Blair Underwood Will Play Othello, Yes Please!
A production of William Shakespeare’s Othello will debut June 22, 2014 at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, California. The play will kick off the venue’s Summer Shakespeare Festival. Blair Underwood is taking on the title role of Othello. Joining him on stage are Kristen Connolly, appearing as Desdemona, and Richard Thomas, appearing as as Iago. […]
Blair Underwood’s Ironside Gets Axed By NBC
Blair Underwood’s show Ironside is now a causality of NBC’s deadly ax after the show failed to bring in impressive ratings. NBC announced its cancellation today. Viewership was average and consistent over the first 3 episodes, but not good enough to meet expectations for NBC Wednesday prime time (Variety reports 4.9 million viewers on the […]
Danny Glover To Play Blair Underwood’s Father In New Show Ironside
Veteran actor Danny Glover will guest star in Blair Underwood’s new NBC TV series Ironside. He’ll play Underwood’s father, Frank according to Broadway World. Though he’s no longer starring in big Blockbuster franchises like Lethal Weapon, Danny Glover’s career has been very active. With 14 acting credits to his name in 2013 alone on IMDB his […]
NBC Puts Episode 1 Of Blair Underwood’s Ironside Online Early: Watch!
NBC has given viewers the rare opportunity to watch the first episode of the new series Ironside online. The television premiere date is set for October 2nd, so its quite an early preview. The show stars Blair Underwood as a detective who doesn’t let his dependence on a wheelchair get in the way of solving […]
Official Details Released For NBC’s Ironside Starring Blair Underwood
Ironside, an all new series starring Blair Underwood, is heading to the silver screen Wednesdays, beginning October 2nd, on NBC. With Black females like Kerry Washington and Nicole Beharie lighting up the small screen, its time a Black man joined the ranks as a prime time tv lead. Blair Underwood stars as New York’s toughest […]
Blair Underwood To Star In Cop Show Remake
A reboot of the TV show Ironside is a candidate for becoming a new 2013 television show. If the show gets picked up, it will star Blair Underwood in the leading role as Robert T. Ironside according to Crave. The original Ironside television show aired way back in 1967 and ran for 8 seasons and […]
Blair Underwood Will Star In Universal Television Show
Blair Underwood has just finished his Broadway run as the star in A Streetcar Named Desire. Deadline has reported that Blair Underwood isn’t slowing down and has signed a deal with Universal Television. The deal will put the actor in a starring role which the studio will develop for him. The deal includes a provision that […]
Blair Underwood Version of A Street Car Named Desire, How’d He Do?
On Sunday Blair Underwood made his debut in the Broadway adaptation of a Street Car Named Desire. Perhaps the most popular version of the Tennessee Williams play was the film starring Marlon Brando in the lead role. You may not know the play, but you’ve probably heard pop-culture references to the Tennesee Williams play, or […]
What Black Network TV Shows Are Cancelled, Renewed & New For Fall 2014
Its the time of year when major television networks including Fox, ABC, NBC, and CBS make announcements regarding their upcoming programming. Renewals, cancellations, and new shows have been revealed. TV Shows prominently featuring Black Actors or Actresses that have been renewed for the 2014-2015 television season include: Brooklyn Nine-Nine (Fox) Grey’s Anatomy (ABC) Resurrection (ABC) Scandal (ABC) Sleepy Hollow (Fox) […]
Blallywood Film Review: The Trip to Bountiful
Horton Foote’s slightly obscure play, The Trip to Bountiful, quietly premiered on Broadway in 1953 for a total of 39 performances. The play proved better fitting for the screen when it received a big movie remake in 1985. It was well received and won Geraldine Page her ninth Oscar nomination and first win in the […]
New Stills And The Latest On Lifetime’s ‘The Trip To Bountiful’
Lifetime is airing the TV-movie version of The Trip To Bountiful on its network on March 8, 2014 at 8/7c pm. Recently a Broadway revival of the play was a big hit. The show ended its latest Broadway run in October 2013 only after earning 4 Tony nominations including Best Revival of a Play, Best Featured Actress in […]
Morris Chestnut Cast As Regular In Upcoming TNT Show “Legends”
Actor Morris Chestnut has been announced as a regular character in the upcoming 2014 TNT series Legends. The show is produced by the Emmy winning producers of Showtime’s Homeland. Its plot focuses on an FBI co-operative agent whose own identity comes into question following a mysterious tip from a stranger. The show stars Sean Bean (Game […]
Octavia Spencer Snapped Up To Headline NBC’s “Murder She Wrote” Remake
Octavia Spencer has been chosen to star in a television remake of the series Murder She Wrote. A pilot has been ordered for the show by NBC according to THR. It appears that smart television networks are snatching talented Black actresses out of their film careers and giving them better roles on television. Black actress have been […]
All About Sleepy’s Hollow’s Nicole Beharie – The New Black Actress On The Block
Nicole Beharie is the Black actress currently starring on Fox’s Sleepy Hollow as Lieutenant Abbie Mills. At the moment, television viewers seem confused as to who this actress is. No, she’s not Meagan Good or Kerry Washington. Frequent visits to our own site, Blallywood, come from visitors asking if Meagan Good or Kerry Washington are on […]
Seasoned Black Actors Headline Carribbean Remix Of Shakespeare’s Macbeth
Terrence Howard, Sanaa Lathan, Blair Underwood, Harry Lennix, and Evan Ross will star in a film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth titled Macbett. The film is a Caribbean-set remix of the English play, and will be filmed in Jamaica and Puerto Rico beginning in September 2013. According to Carribbean 360: The new film’s storyline revolves around General Macbett […]
NAACP Theatre Awards To Be Held Tomorrow In Hollywood
Tomorrow, November 5, 2013, the NAACP Theatre Awards ceremony will take place at the Directors Guild of America located in Hollywood, CA. Below is the full list of nominees provided by the official NAACP Theatre Awards website. Popular nominees you might know include : Phylicia Rashad for Best Directory of a Raisin in the […]
Blallywood Film Review: Steel Magnolias (Perspective 2)
“There’s nothing new under the sun,” the familiar phrase of cynics across the world who have lost faith in creative ingenuity. It seems, however, that the black community has embraced this sentiment by setting a recent trend of remaking all-white classics into all-black updates. Tennessee Williams’ classic plays Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and […]
Black Orpheus Musical In The Works
Stephen C. Byrd, who was responsible for this summer’s black adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire that starred Blair Underwood, is set to produce a new show. A musical called Black Orpheus, based on the Greek tale of Orpheus (a musician who could charm beasts with the music he played on his lyre), is in the […]
