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Octavia Spencer teased Season 3 of Apple TV+’s Truth Be Told is going to be a “long, hard ride” during the show’s panel at Deadline’s Contenders TV event Sunday. “I don’t want to give too much away but Gabrielle Union is joining us this season and we have Merle Dandridge returning,” she said. “There are some other…

Thanksgiving seems the perfect day for the debut of the bittersweet trailer for the sixth and final season of NBC’s hit drama This Is Us. Like the 15-second teaser released yesterday, today’s footage is set to Cyndi Lauper’s “Time After Time” sung by Kate (Chrissy Metz) while Toby (Chris Sullivan) looks on. The…

The quest to create the perfect sandwich takes on existential tones in Clyde’s, the tasty if occasionally and slightly undercooked new dramedy from two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage. Though it lacks the heft of the playwright’s great Sweat, Clyde’s makes for an intriguing companion piece. Starring a…

Producers of Clyde’s, a play by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage starring Emmy Award winner Uzo Aduba, will offer livestreamed simulcasts of performances during the show’s final two weeks in January. The unusual plan involves a simulcast captured by five to seven cameras and edited live as the performance…

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy winner Ron Cephas Jones (This Is Us) and British actor Vinnie Jones (The Big Ugly) are set for key recurring roles opposite Christopher Meloni on Season 2 of NBC’s Law & Order: Organized Crime. Created by Dick Wolf, in Law & Order: Organized Crime, Meloni, reprising his role as Elliot Stabler, returns…

Multiple Emmy Award-winners Uzo Aduba (In Treatment, Orange is the New Black) and Ron Cephas Jones (This Is Us) have been cast in Second Stage Theater’s upcoming Broadway production of Lynn Nottage's new play Clyde’s, along with Reza Salazar (Sweat) and Kara Young (Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven). Second Stage…

This Is Us co-star Ron Cephas Jones and Hamilton’s Jasmine Cephas Jones have been set to reveal the Primetime Emmy Awards nominations July 13. The father and daughter, who both won Emmys in 2020 in a first, will co-host the virtual event alongside Television Academy chairman and CEO Frank Scherma. The nominations…

On Saturday night Ron Cephas Jones took home a second Emmy for his guest turn in NBC mega-hit This is Us, and it’s been a family affair, since Jones’ daughter Jasmine Cephas Jones also won an Emmy Thursday night, for her work on Quibi's #FreeRayshawn, making them the first ever father-daughter duo in Emmy history to…

Having recently wrapped its fourth season, NBC's This is Us continues to engage Emmy voters with its nuanced vision of family life in contemporary America, bagging an impressive five nominations for this year's awards. Created by Dan Fogelman, the decades-spanning series follows several generations of the Pearson…

Timothy Simons (Veep) and Ron Cephas Jones (This Is Us) are set as series regulars opposite Charlie Plummer and Kristine Froseth in Looking for Alaska, Hulu's eight-episode limited series based on John Green's novel. The series, which began production this week, hails from Paramount Television and Josh Schwartz and…

Comedy’s “it” girl, Tiffany Haddish, winning Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for hosting Saturday Night Live, set the tone for what became a historic night at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Saturday. All four guest acting categories went to Black actors, Haddish, Ron Cephas Jones (This Is Us), Samira Wiley (The Hand…

NBC's hit This Is Us repeated as winner in the Guest Actor in a Drama category as Ron Cephas Jones took the honors for the Dan Fogelman-created family drama at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards. He succeeded fellow This Is Us recurring cast member Gerald McRaney (Dr. K), who won the Guest Drama Actor category last year…