General

After months of failing to live up to the success of her extraordinarily popular television talk show, Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network is undergoing a makeover. According to Forbes, Winfrey and Discovery Communications are upping the network’s advertising push as well as featuring two of the network’s biggest stars, Winfrey herself and Rosie O’Donnell. Adding to a […]

Atlanta, National

Bounce TV, a new African American free broadcast television channel, has just launched. The Atlanta-based Bounce TV will feature African American television programs and movies and is backed by civil rights legend and former Atlanta Mayor, Andrew Young, Martin Luther King’s son, Martin Luther King III as well as TV executives, Ryan Glover and Jonathan […]

Atlanta, General, National, Photos

Georgia is now considered one of the top five states in the country for film and TV production with more than 274 projects shot in the state since July 2010, reports the AJC.com. TV shows shot in Georgia include BET’s “The Game,” MTV’s “Teen Wolf,” the Discovery Channel’s “Auction Kings” and AMC’s critically-acclaimed hit shot […]

Entertainment

A woman who believes “luck is preparation meeting opportunity,” Oprah Gail Winfrey has continuously shattered gender and racial barriers in America. Winfrey is the most successful talk show host in American TV history — male or female, Black or white — and the first female African-American billionaire. As one of the most influential women in […]

Entertainment

Last week we opened the voting for our Greatest Black Sitcom of All-Time Competition.  Yesterday voting closed for round 1 and we’re down from 64 shows to 32. Based on the seeding of the editorial team we didn’t see any upset loses although we were surprised to see the short-lived 90’s sitcom “Thea” beat out the […]

Lakewood Fairgrounds From the AJC.com: The vote appeared to be a no-brainer for the Atlanta City Council: Approve a multi-million dollar, 50-year lease to rent out the Lakewood Fairgrounds to EUE/Screen Gems and move Atlanta a step closer to Hollywood. It ultimately was approved 13-0, but not without a fierce battle over the language in […]