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“Luke Cage,” BET’s “The Game” and the Fox medical drama “Rosewood.”“I just felt like I was going down this one lane where a lot of the casting directors were only seeing me for certain things … then, lo and behold, I get a text from Robin Thede and she says, ‘I’ve been following your career, I’m working on this show and I know that you’re hilarious and I don’t think the world knows that.’ Literally [this show] just fell into my lap kind of happenstance, and the timing couldn’t have been more

Antonio Ferme editorNetflix released a trailer for “The Upshaws,” which premieres on May 12.Created by Regina Hicks and Wanda Sykes, the series follows the head of a Black working-class family in Indianapolis struggling to step up and take care of his family without a blueprint for success.The series stars Mike Epps, Wanda Sykes, Kim Fields, Page Kennedy, Diamond Lyons, Khali Spraggins, Jermelle Simon, Gabrielle Dennis and Journey Christine. Hicks and Sykes serve as executive producers

Angelique Jackson The ladies of “A Black Lady Sketch” show are back and the second season will be launching even sooner than fans expected.The sketch comedy series from creator Robin Thede will return on April 23, with a six-episode season will air on HBO and be available to stream on HBO Max.“Oh you thought a pandemic was going to stop me?” Thede says in a teaser for the new season, which you can watch above.Returning cast members include Thede, Ashley Nicole Black and Gabrielle Dennis, who

Peter White Television EditorRobin Thede predicted the end of the world in her HBO sketch comedy A Black Lady Sketch Show.One of the first sketches in the six-part series, which launched in August 2019, features Thede, Ashley Nicole Black, Quinta Brunson and Gabrielle Dennis, dealing with ‘The Event’, which runs through the series.“When I brought that idea into our writer’s room, I had a fever dream, literally like a sweating dream in the middle of the night,” Thede tells Deadline.