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EXCLUSIVE: Tamra Simmons, an executive producer behind the Emmy-nominated docuseries Surviving R. Kelly, has signed a development deal with Blue And Studios to identify and develop a slate of unscripted projects. The partnership builds on Blue Ant’s expanding U.S. production business and comes is the latest in the…

R. Kelly’s manager Donnell Russell has been charged in New York with threatening to shoot up a Manhattan screening room that was showing the Lifetime docuseries Surviving R. Kelly in 2018. The charges were announced today by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and the FBI. Russell was one…

Lifetime has released the first trailer for Surviving Jeffrey Epstein, the network’s follow-up to its Surviving R. Kelly docuseries, which was nominated for an Emmy and spawned a sequel. The two-night, four-hour Surviving Jeffrey Epstein will air its episodes August 9-10, the latter day exactly one year after Epstein…

Dream Hampton, the executive producer of Lifetime’s record-breaking documentary Surviving R. Kelly, has been attached to direct and executive produce a Cineflix Productions mini-series on the Tulsa race massacre. Working titled Black Wall Street, the series will examine Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum’s controversial attempts…

Few documentaries have triggered a real-world impact on the order of Surviving R. Kelly. Before the six-part series aired on Lifetime, the titular R&B singer-songwriter had managed to avoid significant harm to his recording career, despite allegations going back decades that he had sexually abused numerous teenage…

R. Kelly, facing charges of sexual abuse and racketeering in New York and Illinois, was denied bail this morning in a Brooklyn court after pleading not guilty to five criminal charges. The R&B artist was arrested in July and accused of crimes involving women and girls over a span of 20 years. He faces 18 total counts…

Grammy-winning singer R. Kelly on Thursday pleaded not guilty in Chicago to 11 new felony counts of sexual assault, four of which are aggravated criminal sexual assault that carry a maximum sentence of up to 30 years in prison. The charges were originally filed May 30 after Kelly previously pleaded not guilty to 10…

When Lifetime aired its six-part docuseries Surviving R. Kelly, the network not only unpacked years’ worth of sexual abuse allegations levied against R&B singer R. Kelly, it unveiled the multitude of women who had similar experiences with the embattled crooner. It effectively changed the conversation surrounding…

UPDATED, 1:39 PM: Federal prosecutors in Chicago have filed a new case against singer R. Kelly, this time charging him with 11 felony counts of sexual assault that carry a maximum of 30 years in prison. The new charges include four counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault, three counts of aggravated criminal…

EXCLUSIVE: Lifetime’s explosive docuseries Surviving R. Kelly, which chronicled sexual abuse allegations against singer Robert R. Kelly, changed the Kelly conversation. Now the network has set a two-hour follow-up special. Hosted by award-winning journalist Soledad O’Brien, Surviving R. Kelly: The Impact highlights…

Kitti Jones says she was sexually assaulted by R. Kelly, and it was her voice and that of other alleged victims that were amplified in the Lifetime documentary Surviving R. Kelly. Jones was joined by the documentary's executive producer Brie Miranda Bryant on Sunday for a panel conversation at Deadline's The Contender…

Saturday Night Live's Pete Davidson has been no stranger to controversy since joining the Lorne Michaels-run show in 2014, but tonight he's sure to have kicked up some Hellfire in the pews. "If you support the Catholic church, isn't that the same thing as being an R. Kelly fan?" said the comic to groans from the…