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Stand Up To Cancer will return for its seventh biennial televised fundraising special with Anthony Anderson, Sofia Vergara, Ken Jeong & Tran Ho serving as co-hosts. Set to air Saturday, August 21 at 8 p.m. ET, this year’s Stand Up To Cancer event will broadcast from Los Angeles and air simultaneously on more than 60…

The end is in sight for ABC’s Black-ish. The network has renewed the praised comedy series for an eighth and final season. Creator executive producer Kenya Barris announced the news Friday morning on social media (see below). He said, “This show has changed my life in so many ways and I am so proud of the…

EXCLUSIVE: Anthony Anderson, star of long-running ABC comedy Black-ish, is getting into the podcast game. He will star in the lead role of scripted audio series Sonic Leap from MGM-backed podcast studio Audio Up. The series is a sci-fi, synth-pop musical with a comedy twist that tells the almost-true story of new…

The 52nd annual NAACP Image Awards will present its main ceremony live Saturday at 8 p.m. ET/7 CT on BET, with the show to simulcast on fellow ViacomCBS outlets BET Her, Comedy Central, Logo, MTV, MTV2, Paramount, Pop, Smithsonian, TV Land, VH1, BET Pluto, CMT and for the first time CBS. The two-hour show will be…

On Day 1 of ABC's Virtu-Fall Presentations, Black-ish stars Anthony Anderson, Tracee Ellis Ross and Laurence Fishburne joined creator Kenya Barris and showrunner Courtney Lilly to tease an upcoming, hour-long special, which will air ahead of the show's Season 7 premiere. At the beginning of the panel, the cast and EPs…

“We have a record number of Black Emmy nominees this year, which is great,” black-ish star Anthony Anderson began as he presented at the 2020 Emmys. “These Emmys would have been the NBA All-Star weekend and Wakanda all wrapped into one.” “This was supposed to be the Blackest Emmys ever. Y’all wouldn’t be able to…

In 2020 there was an uptick in Emmy nominees from historically marginalized communities compared with 2019 — mainly with Black actors and performers. In fact, Emmy nominations for Black performers set a record this year and, in turn, there was a record number of trophies given to Black performers. And when it comes to…

The politics at this year’s Emmy Awards reflected a year of chaos and consternation: a polarizing election, the police brutality protests and, most recently, the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The most frequent message from winners, though, was a simple plea to just get out and vote. “For any of…

2ND UPDATE, 11:15 AM: Ty Burrell, Ken Jeong, Mindy Kaling, Tatiana Maslany and Bob Newhart are the latest big names to join the talent lineup for the virtual 72 annual Primetime Emmy Awards airing Sunday on ABC. The network also promises that more “surprises are in store” for TV’s Biggest Night. UPDATED, September 16:…

UPDATED with character poster, 11:32 AM: ABC has released character posters for its upcoming  partially animated episode of Black-ish. Here’s how the gang looks when tooned up: PREVIOUS Sept 1 EXCLUSIVE: Black-ish is taking it to the ballot box in a partially animated and election themed special to air early next…

From police brutality to the intricacies of Black women’s hair, for six seasons now ABC’s Black-ish has boldly tackled issues and conversations that pertain to the Black experience in America. The stories are told through the eyes of the Johnson Family, led by Andre and Bow, who are played by Emmy nominees Anthony Ande…

Over two years after ABC shelved a highly political episode of Black-ish over creative differences," series creator Kenya Barris says the originally February 22, 2018 scheduled 'Please Baby Please' is finally seeing the light of day – on Hulu. “In November 2017, we made an episode of black-ish entitled ‘Please, Baby…