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For the past 15 years, the CBS Showcase has been giving shine to up and coming talent in Hollywood. As the title of the yearly event entails, it gives the chance for performers to showcase their acting chops in a comedic space. It’s a fast-paced comedy variety show echoing Saturday Night Live with a hearty helping of…

While an all-male list of director contenders and a mostly white actors roster caught the eye of the diversity-conscious on Oscar nominations day, another blip signaled deep change within the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. That is, four out of five documentary feature nominees—The Cave, The Edge Of Democr…

Ruby Rose’s Batwoman just told Gotham City the truth about her sexual orientation. Sunday night’s episode of the CW superhero series Batwoman planted a rainbow flag for the representation cause as Batman’s cousin, Kat Kane, told the world that she’s a lesbian crimefighter. The midseason premiere episode (called "How…

At today's TCA panel on Lifetime's TV movie The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel, based on the true-life story of the real singing siblings, one question was gotten out of the way early:  Was estranged sister Denise Clark-Bradford consulted in the making of the movie? "Yes, she was absolutely given the…

Hip-hop icon Chuck D has slammed the Recording Academy for placing its CEO/president Deborah Dugan on administrative leave shortly before the Grammy Awards. With his group, Public Enemy, scheduled to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Recording Academy this April, his words took on added resonance. He…

EXCLUSIVE: HBO, TNT and TBS are heading to the Sundance Film Festival with “Our Stories to Tell”, a 3-day pop-up experience that will celebrate their commitment to multicultural storytelling, creators and audiences. This event will take place January 24-26 on Main Street in Park City, Utah. Similar to the event held…

UPDATED with trailer. AMC’s forthcoming Dispatches From Elsewhere is an interesting series. The 10-episode anthology created by and starring Jason Segel is a self-reflective, transcendental series about a group of ordinary people who stumble onto a puzzle hiding just behind the veil of everyday life. The series also…

Category is: gag-worthy TCA realness! During Thursday morning’s TLC session, the winter press tour was glammed up as RuPaul’s Drag Race alums Bebe Zahara Benet, Alexis Michelle, Jujubee and Thorgy Thor slayed the stage with fierce looks to talk about the forthcoming Dragnificent!. In the “mother of all transformation…

HBO premiered The Outsider on January 12 and it serves another helping of Stephen King fare translated to TV.  In it, Cynthia Erivo plays private investigator Holly Gibney who uses her uncanny abilities to help police detective Ralph Anderson (Ben Mendelsohn, who was unable to attend TCA as he was sick with pneumonia…

EXCLUSIVE: Cine Sony and the National Association of Latino Independent Producers are teaming again to launch the second annual Voces Nuevas, their short film contest for aspiring filmmakers throughout the U.S. Eligible filmmakers ages 18 and up who reside in the U.S. can submit short films ranging from from two to 20…

NBC has unveiled comedians Franqi French and Rene Vaca as the winners of its 16th annual StandUp NBC competition. This marks the first time in the program's 16-year history that two winners have been chosen in a single year. StandUp NBC is an annual search for comedians of diverse backgrounds and French and Vaca have…

Bright and early Monday morning, John Cho and Issa Rae unveiled the nominees for the 92nd Academy Awards and when it came to Best Director, we all waited with bated breath to see if the Academy would follow this unfortunate trend of women being shut out of the category. One by one, Rae announced the nominees: “The Iris…