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A comedy that tells the story of a 10-year-old aspiring hip-hop artist is on fleek for Nickelodeon, which claims the debut show reached more than 2.6 million total viewers in six airings over its premiere weekend. It was the biggest Live +3 lifts for a series premiere in three years for the network. Tyler Perry’s Young…

BET+ has set Thursday, March 19 for the premiere of Tyler Perry’s Ruthless, a spin-off of the hit series Tyler Perry's The Oval. Multiple episodes of the 24-episode one-hour drama, Perry’s first new original series to stream on BET+, will be available to stream with new episodes launching every Thursday. Tyler Perry's…

The end is in sight for Tyler Perry’s If Loving You Is Wrong. OWN said today the drama series will end with the upcoming fifth season, which premieres at 10 PM Tuesday, March 10. "We are grateful to Tyler Perry and the talented cast and crew for giving us five incredibly entertaining seasons," OWN president Tina Perry…

Tyler Perry’s thriller A Fall from Grace has been watched by 26 million on Netflix in the first week after its January 17 debut on the streaming service. The writer-director-producer took to social media Monday to reveal the number, which Netflix confirmed.a Crystal Fox, Mehcad Brooks, Phylicia Rashad, Bresha Webb…

Tyler Perry has revealed he writes all of his own TV shows, without any assistance from a writers room. Perry made the revelation Monday in a video on Instagram. The clip shows the entertainment mogul narrating as a camera pans across a stack of scripts from his Oprah Winfrey Network drama The Haves and The Have Nots…

EXCLUSIVE: Peachtree & Vine, the newly formed production company from Tyler Perry and former Lionsgate marketing executive Tim Palen, has teamed with Sanjay Sharma’s Marginal Mediaworks to produce its first feature, Whitney (working title), a psychological thriller about the profound power of memory and monuments in…

Tyler Perry is teaming up with Netflix for a new thriller about a woman whose world is shattered by secrets. The writer-director-producer announced Friday on Twitter, his upcoming film A Fall from Grace will begin streaming on the platform on Jan. 17. “My next movie guys!!! This is an amazing thriller!!!” Perry…

Early on in tonight's fifth Democratic debate, Senator Bernie Sanders proclaimed that for all the incumbent's apparent sins, "we cannot simply be consumed by Donald Trump, because if we are we're going to lose the election." The sage from Vermont and his nine fellow contenders onstage in Atlanta may have wanted to…

Tyler Perry’s new Atlanta studio will be home to the 2019 Miss Universe competition. The three-hour-event, hosted by Steve Harvey for the fifth consecutive year, will air live from Tyler Perry Studios on Sunday, December 8 at 7 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed on Fox. Additionally, the event again will be simulcast live in…

"I can feel the ancestors at my back when I'm here, when I'm walking the land and when I'm taking it all in," declares Tyler Perry of the Atlanta studio the Madea creator just opened officially in Atlanta on what was once the site of a confederate Army base. "I completely feel it, man. It's overwhelming to me." Having…

Tyler Perry and Nickelodeon are teaming on a new kids and family live-action series starring 10-year-old rapper Young Dylan. The news was revealed today to a surprised Young Dylan (Dylan Gilmer) on The Ellen DeGeneres Show (you can watch the clip below). Written by Perry, the project tells the story of a family whose…

Count writer/director/actor Tyler Perry out of those who want to boycott Georgia over its “heartbeat” abortion law. Perry told the Associated Press on Friday that he can’t "just up and leave" filming in Georgia. Perry is opening a huge Atlanta studio soon, and said he’s committed to staying in the state. "Atlanta has…