She would very much like to be excluded from this narrative. Tommy Lee’s wife, Brittany Furlan, spoke out against those criticizing her in the wake of Pamela Anderson’s new documentary and memoir.
15.01.2023 - 02:29 / deadline.com
Yvette Lee Bowser points to Unprisoned — Onyx’s first scripted comedy that stars Kerry Washington and Delroy Lindo — as a key example of how far TV has come when it comes to telling contemporary Black stories.
“We are absolutely making progress,” said Bowser, whose numerous credits include A Different World, Living Single, black-ish andnow serving as showrunner on Unprisoned. “I’ve been in the business 35 years. It’s beginning to change. It’s incredibly cathartic and incredibly rewarding to be here to shepherd such a beautiful, fresh story … we as Black writers have been fighting to tell a story. Now we find ourselves in a period of time that we can go deeper, much deeper, why we struggle to love.”
Inspired by the life of author Tracy McMillan, Unprisoned is a half-hour about “a messy but perfectionist relationship therapist and single mom whose life is turned right-side-up when her dad gets out of prison and moves in with her and her teenage son.” The eight-episode series from ABC Signature premieres March 10 on Hulu.
Washington (Scandal) plays Paige Alexander, a marriage and family therapist and mom to 16-year-old Finn. Her formerly incarcerated father Edwin — whom Bowser describes as a “Black Ted Lasso” — is played by Delroy Lindo.
The star of The Good Fight echoed Bowser’s optimism about the evolution of the TV industry, which includes the launch of Onyx Collective in 2021 with the purpose of curating programming by creators of color.
“Things are different,” Lindo told reporters Saturday at the Television Critics Tour. “The fact that being here, listening to the intelligence and brilliance of my colleagues and the fact that their intelligence, that brilliance, that commitment, that vision can be brought together
She would very much like to be excluded from this narrative. Tommy Lee’s wife, Brittany Furlan, spoke out against those criticizing her in the wake of Pamela Anderson’s new documentary and memoir.
Tommy Lee‘s wife is catching heat over an ill-advised (and very quickly deleted) TikTok post!
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