Source: Paul Archuleta / Getty Kenya Barris Reportedly Files For Divorce “Black-ish” creator Kenya Barris is calling it quits with his wife of almost 20 years. According to The Blast , Barris filed for divorce Friday in L.A. County against wife Rania “Rainbow” Barris. Dr. Rania Edwards-Barris is a successful anesthesiologist in West Hollywood, California who received her medical degree from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and has been in practice for over a decade. It’s unclear what caused the split between the two, who have been married since 1999 and have 6 children together.
Source: John D. Kisch/Separate Cinema Archive / Getty The date is now set for the long-awaited sequel to the 1988 Eddie Murphy classic “Coming To America.” Paramount Pictures announced on Monday that the Murphy flick will be released in theatres August 7th, 2020. The yet to be titled sequel will once again star Eddie Murphy as Akeem. This time the films lead character Akeem will return to America after he learns that one of the royal oats he sowed led to the unlikely heir to the throne of Wakanda’s neighbor Zamuda. Also Read: Did You Know There Was A Coming To America TV Show? [Watch] All kidding aside, Akeem learns about a long lost son and must return to America and of course hijinks will take place. Black-ish creator Kenya Barris wrote the script and Craig Brewer, who directed the Murphy film will direct the film Murphy and Barris will executive produce the flick. Source: The Hollywood Reporter RELATED: Morning Minute: Why Lupita Nyong’o’s ‘Coming To America’-Themed Party Was Everything! RELATED: #BlackDontCrack: Vanessa Bell Calloway Is Slaying Her New ‘Coming To America’ Photo Shoot [ione_media_gallery src=”https://mymajicdc.com” id=”3639594″ overlay=”true”]
Source: Jon Kopaloff / Getty Channing Dungey Named Vice President Of Original Content At Netflix Outgoing ABC Entertainment President Channing Dungey has a new gig. After already spreading her black girl magic to ABC, Dungey’s moving on to Netflix as Vice President of Original Content. The executive who became the first African-American to lead entertainment programming at a major broadcast network announced back in November that she was leaving. Deadline now reports that Dungey’s senior leadership role at Netflix was newly created for her and means she’ll report to Cindy Holland, Vice President of Original Content. She and Holland will set strategy for Netflix’s original series and will oversee a large and key portion of the slate, reports the site. The news also means that Dungey will work with some of Netflix’s top writer-producers as Shonda Rhimes, Kenya Barris and Forever POTUS/FLOTUS with their Higher Ground Productions. If you can remember, Dungey’s the one who pulled the plug on “Roseanne” after the star’s racist rant. Source: Jon Kopaloff / Getty Shine black girl, shine! Congrats Channing!
Image via Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImage/ Rebecca Sapp/WireImage Cam’ron And Dame Dash Roast Bill O’Reilly 15 Years Ago Today Thanks to the good folks at @UpNorthTrips for reminding us all of this important piece of Black media history. 15 years ago to this very today Cameron Ezike Giles, professionally known as Cam’ron, along with big talkin’ then Roc-A-Fella CEO Dame Dash, took the live airwaves of FoxNews to do verbal battle with Bill O’Reilly and the results became internet legend. View this post on Instagram Fifteen years ago today, Cam'ron and Damon Dash appear as guests on The O'Reilly Factor. A post shared by upnorthtrips (@upnorthtrips) on Nov 12, 2018 at 5:57am PST //www.instagram.com/embed.js Here, is the GIF classic moment that all of us hold so near and dear to our hearts. To both Cam’ron and Dame Dash we want to say thank you. We appreciate you bringing this type of content to faux-a$$ FoxNews.
Tony DiMaio / SplashNews.com The Cast Of “Black-ish” Celebrates 100 Episodes The Johnsons are poppington!!! This weekend the cast of “Black-ish” celebrated completing their 100th episode with a little party at Walt Disney Studios. Tracee Ellis Ross , Anthony Anderson, Jenifer Lewis , Laurence Fishburn, Marcus Scribner, Miles Boogie Brown, Marsai Martin and Peter Mackenzie posted up for photos… @ParisaMichelle / SplashNews.com Definitely looks like they had a blast. Tracee posted her fit up on the gram… Very fly tv mama! Check out more photos below:
Image via Moritz Steiger/Getty British Man Gets Bionic Penis Surgery 45-year-old Andrew Wardle recent got his very first penis , then used it on his girlfriend Fedra Fabian for the very first time! Andrew underwent a 10-hour surgery and endured a 10-day erection so that he could finally be a proud member of the d***-measuring boys club. This was no cheap-a$$ butt-injection type of deal. Andrew could have bought a baby momma Benz for what he paid for his third leg. Check out Andrew and Fedra talking about it in the video below. Ladies, you see the look on Fedra’s face, is you down?
Image via Moritz Steiger/Getty British Man Gets Bionic Penis Surgery 45-year-old Andrew Wardle recent got his very first penis , then used it on his girlfriend Fedra Fabian for the very first time! Andrew underwent a 10-hour surgery and endured a 10-day erection so that he could finally be a proud member of the d***-measuring boys club. This was no cheap-a$$ butt-injection type of deal. Andrew could have bought a baby momma Benz for what he paid for his third leg. Check out Andrew and Fedra talking about it in the video below. Ladies, you see the look on Fedra’s face, is you down?
Sami Drasin for The Hollywood Reporter Kenya Barris Reveals Why He Left ABC For Netflix Whew chile! Kenya Barris talked to The Hollywood Reporter and it might be one of the juiciest interviews we’ve read – like ever. Seriously. The drama is so real at ABC/Disney… We really wanted to cut and paste the WHOLE entire article but THR was generous enough to provide some key quotes. Much of the drama centers around ABC’s decision to shelve Barris’ episode about Trump, the NFL protests, and the Charlottesville attacks, but Barris also reveals his clashes with Disney exec Ben Sherwood, his thoughts on “monster” Roseanne Barr, and the anxiety of high expectations with a massive deal at Netflix: “I don’t know if it’s scary for Ryan and Shonda, but I’m fu**ing terrified.” Check out excerpts below via THR starting with all the drama over THAT infamous episode. Just for a better idea of what ABC opted to shelve, the episode centered around Johnson family patriarch Dre, played by Anthony Anderson, telling his infant son, Devante, a bedtime story that multiple sources described as a mixture of political allegory via an animated fairy tale about a character named The Shady King, and actual news footage of Donald Trump, the Charlottesville attacks and the NFL kneeling protests. “When you’re putting a baby to sleep, you’re trying to soothe whatever anxieties they’re having,” says Barris, speaking for the first time about the controversial episode. “So, this was about me trying to pat the butt of the country and soothe people.” The episode budget was increased beyond it’s usual $3 million or so cap to allow room for payments for rights and clearances for music and footage, including Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come,” which Barris personally met with Cooke’s goddaughter to secure. Barris hired a high-profile illustrator and Spike Lee contributed voiceover to the episode took its title (“Please, Baby Please”) and inspiration from a children’s book written by Lee and his wife. Sounds good right? Too bad we’ll never see it. What actually happened (THR Reporting): Executives at ABC, more than any other network, have been forthright about their desire for more red-state programming since Trump’s win — and with Barris’ latest episode, they feared they’d be alienating the very population they’d tried so hard to court. That Disney brass wouldn’t want to poke Trump himself just as the company was seeking Justice Department approval of its acquisition of most of 21st Century Fox is widely believed to have been a factor as well. Anthony Anderson, on ABC’s decision to pull the episode: “[Barris had] given his blood, sweat and tears to [the episode], which they had signed off on every step of the way — from the outline, to the script, to the table read, to the point where they actually spent the money and made the episode. And I don’t know what those conversations were, but we entered into this partnership with the understanding that we would be able to tell the stories that we wanted to tell.” Barris, on what went wrong: “I know there was some concern about partisanship; and the way the episode was angled and the balance in terms of some of the stories. On network TV, one of the things I’ve learned is that you have to talk about things from both sides.” Barris, on Bob Iger’s handling of the situation: “The boss doesn’t have to explain himself, but he explained enough — and he [did so] in a way that really gave light in a different way. And more than that, he spoke to me as a person.” Barris on Ben Sherwood, the man Iger put atop Disney’s TV assets: “The way that [Ben] chose to deal with me in this particular episode, I felt a way about it and I still do. He’d make it seem like it was an open environment but really it wasn’t, and those are things I see very clearly. Everyone wants to say it’s open arms, but just tell me it’s not and I’ll respect you more.” Barris, on why ABC & Barris mutually decided to scrap it after cuts: “What it ended up being, and I think the network would agree, was not a true representation of what we intended to do,” he says. “Because if it was, we would’ve shown it.” Welp… there you have it. Hit the flip for a few more photos and excerpts.
Sami Drasin for The Hollywood Reporter Kenya Barris Reveals Why He Left ABC For Netflix Whew chile! Kenya Barris talked to The Hollywood Reporter and it might be one of the juiciest interviews we’ve read – like ever. Seriously. The drama is so real at ABC/Disney… We really wanted to cut and paste the WHOLE entire article but THR was generous enough to provide some key quotes. Much of the drama centers around ABC’s decision to shelve Barris’ episode about Trump, the NFL protests, and the Charlottesville attacks, but Barris also reveals his clashes with Disney exec Ben Sherwood, his thoughts on “monster” Roseanne Barr, and the anxiety of high expectations with a massive deal at Netflix: “I don’t know if it’s scary for Ryan and Shonda, but I’m fu**ing terrified.” Check out excerpts below via THR starting with all the drama over THAT infamous episode. Just for a better idea of what ABC opted to shelve, the episode centered around Johnson family patriarch Dre, played by Anthony Anderson, telling his infant son, Devante, a bedtime story that multiple sources described as a mixture of political allegory via an animated fairy tale about a character named The Shady King, and actual news footage of Donald Trump, the Charlottesville attacks and the NFL kneeling protests. “When you’re putting a baby to sleep, you’re trying to soothe whatever anxieties they’re having,” says Barris, speaking for the first time about the controversial episode. “So, this was about me trying to pat the butt of the country and soothe people.” The episode budget was increased beyond it’s usual $3 million or so cap to allow room for payments for rights and clearances for music and footage, including Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come,” which Barris personally met with Cooke’s goddaughter to secure. Barris hired a high-profile illustrator and Spike Lee contributed voiceover to the episode took its title (“Please, Baby Please”) and inspiration from a children’s book written by Lee and his wife. Sounds good right? Too bad we’ll never see it. What actually happened (THR Reporting): Executives at ABC, more than any other network, have been forthright about their desire for more red-state programming since Trump’s win — and with Barris’ latest episode, they feared they’d be alienating the very population they’d tried so hard to court. That Disney brass wouldn’t want to poke Trump himself just as the company was seeking Justice Department approval of its acquisition of most of 21st Century Fox is widely believed to have been a factor as well. Anthony Anderson, on ABC’s decision to pull the episode: “[Barris had] given his blood, sweat and tears to [the episode], which they had signed off on every step of the way — from the outline, to the script, to the table read, to the point where they actually spent the money and made the episode. And I don’t know what those conversations were, but we entered into this partnership with the understanding that we would be able to tell the stories that we wanted to tell.” Barris, on what went wrong: “I know there was some concern about partisanship; and the way the episode was angled and the balance in terms of some of the stories. On network TV, one of the things I’ve learned is that you have to talk about things from both sides.” Barris, on Bob Iger’s handling of the situation: “The boss doesn’t have to explain himself, but he explained enough — and he [did so] in a way that really gave light in a different way. And more than that, he spoke to me as a person.” Barris on Ben Sherwood, the man Iger put atop Disney’s TV assets: “The way that [Ben] chose to deal with me in this particular episode, I felt a way about it and I still do. He’d make it seem like it was an open environment but really it wasn’t, and those are things I see very clearly. Everyone wants to say it’s open arms, but just tell me it’s not and I’ll respect you more.” Barris, on why ABC & Barris mutually decided to scrap it after cuts: “What it ended up being, and I think the network would agree, was not a true representation of what we intended to do,” he says. “Because if it was, we would’ve shown it.” Welp… there you have it. Hit the flip for a few more photos and excerpts.
Yara Shahidi Gets ‘Black-Ish’ Spinoff Good news for “Black-ish” fans! ABC has greenlit a spinoff of the top-rated show starring Yara Shahidi and Deon Cole. Yara’s new show, “College-ish” will follow Zoey as she journeys to college and figures out life after leaving home. The show will focus on issues facing students and administration in today’s higher learning settings. The show will appear on FreeForm. Black-ish executive producer Kenya Barris tells Deadspin he couldn’t be happier about the new show: “I never thought they’d let me put Black-ish on the air, let alone give me a spin-off. I couldn’t be more excited for the opportunity to continue working with Yara and the rest of this talented young cast. To any aspiring writers struggling to make it out there, I highly advise adding an ‘-ish’ to any working title you might have. It seems to be the move.” Splash/WENN
