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Just more than three years after his death, Nelson Mandela may still be too dominant, too regal and too multi-faceted a figure of history for any one book, film or television miniseries to grasp. But BET's Lawrence Fishburne-starring Madiba certainly makes a powerful and often successful effort out of the…

BET’s six-hour miniseries Madiba that premieres next month tells the story of Nelson Mandela, played by Laurence Fishburne, and other leaders of the African National Congress who fought alongside him in the multi-racial, multi-national movement that led to the end of South African apartheid and made Mandela a global…

BET has set February air dates for Madiba, its six-hour miniseries that chronicles the life of Nelson Mandela. The three-part saga, starring Laurence Fishburne (black-ish) as Mandela, will air February 1,8 and 15, 2017, as part of BET’s Black History Month programming. The network also has released a first-look clip…

ITV has ordered a non-broadcast pilot for Talpa format The Wishing Tree. Now in its second season in the Netherlands, the primetime family entertainment show sees young children make a wish for someone they believe deserving, and then reveals the special wishes being fulfilled for each unsuspecting recipient. Shiver…

Laurence Fishburne is set to play the lead role of Nelson Mandela in Madiba, a miniseries for BET Networks executive produced by the late South African hero’s grandson Kweku Mandela. The six-hour mini, directed by Kevin Hooks (Prison Break), is based on two Mandela books, Conversations With Myself and Nelson Mandela by…