When “A People’s History of Black Twitter” was published in 2021, the social media platform appeared powerful as ever. As it had been for over a decade, the site was a hub of community and influence, where users might go to bullshit with friends, to organize with activists, to read and report news in real time, maybe even to mingle with a celebrity or two. Sure, it had its problems with trolls or bots or poor moderation; sure, TikTok was already moving in fast. But Twitter seemed to be, if not thriving, at least chugging along with no obvious end in sight.
A lot can change in three years, however — and a lot has, particularly since Elon Musk’s acquisition of the site in 2022. Onyx Collective’s Black Twitter: A People’s History reiterates and expands on Jason Parham’s Wired article, braiding together interviews with journalists, comedians and other commentators...
A lot can change in three years, however — and a lot has, particularly since Elon Musk’s acquisition of the site in 2022. Onyx Collective’s Black Twitter: A People’s History reiterates and expands on Jason Parham’s Wired article, braiding together interviews with journalists, comedians and other commentators...
- 5/9/2024
- by Angie Han
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Prentice Penny had just wrapped the fifth and final season of Issa Rae’s Insecure and was awaiting its release on HBO when Wired senior writer Jason Parham published his definitive “A People’s History of Black Twitter” in July 2021. The three-part, 9,821-word series chronicles the evolution of the nebulous and influential collective of Black users on the platform now known as X, from an inciting event (the hashtag #UKnowUrBlackWhen) to its growing influence and respective backlash through the present.
For Penny, a multihyphenate talent whose work on such series as Insecure and Girlfriends had been elevated and celebrated by Black Twitter, adapting Parham’s articles into a colorful visual history through the documentary medium seemed like an exciting new challenge after spending much of his two decades in TV predominantly in the narrative comedy space with shows including Scrubs, Happy Endings and Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
The result is Hulu’s...
For Penny, a multihyphenate talent whose work on such series as Insecure and Girlfriends had been elevated and celebrated by Black Twitter, adapting Parham’s articles into a colorful visual history through the documentary medium seemed like an exciting new challenge after spending much of his two decades in TV predominantly in the narrative comedy space with shows including Scrubs, Happy Endings and Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
The result is Hulu’s...
- 3/8/2024
- by Abbey White
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: BET and CBS News have announced the Season 2 renewal of primetime monthly newsmagazine America in Black. Featured on BET, Paramount+ and CBS News streaming, America In Black focuses on investigative reporting, newsmaker interviews, human interest stories and celebrity profiles.
In Season 1, America In Black explored Black maternal mortality with an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris, reported on the war on Black history and looked at the amputation epidemic among Black Americans. It also featured profiles and interviews with Michael B. Jordan, LL Cool J, Taraji P. Henson, T.D. Jakes and others.
In the new season, veteran BET News anchor Ed Gordon will return to the network after an 18-year hiatus as special correspondent. CBS Mornings host Vladimir Duthiers and special correspondent Soledad O’Brien also will join America in Black this season.
The second season premieres during Black History Month with two episodes on Tuesday, February 6 and Tuesday, February 20 on BET at 10:30 Pp.
In Season 1, America In Black explored Black maternal mortality with an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris, reported on the war on Black history and looked at the amputation epidemic among Black Americans. It also featured profiles and interviews with Michael B. Jordan, LL Cool J, Taraji P. Henson, T.D. Jakes and others.
In the new season, veteran BET News anchor Ed Gordon will return to the network after an 18-year hiatus as special correspondent. CBS Mornings host Vladimir Duthiers and special correspondent Soledad O’Brien also will join America in Black this season.
The second season premieres during Black History Month with two episodes on Tuesday, February 6 and Tuesday, February 20 on BET at 10:30 Pp.
- 1/29/2024
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
A dryly succinct but thoroughly convincing Netflix documentary about the corruptive history of American policing, Yance Ford’s “Power” articulates in the clearest possible terms how 18th century slave patrols and the frontier militias that followed paved the way for a modern police state so violent and unregulated that no democracy would consciously think to invent it.
It begins with a brief voiceover that seems like a targeted overture to the movie’s home audience; the kind of flourish that suggests Ford knew his documentary would bypass a traditional platform rollout in favor of a more geopolitically diverse streaming debut. “This film requires curiosity, or at least suspicion,” the director intones over a black screen. “I’ll leave that choice up to you.”
Tempting as it is to imagine how those words might feel like a trigger warning for any “Blue Lives Matter” types who only started watching “Power” because...
It begins with a brief voiceover that seems like a targeted overture to the movie’s home audience; the kind of flourish that suggests Ford knew his documentary would bypass a traditional platform rollout in favor of a more geopolitically diverse streaming debut. “This film requires curiosity, or at least suspicion,” the director intones over a black screen. “I’ll leave that choice up to you.”
Tempting as it is to imagine how those words might feel like a trigger warning for any “Blue Lives Matter” types who only started watching “Power” because...
- 1/19/2024
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
BET and CBS News will debut a primetime newsmagazine series next month, America In Black, that will feature segments with Gayle King and other news figures, as well as the return of Ed Gordon.
The monthly series will premiere on Feb. 19 at 10 Pm Et on BET and VH1, and will be available on platforms including the CBS News Streaming Network.
The focus will be investigative reports, newsmaker interviews and celebrity profiles.
Also contributing to the series will be Michelle Miller, Jericka Duncan, Vladimir Duthiers, Marc Lamont Hill, Wesley Lowery, Errol Barnett, Danya Bacchus and Skyler Henry. Gordon is returning after 18 years and will be a featured correspondent.
Alvin Patrick, executive producer of CBS News streaming originals and race and culture, said that the series “will cover the complexity of the Black experience with compelling storytelling that has always been the hallmark of CBS News.” Connie Orlando, executive vice president of specials,...
The monthly series will premiere on Feb. 19 at 10 Pm Et on BET and VH1, and will be available on platforms including the CBS News Streaming Network.
The focus will be investigative reports, newsmaker interviews and celebrity profiles.
Also contributing to the series will be Michelle Miller, Jericka Duncan, Vladimir Duthiers, Marc Lamont Hill, Wesley Lowery, Errol Barnett, Danya Bacchus and Skyler Henry. Gordon is returning after 18 years and will be a featured correspondent.
Alvin Patrick, executive producer of CBS News streaming originals and race and culture, said that the series “will cover the complexity of the Black experience with compelling storytelling that has always been the hallmark of CBS News.” Connie Orlando, executive vice president of specials,...
- 1/27/2023
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
BET and CBS News have announced a new original primetime series, “America in Black,” which will focus its programming on the people, issues and stories that matter to Black America.
“America in Black” will premiere on Feb. 19 at 10 p.m. Et/Pt, followed by new episodes released on a monthly basis.
The upcoming news series will air one-hour episodes featuring award-winning CBS and BET journalists — including Gayle King, James Brown, Ed Gordon, Michelle Miller, Jericka Duncan, Vladimir Duthiers, Marc Lamont Hill, Wesley Lowery, Errol Barnett, Danya Bacchus, Skyler Henry and more.
“America in Black” will elevate the issues, stories and people impacting Black America through its unique coverage of stories that go beyond the headlines, and the inclusion of interviews and profiles of celebrities throughout the series.
“‘America In Black’ provides unique opportunities to address timely issues affecting our community most, from the censorship of Black history in schools to...
“America in Black” will premiere on Feb. 19 at 10 p.m. Et/Pt, followed by new episodes released on a monthly basis.
The upcoming news series will air one-hour episodes featuring award-winning CBS and BET journalists — including Gayle King, James Brown, Ed Gordon, Michelle Miller, Jericka Duncan, Vladimir Duthiers, Marc Lamont Hill, Wesley Lowery, Errol Barnett, Danya Bacchus, Skyler Henry and more.
“America in Black” will elevate the issues, stories and people impacting Black America through its unique coverage of stories that go beyond the headlines, and the inclusion of interviews and profiles of celebrities throughout the series.
“‘America In Black’ provides unique opportunities to address timely issues affecting our community most, from the censorship of Black history in schools to...
- 1/27/2023
- by Charna Flam
- Variety Film + TV
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-ny) gave an extensive interview to GQ this month for the magazine’s cover story. In it, she held forth on Roe v. Wade, January 6, sexual assault, marriage, being ostracized by her own party and, maybe most candidly, about running for president.
“Sometimes little girls will say, ‘Oh, I want you to be president,’ or things like that,” Ocasio-Cortez told journalist Wesley Lowery. “It’s very difficult for me to talk about because it provokes a lot of inner conflict in that I never want to tell a little girl what she can’t do. And I don’t want to tell young people what is not possible. I’ve never been in the business of doing that. But at the same time…”
Lowery, a Pulitzer Prize winner, writes that at this point in his conversation with the New York Representative “tears pooled in the corners of...
“Sometimes little girls will say, ‘Oh, I want you to be president,’ or things like that,” Ocasio-Cortez told journalist Wesley Lowery. “It’s very difficult for me to talk about because it provokes a lot of inner conflict in that I never want to tell a little girl what she can’t do. And I don’t want to tell young people what is not possible. I’ve never been in the business of doing that. But at the same time…”
Lowery, a Pulitzer Prize winner, writes that at this point in his conversation with the New York Representative “tears pooled in the corners of...
- 9/8/2022
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
CBS News’ venerable “60 Minutes” is creating a time machine, of sorts.
The long-running newsmagazine will form the bulk of a new channel at Pluto TV, the ad-supported streaming outlet that is, like CBS News, part of Paramount Global. The streaming channel is expected to launch sometime this year, Bill Owens, executive producer of the show, told staffers Thursday.
“The channel will allow us to share our broadcast and historic archive with the wider world,” Owens told employees in a memo. Nicole Young, a longtime producer who works with “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley, will oversee the new venture, which will potentially let consumers sample decades of “60 Minutes” reports, whether they encompass a Mike Wallace investigation, an Ed Bradley interview with Bob Dylan, or Lesley Stahl’s various exchanges with former President Donald Trump.
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The long-running newsmagazine will form the bulk of a new channel at Pluto TV, the ad-supported streaming outlet that is, like CBS News, part of Paramount Global. The streaming channel is expected to launch sometime this year, Bill Owens, executive producer of the show, told staffers Thursday.
“The channel will allow us to share our broadcast and historic archive with the wider world,” Owens told employees in a memo. Nicole Young, a longtime producer who works with “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley, will oversee the new venture, which will potentially let consumers sample decades of “60 Minutes” reports, whether they encompass a Mike Wallace investigation, an Ed Bradley interview with Bob Dylan, or Lesley Stahl’s various exchanges with former President Donald Trump.
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- 6/2/2022
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Wesley Lowery’s book They Can’t Kill Us All chronicles the formation of the Black Lives Matter movement and is it now being turned into a television series.
AMC is developing a series adaptation of the book, which was first published in 2016, with Don Cheadle among the exec producers.
The series is based on the book, which looks at the movement, from its beginnings in Ferguson, Mo after the killing of Michael Brown, while also offering a historically informed look at the standoff between the police and those they are sworn to protect.
The adaptation comes from Cheadle’s This Radicle Act and Brad Weston’s Makeready. Cheadle and Weston will exec produce with author Lowery.
Lowery won the 2017 Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose from the LA Times Book Prizes for the book, which the New York Times called “electric”.
It features hundreds of interviews during the...
AMC is developing a series adaptation of the book, which was first published in 2016, with Don Cheadle among the exec producers.
The series is based on the book, which looks at the movement, from its beginnings in Ferguson, Mo after the killing of Michael Brown, while also offering a historically informed look at the standoff between the police and those they are sworn to protect.
The adaptation comes from Cheadle’s This Radicle Act and Brad Weston’s Makeready. Cheadle and Weston will exec produce with author Lowery.
Lowery won the 2017 Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose from the LA Times Book Prizes for the book, which the New York Times called “electric”.
It features hundreds of interviews during the...
- 1/13/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
There will be no second season for 60 Minutes+, the streaming version of the CBS News newsmagazine. Paramount+ has canceled the series after one season.
“We are proud of the team at 60 Minutes+ and of the stories they produced, which informed the audience about some of the most important issues of our time,” Paramount+ said in a statement to Deadline. “Their journalism was recognized with several awards, including a Gracie, National Headliner and Nabj Salute to Excellence Award. The excellent work that has been done by the 60+ team will continue to be on Paramount+.”
The program featured longer segments and a new team of correspondents, including Laurie Segall, Enrique Acevedo, Seth Doane and Wesley Lowery. They all reported for 60 in 6, the shortform newsmagazine that was featured on the short-lived subscription service Quibi in 2020.
The network is talking to the staffers on the show about other roles, while material already filmed...
“We are proud of the team at 60 Minutes+ and of the stories they produced, which informed the audience about some of the most important issues of our time,” Paramount+ said in a statement to Deadline. “Their journalism was recognized with several awards, including a Gracie, National Headliner and Nabj Salute to Excellence Award. The excellent work that has been done by the 60+ team will continue to be on Paramount+.”
The program featured longer segments and a new team of correspondents, including Laurie Segall, Enrique Acevedo, Seth Doane and Wesley Lowery. They all reported for 60 in 6, the shortform newsmagazine that was featured on the short-lived subscription service Quibi in 2020.
The network is talking to the staffers on the show about other roles, while material already filmed...
- 1/13/2022
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
The clock has stopped ticking for “60 Minutes Plus,” the streaming spinoff of the venerable CBS News mainstay that was once envisioned as a means of introducing the next generation of viewers to the popular Sunday newsmagazine that has been broadcasting for more than half a century.
Staffers were informed of the decision Thursday morning, according to people familiar with the matter. The company expects to work with employees to find other jobs within ViacomCBS and executives remain committed to making news programming a central part of Paramount Plus, which has been the most recent home of the new show.
“We are proud of the team at 60 Minutes Plus” and of the stories they produced, which informed the audience about some of the most important issues of our time,” Paramount Plus said in a statement. ” Their journalism was recognized with several awards, including a Gracie, National Headliner and Nabj Salute to Excellence Award.
Staffers were informed of the decision Thursday morning, according to people familiar with the matter. The company expects to work with employees to find other jobs within ViacomCBS and executives remain committed to making news programming a central part of Paramount Plus, which has been the most recent home of the new show.
“We are proud of the team at 60 Minutes Plus” and of the stories they produced, which informed the audience about some of the most important issues of our time,” Paramount Plus said in a statement. ” Their journalism was recognized with several awards, including a Gracie, National Headliner and Nabj Salute to Excellence Award.
- 1/13/2022
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
Nowadays Machine Gun Kelly gets to go home with Megan Fox. More than a decade ago, he had a poster of her on his bedroom wall. It's a stunning full-circle moment in the story of the 31-year-old star. While he's making hit songs and dominating headlines with his Fox romance, fans can truly say he's living the—er—his dream. In an interview with his former Cleveland high school classmate Wesley Lowery for GQ, the author noted his teenage friend's early love for Fox, known then as the bombshell of the first two Transformers films. "At least one classmate," Lowery wrote, "recalls him vowing he'd marry her one day." And, like many teens of that...
- 7/15/2021
- E! Online
CBS News has upped Lance Frank to senior vice president of communications, with an expanded portfolio.
Frank, who had been VP of communications since 2019, will add oversight including 60 Minutes+, the race and culture unit and cross-division initiatives. He will continue to oversee communications for CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell and the Washington bureau.
He joined the network in 2011.
Christa Robinson, who heads up communications for the news division, wrote in a memo to staff that Frank “has successfully led press efforts for just about every CBS News platform, in addition to breaking news and special events through several intense news cycles. He established our media relations presence in Washington and oversaw our communications efforts through several extraordinary political seasons.”
The network formed a race and culture unit last year in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd. 60 Minutes+ is the streaming version of the newsmagazine that is shown on the Paramount+ streaming service.
Frank, who had been VP of communications since 2019, will add oversight including 60 Minutes+, the race and culture unit and cross-division initiatives. He will continue to oversee communications for CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell and the Washington bureau.
He joined the network in 2011.
Christa Robinson, who heads up communications for the news division, wrote in a memo to staff that Frank “has successfully led press efforts for just about every CBS News platform, in addition to breaking news and special events through several intense news cycles. He established our media relations presence in Washington and oversaw our communications efforts through several extraordinary political seasons.”
The network formed a race and culture unit last year in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd. 60 Minutes+ is the streaming version of the newsmagazine that is shown on the Paramount+ streaming service.
- 7/14/2021
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Yamiche Alcindor is both thrilled and grateful that her new gig as the ninth-ever moderator of PBS’ “Washington Week” is giving her the opportunity to “shape” and bring her “whole self” to her reporting.
“I’m really lucky that this show in some ways models the freedom that I’ve had in my other jobs to really shape my reporting,” she told TheWrap. “But there’s also the sense that ‘Washington Week’ and [D.C.’s flagship public media station] Weta want me to bring my whole self to that.”
As for what her “whole self” entails, she pointed to her emotional sensibilities and the fact that her eyes still well up during coverage sometimes. She hopes she’s doing a service in representation, too, by being someone others can connect to as “this millennial Black woman with curly hair and a Haitian background.”
“I don’t feel like I’m being forced to fill the shoes of anyone,...
“I’m really lucky that this show in some ways models the freedom that I’ve had in my other jobs to really shape my reporting,” she told TheWrap. “But there’s also the sense that ‘Washington Week’ and [D.C.’s flagship public media station] Weta want me to bring my whole self to that.”
As for what her “whole self” entails, she pointed to her emotional sensibilities and the fact that her eyes still well up during coverage sometimes. She hopes she’s doing a service in representation, too, by being someone others can connect to as “this millennial Black woman with curly hair and a Haitian background.”
“I don’t feel like I’m being forced to fill the shoes of anyone,...
- 5/28/2021
- by Lindsey Ellefson
- The Wrap
Paramount Pictures has hired Mika Pryce as SVP Production for its Motion Picture Group. She starts on April 26 and reports to Motion Picture Group co-presidents Daria Cercek and Michael Ireland.
“Mika has fantastic talent relationships, excellent taste and knows how to build a movie from the ground up,” Cercek and Ireland said Wednesday. “We’re excited to have her bring her entrepreneurial skill set to the studio to help us tell great stories for global audiences. She is the perfect addition to our team.”
Pryce joins Paramount from Don Cheadle’s production company This Radicle Act Productions, where she served as head of development. There she oversaw the development of several television projects including Max, a dark comedy about mental health created by Camilla Blackett and set at HBO Max; an adaptation of A. Lee Martinez’s 2009 fantasy fiction novel Monster; They Can’t Kill Us All, about the formation of Black Lives Matter,...
“Mika has fantastic talent relationships, excellent taste and knows how to build a movie from the ground up,” Cercek and Ireland said Wednesday. “We’re excited to have her bring her entrepreneurial skill set to the studio to help us tell great stories for global audiences. She is the perfect addition to our team.”
Pryce joins Paramount from Don Cheadle’s production company This Radicle Act Productions, where she served as head of development. There she oversaw the development of several television projects including Max, a dark comedy about mental health created by Camilla Blackett and set at HBO Max; an adaptation of A. Lee Martinez’s 2009 fantasy fiction novel Monster; They Can’t Kill Us All, about the formation of Black Lives Matter,...
- 4/21/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
CBS News is launching a series called Eye on Earth: Our Planet in Peril, tied to Earth Day and focusing on climate change and potential solutions.
The series will launch on Monday across the network’s platforms, led by senior national and environmental correspondent Ben Tracy, senior foreign correspondent Mark Phillips, foreign correspondent Debora Patta and meteorologist and CBS News climate specialist Jeff Beradelli. A focus of the reports will be on water, including pollution and rising sea levels, as well as the problems of contamination in certain communities. On the solutions side, Tracy will look at innovations in farming, offshore wind farms and seaweed cultivation, while Phillips will profile an English soccer team that has gone carbon neutral and vegan.
The coverage also will include next week’s Leaders Summit on Climate, with President Joe Biden and members of the administration participating.
Among the other highlights: CBS This Morning...
The series will launch on Monday across the network’s platforms, led by senior national and environmental correspondent Ben Tracy, senior foreign correspondent Mark Phillips, foreign correspondent Debora Patta and meteorologist and CBS News climate specialist Jeff Beradelli. A focus of the reports will be on water, including pollution and rising sea levels, as well as the problems of contamination in certain communities. On the solutions side, Tracy will look at innovations in farming, offshore wind farms and seaweed cultivation, while Phillips will profile an English soccer team that has gone carbon neutral and vegan.
The coverage also will include next week’s Leaders Summit on Climate, with President Joe Biden and members of the administration participating.
Among the other highlights: CBS This Morning...
- 4/16/2021
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
TV streaming wars have erupted in Hollywood and are wreaking havoc on Madison Avenue. They are even making a splash in places like Gainesville, Ga.
Wesley Lowery recently visited this town in the northeastern portion of the state, part of an effort to create a report for “60 Minutes Plus,” the new streaming-news counterpart to the venerable CBS newsmagazine. Lowery, one of a handful of correspondents hired for the Paramount Plus series, focuses on the plight of health care workers amid the coronavirus pandemic. “A lot of them haven’t had much relief,” notes the journalist, who takes a few minutes to discuss his work even though he has just about 48 hours before his story is slated to go out over the digital ether.
TV counterparts such as Lesley Stahl or Bill Whitaker usually get 12 to 13 minutes to tell their stories. Lowery says he may get as many as 20 to 30. “We are at a time when,...
Wesley Lowery recently visited this town in the northeastern portion of the state, part of an effort to create a report for “60 Minutes Plus,” the new streaming-news counterpart to the venerable CBS newsmagazine. Lowery, one of a handful of correspondents hired for the Paramount Plus series, focuses on the plight of health care workers amid the coronavirus pandemic. “A lot of them haven’t had much relief,” notes the journalist, who takes a few minutes to discuss his work even though he has just about 48 hours before his story is slated to go out over the digital ether.
TV counterparts such as Lesley Stahl or Bill Whitaker usually get 12 to 13 minutes to tell their stories. Lowery says he may get as many as 20 to 30. “We are at a time when,...
- 3/31/2021
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
ViacomCBS is preparing to relaunch its streaming service as Paramount+ next month, and the company just unveiled a slew of new projects from brands like Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon, MTV, Showtime and CBS News.
From a new “Yellowstone” series from creator Taylor Sheridan to a new studio division to produce content within the world of “Avatar: The Last Airbender,” here is everything the company just announced, all in one place:
Courtesy of CBS / Paramount+
“60 Minutes+”
CBS News will be among the ViacomCBS brands producing new original content for Paramount+, starting with its flagship newsmagazine series “60 Minutes.” The super-sized “60 Minutes+” episodes will start rolling out next week, led by correspondents Enrique Acevedo, Seth Doane, Wesley Lowery and Laurie Segall.
Series adaptations of Paramount library films
Paramount+ will mine the studio’s library of classic films for new streaming series, with adaptations of “Love Story,” “The Italian Job,” “Fatal Attraction” and “The Parallax View...
From a new “Yellowstone” series from creator Taylor Sheridan to a new studio division to produce content within the world of “Avatar: The Last Airbender,” here is everything the company just announced, all in one place:
Courtesy of CBS / Paramount+
“60 Minutes+”
CBS News will be among the ViacomCBS brands producing new original content for Paramount+, starting with its flagship newsmagazine series “60 Minutes.” The super-sized “60 Minutes+” episodes will start rolling out next week, led by correspondents Enrique Acevedo, Seth Doane, Wesley Lowery and Laurie Segall.
Series adaptations of Paramount library films
Paramount+ will mine the studio’s library of classic films for new streaming series, with adaptations of “Love Story,” “The Italian Job,” “Fatal Attraction” and “The Parallax View...
- 2/25/2021
- by Reid Nakamura and Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
60 Minutes+, a streaming version of the CBS News newsmagazine, was among the array of new offerings announced for ViacomCBS’ Paramount+.
The network said that three new episodes will debut on March 4, the day of the launch of Paramount+.
The program will feature longer segments and a new team of correspondents, including Laurie Segall, Enrique Acevedo, Seth Doane and Wesley Lowery. They all reported for 60 in 6, the shortform newsmagazine that was featured on the short-lived subscription service Quibi last year.
New episodes will be offered each week. The premiere will feature Segall’s interview with Jacob Chansley, the QAnon “shaman,” Acevedo’s profile of J Balvin, and Doane’s segment on the shrinking glaciers in the Alps.
Jonathan Blakely will serve as executive producer of 60 Minutes+. He helped launch 60 on 6 as its senior producer, and he will continue to work with 60 Minutes executive producer Bill Owens, executive editor Tanya Simon...
The network said that three new episodes will debut on March 4, the day of the launch of Paramount+.
The program will feature longer segments and a new team of correspondents, including Laurie Segall, Enrique Acevedo, Seth Doane and Wesley Lowery. They all reported for 60 in 6, the shortform newsmagazine that was featured on the short-lived subscription service Quibi last year.
New episodes will be offered each week. The premiere will feature Segall’s interview with Jacob Chansley, the QAnon “shaman,” Acevedo’s profile of J Balvin, and Doane’s segment on the shrinking glaciers in the Alps.
Jonathan Blakely will serve as executive producer of 60 Minutes+. He helped launch 60 on 6 as its senior producer, and he will continue to work with 60 Minutes executive producer Bill Owens, executive editor Tanya Simon...
- 2/24/2021
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
A streaming spinoff of CBS News’ “60 Minutes” will debut next week on Paramount+, the network announced on Wednesday.
“60 Minutes+” episodes will be led by correspondents Enrique Acevedo, Seth Doane, Wesley Lowery and Laurie Segall — the same four-person team that created dozens of episodes for the “60 in 6” series on the now-shuttered Quibi platform. Jonathan Blakely, who also worked on the Quibi series, will executive produce.
Shows on “60 Minutes+” will be longer than the traditional TV version of “60 Minutes.” The first three episodes, which will be released next Thursday on Paramount+, will feature an interview with Jacob Chansley, the “QAnon shaman” who stormed the U.S. Capitol in January; a profile of the musician J Balvin; and a report on shrinking glaciers. After that, a new “60 Minutes+” episode will release once per week.
“I’m proud to be working with such a group of talented journalists bringing the 60 Minutes tradition to a new platform,...
“60 Minutes+” episodes will be led by correspondents Enrique Acevedo, Seth Doane, Wesley Lowery and Laurie Segall — the same four-person team that created dozens of episodes for the “60 in 6” series on the now-shuttered Quibi platform. Jonathan Blakely, who also worked on the Quibi series, will executive produce.
Shows on “60 Minutes+” will be longer than the traditional TV version of “60 Minutes.” The first three episodes, which will be released next Thursday on Paramount+, will feature an interview with Jacob Chansley, the “QAnon shaman” who stormed the U.S. Capitol in January; a profile of the musician J Balvin; and a report on shrinking glaciers. After that, a new “60 Minutes+” episode will release once per week.
“I’m proud to be working with such a group of talented journalists bringing the 60 Minutes tradition to a new platform,...
- 2/24/2021
- by J. Clara Chan
- The Wrap
Everyone is looking for the next big thing in podcasts, and in recent weeks Audible has sought to stake its claim in the growing space. In doing so, the audio platform has recently minted new partnerships with stars like LeBron James and Common in an attempt to bring an influx of diverse voices to its ranks. The basketball star’s Springhill Company just launched a development deal with Audible, which includes “More Than A Vote: Our Voices. Our Vote,” a political podcast with Tiffany D. Cross and 60 Minutes host Wesley Lowery. Common is bringing his talent to the audio content ...
- 12/7/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Everyone is looking for the next big thing in podcasts, and in recent weeks Audible has sought to stake its claim in the growing space. In doing so, the audio platform has recently minted new partnerships with stars like LeBron James and Common in an attempt to bring an influx of diverse voices to its ranks. The basketball star’s Springhill Company just launched a development deal with Audible, which includes “More Than A Vote: Our Voices. Our Vote,” a political podcast with Tiffany D. Cross and 60 Minutes host Wesley Lowery. Common is bringing his talent to the audio content ...
- 12/7/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
As CBS News teased a 60 Minutes interview with Bob Woodward over his bombshell new book Rage, the star investigative journalist defended a lingering question over the timing of some of its biggest revelations.
According to the book, Trump told Woodward on Feb. 7 that the coronavirus posed a much greater and deadly threat than he was letting on in public. Trump went on to downplay the virus, and it was not until March 13 that the White House declared the outbreak a national emergency.
So why didn’t Woodward sound the alarm back then, about what the president knew and when he knew it?
In an interview with The Washington Post‘s Margaret Sullivan, Woodward said during the month of February, there was not a panic over the virus and no calls for Americans to take social distancing or other precautions. He said that “the biggest problem I had, which is always a problem with Trump,...
According to the book, Trump told Woodward on Feb. 7 that the coronavirus posed a much greater and deadly threat than he was letting on in public. Trump went on to downplay the virus, and it was not until March 13 that the White House declared the outbreak a national emergency.
So why didn’t Woodward sound the alarm back then, about what the president knew and when he knew it?
In an interview with The Washington Post‘s Margaret Sullivan, Woodward said during the month of February, there was not a panic over the virus and no calls for Americans to take social distancing or other precautions. He said that “the biggest problem I had, which is always a problem with Trump,...
- 9/10/2020
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Samantha Bee tackled the lack of diversity in journalism on the latest episode of Full Frontal, where the host was joined by a trio of journalists — including Rolling Stone Senior Politics Writer Jamil Smith — to discuss the issue.
“Unfortunately, like most things, there’s a race problem in journalism, and journalists are taking to Twitter to chronicle their experiences,” Bee said.
For the segment, Bee was joined via video chat by Smith, journalist Patrice Peck and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Wesley Lowery.
“This is a moment, a national moment, when black...
“Unfortunately, like most things, there’s a race problem in journalism, and journalists are taking to Twitter to chronicle their experiences,” Bee said.
For the segment, Bee was joined via video chat by Smith, journalist Patrice Peck and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Wesley Lowery.
“This is a moment, a national moment, when black...
- 8/19/2020
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
You won’t need an hour to watch “60 Minutes” this summer.
The venerable CBS Sunday newsmagazine will soon end its current TV season, but it is about to start a whole new cycle on Quibi, the short-form mobile-video service that could use the link to one of TV’s best-known programs to lure subscribers. In the last few minutes of Sunday’s broadcast on CBS, viewers will see scenes from the first “60 in 6,” the latest extension of the long-running program.
“It’s an opportunity for us to get our journalism in front of people who probably see ’60 Minutes’ when they are giving their mother and father a kiss and going out to see their friends,” says Bill Owens, the executive producer of the show, in an interview. “Let’s reach them where they are,” he adds, to build an interest in the show in all its forms.
Many TV-news...
The venerable CBS Sunday newsmagazine will soon end its current TV season, but it is about to start a whole new cycle on Quibi, the short-form mobile-video service that could use the link to one of TV’s best-known programs to lure subscribers. In the last few minutes of Sunday’s broadcast on CBS, viewers will see scenes from the first “60 in 6,” the latest extension of the long-running program.
“It’s an opportunity for us to get our journalism in front of people who probably see ’60 Minutes’ when they are giving their mother and father a kiss and going out to see their friends,” says Bill Owens, the executive producer of the show, in an interview. “Let’s reach them where they are,” he adds, to build an interest in the show in all its forms.
Many TV-news...
- 6/11/2020
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
Like many who care about racial justice – especially those of us who write about pop culture – one of my inclinations is to recommend movies and television shows as educational tools or emotional salves for a given moment. But while many of the lists I saw from Black folks feature the work of Spike Lee and Ava DuVernay, the 2011 white savior film The Help also started trending on Twitter.
Based on a novel by Kathryn Stockett, The Help lives in a category of film alongside Green Book, Crash, and Driving Miss Daisy. These movies exist to comfort white people like myself about race. But right now, when more white people in this country than ever before are confronting anti-Black racism and police brutality, white people need to fight our inclination to use media as escapism and a numbing agent. Instead we need media that challenges us and to sit in our discomfort,...
Based on a novel by Kathryn Stockett, The Help lives in a category of film alongside Green Book, Crash, and Driving Miss Daisy. These movies exist to comfort white people like myself about race. But right now, when more white people in this country than ever before are confronting anti-Black racism and police brutality, white people need to fight our inclination to use media as escapism and a numbing agent. Instead we need media that challenges us and to sit in our discomfort,...
- 6/9/2020
- by Delia Harrington
- Den of Geek
CNN national correspondent Sara Sidner has covered protests and civil unrest all over the world, and has in the past week been reporting on the aftermath of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis for the network. Reporters being arrested is nothing new; as in past protests, members of the press have had encounters with law enforcement.
“[They] oftentimes, in these kinds of protests, don’t give a damn if you’re the press, even when you identify yourself,” she notes.
But things came to a head when her colleague, CNN reporter Omar Jimenez, as well as producer Bill Kirkos and cameraperson Leonel Mendez, were arrested and detained in the early hours of May 29. It was the first time, Sidner says, she has seen that happen to a reporter live on air.
Watching Jimenez being put into handcuffs on air was, to her, an illustration of the systemic racism that sparked the protests in the first place.
“[They] oftentimes, in these kinds of protests, don’t give a damn if you’re the press, even when you identify yourself,” she notes.
But things came to a head when her colleague, CNN reporter Omar Jimenez, as well as producer Bill Kirkos and cameraperson Leonel Mendez, were arrested and detained in the early hours of May 29. It was the first time, Sidner says, she has seen that happen to a reporter live on air.
Watching Jimenez being put into handcuffs on air was, to her, an illustration of the systemic racism that sparked the protests in the first place.
- 6/3/2020
- by Angelique Jackson, Audrey Cleo Yap and Elaine Low
- Variety Film + TV
Scott Pelley once found himself in the kind of terrible situation that would prompt most people to abandon him immediately. Not Bill Owens.
CBS News veteran Pelley had traveled to Iraq in 2003 with a production team in tow, including a familiar face: longtime producer Bill Owens. Pelley and Owens had covered the White House together in an earlier era. They had journeyed to Iraq and embedded with U.S. Marines under fire. Yet as an explosive detonated overhead, soldiers believed they were under chemical attack. Pelley noticed – too late – that he had left his gas mask behind in the team’s vehicle.
“I turned, and Bill, who had been maybe 50 yards away, immediately saw what the problem was, grabbed my gas mask and sprinted into the fire fight to get it to me,” Pelley recounts. “It turned out the shell that exploded over our heads was not a chemical weapon. But he didn’t know that.
CBS News veteran Pelley had traveled to Iraq in 2003 with a production team in tow, including a familiar face: longtime producer Bill Owens. Pelley and Owens had covered the White House together in an earlier era. They had journeyed to Iraq and embedded with U.S. Marines under fire. Yet as an explosive detonated overhead, soldiers believed they were under chemical attack. Pelley noticed – too late – that he had left his gas mask behind in the team’s vehicle.
“I turned, and Bill, who had been maybe 50 yards away, immediately saw what the problem was, grabbed my gas mask and sprinted into the fire fight to get it to me,” Pelley recounts. “It turned out the shell that exploded over our heads was not a chemical weapon. But he didn’t know that.
- 3/19/2020
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
In today’s TV News Roundup, Netflix released the first trailer for the third season of “Ozark” and the premiere weekend of “Tyler Perry’s Young Dylan” broke ratings records on Nickelodeon.
Casting
Mike Vogel, Adam Demos and Margaret Odette have joined the cast of the upcoming Netflix dramedy series “Sex/Life.” Vogel will play the husband of series protagonist Billie (Sarah Shahi); Demos will play the music mogul heartbreak that Billie hasn’t gotten over; Odette will play Billie’s best friend who accompanies her on the dating scene of Manhattan. Additionally, an entirely female directing team will helm the series, including Patricia Rozema, Jessika Borsiczky, Samira Radsi and Sheree Folkson. “Sex/Life” is executive produced by showrunner and writer Stacy Rukeyser, as well as Jordan Hawley and Borsiczky.
Netflix has announced new series regulars for its upcoming spy thriller “In from the Cold.” Ivanna Sakhno will play a young Russian...
Casting
Mike Vogel, Adam Demos and Margaret Odette have joined the cast of the upcoming Netflix dramedy series “Sex/Life.” Vogel will play the husband of series protagonist Billie (Sarah Shahi); Demos will play the music mogul heartbreak that Billie hasn’t gotten over; Odette will play Billie’s best friend who accompanies her on the dating scene of Manhattan. Additionally, an entirely female directing team will helm the series, including Patricia Rozema, Jessika Borsiczky, Samira Radsi and Sheree Folkson. “Sex/Life” is executive produced by showrunner and writer Stacy Rukeyser, as well as Jordan Hawley and Borsiczky.
Netflix has announced new series regulars for its upcoming spy thriller “In from the Cold.” Ivanna Sakhno will play a young Russian...
- 3/6/2020
- by J. Kim Murphy
- Variety Film + TV
Laurie Segall, a technology journalist and entrepreneur, has been named a correspondent for “60 In 6,” the new program being developed by “60 Minutes” for Quibi, the short-form video hub run by Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman. Segall is the latest journalist to join the new venture, which has also attracted staffers from Univision News and the Washington Post.
“Laurie’s work covering technology, and our connections to it, caught my eye years ago,’ says Bill Owens, executive producer of “60 Minutes,” in an email exchange. “Her sources and understanding of this field are second to none. Laurie loves to break news and we look forward to her covering all kinds of stories, all over the world.”
Each weekly segment of “60 In 6” is expected to last just six minutes. The new venture takes the venerable newsmagazine to a new platform, and, potentially, new audiences who count on their mobile device to gain...
“Laurie’s work covering technology, and our connections to it, caught my eye years ago,’ says Bill Owens, executive producer of “60 Minutes,” in an email exchange. “Her sources and understanding of this field are second to none. Laurie loves to break news and we look forward to her covering all kinds of stories, all over the world.”
Each weekly segment of “60 In 6” is expected to last just six minutes. The new venture takes the venerable newsmagazine to a new platform, and, potentially, new audiences who count on their mobile device to gain...
- 1/30/2020
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
In today’s TV News Roundup, the CW revealed this year’s musical episode of “Riverdale” will feature numbers from “Hedwig & the Angry Inch,” and Amazon announced the premiere date for “Agatha Christie’s The Pale Horse.”
Dates
This Season 4 musical episode of “Riverdale” will air on Apr. 8 at 8:00 pm on the CW, and this year the Riverdale High School students will be rallying against their principal and performing numbers from “Hedwig and the Angry Inch.” “Riverdale” stars Kj Apa as Archie Andrews, Lili Reinhart as Betty Cooper, Camila Mendes as Veronica Lodge, Cole Sprouse as Jughead Jones, Madelaine Petsch as Cheryl Blossom, Marisol Nichols as Hermione Lodge, Mӓdchen Amick as Alice Cooper, Casey Cott as Kevin Keller, Mark Consuelos as Hiram Lodge, Skeet Ulrich as Fp Jones, Charles Melton as Reggie Mantle and Vanessa Morgan as Toni Topaz. You can see who will be play which “Hedwig” character in the poster art below.
Dates
This Season 4 musical episode of “Riverdale” will air on Apr. 8 at 8:00 pm on the CW, and this year the Riverdale High School students will be rallying against their principal and performing numbers from “Hedwig and the Angry Inch.” “Riverdale” stars Kj Apa as Archie Andrews, Lili Reinhart as Betty Cooper, Camila Mendes as Veronica Lodge, Cole Sprouse as Jughead Jones, Madelaine Petsch as Cheryl Blossom, Marisol Nichols as Hermione Lodge, Mӓdchen Amick as Alice Cooper, Casey Cott as Kevin Keller, Mark Consuelos as Hiram Lodge, Skeet Ulrich as Fp Jones, Charles Melton as Reggie Mantle and Vanessa Morgan as Toni Topaz. You can see who will be play which “Hedwig” character in the poster art below.
- 1/28/2020
- by J. Kim Murphy
- Variety Film + TV
Wesley Lowery is joining 60 in 6, the new 60 Minutes-Quibi venture that will launch in the spring on the new mobile streaming service.
Lowery is a national correspondent for The Washington Post and has appeared regularly on CNN as political contributor. At the Post, he led the Fatal Force project, with examined police shootings across the country and established an original database. The investigation won the Pulitzer Prize and the George Polk Award for national reporting.
He’s also the author of They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement. Lowery also has been a general assignment reporter for The Boston Globe and a reporting fellow at the Los Angeles Times.
Lowery said in a statement, “To be a part of this innovative new platform adds another level of fulfillment for me as a journalist, and opens the door for me to master a new,...
Lowery is a national correspondent for The Washington Post and has appeared regularly on CNN as political contributor. At the Post, he led the Fatal Force project, with examined police shootings across the country and established an original database. The investigation won the Pulitzer Prize and the George Polk Award for national reporting.
He’s also the author of They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement. Lowery also has been a general assignment reporter for The Boston Globe and a reporting fellow at the Los Angeles Times.
Lowery said in a statement, “To be a part of this innovative new platform adds another level of fulfillment for me as a journalist, and opens the door for me to master a new,...
- 1/28/2020
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
The Washington Post Super Bowl ad lauding the work of a free press received sharply mixed reactions on Sunday, with many — including at least three of the Post’s own reporters — saying the spot’s cost of up to $10 million was exorbitant and could have been better spent improving the newsroom.
“I’m really proud to work at a newspaper that does this vital work,” reporter Sarah Kaplan said in a tweet. “But maybe next $10 million could go toward better health benefits, parental leave, equal pay, and more jobs for reporters?”
Wesley Lowery, a national correspondent for the paper, took a similar view about the ad, in which narrator Tom Hanks extolled the free press amid images that included slain Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.
“I love the Post. Have worked here 5 years this month. An amazing team full of amazing people. Can’t lie and pretend it’s not exciting...
“I’m really proud to work at a newspaper that does this vital work,” reporter Sarah Kaplan said in a tweet. “But maybe next $10 million could go toward better health benefits, parental leave, equal pay, and more jobs for reporters?”
Wesley Lowery, a national correspondent for the paper, took a similar view about the ad, in which narrator Tom Hanks extolled the free press amid images that included slain Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.
“I love the Post. Have worked here 5 years this month. An amazing team full of amazing people. Can’t lie and pretend it’s not exciting...
- 2/4/2019
- by Jon Levine
- The Wrap
Latoya Morgan is developing a TV series at AMC based on Hugh Howey’s “Wool,” Variety has learned exclusively.
Originally released as a standalone short story, “Wool” tells a post-apocalyptic story that follows a sheriff, his wife, and their larger society forced underground due to toxic air on the surface of the planet.
After the first story became an online sensation,Howey then published a series of stories continuing the journey in subsequent books in what became the “Silo” series: “Wool,” “Shift,” and “Dust.” Howey has sold 400,000 hard copies in the U.S. alone and between 1.5 and 2 million ebooks.
20th Century Fox had previously acquired the movie rights to “Wool,” with Ridley Scott and Steve Zaillian attached as producers.
Morgan will executive produce the project in addition to writing the pilot. Howey is also attached as a producer. Morgan, who is currently under an overall deal with AMC, is no stranger to the dystopian genre.
Originally released as a standalone short story, “Wool” tells a post-apocalyptic story that follows a sheriff, his wife, and their larger society forced underground due to toxic air on the surface of the planet.
After the first story became an online sensation,Howey then published a series of stories continuing the journey in subsequent books in what became the “Silo” series: “Wool,” “Shift,” and “Dust.” Howey has sold 400,000 hard copies in the U.S. alone and between 1.5 and 2 million ebooks.
20th Century Fox had previously acquired the movie rights to “Wool,” with Ridley Scott and Steve Zaillian attached as producers.
Morgan will executive produce the project in addition to writing the pilot. Howey is also attached as a producer. Morgan, who is currently under an overall deal with AMC, is no stranger to the dystopian genre.
- 7/30/2018
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Into the Badlands co-executive producer Latoya Morgan in staying in the AMC fold, signing a new, multi-year overall deal with the network. Under the pact, Morgan will develop new series. In addition, she will oversee an inclusion initiative for AMC, in which she will supervise and mentor diverse emerging writers for development.
Morgan serves as co-executive producer on AMC’s Into the Badlands, which is midway through its third season. In partnership with Brad Weston’s Makeready, Morgan is developing a drama for AMC based on Wesley Lowery’s best-selling nonfiction book They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice, published by Little, Brown & Company in 2016. Additionally, AMC acquired the TV rights to Karen Thompson Walker’s best-selling novel The Age of Miracles to develop as a series, executive produced by Morgan and Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps, along with Sinead Daly,...
Morgan serves as co-executive producer on AMC’s Into the Badlands, which is midway through its third season. In partnership with Brad Weston’s Makeready, Morgan is developing a drama for AMC based on Wesley Lowery’s best-selling nonfiction book They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice, published by Little, Brown & Company in 2016. Additionally, AMC acquired the TV rights to Karen Thompson Walker’s best-selling novel The Age of Miracles to develop as a series, executive produced by Morgan and Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps, along with Sinead Daly,...
- 6/21/2018
- by Denise Petski and Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
In a very competitive situation, Brad Weston’s Makeready has landed the rights to Gregg Hurwitz’s bestselling Orphan X book series with plans to adapt the thrillers into a TV series along with Justin Lin’s Perfect Storm Entertainment.
Hurwitz, who penned 2017’s The Book of Henry directed by Colin Trevorrow, is set to co-adapt the books, often drawing comparisons to the Jason Bourne and Jack Reacher franchises. He will also executive produce with Scott Nemes, Makeready’s Head of Television. Lin and Danielle Woodrow will executive produce for Perfect Storm.
The five-book series from Minotaur Books kicked off in 2016 with Orphan X, followed by The Nowhere Man and Hellbent, with Out of the Dark: The Return of Orphan X hitting shelves in January 2019.
Prior to Orphan X‘s release, the rights to the books were acquired by Warner Bros. in 2015 to develop them as a possible feature franchise,...
Hurwitz, who penned 2017’s The Book of Henry directed by Colin Trevorrow, is set to co-adapt the books, often drawing comparisons to the Jason Bourne and Jack Reacher franchises. He will also executive produce with Scott Nemes, Makeready’s Head of Television. Lin and Danielle Woodrow will executive produce for Perfect Storm.
The five-book series from Minotaur Books kicked off in 2016 with Orphan X, followed by The Nowhere Man and Hellbent, with Out of the Dark: The Return of Orphan X hitting shelves in January 2019.
Prior to Orphan X‘s release, the rights to the books were acquired by Warner Bros. in 2015 to develop them as a possible feature franchise,...
- 6/7/2018
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Wesley Lowery’s bestselling nonfiction book They Can't Kill Us: Ferguson, Baltimore, And A New Era In America’S Racial Justice will apparently be made into a prestige drama over at AMC. Lowery was a reporter at The Washington Post and led the paper’s “Fatal Force” project - a database that tracked 990 police shootings in 2015 - that won the Pulitzer Prize for... Read More...
- 9/12/2017
- by Damion Damaske
- JoBlo.com
As reported by Deadline, AMC has started developing a drama series based on Wesley Lowery’s They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, And A New Era In America’s Racial Justice, which details how decades of institutional racism led to high-profile police brutality incidents and the rise of the Black Lives Matter…
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- 9/12/2017
- by Sam Barsanti
- avclub.com
AMC is developing a new series that will be based on the Black Lives Matter movement. According to Deadline, the series will be based on a novel by Wesley Lowrey called, They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement.
The show will be called They Can't Kill Us All and it will reflect on "current events and race relations through the stories and voices of fictional characters." The show is being developed by Brad Weston’s Makeready and writer Latoya Morgan (Into the Badlands, Turn: Washington’s Spies).
Here's a full description from the book that the series will be based on:
Conducting hundreds of interviews during the course of over one year reporting on the ground, Washington Post writer Wesley Lowery traveled from Ferguson, Missouri, to Cleveland, Ohio; Charleston, South Carolina; and Baltimore, Maryland; and then back to Ferguson to...
The show will be called They Can't Kill Us All and it will reflect on "current events and race relations through the stories and voices of fictional characters." The show is being developed by Brad Weston’s Makeready and writer Latoya Morgan (Into the Badlands, Turn: Washington’s Spies).
Here's a full description from the book that the series will be based on:
Conducting hundreds of interviews during the course of over one year reporting on the ground, Washington Post writer Wesley Lowery traveled from Ferguson, Missouri, to Cleveland, Ohio; Charleston, South Carolina; and Baltimore, Maryland; and then back to Ferguson to...
- 9/12/2017
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
AMC is set to develop a new drama series based on Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery's bestselling nonfiction book about the Black Lives Matter movement, They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice, Deadline.com reports.
The book, published in 2016 by Little, Brown & Company, looks at the effects of decades of racially biased policing on numerous institutions, including education, the work force and the criminal justice system, and is based on Lowery's reported accounts. The book starts with Mike Brown's killing...
The book, published in 2016 by Little, Brown & Company, looks at the effects of decades of racially biased policing on numerous institutions, including education, the work force and the criminal justice system, and is based on Lowery's reported accounts. The book starts with Mike Brown's killing...
- 9/12/2017
- Rollingstone.com
The Washington Post’s Wesley Lowery wrote about his experience covering the racial justice movement in the 2016 tome on which the show will be based.
- 9/12/2017
- by Halle Kiefer
- Vulture
AMC is turning the Black Lives Matter movement into a TV drama.
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The cable network is developing a scripted series based on the bestselling nonfiction book They Can’t Kill Us All, according to our sister site Deadline. The book, by Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery, looks at how decades of racial bias against African-Americans tie into the recent accusations of police abuse and rioting in Ferguson and Baltimore and led to the formation of the Black Lives Matter protest movement.
Into the Badlands writer Latoya Morgan...
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The cable network is developing a scripted series based on the bestselling nonfiction book They Can’t Kill Us All, according to our sister site Deadline. The book, by Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery, looks at how decades of racial bias against African-Americans tie into the recent accusations of police abuse and rioting in Ferguson and Baltimore and led to the formation of the Black Lives Matter protest movement.
Into the Badlands writer Latoya Morgan...
- 9/12/2017
- TVLine.com
AMC has put in development a drama based on Wesley Lowery’s bestselling nonfiction book They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice. It comes from Brad Weston’s Makeready and writer Latoya Morgan (Into the Badlands, Turn: Washington’s Spies). Published in 2016 by Little, Brown & Company, the book was acquired by Makeready last fall. It examines how decades of racially biased policing in segregated neighborhoods with failing…...
- 9/12/2017
- Deadline TV
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