miniseries
“Rosemary’s Baby” is getting quite the revamp from NBC. Zoe Saldana has been tapped to play the iconic role, previously played by Mia Farrow in Roman Polanski’s 1968 cult classic. RELATED: Zoe Saldana Addresses Critics Who Say She’s Not “Black Enough” In the upcoming remake, Saldana will play a young wife and expectant mother who moves […]
The History Channel is capitalizing on America’s renewed interest in Black History by partnering with Halle Berry to produce a miniseries about Hannibal Barca. Known as a brilliant military strategist, Hannibal is most famous for The Second Punic War when in 218 B.C. he marched an army, including elephants from Iberia, over the Alps and […]
With the critical and box office of success of “Django Unchained” and “12 Years A Slave,” cable television has officially jumped on the slave movie train. According to Deadline, The History Channel plans to produce a remake of the 1977 TV miniseries “Roots.” The cable network recently acquired the rights from Mark Wolper, whose father […]
According to Deadline, ABC seems to be jumping on the servant/slave narrative Hollywood seems to find so fascinating. Based on the best-seller “A Slave In The White House” by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor, the book tells the story of Paul Jennings, a Virginian born slave who served as the personal valet to President James Madison, while […]