Netflix has unveiled its first Nigerian original – a drama from Vaya director Akin Omotoso. The streamer has ordered an as-yet-untitled six-part series that will be directed by Akin, Daniel Oriahi and CJ Obasi. Starring Kate Henshaw and Ade Laoye, the series is set in contemporary Nigeria and shot in Lagos. It tells…

A major study on diversity and inclusion in the British television has concluded that black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) writers and directors are still badly underrepresented in the industry, but broadcasters are doing a much better job on-screen. The Creative Diversity Network, a membership network of major…

Former President Barack Obama has sent out a cease and desist letter telling a pro-President Donald Trump group to stop airing an attack ad that uses Obama’s voice to misrepresent his position on Joe Biden. The ad, running on South Carolina TV stations, is aimed at voters considering Obama’s former Vice President as…

Actor Hank Azaria has expanded on his reasons for no longer voicing the character of Kwik-E-Mart proprietor Apu Nahasapeemapetilon on the animated series The Simpsons. In a long New York Times interview with culture writer Dave Itzkoff, Azaria said that voicing the character “just didn’t feel right” after criticisms…

Nothing is funnier than a global pandemic that has already caused thousands of deaths and threatens to crash the world economy. At least according to the clown princes of late night political comedy. Stephen Colbert and Trevor Noah both took a few shots tonight at the coronavirus panic, trying to mine the government…

Dove Cameron, from Disney Channel's Liv and Maddie and the Descendants movies, will co-star opposite RJ Mitte (Breaking Bad) in Issac, a psychological thriller which is currently shooting in Los Angeles. Josh Webber is at the helm, directing from a script he co-wrote with Christopher Neil. The Webber Studios pic…

Branden Cook (Industry), Lincoln Younes (Grand Hotel) and Ruby Cruz (Castle Rock) have been cast as leads in The Lost Boys, the CW’s retooled pilot from Heather Mitchell and Rob Thomas based on the 1987 Warner Bros. movie. In The Lost Boys, written by Mitchell and Thomas and directed by Marcos Siega, when a mother and…

UPDATED with Trump comment: President Donald Trump defended his campaign’s libel suit against The New York Times, telling reporters, “They did a bad thing. And there will be more coming.” Trump also pushed back on the Times’ defense — that the article in question was opinion, and that the lawsuit was an effort to…

UPDATE : Nightclub and restaurant entrepreneur Harry Morton died of natural causes, “probably cardiac arrhythmia,” according to the Los Angeles Medical Examiner, who issued a report today. Morton died at age 38 in November. He was the former owner of the Viper Room nightclub and founder of the Pink Taco restaurant…

Gentefied writer, trans Latina activist and storyteller Camila María Concepción died on Friday by suicide. She was 28. Concepción was from the Inland Empire area and studied English literature at Yale University. She was a writer’s assistant on Marvin Lemus and Linda Yvette Chávez’s Gentefied, which recently made its…