Critics aside, Perry reaches new heights with OWN, more hits
By NEKESA MUMBI MOODY When Tyler Perry began creating shows for the then-struggling OWN Network four years ago, he’d send the scripts he’d written to Oprah Winfrey for approval —…
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Joseph Fiennes to play Michael Jackson in TV drama
Joseph Fiennes will star as Michael Jackson in a one-off TV comedy set to broadcast later this year — a casting decision that has added fuel to a raging debate…
US Navy sailors released unharmed by Iran in less than a day
By ADAM SCHRECK and ALI AKBAR DAREINI It turned out to be the international crisis that wasn’t. Less than a day after 10 U.S. Navy sailors were detained in Iran…
TV networks make unequal progress toward on-screen diversity
By DAVID BAUDER, LYNN ELBER and FRAZIER MOORE Kenya Barris, creator of ABC’s “black-ish,” was motivated to write the comedy about an African-American family’s efforts to honor its heritage in…
Amazon fills its video cart with 2 new comedies
By DERRIK J. LANG In this photo released by Amazon Studios, from left, Karan Soni, Charlie Saxton, Joe Dinicol, Maya Erskine and Jon Daly, star in Amazon’s original series “Betas,”…
REPORT SHOWS PERSISTENCE OF TV VIOLENCE
By DAVID BAUDER This TV publicity image released by ABC shows Darby Stanchfield, right, in a sscene from the series “Scandal.” A study of 392 prime-time scripted programs on broadcast…