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EXCLUSIVE: Charles D. King’s Macro Television Studios has teamed with Nigerian-American filmmaker, producer and activist Nneka Onuorah on Truth Be Told, her limited docuseries about the Black church. Macro will finance, produce and serve as the studio on the four-part docuseries, which is directed and executive…

“Poppy, I need you to help me. I want to know who murdered my husband,” says Kate Hudson’s Micah to Octavia Spencer’s Poppy in Season 2 of Apple original drama series Truth Be Told. Apple TV+ has unveiled a teaser trailer for the second season of the NAACP Image Award-winning series, starring and executive produced by…

EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed NAACP Image Award winner Nichelle Tramble Spellman for representation in all areas. Tramble Spellman created and serves as showrunner and executive producer for Apple TV+’s Truth Be Told. Last year Tramble Spellman received the NAACP Image Award for outstanding writing in a drama series prize…

EXCLUSIVE: Truth be told, Thursday proved a tense day on the set of Truth Be Told. A shoot at South L.A.'s historic Leimert Plaza Park for the second season of the AppleTV+ crime drama was suddenly cut short today when local protestors vehemently objected to the crew and cast's presence. Referred to as "community…

EXCLUSIVE: Apple TV+ has rounded out the ensemble cast for season 2 of drama series Truth Be Told. Merle Dandridge (The Flight Attendant, Greenleaf), Jason O'Mara (The Man in the High Castle, The Good Wife), Alona Tal (The Spy, Seal Team), David Lyons (Seven Seconds, Revolution), Christopher Backus (Jett, Big Little Li…

Kate Hudson has been tapped to star alongside Octavia Spencer in Season 2 of Apple drama series Truth Be Told. Created by Nichelle Tramble Spellman and produced by Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine, Chernin Entertainment and Endeavor Content, Truth Be Told is a quasi-anthology series in the vein of USA drama The Sinne…

Octavia Spencer starts out our conversation for this week’s episode of my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side by joking about how some of the parts she has played in the past few years seem to have something in common. Spencer says in The Help she was a maid, then in Hidden Figures she worked at NASA, and then in Th…

Apple continues to hand out second-season pickups to its crop of original scripted series. The latest to get a Season 2 renewal is drama Truth Be Told, starring and executive produced by Octavia Spencer. The series is created by Nichelle Tramble Spellman and is produced by Hello Sunshine, Chernin Entertainment and…

Christmas is still weeks away, but there are a few presents under the small screen tree that you really should open this week. Yes, there's the return of Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel for its lush third season tomorrow, the CW's December 8 premiering supersized annual Crisis on Infinite Earths team-up and Fox's…

“I have to get to the truth of what happened that night,” says Octavia Spencer’s Poppy Parnell in a voiceover at the beginning of the first-look trailer for Apple TV+’s limited series Truth Be Told. “I am for truth no matter who tells it, I’m for justice no matter who it’s for, or against,” Spencer continues. That is…

Amid the pomp and A-list names helping Apple unveil its AppleTV+ subscription streaming service Monday, we did learn a bit more about some of the many original series rolling out beginning with the service’s launch in the fall. As part of the sizzle reel that played in the Steve Jobs Theater during Jamie Erlicht and…

This is becoming a trend this fall as the networks are not as trigger happy as previous years and don’t yank underperforming new series off the schedule abruptly. Instead, the nets are trimming the lower-rated newcomers’ original 13-episode orders and allowing them to air all produced episodes in their designated time…