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*In casting news, actress Cassandra Freeman, best known for her role on the CBS series “Numbers,” has been added to VH1′s hourlong series “Single Ladies,” while Lisa Vidal, who played Blair Underwood’s wife in NBC’s “The Event,” joins Gabrielle Union in BET’s hourlong pilot “Being Mary Jane,” formerly known as “Single Black Female.” Freeman, who [...]
*One week after their cancellations were announced, FOX’s “The Chicago Code” starring Jennifer Beals and Delroy Lindo; NBC’s Blair Underwood vehicle “The Event” and NBC’s “Law & Order: Los Angeles” with Terrence Howard all experienced double-digit ratings increases from the previous week. Monday’s final episode of “The Chicago Code,” which saw Beals’ police commissioner character [...]
*Two prime time dramas with African American males in the lead have just been given the axe. Entertainment Weekly is reporting that NBC is passing on picking up its sci-fi action-drama “The Event” for another season. Blair Underwood starred in the show as the US president. Though the series about aliens covertly living among us [...]
*When the NBC drama, “The Event,” first hit the airwaves, it was filled with mystery. It looks like the way it started is the way it’s going to finish. Whether the show will return for the fall television season is still up in the air. This is nothing new for the show’s star, Blair Underwood, [...]
*Great news for Blair Underwood and Terrence Howard. Despite just lukewarm ratings, NBC has decided to take a chance on their respective freshman dramas. “The Event,” which stars Underwood as U.S. president Elias Martinez, is getting a full-season pickup along with “Law & Order: Los Angeles,” which stars Howard as deputy district attorney Jonah “Joe” [...]
*From the trailer below, we know exactly what “The Event” is not. It’s not the assassination plot. It’s not the disappearance. It’s not the CIA cover up. So what is it? Blair Underwood says he doesn’t even fully know — and he stars in the NBC drama as the President of the United States. “I [...]
*Blair Underwood was among the celebrities announced as presenters for the 62 annual Primetime Emmy Awards, to be held Aug. 29 at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles. Nominees Jon Hamm (“Mad Men”) and Jim Parsons (“The Big Bang Theory”D), along with “Desperate Housewives” star ‘Eva Longoria Parker will also be among those handing out [...]
*Blair Underwood has been cast as the President of the United States on the upcoming NBC drama pilot “The Event.” A thriller chronicled from multiple points of view, “The Event” follows a regular man (Jason Ritter) untangling a conspiracy to assassinate the president, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Writer Nick Wauters originally originally envisioned the [...]
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