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Desus & Mero Break Up, End Showtime Talk Show
Desus & Mero have broken up and ended their popular Showtime talk show. Showtime confirmed the news in a statement, saying, “Desus Nice and The Kid Mero will be pursuing separate creative endeavors moving forward. Showtime’s late-night talk show Desus & Mero will not be returning for a fifth season. Its final episode aired Thursday, June 23rd.” Desus Nice addressed the end of the talk show on Twitter with a cordial statement (“thanks for being part of the journey”), but social media posts from both comedians suggest Desus and Mero had a falling out of some sort. Related Video On June 19th, Desus tweeted, “bodegahive you think I abandoned y’all but the art is coming back. Plz believe in me, I love y’all,” prompting Mero to respond on Reddit, “NAH IT’S A WRAP BRODY, SOMEBOD...
Price Is Right: Showtime And BET Studios To Develop Show About Fat Joe’s Life
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: @fatjoe / Instagram It looks like the Hip-Hop world is one step closer knowing the real Fat Joe story. Showtime and BET Networks are set to develop a show about the Bronx MC. As per Deadline a pilot has been ordered based on the life of Fat Joe. According to the industry trade publication The Book of Jose will be “a rags-to-riches story following Fat Joe’s evolution from growing up in the drug and violence-scarred streets of the Bronx to becoming a Grammy-nominee, producer, and actor with a career spanning nearly three decades. The project will follow every phase of Joe’s life and the threats that have come in the form of rivals, addiction, incarceration, and death. All of which showed the artist that resilience and the love of his family are the onl...
Girls Run the World in First Trailer for Showtime Series The First Lady: Watch
Behind every powerful man is a powerful woman, and The First Lady wants to tell their stories. Ahead of its April 17th premiere, Showtime has shared the first trailer for the anthology series, where Michelle Obama (Viola Davis), Betty Ford (Michelle Pfeiffer), and Eleanor Roosevelt (Gillian Anderson) hold their own behind White House doors. “In four years, I don’t want to look back and think, ‘What did I become living in that house?’” Davis says as Obama early on in the trailer, opening the flood gates for a two-minute compilation of drama. The First Lady peels back the curtain on the personal and political lives of three of America’s most beloved first ladies — all of whom made a point to serve a bigger role while in the White House than to just be the president’s wife. Da...
Bill Nighy Crashes into Lead Role of Showtime’s The Man Who Fell to Earth
Beloved character actor Bill Nighy (Love, Actually, the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise) has booked a trip on Showtime’s The Man Who Fell to Earth. The upcoming series is based on Walter Tevis‘ 1963 novel of the same name, which in 1976 also provided the source material for one of David Bowie’s most iconic on-screen performances. The Man Who Fell to Earth tells the story of Thomas Jerome Newton, a refugee from an alien planet who journeys to Earth in the hopes of ferrying the few remaining members of his species to safety. Nighy will be joined along his journey by Chiwetel Ejiofor and Naomie Harris, while Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet executive produce. “I was honored to be invited to play the part of Thomas Jerome Newton that glorious David Bowie made so f...
A Sexual Predator Barely Bothered to Hide in Official Trailer for We Need to Talk About Cosby: Watch
At the time of his 2018 trial, many people were surprised to learn that Bill Cosby was an alleged sexual predator who had been accused of drugging, raping, or sexually assaulting more than 60 women. But as director W. Kamau Bell points out in the new official trailer for We Need to Talk About Cosby, the disgraced comedian barely bothered to hide what he was doing. The four-part documentary series premieres January 30th on Showtime. Bell dredges up footage of Cosby being interviewed on national television, joking about slipping someone a “Spanish Fly. The girl would drink it and — hello, America!” He also shows a now-infamous clip from the The Cosby Show, in which Cosby’s character Dr. Huxtable adds a drug into his barbecue sauce that makes people “get all huggy-buggy.” One i...
W. Kamau Bell Shares Trailer for New Documentary We Need to Talk About Cosby: Watch
W. Kamau Bell is tackling the legacy of Bill Cosby in a new documentary. Today, the director and comedian announced We Need to Talk About Cosby, a four-part docu-series set to hit Showtime next year, and shared the first trailer for the project. The series juggles the reputation Cosby built as “America’s Dad” with the horrific serial abuser he was behind closed doors. In its first trailer, Bell — known for similarly thoughtful content like the docu-series United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell, the podcast Politically Re-Active, and the book Do the Work: An Anti-Racist Activity Book — attempts to reconcile these opposing personas as a comedian inspired by Cosby himself. “I am a child of Bill Cosby,” Bell says. “I’m a Black man and a comic born in the ’70s. Bill Cosby ha...
Showtime Launches Multi-Year ‘HIP HOP 50’ Project, Nas To Direct First Documentary
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: ESCOBAR CIGARS / ESCOBAR CIGARS This December Showtime will kick off HIP HOP 50, its multiyear, cross-platform programming initiative celebrating the 50th anniversary of Hip-Hop. HIP HOP 50 will continue to run over the next three years and will encompass unscripted series and features, podcasts and digital shorts by and about some of the foremost names in the genre, culminating with the 50th anniversary of the genre in 2023. The initiative is driven by Nas and Mass Appeal Chief Creative Officer and Emmy-nominated partner Sacha Jenkins (WU-TANG CLAN: OF MICS AND MEN, BITCHIN’: THE SOUND AND FURY OF RICK JAMES). VIDEO MUSIC BOX will chronicle the longest-running music video show in the world, Video Music Box, launched and hosted in Ne...
John Lithgow Joins Cast of Showtime’s Dexter Revival
John Lithgow is reprising his role as the “Trinity Killer” for the upcoming revival of Dexter, according to Deadline. The return is described as “a short but decisive appearance,” with Deadline reporting the writers have “concocted a pathway for the Trinity Killer to come back that works within the larger Dexter narrative.” As such, Lithgow is only expected to film on the Los Angeles set for “a day or so.” In 2010, the now-75-year-old actor won an Emmy Award for his portrayal of Arthur Mitchell during Season 4 of the original series. Mitchell was a source of particular interest for Michael C. Hall’s titular character, appearing to show a path to balancing a family with a secret life as a serial killer. Dexter ultimately offed him during the season finale. Related Video Airing on Showt...
Stay Black: Desus & Mero and Ziwe Are Modernizing The Late-Night Television Game
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Greg Endries /SHOWTIME / Greg Endries /SHOWTIME The late-night television scene finally gives flowers to Desus Nice and The Kid Mero after joining Showtime to launch a new show following their split with Viceland a few years ago. Since the move, the hilarious duo gained enough notoriety to draw in some of the toughest names in the business to visit for an interview. Remember when former President Barack Obama stopped by that one time? Their famous claim “The brand is strong” is manifesting powerful partnerships, endorsement deals, and the ability to claim a budding protégée named Ziwe from their writer’s room who is launching her own weekly late-night show also on Showtime. And to think the fellas are only getting started. Deadline chronicles the up...
Nas Teams Up With Mass Appeal & Showtime for ‘Hip Hop 50’ Series
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty As Hip-Hop is approaching the magnificent milestone of turning 50 in 2023, preparations to mark the occasion in ways honoring the culture are underway. And Nasir “Nas” Jones is ensuring he’s at the forefront of these efforts with a documentary series titled Hip Hop 50. The Queensbridge rapper and businessman has teamed up with producer and writer Sasha Jenkins, who was the force behind the acclaimed Showtime‘s Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men, for a new series done with the same network and Mass Appeal exploring the figures and moments that made Hip-Hop throughout its history. “This is something that’s coming up that we don’t want to just pass by like it’s small. This is the biggest birthday in the world,” Nas stated in a recent intervie...
Wyclef Jean on Covering Bob Marley and a Third Fugees Album
Kyle Meredith With… Wyclef Jean Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Play | Stitcher | Radio Public | RSS Wyclef Jean hangs out with Kyle Meredith to dive into his new podcast series, Run That Back, and his Bob Marley cover for Amazon Music. The Fugees member also celebrates the 25th anniversary of The Score, speculates on what a third LP from the group would have sounded like. Jean then regales us with stories of disguising Van Halen songs in his church and starting as a jazz musician while wanting to be a composer. Later on, he gives updates on his recent 2020 singles, his Netflix movie Prince of Port au Prince, scoring Showtime’s The Chi, the Sodo Mood Lab, and what’s next for Haiti. In related news, Rootsland is curre...
Dexter Revival Will Pick Up 10 Years After the Finale and Be Set in Miami
Showtime announced last month that a limited series revival of Dexter is in the works, and we’re slowly getting a better idea of what to expect. To start, Marcos Siega has signed on to executive produce the show and direct six of the 10 upcoming episodes, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Siega has… Please click the link below to read the full article. Dexter Revival Will Pick Up 10 Years After the Finale and Be Set in Miami Nina Corcoran You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards by chatting, sharing photos, blogging and help give users back their fair share of Internet revenue.
