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Inspiration can come from the most unanticipated places, like walking the dog in the park or buying a soft pretzel at the mall. For Morgan Cooper, it came in 2019 while driving down Route 71 in Kansas City, Missouri. Heading home after shooting a low-budget beauty commercial, Cooper concocted a plan to turn '90s…

Will Smith got double-ribbing at NBCUniversal’s upfront presentation Monday morning at Radio City Music Hall by both of NBC’s late-night hosts. Following Jimmy Fallon’s subtle reference at the start of the event to “nailing” the timing of Peacock’s Fresh Prince of Bel-Air drama reboot, whose run coincided with Will…

EXCLUSIVE: Bel-Air breakout star Jabari Banks has signed with WME. Banks made his acting debut in the Peacock series, a dramatic retelling of the 1990's sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, in the lead role of Will Smith. Series co-showrunner Rasheed Newson sang Banks’ praises at Deadline's Contenders Television event…

Because of Peacock's modest, U.S.-only reach so far (It has more than 28 million monthly active accounts and 13 million paid subscribers), its shows have never made the Nielsen Top 10 weekly streaming rankings. At its newfront today, the NBCUniversal streamer is announcing that new drama Bel-Air is the platform's…

Bel-Air is Peacock's one-hour drama series that re-imagines the beloved ’90s sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air through a modern, dramatic take on Will's complicated journey from the streets of West Philadelphia to the gated mansions of Bel-Air. Joining moderator Matt Grobar at Deadline’s Contenders Television at the…

SPOILER ALERT! Do not read unless you’ve watched the season finale of Bel-Air on Peacock. It took a few seasons before fans met Will Smith’s dad Lou in the Fresh Prince of Bel Air (played by Ben Vareen). But Peacock’s Bel-Air — like it’s already demonstrated in its first 10 episodes — is nothing like the ’90s sitcom…

Fresh Prince alums Daphne Maxwell Reid and Vernee Watson-Johnson are set to return as guest stars in Bel-Air, the Peacock reboot of the 90’s hit sitcom The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air. Reid (Frank’s Place, Snoops) and Watson-Johnson (General Hospital, Bob Hearts Abishola), who played Aunt Viv and Viola “Vy” Smith in the…

When it comes to a weekend with the Super Bowl on, the choice of what to watch on the small screen should be pretty straightforward. Yet, despite Sunday's face-off between hometown Los Angeles Rams and the Cincinnati Bengals at SoFi Stadium, there's a lot more on than just the NFL's big game – as you can see in the…

EXCLUSIVE: Writer and director Morgan Cooper, creator of Bel-Air, Peacock’s dramatic reimagining of the '90s Will Smith sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, has signed with M88 for management. Premiering on Super Bowl Sunday, Bel-Air was born from a short film of the same name that Cooper released in March 2019…

The classic theme song from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air gets a fresh remix 30 years later with a little help from Will Smith and a new generation of fans in the Super Bowl ad above). The spot is a promo for Peacock’s Bel-Air premiering on the same night as the big game, Feb. 13. Vincent Peone, the director of the…

Will Smith scored his third and fourth Oscar nominations this morning as the star and producer of King Richard, doubling his Oscar nominations haul and becoming only the ninth producer-actor to nab both nominations for the same film. “It’s six nominations total,” Smith tells Deadline, “and this is rarefied air for me…

EXCLUSIVE: Peacock is rounding out cast for Bel-Air, its drama series reboot of Will Smith's The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Karrueche Tran (Claws, The Bay), Duane Martin (All of Us, Real Husbands of Hollywood), Joe Holt (The Walking Dead: World Beyond, The Punisher), April Parker Jones (If Loving You is Wrong…