Netflix has renewed Tyler Perry's Beauty in Black for a second season following the release of Season 1 Part 2 last week. Season 2 will also be released in two parts. The series follows two women leading very different lives. While Kimmie (Taylor Polidore Williams) is struggling to make a living…

EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of tonight’s Season 8 finale for Tyler Perry’s Sistas, BET announced it has renewed the series for a ninth season. It will premiere on the network on July 16. Sistas was the No. 1 scripted series on cable among Black viewers 18-49 in 2024, according to BET and Nielsen. The…

A+E Networks has a new name and a slew of new shows across its networks. A&E and Lifetime have ordered a number of new projects including a new movie starring Precious' Gabourey Sidibe and renewed shows including Storage Wars. It comes as the parent company has rebranded as A+E Global Media…

UPDATED: Netflix has released the first trailer for Tyler Perry’s Beauty in Black Part 2. “They have my sister,” begins the trailer, picking up where Part 1 ended in a cliffhanger with Kimmie (Taylor Polidore Williams) running her car into Body (Tamera "Tee" Kissen), a stripper and low-level…

Tyler Perry has set his 2025 TV and film slate at Netflix and it includes two new projects: the film Madea’s Destination Wedding and the TV series, She the People. This is Perry’s second Madea project with the streaming following A Madea Homecoming released in 2022. Madea’s Destination Wedding…

Tyler Perry is calling out insurance company cancellations amid the ongoing Los Angeles wildfires, saying the policies are “appalling” and indicative of “pure greed.” As a number of blazes ravaged communities in sprawling Southern California — the largest of them being the Palisades Fire and…

Milauna Jackson commands the role of Lt. Abbie Noel Campbell in Netflix's historical drama The Six Triple Eight. Written and directed by Tyler Perry, the film dives into the true story of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the first military division comprised of Black women and the first…

Tyler Perry is one of the most successful producers in the TV and movie business, but his commercial acumen has not always been matched by the same level of critical acclaim.  Perry’s latest Netflix title, The Six Triple Eight, has received good notices (read Deadline’s review here) but, the Mabe…

Writer-director Tyler Perry takes a step up as a versatile filmmaker in bringing Netflix’s inspiring World War II-set true story The Six Triple Eight to the screen to tell the largely untold story of the Women’s Army Corps Unit of Color and their heroic…

Kerry Washington is a formidable commander as she leads the titular, historic World War II battalion in Netflix’s new trailer (above) for the forthcoming The Six Triple Eight, written, directed and produced by Tyler Perry. The drama, available in select theaters starting Dec. 6 and due on the…

A sterling lineup of stars and filmmakers have been set to be honored at the Critics Choice Association’s seventh annual Celebration of Black Cinema & Television, which is set for December 9 at the Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles. Among…

Bruce Springsteen, performing for the first time for Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign, said that Donald Trump “is running to be an American tyrant.” “He does not understand this country, its history, or what it means to be deeply American,” Springsteen told the crowd at James R. Hallford…