'A Black Lady Sketch Show' Ending After Four Seasons

Greta Gerwig’s much-anticipated “Barbie” movie — which opens in theaters on Friday — “Insecure” actress Issa Rae brings some black power to the iconic doll’s pink world as President Barbie.But it was another African-American woman, Louvenia “Kitty” Black Perkins, who designed the first black Barbie — released in 1980 in a box that touted “She’s black! She’s beautiful! She’s dynamite!”Rather than the long, straight blond tresses and pastel-colored fashions of the traditional white Barbie, the brown-skinned beauty rocked short, curly black hair and a glittering red dress complete with matching dangling earrings.“Everything Barbie [typically] was, I wanted to do the opposite,” Black Perkins, now 75 and based in Los Angeles, told The Post. “I knew exactly how black women wear their hair, how their clothes were different from … all of Barbie’s ball gowns.“Basically,” she continued, “I wanted my black Barbie doll to look more like me.” Although Mattel had introduced a black Christie doll as Barbie’s friend in 1968 — and Cara would follow her in the ’70s — this was the first time an African-American bore the name of the leading lady herself.Not relegated to being an “accessory to Barbie,” this was a main-character creation that Black Perkins made on her way to becoming chief designer of the fashion doll line in the mid-’80s.Coming 21 years after Barbie made her debut in 1959, it was a barrier-breaking move for Mattel as doll demand was changing.“The collectors are the ones that really made a difference because every convention that they had, they were looking for black dolls,” said Black Perkins.

With thousands of Hollywood actors and writers on strike, some are wondering how reality TV will be affected.

“The Chosen” is the first known TV series to have been granted a waiver from SAG to continue filming amid the strike.

Alex Jones made an announcement about The One Show at the end of the latest programme that featured a star-studded guest lineup. On Thursday night (June 13), the presenter and her co-host Roman Kemp were joined live on the green sofa by Margot Robbie and America Ferrera before Billy Porter completed the guest trio.

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains plot points from the final two episodes of The Blacklist.

John Oliver is officially taking on Saturday Night Live in the Emmys’ recently rebranded Outstanding Scripted Variety Series category.

Greta Gerwig was planning to work with Timothée Chalamet and Saoirse Ronan again in the Barbie movie but that ultimately didn’t pan out.

Max has set Thursday, August 10 for the Season 2 premiere of Issa Rae’s comedy series Rap Sh!t. The eight-episode second season will debut with two episodes on August 10, followed by one episode weekly, leading up to the season finale on Thursday, September 21.

EXCLUSIVE: Jacob Romero (Greenleaf) and Kyle Bary (Ginny & Georgia) have joined the Season 2 cast of Issa Rae’s Max series Rap Sh!t in key recurring roles.

There will be no fifth season for A Black Lady Sketch Show, Deadline has confirmed. HBO’s Emmy winning comedy series will end with its fourth season, which wrapped in May.

Angelique Jackson The fourth season of the Emmy-winning comedy series “A Black Lady Sketch Show” will be its last, Variety has learned exclusively. “Thank you to all the immensely talented cast members, guest stars, writers, directors, editors and crew members who have made ‘A Black Lady Sketch Show’ an Emmy-winning success,” series creator and star Robin Thede said in a statement about the decision to end the show. “I especially want to recognize the Black women and other women of color who excelled in every department at ‘ABLSS,'” Thede added. “I am also eternally grateful for the support of Issa Rae and Jax Media, Amy Gravitt, Casey Bloys and the entire team at HBO, Max and Warner Bros. Discovery.”

Cardi B and Offset appear to be doing just fine amid those allegations that she cheated on him.

is officially ending.The Netflix series will wrap up after the forthcoming fourth season, which will premiere Thursday, Sept. 21, the streaming service announced Wednesday.

It’s been a big week of announcements for FX and they now have lots of shows ending in 2023.

SPOILER ALERT: The following reveals major plot points from tonight’s episode of FX’s Mayans M.C. titled “To Fear of Death, I Eat the Stars.”

, the satirical cult comedy about the Hollywood industry, is ending after three seasons, ET can confirm. The season 3 finale, which drops Thursday on Max, will now serve as the series' last episode.Created by former head writers Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider, the half-hour series follows two siblings, Cary (Drew Tarver) and Brooke (Heléne York), struggling to make it in New York while their teenage brother, Chase (Case Walker), catapults to fame after going viral on the internet.

There aren’t that many shows remaining on FX and now four of them are sadly ending in 2023.

Kim Cattrall made an appearance on The View earlier today (June 28), where she was asked about her upcoming cameo in season two of And Just Like That, reprising her iconic role as Samantha from Sex and the City.

Martin Freeman and Daisy Haggard-starring FX/Sky comedy Breeders is ending after four seasons.

Futurama!” The trailer has been released for Season 11 of the animated futuristic sitcom. After a decade, the series has defrosted for 10 new episodes which will be added to Hulu on July 24. Season 11 features “a whole new pandemic in town as the crew explores the future of vaccines, bitcoin, cancel culture, and streaming TV,” said the show’s official synopsis. New New York will feature the voices of John DiMaggio, Billy West, Katey Sagal, Tress MacNeille, Maurice LaMarche, Lauren Tom, Phil LaMarr and David Herman. “Futurama” was created by Matt Groening and is executive produced by Groening, Cohen, Ken Keeler and Claudia Katz.