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Amazon Prime Video kicked off the second day of Deadline’s Contenders TV event with a panel for Harlem, featuring Tracy Oliver, Meagan Good, Jerrie Johnson, Shoniqua Shandai, and Grace Byers. “I was kind of stunned that there wasn’t a show centered on black female friendship,” says Oliver. “When I was living in New…

Camille, Tye, Quinn and Angie will reunite for another go-round. Tracy Oliver’s comedy Harlem, has been renewed for a second season on Prime Video. The series hails from Amazon Studios, Amy Poehler’s Paper Kite Productions and Universal TV, where Poehler is under a deal. Created, written, and executive produced by…

Joy Ganes is joining Tracy Oliver’s shingle, Tracy Yvonne Productions, after serving as Vice President of Business and Legal Affairs at BBC Studios.  She produced the 2019 Sundance Selection and 2020 Spirit Award-nominated feature Prematureas well as the 2020 SXSW Selection feature I'll Meet You There. Prior to that…

Tracy Oliver, the co-writer of Girls Trip and creator of The First Wives Club, has signed an overall deal with Apple. The streamer has landed the multi-year deal in a competitive situation that Deadline hears is in the significant eight-figure range. The deal includes television series and feature films and Oliver…

Andrea Martin (Great News), Robert Ri’chard (Empire), Juani Feliz (Blue Bloods), Kate Rockwell (Mean Girls: The Musical) and Sullivan Jones (The Surrogate) are set for recurring roles on Amazon's Harlem, the comedy series from Tracy Oliver (Girls Trip), Amy Poehler's Paper Kite Productions and Universal TV. They’ll…

EXCLUSIVE: Whoopi Goldberg and Jasmine Guy are set for recurring roles in Amazon’s Harlem, the comedy series from Tracy Oliver (Girls Trip), Amy Poehler's Paper Kite Productions and Universal TV. Created, written and executive produced by Oliver, Harlem, formerly the Untitled Tracy Oliver Project, is a single-camera…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures has closed a deal to acquire rights to Tracy Yvonne Productions' reunion comedy Homecoming. Pic will be written by Tracy Oliver, Kevin A. Garnett & Dewayne Perkins. Oliver and Joy Ganes are producing. Homecoming is based on an original pitch, the project born out of a virtual roundtable at…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios is teaming with Topic Studios and PKM Productions to develop the series Savannah from Tracy Oliver (Girls Trip, BET’s First Wives Club) and Joey Falco (The CW’s Charmed). Adapted from New York Times best-selling author Sarah Pinborough's book Dead to Her, Savannah is a thriller that follows…

Out of hundreds of submissions, BET and Tracy Yvonne Productions has selected Thaddeus McCants as the winner of Project CRE8 which gives emerging TV writers the opportunity to develop an original comedy for the small screen. The contest culminated on September 17 where the five Project CRE8 finalists pitched their…

EXCLUSIVE: Tyler Lepley (The Haves and the Have Nots) is set as a series regular in Amazon's half-hour comedy from Girls Trip writer Tracy Oliver. Girls Trip director Malcolm D. Lee is set to direct the first two episodes of the ten-part series, which comes from Universal Television, and Amy Poehler's Paper Kite…

EXCLUSIVE: MRC Film and The Story Company are developing The Blackening, a feature film adaptation of a Comedy Central digital short that lampooned horror film tropes with its tale of seven African-American friends trapped in a cabin with a homicidal maniac. Writers Tracy Oliver (Girl Trip, First Wives Club) and…

Star's Meagan Good, Empire's Grace Byers, Mother's Milk's Jerrie Johnson and I Am The Night's Shoniqua Shandai are to star in Amazon's half-hour comedy from Girls Trip writer Tracy Oliver. Girls Trip director Malcolm D. Lee is set to direct the first two episodes of the ten-part series, which comes from Universal…