Black Entertainment | Black News | Urban News | Hip Hop News | Black Entertainment
*As previously reported, Robin Thicke paid tribute to Whitney Houston by sharing a cover of the late singer’s “Exhale (Shoop Shoop)” over the weekend, recording the song with just a piano and vocals. [Scroll down to listen.] Furthermore, he changed the lyrics – which were originally written in third person – to first, in order [...]
*Licensed therapist Dr. Tiffanie Davis Henry is bringing her expertise to ABC daytime as the co-host of “The Revolution,” a show in which a team of experts help one female viewer per week lose weight and transform all areas of their lives. Fans of the VH1 reality series “What Chilli Wants” are already familiar with [...]
*OWN has announced that its breakout reality hit “Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s” and new series “Beverly’s Full House,” following two strong modern matriarchs and their families, will premiere back-to-back on Saturday, March 31. “Sweetie Pie’s” airs from 9-10 p.m. ET/PT, followed by “Beverly’s Full House” from 10-11 p.m. ET/PT. [Scroll down to watch promos.] Returning [...]
*A pair of talk radio hosts in Los Angeles have been yanked off the air temporarily for making insensitive and inappropriate comments about the late Whitney Houston. Effective immediately, KFI AM 640 hosts John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou have been suspended after calling the late singer a “crack ho” and saying she was “cracked out [...]
*The grand irony behind the PBS film “More Than a Month,” about a black man’s effort to get rid of Black History Month, is that it makes its television premiere during Black History Month. Shukree Hassan Tilghman – the documentary’s 29-year-old writer, director and producer – feels that black history should not be held apart [...]
*Over the course of a year, filmmakers shadowed three ex gang members in Chicago known as Violence Interrupters, whose sole purpose is to sense when violence is about to jump off, then, step in and stop it from happening. Filmmaker Steve James (“Hoop Dreams”) and author Alex Kotlowitz (“There Are No Children Here”) embedded themselves [...]
*The anticipated TV premiere of “Slavery by Another Name” finally makes its PBS debut tonight (Feb. 13) at 9 p.m. [Check local listings.] Narrated by Lawrence Fishburne, the 90-minute documentary tells how former slaves, just after the Emancipation Proclamation, were often arrested on trumped up charges and forced to work for free as prisoners under [...]
*Nestled among the millions of fans who watch the morally corrupt shenanigans of the Gallagher family in Showtime’s “Shameless” are two church communities in South Carolina that one could argue … follow the show religiously. In fact, the pastor of the two congregations in question – Liberty Hill Christian Church in Ridgeville and Briner Christian [...]
*As previously reported, Cedric the Entertainer’s singer-turned-preacher character in TV Land’s “Hot in Cleveland” has spun off into its own series to premiere this June. “Have Faith” will have a 12-episode run with Niecy Nash cast in the role of Ced’s wife. According to creator Suzanne Martin (also the creator of “Hot in Cleveland”) Nash’s character “thought [...]
*On Thursday (Feb. 9), PBS will premiere “Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975,” a documentary that follows America’s black power movement and features interviews with many of its major players – including Stokely Carmichael, Angela Davis, Eldridge Cleaver and Elaine Brown. Armed with 16 millimeter cameras, Swedish television journalists flew to America in the mid-60s to document [...]
*Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer of “The Help” joined their fellow Oscar nominees Monday at the 84th Academy Awards Nominations Luncheon, an annual rite of passage held in Beverly Hills for those whose work has been recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. The gathering, which included Meryl Streep, George Clooney and [...]
*You saw the promo for it on the season premiere last night – all four judges of NBC’s “The Voice” will join together to perform a medley of Prince songs on tonight’s “Super Monday” episode. Yes, Blake Shelton, too. The promo capped a post-Super Bowl premiere that was highlighted by homeless dad Jesse Campbell delivering [...]
*Another child of one-time rap mogul Percy “Master P” Miller is poised to bum rush Nickelodeon. Cymphonique Miller, the sister of former Nick star Romeo Miller, debuts this Saturday at 8:30 p.m. in the new series “How to Rock” – a gig that would seem inevitable for a teen with two relatives in the spotlight. But [...]
*PBS kicks off its Black History Month programming this week with the premiere of “Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock.” The name Daisy Bates doesn’t ring a bell? The filmmaker, too, had no idea who she was when she first came across Bates’ story in the portrait book, “I Dream a World.” Published in [...]
*Bowlegged Lou says he and his group Full Force have always enjoyed a special relationship with Don Cornelius – so much so that the creator and host of “Soul Train” agreed to participate in the band’s “Unsung” special that premiered Monday, despite having turned down every single request from TV One to participate in other [...]
Recent Comments