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Famous anime fan and cosplayer Megan Thee Stallion is going viral for her latest cosplay, which she debuted at Dream Con 2025. The newest cosplay tackles Bleach's Yoruichi Shihoin, as she appears during her "Flash Goddess" transformation in Thousand-Year Blood War.

Megan Thee Stallion is well known for her anime cosplays, having done characters from My Hero Academia's Shoto Todoroki to Trish Una from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. Fans of the musician often can't wait to see her next outfit, and she isn't shy about her love for anime. Megan Thee Stallion was in attendance at the convention to host a panel called "Power and Creativity: Building a Brand That Moves Culture with Megan Thee Stallion." Naturally, she showed up to the panel in the Yoruichi cosplay, instantly stunning fans with her intricate costume and look.

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Megan Thee Stallion has made it clear that she's a huge anime fan. The rap artist has cosplayed numerous characters from shows like Sailor Moon, Jujutsu Kaisen, and Jojo's Bizarre Adventures, to name a few. But now, this artist is about to have her anime dreams come true. She announced that Prime Video would be releasing her anime series, and that The Boondocks' executive producer, Carl Jones, is attached the project.

The Grammy-winning rapper teased the upcoming project during her appearance at DreamCon. While the show's name has yet to be revealed, along with its plot, she only told fans, "You ain't never seen an anime like this ever in your life," that Jones is attached to the project, and it will be available on Prime Video.

Megan Thee Stallion's connection with anime stems deeper, beyond this show and her cosplays. The rapper was a presenter at the 2024 Crunchyroll Anime Awards,...

Megan Thee Stallion is making the leap from hip-hop artist to "Flash Goddess" in this stunning real-life tribute to the electrifying queen of Bleach, Yoruichi Shihouin. This jaw-dropping anime cosplay comes after Stallion revealed more details about her upcoming anime series.

On her Instagram account, Stallion shared photos of her latest anime cosplay from her appearance at Dream Con 2025. Taking place between May 30 and June 1 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas, Dream Con featured the local Grammy-winning rapper for a panel called "Power and Creativity: Building a Brand That Moves Culture with Megan Thee Stallion." During this panel, Stallion transformed herself into the goddess Yoruichi from the Bleach anime TV series.

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Stallion shared several photos of herself as Yoruichi,...

Megan Thee Stallion has long been open about her love for anime, from cosplaying as My Hero Academia’s Shoto Todoroki to name-dropping Goku in her lyrics. Now, she is leveling up from fan to creator. In a recent announcement, Megan revealed that her very own anime series is in the works, and she is teaming up with none other than The Boondocks executive producer Carl Jones to bring it to life. The upcoming show will stream on Amazon Prime Video, adding some serious star power to the platform’s growing anime offerings.

Megan teased the project with infectious enthusiasm, according to @ToonHive on X, promising fans, “You ain’t never seen an anime like this ever in your life!” That bold claim, coming from someone with a deep appreciation for the genre, has stirred major buzz online. With Carl Jones involved, an industry veteran known for pushing boundaries in animation,...

Megan Thee Stallion’s fondness for anime is no news for fans. However, the celebrity singer always ensures that her presence brings new surprises. Sometimes it’s her cosplay making it to the news, and other times, hidden Easter Eggs in her songs grab fans’ attention. This time around, she has taken things to a whole new level by announcing her anime.

This Friday, she was present at DreamCon in a Yoruichi Shihoin cosplay. During a special panel, the singer dropped the big announcement, but revealed minimal information about it. However, she promised great things for fans to look forward to.

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According to the Houston Chronicle, Megan Thee Stallion recently attended the DreamCon in a Yoruichi cosplay. She announced that she has a new anime series coming up on Amazon Prime Video.

Megan Thee Stallion has announced that her own upcoming anime series will be streaming exclusively on Amazon's Prime Video platform. She recently shared the news while in cosplay during a panel at Houston's DreamCon.

Per The Houston Chronicle, Megan was dressed as Bleach's Yoruichi Shihōin for her appearance at DreamCon, where she spoke at a panel titled "Power and Creativity: Building a Brand That Moves Culture with Megan Thee Stallion." She shared that she collaborated with Carl Jones (The Boondocks) for the project, which will air on Amazon Prime Video, but didn't share any other details, such as its release date or story. She did make one promise though: "You ain't never seen an anime like this ever in your life."

Megan Thee Stallion's Anime Series Will Stream on Amazon's Prime Video @joeygerardo@Megan Thee Stallion confirms her own anime series with @Carl Jones of #boondocks @dreamcon Houston...

Three former crewmembers on the ABC medical series “Doctor Odyssey” are suing 20th Century and its parent company Disney for allegedly enabling an “unchecked campaign of sexual harassment for months” on the set of the series.

In the suit, filed Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court, plaintiffs Caroline Mack, Alicia Haverland and Ava Steinbrenner claim that Tyler Patton, the assistant prop master on “Doctor Odyssey,” would subject the three to “sexual jokes, innuendos, comments, sexual gestures and images” as well as “unwanted touching,” such as “openly grabbing a visiting female employee’s buttocks.”

In one account contained in the suit, Patton allegedly sent prop department employees a story appearing to reference news that President Biden had dropped out of the 2024 election. But the link redirected to a picture of a naked male with an erect penis. Other comments allegedly made by Patton include calling one of the plaintiffs a “chick...

Former crewmembers on Doctor Odyssey have sued 20th Television and parent company Disney over alleged sexual harassment and retaliation on the set of the medical drama.

Caroline Mack, Alicia Haverland and Ava Steinbrenner, in a lawsuit filed on Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court, claim they were targets of an “unchecked campaign of sexual harassment” in which their supervisor bombarded them with sexual comments and unwanted touching. They say they were ultimately fired after they complained of the alleged misconduct to management.

The plaintiffs reported to assistant prop master Tyler Patton, whose supervisor was his wife Tammie Patton. Tyler Patton was previously involved in a lawsuit from a former Universal Network Television employee, who advanced sexual harassment and retaliation allegations on the set of House. In that complaint, the employee Carl Jones claimed Patton groped his genitals and invited women from various production departments to engage in sexual activity.

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SXSW announced the rest of its 2025 film and television lineup on Wednesday, including the world premiere of Jillian Bell's directorial debut Summer Of '69. It was also announced that the festival will feature the U.S. premiere of On Swift Horses, directed by Daniel Minahan. The film stars Jacob Elordi...

Cobra Kai Season 6 is finally here and it’s even better than the last one, which no one thought was possible. The Netflix series follows the story of Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka), who has kind of left bullying and turned into a karate instructor. The series continues the story of the 1984 film The Karate Kid, in which Johnny lost the “All Valley Karate Tournament” to his enemy Daniel (Ralph Macchio). In the series, Johnny inspires weak kids to learn karate so that they can stand up to their bullies and fight to protect themselves. Still, everything goes wrong in a very entertaining way and many iconic characters from the Karate Kid movies appear in the series. So, if you love the teen drama, action comedy, and martial arts in Cobra Kai here are some similar shows you could watch while waiting for Cobra Kai Season 6 Part 2.

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Netflix’s Good Times reboot has drawn ire from audiences and national organizations such as the NAACP for its perceived stereotypical depictions of African Americans since its trailer was first released on March 27. That same day, a Change.org petition, which has gathered some 5,000 signatures, was launched calling on viewers to boycott the new show which “promotes violence, culture destruction of the Black community and alcohol abuse,” the creator of the petition wrote.

Showrunner Ranada Shepard understands the knee-jerk reaction.

“You haven’t seen J.B. [Smoove] and Yvette [Nicole Brown] and Marsai [Martin] and Jay Pharoah and Slink Johnson on couches all across America, which typically happens when you’re rolling out a show. There was no framing that the audience had, it was just: Watch this and form an opinion. And, they watched and they formed an opinion,” Shepard tells THR in the conversation below.

Shepard took over from...

Jb Smoove stars in Netflix's Good Times, perfect for fans missing Curb Your Enthusiasm. Good Times features a star-studded cast and is trending despite mixed reviews. Wanda Sykes stars in Good Times with Smoove, reuniting after Curb Your Enthusiasm.

After 12 seasons and 120 episodes, Curb Your Enthusiasm came to an end in April 2024, and Jb Smoove, who played Leon Black in the HBO television series, already has the perfect show to replace it. The sitcom, created by and starring Larry David, aired on HBO from 2000 to 2024 and depicted a fictionalized version of David (as a semi-retired television writer and producer). Curb Your Enthusiasm season 12's 10 episodes covered Larry's arrest for handing out water to people in line at a polling station and subsequent trial (which intentionally paralleled Seinfeld's last episode).

Smoove's Leon was introduced in Curb Your Enthusiasm season 6 in a recurring role before being promoted to series regular in season 9. Leon's sister — Loretta Black,...

Fifty years ago, “Good Times” became the first sitcom to depict a two-parent Black American family. Now, Netflix is debuting a present-day animated reboot chronicling the Evanses two generations after the original. Set in Chicago’s Cabrini Green projects in the same apartment from the 1970s dramedy, the series follows Reggie (J.B. Smoove), his wife Beverly (Yvette Nicole Brown) and their children, Junior (Jay Pharoah), Grey (Marsai Martin) and Dalvin (Slink Johnson). Black people aren’t a monolith, and respectability politics certainly aren’t the answer to racism, sexism, bigotry and homophobia. Yet it’s puzzling that this mind-numbing series is how creator Ranada Shepard is paying homage to such a classic show while trying to speak to 21st-century Black people. It’s also very clear why Netflix decided against sending out screeners for review.

In the season opener, “Meet the Evans of New,” we learn about the new occupants of apartment 17C.

The title of Eric Monte and Mike Evans’ Norman Lear-produced sitcom Good Times was designed to be welcoming and inclusive. The theme song was a litany of poverty-driven adversity — temporary layoffs, easy credit rip-offs, etc. — interjected with the chorus of “Good Times!,” setting up the story of the Evans family weathering the travails of the Chicago projects with a mix of pride, determination and a whole lot of dysfunctional domestic affection.

The title of Netflix’s new 10-episode animated Good Times has taken on an almost antagonistic quality, since the first trailer was released and devotees of the original blasted those two minutes for being a violation of said original’s style and spirit.

Cavalcade of caricatures! Good Times!

Drug-dealing baby! Good Times!

Executive Producer Seth MacFarlane! Good Times!

Only for adults! Good times!

It’s impossible to review Netflix’s Good Times without starting by saying what it is not — namely,...

Netflix's animated reboot of Good Times features a talented voice cast of Black actors, continuing the legacy of the iconic 1970s sitcom. The series follows the fourth generation of the Evans family, living in a Chicago housing project, aiming to address social issues and push boundaries. With Seth MacFarlane co-executive producing, the show blends humor and important themes within the context of a working-class Black family.

Netflix's Good Times has an exciting voice cast of Black actors seeking to recreate the magic of the 1970s sitcom with the same title, this time in animation. Airing on CBS from 1974 to 1979, the original series made history for being the first Black two-parent family sitcom. It also garnered praise for its blend of humor and portrayal of significant themes within the context of a working-class Black family. This animated reboot is created by Ranada Shepard and Carl Jones, and co-executive produced by...

Netflix’s animated Good Times update from Seth MacFarlane and the late and great Norman Lear is moving full steam ahead.

The streamer has tapped J.B. Smoove, Yvette Nicole Brown and Jay Pharoah to lead the voice cast of the animated and adult-leaning series. Additionally, Ranada Shepard (Family Affair, Lizzie McGuire) has signed on to serve as showrunner, replacing Carl Jones (The Boondocks) in the role.

The animated series follows the Evans family in the present day as they navigate today’s world and contemporary social issues. As the original did, the new show will strive to remind viewers that with the love of family, everyone can keep their heads above water.

Smoove and Brown will play the show’s central couple, Reggie and Beverly, with Pharoah taking on the role of one of their sons, Junior.

The original series starred Esther Rolle and John Amos as Florida and James Evans,...

Netflix’s animated series reboot of Good Times has set Ranada Shepard 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 Smoove, Yvette Nicole Brown, Jay Pharoah, Marsai Martin, Slink Johnson and Rashida “Sheedz” Olayiwola, sources close to production reveal exclusively. Pharoah portrayed original Evans family member J.J. Evans, originally played by Jimmie Walker in ABC’s Emmy Award-winning Live in Front of a Studio Audience: All In The Family and Good Times. As we revealed exclusively following the death of TV legend Norman Lear, he will guest-star in a Season 1 episode.

The animated Good Times series finds the fourth generation of the Evans family living in apartment 17C of the last remaining housing projects in Chicago. It turns out the more...

Norman Lear was still active in developing television shows at age 101.

The television icon, who passed away Dec. 5 of natural causes, was in recent weeks working on his TV slate, including redeveloping a reboot of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman after TBS exited the scripted originals business and the cable network released the project, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter.

“He loved the slate and was excited to bring it to the world,” a source close to Lear says.

Schitt’s Creek alum Emily Hampshire remains attached to take on the role originally played by Louise Lasser as well as co-write and exec produce the live-action update. The comedy landed at TBS on Lear’s 99th birthday on July 27, 2021, after months in development at Sony Pictures Television, where Lear and Brent Miller’s Act III Productions remains based with an active overall deal.

Sony acquired rights to Lear’s TV library via its...

Animated reboots of classic TV shows are on the rise, allowing for creative experimentation and the exploration of magical and supernatural themes. These reboots are targeting a more adult audience, bringing beloved shows into the modern era and tackling contemporary social issues. The animation medium offers a unique opportunity to revive lost episodes, reimagine characters, and tap into nostalgia, providing new content for fans of animated stories.

It's common for animated TV shows and movies to get a live-action remake but less so for live-action properties to get animated reboots. Turning live-action TV shows into animated series allows animators to experiment with style and play with more magical and supernatural themes. Animation can take audiences to places that live-action could never do every week.

Animated shows are no longer for children on a Saturday morning, and showrunners are using this craze to adapt classic and beloved TV shows. There have...

Since 2018, creator group RDCWorld has organized an annual event series called Dream Con, which takes place in the group’s home state of Texas. The 2023 edition of Dream Con established several milestones for the yearly gathering: It was the first DreamCon to take place in Austin, and it drew the largest crowd in the convention’s history, with more than 20,000 attendees flocking to the Austin Convention Center.

Dream Con exists on several axes. On the surface, it’s a creator convention that provides a Texan complement to VidCon. For the members of RDCWorld, the three-day event is an opportunity to rub shoulders with like-minded creators and entertainment industry notables.

But at its core, Dream Con is a space for Black nerds — or “Blerds” — who love anime, video games, and sports. It’s a chance to hang with other members of that community and meet the people who are sharing Blerd...

Young Love is a Max Original animated series that expands on the Academy Award-winning animated short Hair Love and follows the lives of the Young family as they navigate careers, marriage, and social issues. The series features an ensemble cast including Scott "Kid Cudi" Mescudi, Issa Rae, Loretta Devine, Harry Lennix, Tamar Braxton, and Brooke Conaway, and aims to be a family-friendly show that can be enjoyed by viewers of all ages. Young Love strives to provide positive representation and diversity in the animation industry, portraying a grounded and authentic depiction of a black family on the west side of Chicago, while also exploring multi-generational dynamics and addressing universal themes.

Expanding on the Academy Award-winning animated short Hair Love is Max's new animated series Young Love. The series follows the Young family which includes millennial parents Stephen and Angela, their daughter Zuri, and their pet cat Rocky from the original short.

Max has released the official trailer for Young Love, the animated series spinoff of the Oscar-winning short Hair Love. The 12-episode season premieres with four episodes on Thursday, September 21 on Max and continues with four episodes weekly, leading up to the season finale on October 5.

From creator Matthew A. Cherry and Sony Pictures Animation, Young Love takes a look into the lives of African American millennial parents Stephen Love (Scott Mescudi) and Angela Young (Issa Rae) as they experience the relatable ups and downs of modern life. In remission following a battle with cancer, Angela struggles to balance her work as a stylist with the demands of parenthood, while Stephen attempts to carve out a career as a musician in an ultra-competitive industry. Along with their fearless daughter Zuri (Brooke Monroe Conaway), this tight-knit Chicago family juggles careers, marriage, parenthood, social issues, and multi-generational dynamics while striving to make a better life for themselves.

“Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen” has been acquired by CBS to temporarily take over the 12:37 a.m. timeslot vacated by “The Late Late Show with James Corden.” That timeslot will eventually be replaced with a new version of the former Comedy Central series “@midnight” — but after the Hollywood strikes are resolved. For now, “Comics Unleashed” will fill the slot in a limited run with nightly airings beginning on Monday, Sept. 18, the network announced Monday.

The round-style comedy talk show features Allen speaking with a panel of rotating comedians, including Sebastian Maniscalco, Tiffany Haddish, Gabriel Iglesias, Cedric the Entertainer, Howie Mandel, Leslie Jones, Wayne Brady, Roy Wood, Jr., Whitney Cummings, Jb Smoove, Billy Gardell, Margaret Cho, Brad Garrett, Sheryl Underwood, Adam Carolla, Gina Yashere, Dane Cook, Sinbad, George Wallace, Caroline Rhea, Tommy Davidson, David Alan Grier, Kevin Hart, Chelsea Handler, Katt Williams, Dennis Miller, Jamie Kennedy, Iliza Shlesinger, Jon Lovitz,...

Max has debuted the first trailer for Young Love, the series spinoff of Matthew A. Cherry’s Oscar-winning Hair Love short.

The two-minute teaser for the 12-episode, animated expansion produced in partnership with Sony Pictures Animation features Scott Mescudi (Kid Cudi) as music producer Stephen Love, Issa Rae as natural hair vlogger Angela Young, and Brooke Monroe Conaway as their young daughter Zuri Young Love.

The trio navigate the modern ups and downs of their professional and personal lives in Chicago as artists and a Black millennial-parented family. For Angela, that’s returning to her work as a stylist after cancer treatment, while Steven manages the grind of a career in an ultra-competitive industry.

“Welcome to my castle,” Zuri tells one of her friends as they enter her apartment. “You can drop your bag on the floor. My mom and dad will get them.”

“Are we the help?” Stephen asks.

The first trailer for Max’s family-friendly animated comedy “Young Love” has arrived. The 12-episode series comes from Matthew A. Cherry, the Oscar-winning creator behind the short “Hair Love,” and Sony Pictures Animation.

Set in the same universe as Cherry’s Academy Award-winning short film, “Young Love” expands the world of the Love family. The Chicago-based series stars Scott Mescudi, aka Kid Cudi, as Stephen and Issa Rae as Angela, two millennial parents raising their fearless daughter, Zuri (Brooke Monroe Conaway).

As Angela struggles to maintain a work-life balance in the wake of her battle with cancer, Stephen attempts to make a name for himself in the highly competitive music industry. Described as “heartfelt” and “comedic” in a press release, the series juggles the ups and downs of careers, marriage, parenthood, social issues and multi-generational dynamics.

In addition to Mescudi and Rae, the Max series stars Loretta Devine (“Dreamgirls”), Harry Lennix...

Issa Rae and Kid Cudi (whose real name is Scott Mescudi) are loving parents just trying their best in the full trailer for the upcoming animated series Young Love, which you can check out above.

The first four episodes will premiere Thursday, Sept. 21 on Max; four new episodes will drop weekly until the finale on Oct. 5.

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Amazon Freevee has given the greenlight to “Clean Slate,” a new comedy from Norman Lear’s Act III Productions, starring Laverne Cox and comedian George Wallace. The original comedy has been in development at Freevee since February 2021, back when the ad-supported streamer was known as IMDb TV.

“Clean Slate,” which comes from Cox, Wallace and Dan Ewen, centers on car wash owner Henry (Wallace), whose estranged child comes home to Alabama after 17 years. But he must do some soul searching as he comes to terms with the fact that his adult child is a trans woman, Desiree (Cox). There’s no word yet on an episodic order, when the series might shoot or an estimated premiere date.

Ewen serves as executive producer and writer on “Clean Slate,” and he has story credit along with Cox and Wallace. Cox will also serve as an executive producer on the show, while Wallace is a producer.

HBO is developing Blood Sugar, a series starring and executive produced by Emmy-nominated Glow alumna Betty Gilpin, from Annapurna.

In Blood Sugar, written by Duke Merriman (Monos) and Preston Thompson (Kids In Love), when the Sharks of Shark Tank laugh the delightful Margot Schultz and her frozen food business off stage, little do they know, they’re setting in motion one of the funniest, bloodiest and wildest rises to fame and fortune this country has ever seen.

Claire Wilson (Gangs of London) serves as showrunner on the project with Lucy Tcherniak (Angelyne) set to direct. The two executive produce with Gilpin, Merriman and Thompson as well as Megan Ellison, Sue Naegle, Ali Krug and Patrick Chu for Annapurna, and Bryan Unkeless and Scott Morgan for Clubhouse Pictures.

For Gilpin, Blood Sugar joins a packed slate. She plays one of the leads of Showtime’s upcoming drama series Three Women, based...

Norman Lear celebrated the dawn of his second century on the planet by probably accomplishing more than you did in the past month. Not only did he gather with family and friends, but Lear also published an op-ed in The Washington Post, warning of the erosion of voting rights in America, and TBS sealed a deal to develop a new version of his iconic 1970s late-night soap “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.”

“How about that,” said Lear, on the phone from New York. “I can’t overstate how exciting I find that.”

Brent Miller, who runs Lear’s Act III production company, credited Sony for “for really pushing through in the way they have. To make sure that we could close that [TBS] deal right on his birthday was a nice gift.” The updated show is set to star Emily Hampshire (“Schitt’s Creek”) in the title role; Hampshire and Jacob Tierney (“Letterkenny”) are writing and executive producing.

https://youtu.be/ZfaprMUfL_o Listen / download here: Fifteen years ago, The Boondocks changed the course of modern animation by not only featuring Black characters as the leads, but by being absolutely unapologetic in its content. That boundary-pushing show gained its own following along with a fair share of backlash, all of which is now par for the course for executive producer Carl Jones and producer Brian Ash. They've had celebrities like Oprah and Tyler Perry take issue with (and aim at) The Boondocks, just as they've had Adult Swim axe an episode before it was ever animated …...

Get ready for some more Good Times. The classic 70s sitcom is coming back, but it will be an animated Netflix series this time around. Norman Lear, who developed the original version, is on board for the reboot, along with NBA star Steph Curry and Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane. Carl Jones created the new show and will serve as showrunner. The streaming service has ordered 10 episodes.

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An animated reboot of the classic 1970s sitcom Good Times is in the works from executive producers Seth MacFarlane, Steph Curry, and television icon Norman Lear, who developed the original. The Boondocks producer Carl Jones will serve as creator, showrunner, and executive producer. MacFarlane is producing via Fuzzy Door with Erica Huggins, while Curry is producing via his Unanimous label with Erick Peyton and Jeron Smith. “It’s a thrill to be partnering with Norman Lear and to help bring new life to his groundbreaking show Good Times, through the talent and personal stories of Carl Jones and the team …...

Netflix is rebooting Norman Lear’s classic ’70s sitcom Good Times as an animated series, with a little help from Family Guy auteur Seth MacFarlane.

Lear and MacFarlane will serve as EPs on the project, which follows the Evans family as they navigate today’s world and contemporary social issues. Carl Jones (The Boondocks, The Last O.G.) serves as creator, showrunner, and executive producer.

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Norman Lear’s 1970s sitcom “Good Times” is coming back as an animated series at Netflix.

Based at Sony Pictures Television, Lear’s Act III productions is partnering with Steph Curry and Seth MacFarlane via their Unanimous Media and Fuzzy Door Productions. This will be Lear’s first foray into animated series.

Netflix describes the series as “following the Evans family as they navigate today’s world and contemporary social issues. Just as the original did years ago, Good Times strives to remind us that with the love of our family, we can keep our heads above water.”

Carl Jones serves as creator, showrunner and executive producer. Brent Miller also executive produces via Act III, with Erick Peyton and Jeron Smith for Unanimous and Erica Huggins for Fuzzy Door.

“We can’t think of anything better, at this time in our culture, than a reimagining of Good Times animated,” Lear...

Netflix has given a series order to an animated version of Norman Lear’s groundbreaking TV sitcom Good Times. The project hails from Lear and his Act III Productions, NBA star Steph Curry and his Unanimous Media, Seth MacFarlane and his Fuzzy Door, and Sony Pictures TV.

Based on his iconic ’70s series, Good Times is Lear’s first animated series. It comes on the heels of the recent animated episode of One Day At a Time, Pop TV’s reboot of another Lear classic.

Good Times follows the Evans family as they navigate today’s world and contemporary social issues. Just as the original did years ago, Good Times strives to remind us that with the love of our family, we can keep our heads above water.

Carl Jones serves as creator, showrunner, and executive producer. Lear and Brent Miller executive produce for Act III Productions, Stephen Curry, Erick Peyton...

Netflix has given a 10-episode, straight-to-series order to a new animated take on Norman Lear’s classic sitcom “Good Times.” Lear and his Act III Prods. shingle is partnering with basketball star Steph Curry and his production company, Unanimous Media, as well as Seth MacFarlane and his shingle Fuzzy Door, to develop the show.

Both Act III and Unanimous are based at Sony Pictures TV, which is behind the animated “Good Times.” Carl Jones, whose credits include animated series “The Boondocks” and “Black Dynamite,” as well as TBS’ Tracy Morgan starrer “The Last O.G.,” will create, showrun and executive produce the project. Per the logline, the new animated series will follow “the Evans family as they navigate today’s world and contemporary social issues. Just as the original did years ago, ‘Good Times’ strives to remind us that with the love of our family, we can keep our heads above water.

The classic 1970s sitcom Good Times is being revived at Netflix — in animated form.

The streamer has given a 10-episode order to the show, which counts Norman Lear — who produced the original series — Seth MacFarlane and NBA star Steph Curry among its executive producers. Carl Jones (The Boondocks, Black Dynamite) created the show and will serve as showrunner.

Sony Pictures Television, which has a first-look deal with Lear that includes options to reimagine his classic shows, is behind the animated series. Lear’s Act III Productions, MacFarlane’s Fuzzy Door Productions and Curry’s Unanimous Media also produce.

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The classic 1970s sitcom Good Times is being revived at Netflix — in animated form.

The streamer has given a 10-episode order to the show, which counts Norman Lear — who produced the original series — Seth MacFarlane and NBA star Steph Curry among its executive producers. Carl Jones (The Boondocks, Black Dynamite) created the show and will serve as showrunner.

Sony Pictures Television, which has a first-look deal with Lear that includes options to reimagine his classic shows, is behind the animated series. Lear’s Act III Productions, MacFarlane’s Fuzzy Door Productions and Curry’s Unanimous Media also produce.

“...

Not many companies can say they won an Academy Award with their first film. But Lion Forge Animation’s Carl Reed and David Steward II, who formed the U.S.’s only Black-owned animation studio last year to address a lack of representation in the genre, took home the hardware in February for the studio’s involvement in animated short “Hair Love.”

Reed, a former animator, is president of the company and chief creative officer of St. Louis-based parent media firm Polarity. Steward, whose background is in marketing and finance, is CEO of Polarity, the owner› of Lion Forge Comics, which the two men founded in 2011.

The Oscar was only the start for Lion Forge Animation. HBO Max just picked up the 12-part TV series “Young Love,” a spinoff of “Hair Love,” from director Matthew Cherry, which Reed and Steward will executive produce alongside Cherry and animation vet Carl Jones.

This year’s virtual Comic-Con@Home has announced its schedule for Friday, July 24. The highlights are below.

The virtual event replaces the annual San Diego Comic-Con, the largest fan convention in North America, which was to be held July 22–26 at the San Diego Convention Center, until the Covid-19 pandemic forced its cancellation.

In June, Comic-Con International — the non-profit organization that oversees Sdcc and its sister event, WonderCon in Anaheim, Calif. — announced it was moving forward with the virtual event on the same dates. This time, however, the event is free and open to all.

Friday’s events include panels for all three of AMC’s “Walking Dead” series, Hulu’s new Marvel series “Helstrom,” and creatives like Charlize Theron, Joss Whedon, and Robert Kirkman.

The Comic-Con@Home schedule — including Wednesday, July 22 and Thursday, July 23 — is being announced daily through Sunday.

All times are Pacific Daylight.

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Charlize Theron: Evolution...

HBO, HBO Max and TBS will bring the very best of fantasy, sci-fi, animation and more to Comic-Con@Home, San Diego Comic-Con's first fully online virtual event. Complete virtual panel line-ups and descriptions for HBO, HBO Max and TBS below.

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His Dark MaterialsThursday, July 23 at 1 p.m. Pt

This virtual panel will include a look back at highlights from the first season of the hit drama series as well as an exclusive conversation about what to expect in season two. Moderated by award-winning journalist Stacey Wilson Hunt, the panelists include executive producers Jane Tranter and Jack Thorne as well as cast members Dafne Keen (Lyra), Ruth Wilson (Mrs.Coulter), Ariyon Bakare (Lord Boreal), Amir Wilson (Will Parry), Andrew Scott (John Parry), and Lin-Manuel Miranda (Lee Scoresby). Fans can follow live coverage of the panel on Twitter from @daemonsanddust and use #HisDarkMaterials to join the conversation.

Matthew A. Cherry’s Academy Award winning “Hair Love” short is getting adapted into an animated television series for HBO Max.

Cherry’s upcoming 12-episode show, titled “Young Love,” will be based on the characters from his short film. Cherry will serve as showrunner alongside animation veteran Carl Jones. The series will be executive produced by Blue Key Entertainment’s Monica A. Young (producer of “Hair Love”) along with Lion Forge Animation’s David Steward II and Carl Reed.

The upcoming series promises to expand upon the characters that made the original short an instant hit. Per WarnerMedia, “Hair Love” centered around the relationship between an African American father, his daughter Zuri, and the most daunting task a father could ever come across: doing his daughter’s hair for the first time. The upcoming “Young Love” animated series expands on the family introduced in “Hair Love.” Filled with comedy and heart,...

Now this is some good news – HBO Max has ordered a 12-episode season of an all-new, 2D animated series called Young Love, based on the Oscar-winning short film “Hair Love.” The new series was created by Matthew A. Cherry, who will also serve as showrunner alongside Carl Jones. Timing wasn’t announced but the animation will be handled by Sony Pictures Animation. The original, utterly charming short film followed a young father as he attempts to do his daughter Zuri’s hair for the first time. It’s hilarious and heartfelt and ends on a bittersweet note, …...

HBO Max has picked up a 12-episode season of Young Love, a 2D-animated series created by Matthew A. Cherry, based on the characters from Cherry and Sony Pictures Animation’s Oscar-winning short film, Hair Love.

Cherry and longtime animation creative Carl Jones will serve as showrunners for the series, which expands on the world of the Young family – including millennial parents Stephen and Angela, their daughter Zuri and her pet cat Rocky – as they juggle careers, marriage, parenthood, social issues and multi-generational dynamics while striving to make a better life for themselves.

Blue Key Entertainment’s Monica A. Young, producer of Hair Love, will executive produce along with Lion Forge Animation’s David Steward II and Carl Reed.

“I am beyond excited to continue telling the story of Stephen, Angela and Zuri and further explore the family dynamics of a young Black millennial family we established...

HBO Max has ordered 12 episodes of a new animated series called “Young Love,” based on the Academy Award-winning short film “Hair Love” by Matthew A. Cherry and Sony Pictures Animation.

Cherry created the new series and will serve as showrunner with animator Carl Jones.

The series, which will follow the same characters introduced in the short film, will be executive produced by Blue Key Entertainment’s Monica A. Young, who produced “Hair Love,” along with Lion Forge Animation’s David Steward II and Carl Reed.

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“Hair Love” followed the relationship between an African-American father and his daughter Zuri as they tackled a daunting task — doing Zuri’s hair for the firs time together.

Here is the description from HBO Max:

“Filled with comedy and heart, Young Love is an honest look into the world of the Young family – including millennial parents Stephen and Angela,...

HBO Max has ordered a 12-episode season of “Young Love,” an animated series based on the characters from Matthew A. Cherry and Sony Pictures Animation’s Oscar-winning animated short, “Hair Love.”

Creator Cherry will showrun the series with Carl Jones, the animation creative best known for “The Boondocks” and “Black Dynamite”; Blue Key Entertainment’s Monica A. Young, who produced “Hair Love,” will executive produce the streaming service’s new show alongside Lion Forge Animation’s David Steward II and Carl Reed.

“I am beyond excited to continue telling the story of Stephen, Angela and Zuri and further explore the family dynamics of a young Black millennial family we established in our short film Hair Love as an animated series,” said Cherry. “Couldn’t ask for better partners in Sony Pictures Animation and HBO Max in helping us get ‘Young Love’ out to the world.”

“Hair Love” explored the relationship...

Matthew A. Cherry predicted his Oscar win, but did he see this coming? Hair Love is becoming an animated series, Young Love, on HBO Max. The new streamer announced Cherry, who created the series, will also serve as showrunner with Carl Jones on the 12-episode series based on the characters in the Oscar-winning short film. Monica A. Young, David Steward II and Carl Reed are also executive producers on the series. "I am beyond excited to continue telling the story of Stephen, Angela and Zuri and further explore the family dynamics of a young Black millennial family we established in our short film Hair Love as an animated series," Cherry said in a statement. "Couldn't ask for better partners in Sony...

HBO Max has ordered a 12-episode animated series based on Oscar-winning animated short Hair Love from its writer-director, Matthew A. Cherry, and Sony Pictures Animation.

Cherry will showrun the series with Carl Jones (The Boondocks, Black Dynamite). Cherry and Jones also will be writing with Dayna Lynne North (Insecure). It will be executive produced by North, Blue Key Entertainment's Monica A. Young (a producer on Hair Love), along with Lion Forge Animation's David Steward II and Carl Reed.

Like Cherry's best-selling book of the same name, Hair Love follows an African American father who has to learn ...

In today’s TV news roundup, BBC America and AMC announced “Killing Eve’s” Season 3 premiere date, and Netflix and Mattel Television announced the voice cast for its upcoming anime series “Masters of the Universe: Revelation.”

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Netflix and Mattel Television have announced the cast for the upcoming anime series “Masters of the Universe: Revelation.” A reboot of the original series featuring He-Man, Skeltor, Teela and other characters, the program’s extensive voice cast includes Mark Hamill, Lena Headey, Chris Wood, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Liam Cunningham, Stephen Root, Diedrich Bader, Griffin Newman, Tiffany Smith, Henry Rollins, Alan Oppenheimer and more. Adam Bonnett, Christopher Keenan and Rob David serve as executive producers.

The pilot for Amazon’s series adaptation of “A League of their Own” has announced its cast. D’Arcy Carden (“The Good Place”) will lead a cast that also includes Abbi Jacobson, Chanté Adams, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Kelly McCormack, Roberta Colindrez,...

TBS has slotted Tuesday, April 7 for the season three premiere of its hit sitcom The Last O.G., starring Tracy Morgan and Tiffany Haddish.

Co-created and executive produced by Oscar winner Jordan Peele, The Last O.G. has ranked as cable’s #1 sitcom since its 2018 launch.

In season 3, after serving his time at the halfway house and having his food truck go up in flames, Tray (Morgan) is forced into finding a new place to live, and new forms of income. He lands in gentrified Brooklyn with a host of colorful, hipster neighbors, where he begins to give “hood legend” walking tours of the city that is forever changing around him. Meanwhile, Tray’s ex-girlfriend Shay (Haddish) is presented with the business opportunity of a lifetime, which could mean big changes for the whole family. You can watch a teaser trailer above.

Ryan Gaul, Allen Maldonado, Taylor Mosby, Dante Hoagland, Bresha Webb,...