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BET has revealed the premiere date for Tyler Perry’s The Oval season 2 and the television debut of Madea’s Farewell Play. The Oval, starring Brad Benedict, Ed Quinn and Kron Moore, will return to BET on Tuesday, February 16, the network announced on Friday. The one-hour drama returns and lifts the veil of what can…

EXCLUSIVE: Producer Brian Volk-Weiss' the Nacelle Company (Down to Earth with Zac Efron; The Toys That Made Us; Kevin Hart's Guide To Black History; Behind The Attraction; Grant) is diving into books with an eponymous new imprint in partnership with Ingram Publishing. Nacelle will focus on pop history, nostalgia and…

Less than two weeks after unveiling its ambitious Discovery+ direct-to-consumer play to investors, Discovery Inc said Monday that it has appointed BET founder Robert L. Johnson to its board of directors. The move is effective January 1. The company said today that S. Decker Anstrom, who has served on the board since…

EXCLUSIVE: Michelle Mitchenor (Lethal Weapon) is set as a new series regular opposite Ryan Michelle Bathe, Jill Scott and Michelle Buteau in the upcoming second season of BET+’s The First Wives Club. Additionally, Gary Dourdan (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation), Jordan Carlos (The Drew Barrymore Show), Essence Atkins (Am…

EXCLUSIVE: Ruthless star Melissa L. Williams has signed with Buchwald for representation. Williams drew praise for her role as Ruth Truesdale on Tyler Perry’s The Oval on BET, which was renewed for a second season earlier this year. Her performance led her to the starring role in spinoff Tyler Perry’s Ruthless on…

EXCLUSIVE: Midway through its second season, BET+ has picked up a third season of Carl Weber’s The Family Business, based on Weber’s bestselling crime drama book series. Production is scheduled to begin next month in Los Angeles. You can watch a trailer below. The Family Business follows the Duncans, an upstanding…

In a continuation of cross-promotion among ViacomCBS networks, BET is set to air select encore episodes of popular CBS comedies The Neighborhood and Bob ♥ Abishola and courtroom drama All Rise ahead of the series’ Nov. 16 new season premieres. The episodes will air on BET and BET Her, Friday November 13, beginning at…

Bert Belasco, who starred on BET’s 2011-14 sitcom Let’s Stay Together and appeared in Showtime’s I’m Dying Up Here and Fox’s Pitch, has died at the age of 38, Deadline has confirmed with his agency. His body was discovered Sunday in a Richmond, Virginia hotel room. Belasco was in Virginia filming a movie role, and was…

BET and Paramount Players have set the premiere date for Quincy Ledbetter’s Alieu the Dreamer starring Denzel Whitaker (Black Panther, The Great Debaters, Training Day) and Haley Webb (The Final Destination, Blonde). The movie script was announced as the winner of BET's nationwide competition “Project CRE8” and will…

Tyler Perry’s Sistas launched its second season — the first season of a primetime scripted series filmed during the pandemic to hit the air — on October 14 with two back-to-back episodes. The first drew 1.5 million viewers and 0.85 adults 18-49 rating in Live +3 for the simulcast across BET and BET Her; 1.4 million…

BET+ has picked up scripted comedy Ms. Pat from the Empire duo of co-creator/executive Lee Daniels and executive producer Brian Grazer with a 10-episode series order. The project had previously received a pilot order at Hulu. Based on Patricia "Ms. Pat" Williams' stand-up comedy and memoir, the multi-camera sitcom…

EXCLUSIVE: So what does a TV show look like that was shot during a pandemic? BET and BET Her’s Season 2 of Tyler Perry’s Sistas will provide some clues, as the dramedy unveiled its official trailer Friday ahead of its two-hour season premiere October 14. Perry was one of the first Hollywood producers to come up with a…