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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…

The Bernie Mac Show creator Larry Wilmore is returning to the family comedy arena with a twist. Wilmore has partnered with comedian Bassem Youssef, known as Jon Stewart of Egypt, for a comedy about a Middle Eastern American family of superheroes, which has been set up at ABC. The untitled project (aka Super Challenged…

How To Get Away With Murder star Viola Davis has teamed with Insecure co-creator Larry Wilmore for Black Don’t Crack, a multi-camera comedy, which has sold to ABC. Written and executive produced by Insecure co-executive producer Regina Hicks, Black Don’t Crack is named after the popular urban phrase articulating the…

Larry Wilmore is launching a podcast on The Ringer Podcast Network, debuting Thursday, May 11. Larry Wilmore: Black on Air’s first guest is Norman Lear. Future episodes will feature Bernie Sanders and Neil deGrasse Tyson. Wilmore most recently co-created Issa Rae's HBO series Insecure. He also helped to launch ABC’s Bl…

UPDATED, 3:55 PM: Journalist Jeremy Scahill, a frequent guest of Real Time with Bill Maher, has canceled his appearance set for this Friday in protest of the show’s booking of Milo Yiannopoulos, the controversial Breitbart News editor who Scahill says will use the HBO platform to “legitimize his hateful agenda.” Real T…