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Director W. Kamau Bell, executive producer Katie A. King and editor Jennifer Brooks joined Deadline’s Contenders Television: The Nominees award-season event to discuss working on the Showtime docuseries We Need To Talk About Cosby, and navigating triggering material. The four-part series is nominated for three Emmy…

Bill Cosby has dismissed W. Kamau Bell, director of the Showtime documentary series We Need to Talk About Cosby, as a "PR hack." But The Cosby Show star and accused serial rapist appears to be in a small minority. No less an institution than the New York Times has declared Bell's series "a model of how to engage…

We Need To Talk About Cosby is a four-part documentary in which comedian-turned-TV host W. Kamau Bell measures the groundbreaking accomplishments of Bill Cosby against the volume of women who accused him of sexually assaulting them after drugging them. The Showtime docu, which premiered at January's virtual Sundance…

"It's not like this is a project I've been thinking about for a long time, this is a subject I've been thinking about for a long time," says We Need To Talk About Cosby director W. Kamau Bell of the former sex offender once known as America's Dad and his complicated legacy. "For me, whether it exists as a four-episode…

The primary simultaneous imbalance and blessing of W. Kamau Bell's We Need To Talk About Cosby is that even with a running time of four-hours, it's clear by the end there's still a lot more to say about the ex-convicted sex offender who was once America's Dad. Which is sort of the point of the United Shades of America…

"The idea being if I'm to really learn the lessons of Bill Cosby then this is a part of that," W. Kamau Bell says of the trenchant We Need to Talk About Cosby. "This is about being smart, being aware, caring about your community," adds the director of the four-episode docuseries, which is set to premiere at the…

Showtime has unveiled a new trailer for We Need To Talk About Cosby, the buzzed-about, four-part docuseries directed by Emmy winner W. Kamau Bell (United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell), which will screen at the Sundance Film Festival on January 22, ahead of its network premiere on January 30 at 10 p.m…

W. Kamau Bell's docuseries We Need To Talk About Cosby was one of the most high-profile non-fiction titles announced for the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Showtime has now revealed that the four-part series, directed by the United Shades of America star, will premiere on January 30, a week after its January 22 debut at…