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This isn’t the Good Times of your childhood. Yvette Nicole Brown, who voices the character of Beverly Evans in the new animated version of Good Times for Netflix, promises it will be an “edgier, more irreverent” reboot of Norman Lear's groundbreaking TV sitcom. After one of Brown’s followers…

Randall Park (Fresh Off The Boat), Ashley Johnson (The Last of Us), Yvette Nicole Brown (Community) and Elijah Wood (The Lord of the Rings film trilogy) are set to lead the voice cast of Among Us, an animated series based on the highly popular game. CBS Studios’ animation arm Eye Animation Productions is…

EXCLUSIVE: Carl Weber’s The Family Business New Orleans spinoff is rounding out its cast. Lela Rochon joins previously announced Brandon T. Jackson in a starring role, along with Ben Stephens, Pooch Hall, Quincy Brown, David Banner, Yvette Nicole Brown, Orlando Jones, Nicole Galicia, Erica Hubbard, Sarah…

Netflix’s animated series reboot of Good Times has set Ranada Shepard (Young Love, Diary of a Future President) as co-creator of the series alongside Carl Jones. Shepard will also executive produce the comedy and serve as showrunner, Deadline has learned. The Good Times voice cast will include JB…

The Motion Picture & Television Fund said Tuesday that the Lights, Camera, Take Action! Caring for Hollywood's Crews fundraising telethon will return for its second edition December 9, airing live on KTLA-Los Angeles from 7-9 p.m. PT. It will also stream on the MPTF’s website. Yvette Nicole…

EXCLUSIVE: Yvette Nicole Brown (Community) and Jonnie “Dumbfoundead” Park (Raya and the Last Dragon) have joined the cast of K-Pops!, the film marking the directorial debut of eight-time Grammy winner Anderson .Paak, which we were first to report on. Also now aboard the project from Stampede Ventures…

The nominations for the 75th Emmy Awards are being announced live in a virtual ceremony on Wednesday, July 12 starting at 8:30 a.m. PT/11:30 a.m. ET. You can watch the livestream above. The nominations also will be streamed live on Emmy.com/nominations. Related…

Emmy-nominated Yvette Nicole Brown and Television Academy Chair Frank Scherma have been tapped to announce the nominees for the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards. The live virtual ceremony is slated for Wednesday, July 12 at 8:30 a.m. PT/11:30 a.m. ET. It will stream live on…

EXCLUSIVE: LA’s Micheaux Film Festival (July 10-16) is to honor director Steven Caple Jr. (Creed II) and actress Yvette Nicole Brown (Community). Caple Jr., also known for directing Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts and The Land, is to receive the festival’s Oscar Micheaux Trailblazer of Excellence…

Disney Branded Television’s animated series Firebuds from Emmy-winning creator and executive producer Craig Gerber (Disney’s Elena of Avalor and Sofia the First) follows a team of young first responders and their talking vehicle sidekicks. Two upcoming episodes, titled “Cleft Hood” and “All That…

EXCLUSIVE: Yvette Nicole Brown (Disenchanted), Page Kennedy (The Upshaws), and Cameron Fuller (Zatima) have joined the cast of buddy action-comedy Code 3 opposite Rainn Wilson, Lil Rel Howery, and Aimee Carrero. Production is currently underway. Brown plays Shanice, an experienced EMS supervisor who…

Yvette Nicole Brown EGOT winner Rita Moreno will receive the Casting Society’s career honor, the Lynn Stalmaster Award, at the 38th annual Artios Awards next month. The org also has set Yvette Nicole Brown to host the ceremony…