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Back Together On-Screen: Taye Diggs Joins Maurice Chestnut On ‘Rosewood’
Taye Diggs will join Maurice Chestnut on FOX series ‘Rose- wood’.
Taye Diggs (The Best Man Holiday) has landed a recur- ring role on Fox freshman drama series Rosewood. Cre- ated by Todd Harthan, Rose- wood stars Morris Chestnut as Dr. Beaumont Rosewood Jr., a private pathologist in Miami who partners with De- tective Annalise Villa (Jaina Lee Ortiz). Diggs will play Mike Boyce, a world- renowned infectious disease doctor based in Miami and the longtime best friend of Dr. Beaumont Rosewood (Morris Chestnut), who is brought in to consult on a case and catches the eye of Detective Villa, much to Rosewood’s surprise. It’s a reunion for Diggs and Chestnut, who starred in the hit feature The Best Man and sequel The Best Man Holiday.
Key And Peele Set To Produce Comedy
Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele will produce new show that will star Vine star, Andrew Bachelor aka King Bach.
Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele have set up a followup TV series proj- ect to their hit Comedy Central sketch show Key & Peele — a single-camera undercover cop comedy starring top Vine per- sonality Andrew Bachelor aka King Bach. Key and Peele are executive producing the project which.
Written by Key & Peele writer-producer Alex Rubens, the untitled comedy is loosely based on a King Bach Vine and stars Bache- lor as an undercover cop who grew up on the streets and goes back to his old neighbor- hood to take down the bad guys who bullied him when
they were kids.
As his exuberant alter ego
King Bach, Bachelor has become Vine’s biggest star, boasting 14 million followers and 5.1 billion loops. The Groundlings alum has par- layed his Vine success into a rising acting career with re- curring roles on The Mindy Project, House Of Lies and Black Jesus. He also ap- peared on Key & Peele.
This is Key and Peele’s first TV series project since they recently ended their suc- cessful Comedy Central sketch comedy series Key & Peele, which the duo created, execu- tive produced and starred in.
Snoop, Birdman, Dame Dash And Jermaine Dupri To Star In BET Reality Show
Snoop Dogg, Birdman, Damon Dash and Jermaine Dupri.
BET’s reality show lineup is set to get a new star-studded series. Snoop Dogg, Bird- man, Damon Dash, and Jermaine Dupri will be part of an unscripted television program on the network
According to reports, the 8- episode untitled program will start shooting in Los Angeles in November and it is expected to premiere in late 2016. The show will focus on the Hip
Hop mogul’s respective lives and companies.
Snoop, Birdman, Dash, and Dupri will join other celebrities such as Nelly, De- Sean Jackson, Keyshia Cole, and Michael Vick to have reality series on BET. Snoop had his own fam- ily based reality show on E! called Snoop Dogg’s Father Hood. The 5-part Snoop & Son: A Dad’s Dream docu- mentary also aired on ESPN.
‘12 Years A Slave’ Director Set To Direct ‘L.A. Riots’
John Ridley, the Oscar- winning scribe of 12 Years A Slave, is now set to direct his Los Angeles Riots script. In its most ambitious move so far, upstart Broad Green Pictures is partnering with Imagine En- tertainment to produce and distribute a movie that is unti- tled but has had numerous manifestations over the years as Imagine’s Brian Grazer developed it at Universal Pic- tures and almost got it made with Spike Lee directing. They are betting big here on Ridley, who created the
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Emmy-winning series Ameri- can Crime. Grazer will pro- duce and production will begin next spring.
BFFs Amber Rose And Blac Chyna Can Reality Show
Amber Rose and Blac Chyna
Amber Rose and Blac Chyna have canned their real- ity TV show. The BFFs have decided to not to proceed with taking their talents to the small screen due to being too busy with other business en- deavors, TMZ reports.
Muva Rosebud is work- ing on getting her own talk show while Blac Chyna claims to have many product
deals in the works that are consuming her time.
Though they say they’re making business moves, there is speculation that the two are not friends anymore and don’t want to film together anymore. Blac Chyna was not at Rose’s Slut Walk in Los An- geles and was instead spend- ing time with Future.
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