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Blindspotting makes its long-awaited return next month, and Starz released the first trailer for Season 2 on Wednesday. The second installment of Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs‘ comedy series, which is a follow-up to the pair’s 2018 film, picks up nine months after Ashley (Jasmine Cephas Jones) and…

Starz has set the Season 2 premiere of Blindspotting for April 14 and released first-look images (below). The two-episode premiere will air linearly on Starz in the U.S. and Canada at 9 p.m. ET/PT immediately followed by episode two at 9:30 pm ET/PT. All subsequent episodes will air Fridays at 9…

EXCLUSIVE: Jaylen Barron, star of the Starz series Blindspotting, has signed with Innovative Artists and Gilbertson Entertainment for representation. Barron stars as Trish in Starz’s TV adaptation of Blindspotting, based on the 2018 feature film from Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs, which has been renewed for a second…

EXCLUSIVE: Multi-hyphenate writer, producer, director, actor, composer and poet Rafael Casal has signed with CAA for representation. Casal, along with Daveed Diggs, co-wrote, produced and starred in the 2018 movie Blindspotting. The two co-created and executive produce Starz's Blindspotting series spinoff, which…

LeVar Burton (Star Trek: The Next Generation), Katlynn Simone Smith (Empire) Tamera Tomakili (Winning Time) and Tim Chantarangsu (Laid in America) are set for recurring roles on the second season of Starz’s Blindspotting. Additionally, rappers E-40, P-Lo and Too $hort will guest star as themselves in the TV spin-off…

Blindspotting co-creators Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs initially thought that a series spinoff of their 2018 film wouldn’t work when Lionsgate first brought up the idea. “We said, ‘No it wouldn’t,’ and we thought that was the end of it,” Diggs said. Contenders TV — Deadline’s Complete Coverage Nearly four years after…

Starz is doubling down on Blindspotting. The pay network has ordered a second season of the TV spin-off sequel after the first season premiered in June. The series centers on Ashley, played by Jasmine Cephas Jones, who was nipping at the heels of a middle class life in Oakland until Miles, her partner of 12 years and…

Blindspotting creators Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal joined writers Priscila García-Jacquier, Alanna Brown, Nijla Mumin and actor Benjamin Earl Turner on Saturday to talk about the unique challenges adapting a film for television. The show is a spinoff of the 2018 film of the same name written and produced by Casal…

Lionsgate Television is the latest TV studio to keep its Los Angeles-based series dark amid an unprecedented surge in coronavirus infections and Covid-19 deaths in LA County. Production on the studio’s new series Blindspotting for Starz, based on the 2018 movie, has currently been pushed for two weeks, while filming…

Mad About You star Helen Hunt has been added to the cast of Starz series Blindspotting. Hunt, who also recently starred in BBC drama World on Fire and features I See You and The Night Clerk, will play Rainey, mother to Rafael Casal's Miles in the adaptation of Casal and Daveed Diggs feature film. "It is such an honor…

Musician Benjamin Earl Turner is among the cast set for Starz’s TV adaptation of Blindspotting, the 2018 feature film from Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs. Turner is joined by Shameless actors Atticus Woodward and Jaylen Barron and Good Trouble's Candace Nicholas-Lippman in the eight-part series. Casal also will reprise…

Starz has ordered its television spin-off of Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs' feature Blindspotting to series. Jasmine Cephas Jones, who starred in the Lionsgate film, will reprise her role and will also serve as a producer. The film, which was released in 2018, is being spun off as a half-hour dramedy with Casal…