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EXCLUSIVE: Bashir Salahuddin and Diallo Riddle, creators of Sherman's Showcase and South Side, have closed an overall deal with Warner Bros TV. The pair have signed a multi-year deal with the studio and have ambitions to create, develop and produce TV projects in a wide range of genres from animation to superhero…

South Side is set in and around the working-class neighborhood of Englewood in Chicago. Co-creators, exec producers and stars Bashir Salahuddin and Diallo Riddle, both Late Night with Jimmy Fallon alumni, wanted to make a show that represented one of their hometowns. The plot follows two friends who just graduated…

Day 2 of ATX TV… from the Couch!" featured a conversation with the cast and executive producers of the forthcoming Sherman's Showcase Black History Month Spectacular special. It is set to air on June 19, which is also known in the African American community, especially in the South, as Juneteenth, a day that…

The first-look trailer from IFC’s new variety sketch series Sherman’s Showcase has been released. If you don’t watch it, you’re racist. At least, according to the trailer. The network's new comedy, a take-off combining elements of Soul Train, Solid Gold and Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-in, was created by and stars Diallo Rid…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures is in talks to add a diverse coterie of talent to Top Gun: Maverick. Thomasin McKenzie (Jojo Rabbit), Charles Parnell (A Million Little Pieces), Jay Ellis (Insecure), Bashir Salahuddin (GLOW), Danny Ramirez (Assassination Nation), and Monica Barbaro (The Good Cop) are being set to join…

IFC has picked up to series Sherman’s Showcase, a scripted musical variety sketch comedy show created by former Late Night With Jimmy Fallon duo Bashir Salahuddin and Diallo Riddle, and executive produced by John Legend’s Get Lifted Film Co. RAdicalMedia is producing the eight-episode series for premiere in 2019. Sherm…

Bashir Salahuddin is set as the male lead opposite Regina Hall in Crushed, a single-camera comedy pilot at Hulu from Peeples writer-director Tina Gordon Chism, Lionsgate TV and Homegrown Pictures. The project, written by Chism, centers on an African-American family who stumbles into a successful wine business in Napa…

HBO has opted not to proceed with Brothers In Atlanta, its comedy series created by and starring Diallo Riddle and Bashir Salahuddin, directed by Tim Story and produced by Lorne Michaels. The network had been trying to get the project off the ground for several years. It originally ordered a Riddle and Salahuddin comed…

HBO has picked up to series comedy pilot Brothers In Atlanta, created by and starring Diallo Riddle and Bashir Salahuddin, directed by Tim Story and produced by Lorne Michaels. Written by former Late Night With Jimmy Fallon writers/performers Riddle and Salahuddin, Brothers In Atlanta is about struggling entertainers…