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Janice aka Miss Mad News
DIRECTOR STEVE MCQUEEN SET TO MAKE ‘EPIC’ BBC BLACK BRITISH EXPERIENCE DRAMA
Shadow and Act reports that award-winning director Steve McQueen is planning to make a BBC drama on the black experience in Britain, from 1968 to 2014. McQueen says the series will be “epic in scope,” and will chronicle the lives of a group of friends and their families from 1968 to 2014. He added: “I don’t think there has been a serious drama series in Britain with black people from all walks of life as the main protagonists.“ … But Steve what about the Channel 4 […]
GOLDEN GLOBES: ’12 YEARS A SLAVE’ WINS BEST FILM
Congratulations.
UK NEWS: TOTTENHAM MP DAVID LAMMY REFUSED TO ATTEND MARK DUGGAN VIGIL
Via BBC News Tottenham MP David Lammy has said he refused to attend a vigil for Mark Duggan because he did not want to share a platform with “anarchist groups”. He told The Andrew Marr Show he did not want to appear with “people that don’t accept that a jury laboured and reached a decision”. Up to 500 people gathered at Tottenham Police Station on Saturday. On Wednesday, an inquest jury concluded Mark Duggan was lawfully killed when he was shot dead […]
ISSA RAE PRESENTS: BLACK TWITTER PARTY
WARNING: SOME PROFANITY Hilarious! That was SPOT ON.
BBC 1XTRA PRESENTER SARAH-JANE CRAWFORD GRACES THE FRONT COVER OF FABULOUS MAGAZINE
BBC 1 Xtra presenter Sarah-Jane “I bridge the gap between middle England and the street” Crawford, graces the front cover of The Sun’s weekly ‘glossy’ Fabulous Magazine. According to Fabulous Sarah-Jane is one of the ‘future stars of music, TV and comedy’ and she will also ‘rock your world’. It always makes me laugh when the media attempts to tell us what is cool and who we should embrace. Anyway congratulations Sarah-Jane.
UK NEWS: ACTOR NOEL CLARKE FURIOUS WITH THE GUARDIAN OVER MISLEADING ARTICLE
A misleading article published on The Guardian website has angered actor Noel Clarke. According to blogger and film critic Ben Child, Clarke’s horror flick Storage 24 was America’s lowest grossing film of 2013. Child wrote: A British horror set in a self-storage facility from actor and film-maker Noel Clarke was the poorest performing movie at the US box office last year with a paltry £44 ($72) haul. Storage 24 was shot on a reportedly tiny budget of around £1.6m and was Clarke’s first film to appear in American […]
NEW UK WEB SERIES: NIGERIAN AND TURKISH COMEDY – ‘THE MEHMEFEMI’S’ (EPISODE 1)
The MehmeFemi’s is a sitcom about two culturally different families living in South London. The two families become neighbours when the Olafemi’s ( Nigerian family) move in next door to the Mehmet’s (Turkish family). The MehmeFemi’s did make me chuckle. I look forward to seeing how it develops.
FAMOUS BLACK MEN IN CRISIS: SPIKE LEE ‘STYLING AND PROFILING’ AT BASKET BALL GAME….
Hahahahahaha. What the hell is he wearing????
NEW BLACK BRITISH WEB SERIES: METHOD OF LOVE (TEASER)
This is a quick teaser from up and coming black British drama series The Method of Love starring former Eastenders star Charles ‘Chucky’ Venn. … Oooooooooh 😀
