Bigger is not moving forward at BET+ as the streaming service has opted not to renew the comedy series after two seasons. The series hails from executive producer Will Packer and his Will Packer Media.
Creator, executive producer and showrunner Felischa Marye confirmed the news on Twitter on Monday.
“We’re sad to…
“Comedy 100% changes things," says Kenya Barris, the creator and star of Netflix's #blackAF. He is discussing whether the art of laughter can bring about a meaningful societal shift in light of the May killing of George Floyd and the subsequent protests against police brutality.
Barris, who also created ABC family…
BET+ is getting more Bigger. The streamer has handed a Season 2 renewal for the comedy series from executive producer Will Packer and his Will Packer Media. Watch the cast react to the pickup news above.
"I'm so proud of this show,” Packer said. “And I can't wait for new audiences to follow the shenanigans of this…
EXCLUSIVE: Byron Allen’s Freestyle Digital Media has announced that George Gallo’s fitness pioneer pic Biggerabout the Weider Brothers will hit all digital platforms and DVD on Jan. 15.
Joe & Ben Weider were the architects of muscle. Against all odds, they launched a fitness empire that included the Mr. Olympia…
EXCLUSIVE: Freestyle Releasing has acquired U.S. theatrical distribution rights to George Gallo’s Biggerwhich tells the tale of how brothers Joe and Ben Weider launched a fitness empire and along the way discovered Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Bigger will have its U.S. premiere on September 13 in Las Vegas to coincide with…
EXCLUSIVE: George Gallo has signed on to direct the thriller Covet as his next feature film after he completes The Poison Rose. The latter pic stars John Travolta and Morgan Freeman and is gearing up to start shooting this month in Georgia.
The filmmaker, noted for his screenwriting credits on Bad Boys 1 & 2 and Midnig…
EXCLUSIVE: George Gallo’s movie Biggerabout Joe and Ben Weider, the founders of the Mr. Olympia bodybuilding contest, has tapped Mr. Universe 2014 Calum Von Moger to play Arnold Schwarzenegger onscreen. The brothers, who co-founded the International Federation of Bodybuidling, discovered Schwarzenegger and encouraged…
EXCLUSIVE: Victoria Justice and Colton Haynes have boarded George Gallo’s Biggerabout fitness forefathers the Weider Brothers.
Actress-singer Justice who has made her mark in in Fox’s Rocky Horror Picture Show, Nickelodeon’s Victorious and Blumhouse/MTV’s Eye Candy, will portray Kathy, Joe Weider's (Tyler Hoechlin)…
EXCLUSIVE: Julianne Hough is set to portray female fitness pioneer Betty Weider in George Gallo’s upcoming feature Bigger.
A pin-up model who became a leading role model for women in diet and fitness, Betty Weider was the wife of Joe Weider, and together they co founded Shape magazine, which remains the most…
EXCLUSIVE: Dunkirk‘sAneurin Barnard and The Strain‘s Kevin Durand are boarding George Gallo’s bodybuilding-guru pic Bigger.
The pic follows the rags-to-riches tale of the grandfathers of the fitness movement, the Weider brothers. Barnard takes on the role of Ben Weider, brother to the iconic Joe Weider (Tyler…
EXCLUSIVE:Bad Boys and Midnight Run scribe George Gallo is set to direct his ninth feature Biggerabout bodybuilding pioneer brothers Joe and Ben Weider, who against all odds, battled poverty and anti-Semitism to create the fitness industry as we know it. Tyler Hoechlin from Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants…