HBO Max has inked with deal with corporate sibling Warner Bros Television to stream Season 2 of the current OWN drama David Makes Man along with five ’90s-era Black-themed series: Hangin” with Mr. Cooper, In the House, The Jamie Foxx Show, Martin and The Parent ‘Hood.
All six series are available now on the streamer.
Season 2 of of OWN’s David Makes Man finds thirtysomething David (Kwame Patterson) as a rising businessman facing an opportunity that will change him and his community forever. The mounting pressure forces David to choose between the instincts that helped him survive or finding a new way to truly live. Arlen Escarpeta, Akili McDowell, Alana Arenas, Travis Coles and Cayden K. Williams also star.
Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper, which aired from 1992-97 on ABC, stars Mark Curry as a former college basketball superstar and ultimate prankster, who also happens to be the coolest substitute teacher around.
All six series are available now on the streamer.
Season 2 of of OWN’s David Makes Man finds thirtysomething David (Kwame Patterson) as a rising businessman facing an opportunity that will change him and his community forever. The mounting pressure forces David to choose between the instincts that helped him survive or finding a new way to truly live. Arlen Escarpeta, Akili McDowell, Alana Arenas, Travis Coles and Cayden K. Williams also star.
Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper, which aired from 1992-97 on ABC, stars Mark Curry as a former college basketball superstar and ultimate prankster, who also happens to be the coolest substitute teacher around.
- 11/1/2021
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
This week's event featured performances from the casts of Pippin Ciara Renee with Sam Lips, Nicolas Jelmoni and Charlotte O'Sullivan, Chicago Bianca Marroquin, Amra-Faye Wright, Carol Woods, David Bushman and Nathan Madden, Les Miserables Nikki M. James, Adam Monley and Betsy Morgan, and Atomic David Abeles, Sara Gettelfinger, Jonathon Hammond, Randy Harrison, Jeremy Kushnier, James David Larson, and Grace Stockdale.
- 7/18/2014
- by Genevieve Rafter Keddy
- BroadwayWorld.com
Borrowing the name but little else from a famous comedy brand, The Honeymooners starring Cedric the Entertainer is a lackluster affair, devoid of laughs and just about anything else one might construe as entertainment. Boxoffice prospects for the John Schultz-directed comedy, even among its African-American target audience, are poor.
This Honeymooners bears scant resemblance to Jackie Gleason's CBS series, which all but invented the situation-comedy format on television in the mid-'50s. Cedric the Entertainer's Ralph Kramden is still a guy with an explosive temper and a fatal attraction to get-rich-quick schemes, and Mike Epps' Ed Norton is still his hapless stooge, who can take three minutes to execute a 20-second task. Otherwise, the Kramden and Norton households wallow in a generic blandness unrelated to the old series.
What passes for plot in a screenplay, credited to Danny Jacobson, David Sheffield & Barry W. Blaustein and Don Rhymer, revolves around the desire of Ralph's wife Alice (Gabrielle Union) to buy a duplex with Ed and his wife, Trixie (Regina Hall), and Ralph's harebrained schemes that continually drain all the money from the couple's meager savings account.
Initially, the movie has a hard time settling on which harebrained scheme will drive Alice To divorce court. First, Ralph purchases Mets memorabilia in anticipation of a big World Series win, but the cartons turn out to contain children's gear of negligible value. Then Ralph buys a vintage train car in hopes of turning this into a tourist bus. Finally, the movie decides the story should be about a greyhound Ralph and Ed rescue from a Dumpster, which for no discernible reason Ralph believes will make them a fortune as a race dog.
The movie lurches from one lame comedy skit to another without the personality of its main character ever taking hold. Gleason's blustery Everyman disguised as a Brooklyn bus driver was actually an endearing figure, a man whose schemes and frustrations found common ground with all viewers. Cedric the Entertainer's Ralph is an annoying man with whom no sensible person would want to find anything in common.
Epps' character seems almost masochistic in his relationship to his bellicose upstairs neighbor. Union's Alice is too hot and too smart to be with such an oaf, while Hall's Trixie barely registers.
The two best performances -- "best" being a relative term here -- come from John Leguizamo, as a transparent fifth-rate con artist who claims to be a dog trainer, and Carol Woods as Alice's mom, the one individual who sees Ralph for what he is. Eric Stoltz dutifully plays the nominal villain, a developer with his eyes on the coveted duplex.
Schultz never finds any traction with the scattershot screenplay. The movie simply spins its wheels. With exteriors shot in New York and interiors at Ardmore Studios in Ireland, Schultz and his crew blend these elements together smoothly enough, but the film lacks visual style.
The closest The Honeymooners comes to a comic idea worth exploring comes when Ed confesses to Ralph he once saw Alice naked and can't get the image out of his mind. Nothing like this ever transpired on the original Honeymooners, but one wishes the movie hadn't rushed past such an intriguing development.
THE HONEYMOONERS
Paramount Pictures
A Deep River production
Credits:
Director: John Schultz
Screenwriters: Danny Jacobson, David Sheffield & Barry W. Blaustein, Don Rhymer
Based on characters from the CBS-TV series
Producers: David T. Friendly, Marc Turtletaub, Eric Rhone, Julie Dark
Executive producers: Hal Ross, Cedric the Entertainer, Mike Epps
Director of photography: Shawn Maurer
Production designer: Charles Wood
Music: Richard Gibbs
Co-producers: Paul Myler, Niles Kirchner
Costumes: Joan Bergin
Editor: John Pace
Cast:
Ralph Kramden: Cedric the Entertainer
Ed Norton: Mike Epps
Alice Kramden: Gabrielle Union
Trixie Norton: Regina Hall
William: Eric Stoltz
Kirby: Jon Polito
Dodge: John Leguizamo
Alice's Mom: Carol Woods
Vivek: Ajay Naidu
MPAA rating PG-13
Running time -- 90 minutes...
This Honeymooners bears scant resemblance to Jackie Gleason's CBS series, which all but invented the situation-comedy format on television in the mid-'50s. Cedric the Entertainer's Ralph Kramden is still a guy with an explosive temper and a fatal attraction to get-rich-quick schemes, and Mike Epps' Ed Norton is still his hapless stooge, who can take three minutes to execute a 20-second task. Otherwise, the Kramden and Norton households wallow in a generic blandness unrelated to the old series.
What passes for plot in a screenplay, credited to Danny Jacobson, David Sheffield & Barry W. Blaustein and Don Rhymer, revolves around the desire of Ralph's wife Alice (Gabrielle Union) to buy a duplex with Ed and his wife, Trixie (Regina Hall), and Ralph's harebrained schemes that continually drain all the money from the couple's meager savings account.
Initially, the movie has a hard time settling on which harebrained scheme will drive Alice To divorce court. First, Ralph purchases Mets memorabilia in anticipation of a big World Series win, but the cartons turn out to contain children's gear of negligible value. Then Ralph buys a vintage train car in hopes of turning this into a tourist bus. Finally, the movie decides the story should be about a greyhound Ralph and Ed rescue from a Dumpster, which for no discernible reason Ralph believes will make them a fortune as a race dog.
The movie lurches from one lame comedy skit to another without the personality of its main character ever taking hold. Gleason's blustery Everyman disguised as a Brooklyn bus driver was actually an endearing figure, a man whose schemes and frustrations found common ground with all viewers. Cedric the Entertainer's Ralph is an annoying man with whom no sensible person would want to find anything in common.
Epps' character seems almost masochistic in his relationship to his bellicose upstairs neighbor. Union's Alice is too hot and too smart to be with such an oaf, while Hall's Trixie barely registers.
The two best performances -- "best" being a relative term here -- come from John Leguizamo, as a transparent fifth-rate con artist who claims to be a dog trainer, and Carol Woods as Alice's mom, the one individual who sees Ralph for what he is. Eric Stoltz dutifully plays the nominal villain, a developer with his eyes on the coveted duplex.
Schultz never finds any traction with the scattershot screenplay. The movie simply spins its wheels. With exteriors shot in New York and interiors at Ardmore Studios in Ireland, Schultz and his crew blend these elements together smoothly enough, but the film lacks visual style.
The closest The Honeymooners comes to a comic idea worth exploring comes when Ed confesses to Ralph he once saw Alice naked and can't get the image out of his mind. Nothing like this ever transpired on the original Honeymooners, but one wishes the movie hadn't rushed past such an intriguing development.
THE HONEYMOONERS
Paramount Pictures
A Deep River production
Credits:
Director: John Schultz
Screenwriters: Danny Jacobson, David Sheffield & Barry W. Blaustein, Don Rhymer
Based on characters from the CBS-TV series
Producers: David T. Friendly, Marc Turtletaub, Eric Rhone, Julie Dark
Executive producers: Hal Ross, Cedric the Entertainer, Mike Epps
Director of photography: Shawn Maurer
Production designer: Charles Wood
Music: Richard Gibbs
Co-producers: Paul Myler, Niles Kirchner
Costumes: Joan Bergin
Editor: John Pace
Cast:
Ralph Kramden: Cedric the Entertainer
Ed Norton: Mike Epps
Alice Kramden: Gabrielle Union
Trixie Norton: Regina Hall
William: Eric Stoltz
Kirby: Jon Polito
Dodge: John Leguizamo
Alice's Mom: Carol Woods
Vivek: Ajay Naidu
MPAA rating PG-13
Running time -- 90 minutes...
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