Model, actress and media mogul Tyra Banks says she’s grateful for her curves, though back in the day, who knew going from a size 4 to a size 6 would land her in oink, oink territory! She is now applauding Vogue‘s stance on skinny models!
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Nine major television networks including ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox have presented their programming plans for the 2012-13 television season to advertisers. Several black thespians will be tackling new roles in some of the new shows. The peeps over at TheGrio.com spotlighted some of the upcoming series featuring black stars to look out for. First [...]
Well, we weren’t expecting this surprise — but it looks like it’s “game over” for Tia Mowry and Pooch Hall – the actors are not returning to BET‘s highest rated show, The Game. HipHollywood.com has the exclusive here. So why are Tia and Pooch out? Sources say the actors are tied up with their current [...]
Chocolate thespian Lorraine Toussaint (Saving Grace) will guest star on a July episode of Lifetime’s Drop Dead Diva. Toussaint will play Jane’s (Brooke Elliot) former law professor, Gretchen Daily in the series’ fourth season. On Episode 408, the brilliant and intimidating Professor Daily invites her former student, Jane, and Grayson (Jackson Hurst) to deliver a [...]
ABC has renewed Kerry Washington‘s new show Scandal for a second season. The Shonda Rhimes drama series, which also stars actor Tony Goldwyn (the bad guy in the movie Ghost), is a political drama where Kerry plays Olivia Pope, a former White House Communications Director for the President who dedicates her life to protecting the public images of [...]
Well that was mighty quick but we won’t complain — we understand the business of things. But yeah, it looks like the Lifetime network is going into business with Whitney Houston‘s family. The female-focused cable network has ordered 10 hourlong episodes of The Houston Family Chronicles, an upcoming docuseries revolving around the lives of the [...]
DirecTV satellite cable provider has ordered 10 episodes for the original cop drama Rogue series starring Mission Impossible 2 and Crash‘s Thandie Newton, according to The Hollywood Reporter. From Entertainment One Television (eOne) and Greenroom Entertainment, the new series marks DirecTV’s first drama project produced exclusively for its customers. Rogue follows in the footsteps of dramas Friday Night Lights and Damages, which aired [...]
Ving Rhames is making his way to the small screen — the veteran thespian will be a series regular in TNT’s new medical drama Monday Mornings. The network has ordered a 10-episode first season which is set to premiere in the summer of 2013. From David E. Kelly and CNN chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, [...]
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