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"When I got to Starz, there was very much this feeling like 'go slower, be in The Sopranos model, be in the Six Feet Under model'" says Power creator Courtney A Kemp on the early days of the premium cabler drama "I was like faster, it has to be faster. It has to have more impact, higher stakes," adds the former The Goo…

Power creator Courtney A. Kemp wanted her series to showcase diversity in all forms, but first she had to settle some things with her network. Kemp, joining Deadline’s Dominic Patten at today’s The Contenders event to discuss her series, explained. "When I got to Starz,” says Kemp, “there was a feeling of, ‘Go slower…

“I think I would love for it not to be a thing when there are a bunch of women showrunners somewhere,” Power creator Courtney Kemp Agboh told an appreciative crowd at Tuesday night’s creative keynote panel launching the New York Television Festival. “It…does…not…have…to…be…pointed out all the time,” she added, pausing…

The dream week of Courtney Kemp Agboh, creator, executive producer and showrunner of Starz drama series Power, continues. Following the news on Tuesday that the Saturday Season 2 debut of the crime drama has set a new season premiere ratings record for Starz with 1.43 million Live + same day viewers and the Wednesday…

At today’s panel for Starz’s Power, the show’s executive producer and co-star Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson took a relaxed tone toward the whole brouhaha over the last month, in which he accused Fox’s Lee Daniels’ music industry show Empire of ripping off Power’s promo campaign. Jackson originally expressed his accusation…