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The new Starz limited series Three Women is set to premiere on Friday, September 13 at midnight via the streamer’s app and on linear at 10 p.m. ET/PT in the U.S. First-look photos can be found below. Based on the New York Times bestselling book of the same name by Lisa Taddeo, the series follows…

While he’s never been busier, David Oyelowo has delivered a career’s worth of terrific performances going back to his work as the empathetic agent Danny Hunter in the British series MI5: Spooks. Oyelowo, whose turns include playing Martin Luther King Jr in the Ava DuVernay-directed Selma, just got a…

EXCLUSIVE: Alicia Witt (I Care a Lot) and Blair Underwood (Caste) have signed on to star alongside Nicolas Cage and Maika Monroe in Longlegs — the horror-thriller from Jason Cloth and Dave Caplan’s C2 Motion Picture Group (Babylon), which Osgood Perkins (The Blackcoat’s Daughter) is directing from his own…

Blair Underwood (American Crime Story), Victoria Pedretti (You), Isha Blaaker (The Flight Attendant) and Finn Wittrock (Ratched) are among the final major additions to Academy Award nominee Ava DuVernay’s latest film Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, based on the bestseller of the same name by…

Emmy winner Blair Underwood (In Treatment) is set as a lead opposite Shailene Woodley, DeWanda Wise and Betty Gilpin in the upcoming Showtime drama series Three Women. Additionally, Mozart in the Jungle alumna Lola Kirke has been tapped for a recurring role in the hourlong series based on the nonfiction bestseller by…

L.A. Law has taken a major step in its TV comeback. ABC has given a pilot green light to a new incarnation of the iconic Steven Bochco legal drama. The project, which had been in the works at the network since December, is headlined by Blair Underwood, reprising his role as attorney Jonathan Rollins in addition to…

UPDATED, 9:37 AM: Oscar nominee and Emmy winner Alfre Woodard has joined the cast of Viral, a thriller from Blair Underwood, who stars along with Sarah Silverman. Woodard will play Dr. Johnetta, a psychiatrist specializing in deep trauma. PREVIOUSLY, MAY 4: Comic and two-time Emmy winner Sarah Silverman has been cast…

EXCLUSIVE: Blair Underwood (Quantico) is set to direct, produce and star in Viral, an indie thriller from York Films about a man dealing with his wife’s disappearance. Joe McClean wrote the pic and is producing alongside Daniel Cypress and York Films’ John Kalafatis, Joanna Kalafatis and Andreas Ignatiou. Underwood…

Nearly 40 years after its celebrated Off Broadway debut and subsequent hit movie adaptation, Charles Fuller's Pulitzer Prize-winning A Soldier's Play, opening tonight on Broadway at the Roundabout’s American Airlines Theatre, has lost little of its power. Even in a Broadway landscape that could give home to the…

A Broadway revival of the Tony Kushner-Jeanine Tesori musical Caroline, Or Change and a Broadway premiere of Off Broadway’s seminal A Soldier’s Play, starring David Alan Grier and Blair Underwood, are set for 2020 opening nights in Roundabout Theatre Company productions. Caroline, Or Change, last on Broadway in 2004…

EXCLUSIVE: We hear BET Networks is developing Sister Code, a one-hour family legal drama from writer Gregg McBride (A Heavenly Christmas) and Intrepid, the Emmy-winning banner of Blair Underwood (When They See Us, Quantico) and Tommy Morgan Jr.’s (Bridge to Nowhere). Created by McBride, Sister Code focuses on the…

Netflix’s upcoming limited series Madam CJ Walker is adding more star power to the cast. Tiffany Haddish, Carmen Ejogo, Blair Underwood, Garrett Morris and Kevin Carroll have signed on to the project about legendary African-American entrepreneur and philanthropist, Madam C.J. Walker, Netflix announced today. They join…