternal, confident widow whose sense of humor is dwarfed only by her [...]
Showtime announced that the fourth season of “The Chi,” the third season of “Black Monday” and the freshman comedy “Flatbush Misdemeanors” will premiere on May 23. “The Chi” will kick off the night at 9 p.m., with “Black Monday” following at 10 p.m. and “Flatbush Misdemeanors” at 10:30 p.m. Created and executive produced by Lena [...]
In a competitive situation, Fox has landed an hourlong anthology series from 1980s music star Huey Lewis, Hart of Dixie creator Leila Gerstein and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment. The project, a co-production of Fox Entertainment and Kapital Entertainment, has received a script-to-series commitment. READ MORE
The Monday night comedies mark the first pickups for the broadcast network. CBS is beginning to put its 2021-22 slate together. The broadcast network has handed out early renewals for its Monday comedies, handing out a third season for Chuck Lorre's Bob Hearts Abishola and a fourth season to Cedric the Entertainer's The Neighborhood. [...]
Thruline Entertainment has put into development Abby Jimenez’s bestselling novel The Happy Ever After Playlist to be adapted as a feature by writer Marisa Coughlan and two-time Primetime Emmy winner director Gail Mancuso.The Happy Ever After Playlist is a romantic comedy with a strong music element, tonally along the lines of The Truth About Cats [...]
Oscar winner Mira Sorvino and Merrin Dungey are set as leads opposite Courteney Cox and Greg Kinnear in Shining Vale, Starz’s horror-comedy pilot from Divorce creator Sharon Horgan and Trial & Error co-creator Jeff Astrof. The half-hour show hails from Warner Bros. Television and Lionsgate in association with Astrof’s Other Shoe Productions, Horgan and Clelia [...]
Taran Killam is returning to broadcast.The Single Parents and Saturday Night Live alum has been tapped as the male lead in CBS comedy pilot Welcome to Georgia.The comedy explores what happens when Penelope's (New Girl's Hannah Simone) career takes off at exactly the same time as her husband's, they call on Penelope's young single mom, [...]
Marissa Jo Cerar, creator, executive producer and showrunner of Women Of the Movement, has signed an overall deal with Kapital Entertainment, the studio behind the upcoming ABC limited series about Mamie Till Mobley, who devoted her life to seeking justice for her son Emmett Till following his brutal killing in the Jim Crow South. Under [...]