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Hulu has put legal drama Reasonable Doubt on a script-to-series development track with the opening of a writers room. The project, originally set up at ABC during the 2019-20 development season, hails from writer Raamla Mohamed (Scandal), Kerry Washington's Simpson Street Productions, Larry Wilmore's Wilmore Films…

You know it’s a good week on Real Time when the two stories that have consumed the week’s news — the accusations against Andrew Cuomo and the accusations against the Royal Family — take a backseat to weightier topics such as crony capitalism and the hegemony of China. “We're not losing to China,” said Maher on HBO…

Will Smith is set to host Amend: The Fight for America, a Netflix documentary series that asks the evolving question, “What does it mean to be an American?” Executive produced by Smith and Larry Wilmore, the six-parter launches February 17. Check out a teaser above. Created by Robe Imbriano and Tom Yellin, Amend: The F…

Larry Wilmore is bringing his eponymous late-night Peacock show to an end tonight – sticking with his promise to finish it after 11 episodes. The Bernie Mac Show creator and Insecure and grown-ish co-creator will air the final episode of Wilmore on the NBCU streaming service this evening, Friday December 4. Guests…

Larry Wilmore is heading back to late-night with a new show on Peacock. The streamer has ordered the Untitled Larry Wilmore Show (w/t) and will pair it with The Amber Ruffin Show to launch a weekly topical late-night block. It marks the Black-ish exec producer's return to late-night television following his stint as a…

Defunding the police, Black Lives Matter, coronavirus, and the Donald Trump of it all were all points for discussion tonight on HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher. The host held a virtual panel with former Comedy Central Nightly Show host Larry Wilmore and Fifth Column podcast host Matt Welch. Maher brought to the…

NBC has handed a put pilot commitment to a single-camera comedy starring British writer-comedian and TV presenter London Hughes. The project hails from Hughes; Insecure co-creator Larry Wilmore; and Universal Television, where Wilmore is under an overall deal. Penned by Hughes and Wilmore, the untitled comedy, clearly…

EXCLUSIVE: ABC has put in development Reasonable Doubt, a legal drama from Kerry Washington’s Simpson Street Productions, Larry Wilmore’s Wilmore Films and ABC Studios, where Mohamed and Simpson Street are under deals. Written by Raamla Mohamed, who was writer-producer on Washington’s ABC/ABC drama series Scandal, Reas…

Larry Wilmore is moving to Universal Television with a rich four-year overall deal. Under the pact, The Bernie Mac Show creator will develop new projects through his Wilmore Films production company. In addition to creating The Bernie Mac Show, which ran on Fox for five seasons, Wilmore co-created Fox/the WB’s The PJs…

There have been "tense moments" during negotiations for a new WGA/ATA franchise agreement, and some of those moments have been among the agencies themselves, according to writer-producer Travon Free, a member of the guild's negotiating committee. "There's been some tense moments," he said on Larry Wilmore's latest…

Becoming a household name as the privileged, popular and highly intelligent Zoey Johnson in ABC’s critically-acclaimed comedy Black-ish—a role she booked only a few short years ago—Yara Shahidi was challenged recently to step to center stage for Freeform spin-off Grown-ish, a series that sees the Johnson’s eldest…

UPDATE, with video Could there possibly be anything left unsaid or unreported about Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury? Yes, says the author, and it’s “incendiary.” On that, Wolff and his critics are likely to agree. Wolff, a guest on tonight’s Real Time with Bill Maher, told the HBO host that one revelation remains…