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The Ms. Pat Show is coming Aug. 12, 2021, to BET+, and we got a first look at the stand-up comedian’s series over the weekend during the BET Awards. Based on Ms. Pat’s stand-up comedy and memoir, THE MS. PAT SHOW is the story of a former convicted felon turned suburban mom …
Preacher Lawson first got nationwide attention a few years ago on America’s Got Talent, and in 2019, premiered his first full stand-up special on BET’s premium streaming platform. As I wrote then: Lawson puts a smile on everything, despite moving some 20 times as a kid, and not having a …
Welp. The Rundown with Robin Thede offered a strong, funny point-of-view you could find nowhere else on TV or streaming, complete with fun musical numbers and obligatory body rolls. And yet BET never knew what to do with what it had. And so BET announced today it wasn’t renewing Thede’s …
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″] [et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] Two weeks ago, I rounded up all of the writing staffs working on America’s nightly late-night TV comedy talk shows. Say that three times fast! Easier said than trying to say all the names of the writers three times fast, I’ll tell …
Welcome to the late-night TV hosting club, Robin Thede! Thursday night’s premiere of The Rundown with Robin Thede on BET proved that Thede had a lot more to offer than we saw in her brief tenure as head writer and correspondent on Comedy Central’s The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore. As …
Fresh off of the summer TCA rounds, BET has released this scene from the upcoming sketch-reality series The Comedy Get Down, starring Cedric The Entertainer, Eddie Griffin, D.L. Hughley, George Lopez and Charlie Murphy. In this scene, George, Ced and D.L. meet with one of their sponsors to try to …
Charlie Murphy (“Charlie Murphy!”) may have died in April, but his comic legacy lives on, not only in the fourth season of Power on Starz, which began airing this summer — but also the forthcoming first season of The Comedy Get Down, coming to BET. BET had announced the semi-scripted …
Leslie Jones hosted the 2017 BET Awards on Sunday night in Los Angeles, and didn’t hold back on making fun of how old-school she is and was, from noting how she’s turning 50 later this year, and showing clips of her first TV credit from Comic View back in the …
BET may have leaked word early about the network’s upcoming new late-night talk show hosted by former Nightly Show head writer/correspondent Robin Thede (and executive produced by Chris Rock), but BET actually has a whole slate of late-night programming coming later in 2017. Among the offerings: A variety show fronted …
BET hasn’t had a full-fledged late-night talk show since Mo’Nique went nightly back in 2009-2011. The network is diving back in this fall with Robin Thede’s The Rundown. BET is giving The Rundown an initial 24-week order; it’ll air weekly for a half-hour, with a launch date and time to be …
