Disney Channel has greenlit “Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur,” an original animated series based on Marvel’s comic books, from Disney Television Animation. Executive produced by Laurence Fishburne and Helen Sugland’s Cinema Gypsy Productions (ABC’s “black-ish”), Marvel Animation & Family Entertainment, and Steve Loter (Disney’s “Kim Possible”), the series follows the adventures of 13-year-old super-genius […]
ABC has greenlit a prequel spin-off from sitcom “black-ish” called “mix-ish” about Rainbow Johnson’s (Tracee Ellis Ross) experience growing up in a mixed-race family in the 1980s. The logline: Bow’s parents Paul and Alicia decide to move from a hippie commune to the suburbs to better provide for their family. As her parents struggle with the challenges of […]
Freeform has signed a script to series deal for “Party Girls,” a half-hour, single-camera dramedy inspired by the true story of Ericka Suzanne, daughter of the first female leader of the Black Panther Party, Elaine Brown. The logline: Set in Oakland in the ’70s, “Party Girls” will follow Ericka’s attempt to survive her adolescence as […]
The upcoming four night, eight-hour reboot of classic miniseries “Roots” will launch on the networks of History, A&E and Lifetime on Memorial Day 2016. The cast includes Academy Award winners Forest Whitaker (“Fiddler”) and Anna Paquin (“Nancy Holt”); Laurence Fishburne (“Alex Haley”); Jonathan Rhys Meyers (“Tom Lea”); Anika Noni Rose (“Kizzy”); Tip “T.I.” Harris (“Cyrus”); […]
