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EXCLUSIVE: Smithsonian Channel has landed itself a top gun. Jay Ellis, who plays Lieutenant Reuben Fitch in the Tom Cruise hit Top Gun: Maverick, has signed on to host the second season of the Paramount Global-owned network's unscripted series How Did They Build That? The ten-part series explores some of the most…

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details of tonight's Insecure series finale on HBO. "Thank you for everything," Yvonne Orji's Molly proclaims to Issa Rae's Issa in the series finale of Insecure on Sunday. After more than a spell of discord and distance between the treasured friends last year and throughout this…

EXCLUSIVE: Insecure star Jay Ellis is behind a new podcast series that will aim to give voice to formerly incarcerated young authors. Written Off will feature the likes of John Legend, Issa Rae and Randall Park reading the works of these young authors. In each episode, former New York Times reporter Walter…

"We've always had this path to growth and I think, I know, specifically that Season 4 was heavier on the side of growth," says Insecure creator and star Issa Rae on the just completed latest cycle of the HBO dramedy. " “We wanted to showcase what was a priority for each of our characters this season, and watch that…

HBO has set an April 12 release date for season four of Issa Rae’s critically acclaimed comedy Insecure and served a new trailer at TCA Wednesday morning. Creator and star Rae was joined by executive producer/writer/director Prentice Penny and fellow cast members Yvonne Orji and Jay Ellis to tease details about the…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has acquired an action/comedy feature pitch by screenwriter Michael Diliberti that he will write as a vehicle for Glen Powell (Set It Up) and Jay Ellis (Insecure), who will be seen together in the upcoming Paramount sequel Top Gun: Maverick. Diliberti, whose credits include 30 Minutes Or Less, will…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures is in talks to add a diverse coterie of talent to Top Gun: Maverick. Thomasin McKenzie (Jojo Rabbit), Charles Parnell (A Million Little Pieces), Jay Ellis (Insecure), Bashir Salahuddin (GLOW), Danny Ramirez (Assassination Nation), and Monica Barbaro (The Good Cop) are being set to join…

EXCLUSIVE: Tyler Labine, Jay Ellis, and Nik Dodani have enlisted in Sony’s The Maze, the psychological thriller about six strangers who find themselves in circumstances beyond their control and must use their wits to survive. The trio joins previously announced cast Deborah Ann Woll, Logan Miller and Taylor Russell in…

Urban Movie Channel, a subscription-based streaming service created by Robert L. Johnson, is teaming with Insecure star Jay Ellis to premiere his latest project Hard Medicine, a web comedy series produced by Ellis and producing partner Paula Bryant-Ellis. Created by Melissa Eno Effa, the eight-episode project centers…

The Game‘s Jay Ellis and Yvonne Orji (Basketball Wife) have been cast opposite Issa Rae in HBO's comedy pilot Insecure. Co-written by Rae and Larry Wilmore and directed by music video director Melina Matsoukas, Insecure focuses on the awkward experiences and racy tribulations of a modern day African-American woman…

Newcomer Jay Ellis has landed a new series regular role on the BET comedy series The Game. He will play Blue, a running back and the No.1 draft pick from an Ivy League school who is highly educated and often the smartest person in the room. But even though he is bright, he is still a young man who has a lot to learn…