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Hulu is staying Woke. The streamer today handed an eight-episode Season 2 renewal to the hybrid live-action/animated original comedy series inspired by the life of award-winning artist Keith Knight. Woke takes an absurdist look at identity and culture through the lens of Keef (Lamorne Morris), a Black cartoonist who’s…

Some New Girl cast members came together to remind fans to fulfill their civic duty. In an Instagram Reels video, Zoe Lister-Jones’ fictional Los Angeles council member and “the people’s warrior” Fawn Moscato assembles Zooey Deschanel, Lamorne Morris and Jake Johnson to tell voters to cast their votes. “America, you…

Lamorne Morris is a smooth-talking telemarketer in the newly released trailer for Death of a Telemarketer, an indie comedy which just had its premiere at the 2020 American Black Film Festival virtual edition, where it was voted fan favorite. Oscar nominees Jacky Earle Haley and Haley Joel Osment also co-star alongside…

Woke, the Hulu comedy based on the life and work of artist Keith Knight and starring Lamorne Morris, will premiere on Sept. 9, with all eight episodes available then. Morris (New Girl) stars as Keef, an African-American cartoonist on the verge of mainstream success. When an unexpected – and very timely – incident…

New Girl alum Lamorne Morris, Alisha Wainwright (Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments) and Oscar-nominated actors Haley Joel Osment and Jackie Earle Haley has signed on to star in Death of a Telemarketer, and indie comedy-drama from Datari Turner Productions. The film was written by recent USC Cinematic Arts graduate…

Hulu has given a series order to Woke, its live-action comedy pilot with animated sequences starring  New Girl alum Lamorne Morris, sources said. The project hails from Sony Pictures TV, Will Gluck's studio-based Olive Bridge Entertainment and Eric Christian Olsen's Cloud Nine Prods. Hulu had no comment. Courtesy of…

It’s the dawn of civilization and humans don’t know how to act, what to eat or what a wheel or fire is. In the new trailer for the Facebook Watch animated series, we see characters voiced by Zac Efron and Anna Kendrick try to navigate this new thing called human civilization and try to make it to the end of the day…

New Girl alum Lamorne Morris has been tapped as the lead of Woke, a live-action comedy with animated sequences. that quietly had been ordered to pilot at Hulu. The project hails from Sony Pictures TV, Will Gluck’s studio-based Olive Bridge Entertainment and Eric Christian Olsen’s Cloud Nine Prods. Woke is Inspired by…

EXCLUSIVE: Lamorne Morris, who recently finished 145 episodes on Fox’s New Girl as Winston Bishop, is boarding Sony’s sci-fi action superhero film Bloodshot starring Vin Diesel. Morris will play the role of Wilfred Wigans who is described as a young scientist who becomes Bloodshot’s unlikely ally. The actor joins Eiza…

EXCLUSIVE:  Lamorne Morris is boarding Universal/Working Title’s untitled Danny Boyle-directed-Richard Curtis-scripted comedy. The actor will play the role of Stephen. Morris, who has played the part of Winston Bishop for 145 episodes on Fox’s New Girl, joins Lily James, Himesh Patel, Kate McKinnon, Ed Sheeran and Ana…

New Girl could have wrapped at the end of Season 6, but producers successfully got the show through its first on-the-bubble situation by lobbying for a final season, shot forward three years “to throw in new storylines and move things forward,” creator Elizabeth Meriwether told TV critics at TCA. The final eight…

After 13 years, Anthony Anderson is returning to Calvin’s, having signed on to appear in Barbershop 3. The Black-ish star will reprise his role as JD, the troubled ATM thief whose crimes nearly caused the closure of the titular shop in the original film. JD was arrested at the end of Barbershop, and subsequently…