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Ahead of its season 2 premiere, Animal Control has been renewed for a third season by Fox. The Joel McHale-led series, about a group of animal control workers, also stars Michael Rowland, Vella Lovell, Ravi Patel, Grace Palmer, Alvina August, Kelli Ogmundson and Gerry Dee. The series premiere of Animal Control marked Fox’s most-streamed debut […]
Sonja Flemming/CBS At the Grammy Awards on February 4, Mariah Carey gave out the first award of the night. But according to the show’s executive producer, a lot of people went to great lengths to make sure she got there on time. Grammys executive producer Ben Winston told the Rolling Stone Music Now podcast that because of the rain in LA […]
Bruce Glikas/Getty Images Broadway theaters will honor the memory of Tony winner Chita Rivera on February 17 by dimming their lights for one minute at 7:45 p.m. ET., The Broadway League announced on Tuesday. Rivera passed away January 30 at the age of 91. A star of the stage and screen, Rivera racked up a total of 10 […]
On this day in Black history, February 7: — In 1872, Alcorn A&M College, the oldest public historically Black land-grant institution in the United States, opened to students. Later named Alcorn State University, the school was founded a year prior in Mississippi in an effort to educate the descendants of formerly enslaved Africans. — In […]
NPG Records/Warner Records A stage adaptation of Prince’s Purple Rain is expected to wind up on Broadway, but before it hits the Great White Way, it will make its debut in Prince’s hometown of Minneapolis, Minnesota. The musical’s pre-Broadway premiere is expected to take place in the spring of 2025, at Minneapolis’ historic State Theatre. Producer Orin Wolf is behind […]
Marvel Studios has released a statement about the death of a crew member who passed away from injuries sustained on the set of its small-screen project Wonder Man. Deadline reports shooting on the Disney+ series hasn’t yet started. The victim was a rigger who fell from the rafters at Radford Studio Center in Los Angeles […]
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Michael Loccisano/Getty Images Kelvin Harrison Jr., who portrays Martin Luther King Jr. on National Geographic’s Genius: MLK/X, will be honored at the sixth American Black Film Festival Honors. He’s set to receive the 2024 Rising Star Award — an acknowledgement of his “recent success and future promise in the film and television industry.” Harrison joins Garrett Morris, Taraji P. Henson, Jeffrey Wright and Mara […]
ABC/Chrys Davis Megan Thee Stallion is grateful for the Hotties who have supported her through the ups and downs of her career. After her latest single, “Hiss,” topped the Billboard Hot 100, she took to Instagram Live to celebrate the accomplishment and chop it up with her fans. “The main thing to say is thank you … Yall know […]
Disney/Randy Holmes What do Halle Bailey and Danielle Brooks have in common? Aside from being singers, actresses and stars of 2023’s The Color Purple, they’re among the honorees for Essence’s 17th annual Black Women in Hollywood awards. Essence announced the news Tuesday, noting Nkechi Okoro Carroll, the executive producer for CW’s All American, and Starz’s Kathryn Busby, behind the expansion of the Power universe, will also be honored. The […]
