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…

"This conversation is so necessary because there are 56 million Americans with a disability. That is 20% of the population. But if you judged our existence by what you see on TV, you would think we made up less than 1%," said actress Marlee Matlin. "Movies aren’t much better — there is something wrong with the entire…

Orlando Jones (Madiba, Sleepy Hollow) has been cast in American Gods, Starz's upcoming straight-to-series adaptation of Neil Gaiman's acclaimed contemporary fantasy novel, which is filming in Toronto. Jones will play Mr. Nancy, the old African trickster god more commonly known as Anansi, and one of Mr. Wednesday's…

EXCLUSIVE: The actor is going from the supernatural on the small screen to the controversial world of cults on the big screen. Orlando Jones and his Drive-By Entertainment partner Noam Dromi have optioned the rights to cult deprogrammer Ted Patrick’s story. Jones and Dromi intend to write the screenplay as a starring…

Orlando Jones and Katia Winter (Dexter) have been cast in Sleepy Hollow, Fox’s drama pilot co-written by Alex Kurtzman and Bob Orci and directed by Len Wiseman. A modern–day supernatural thriller based on The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow, the project, from 20th TV and K/O Paper Products, follows Ichabod Crane as he…

EXCLUSIVE: Designing women alumna Delta Burke is set as a lead of another comedy about sisters running a business together, ABC/Sony TV's multi-camera pilot Counter Culture. Written and executive produced by writer-actress Stephnie Weir and executive produced by Claudia Lonow, Counter Culture revolves around three…

EXCLUSIVE: Talent manager/producer Lisa Blum has joined New Wave Entertainment. Blum, who comes from The Collective, is bringing all of her clients including Marlon Wayans, Cheri Oteri, Orlando Jones,  Jennifer Hollander (Universal's Merman), Jim Jefferies (HBO's I Swear To God), Gary Owen (TBS' House of Payne)…

Megan Dodds has landed the female lead opposite Ethan Hawke in Fox’s drama pilot Exit Strategy, a high-octane procedural about a team of 5 experts associated with the CIA led by Eric Shaw (Hawke) who are deployed when a CIA operation goes bad to extract the ones involved before it’s too late. Dodds will play Dr…