In Pursuit with John Walsh from Investigation Discovery is a true crime show that people love because they can call in tips on wanted criminals involved in unsolved crimes. However, many are wondering if it is canceled. Keep reading to find out everything that is known.
In Pursuit With John Walsh Helped With Awareness
Apart from being good television that true crime addicts adore, it also brought awareness to various cases. There was also the IDCon: Home Together and in 2020, it was especially interesting because times were changing. Children were in danger, and ID stars John Walsh and his son Callahan Walsh spoke about that. At the time, they also updated on the Ahmaud Arbery case. Additionally, they talked about Jeffrey Epstein.
John Walsh and Callahan – ID
In Pursuit With John Walsh star John also weighed in on the murder of Gabby Petito. Back then, he felt convinced that the prime suspect,...
In Pursuit With John Walsh Helped With Awareness
Apart from being good television that true crime addicts adore, it also brought awareness to various cases. There was also the IDCon: Home Together and in 2020, it was especially interesting because times were changing. Children were in danger, and ID stars John Walsh and his son Callahan Walsh spoke about that. At the time, they also updated on the Ahmaud Arbery case. Additionally, they talked about Jeffrey Epstein.
John Walsh and Callahan – ID
In Pursuit With John Walsh star John also weighed in on the murder of Gabby Petito. Back then, he felt convinced that the prime suspect,...
- 3/13/2024
- by James Michael
- TV Shows Ace
For a time in the 1990s, a film adaptation of a John Grisham novel was guaranteed to turn a tidy profit at the box office, if not mushroom into a full-on blockbuster. "The Firm," "The Pelican Brief" and "The Client" all made loads of money off of a built-in audience that just had to see how the lawyer-turned-bestselling author's latest book was brought to life by Hollywood's biggest stars. Tom Cruise, Gene Hackman, Denzel Washington, Julia Roberts, Tommy Lee Jones, and Susan Sarandon, among many others, were enlisted to turn these page-turners into big-screen spectacles. They were never better than over-produced B movies, but you didn't care because the material was never more than risible. Grisham wrote disposable legal thrillers that moved fast enough to get you past their myriad implausibilities, and there was nothing wrong with this.
"A Time to Kill" was a different animal. Based on Grisham's debut novel,...
"A Time to Kill" was a different animal. Based on Grisham's debut novel,...
- 7/27/2023
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
Lionsgate has suspended Ian Woolf, a producer on the Starz drama Bmf, after he allegedly threatened picketing Writers Guild members with his SUV on Thursday, June 8, in Atlanta. “We take acts of intimidation and threats of violence seriously and investigate them thoroughly,” a spokesperson for Lionsgate said in a statement to TVLine. “As we continue to investigate, we have sent home the individual involved.” Brian Egeston, a writer on Tyler Perry’s House of Payne, called Woolf out on Twitter on Thursday after the alleged incident. “When you pointed your SUV at me as though it were a weapon and slammed the [brakes] within six feet of writers, I felt the hate and aggression of scenarios similar to Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, and others who have been harmed at the hands of hate-filled oppressors,” Egeston tweeted. In another tweet, Egeston wrote that Woolf said he was trying to scare the writers.
- 6/10/2023
- TV Insider
A producer on the Starz/Lionsgate drama Bmf has been suspended from the 50 Cent-produced series after clashing with striking writers outside the show’s Atlanta set.
“We take acts of intimidation and threats of violence seriously and investigate them thoroughly. As we continue to investigate, we have sent home the individual involved,” a Lionsgate rep said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter.
The alleged incident occurred Thursday afternoon in Georgia, where Bmf (as in Black Mafia Family) was in production on the third season of the series based on the lives of two brothers who founded an influential crime organization in 1980s Detroit. Writer Brian Egeston, who documented the alleged incident on Twitter, claims Bmf’s Ian Woolf sped toward him and other writers in his SUV and stopped short in what he dubbed as an “intimidation” tactic.
“As I marched with the WGA in a peaceful protest, similar...
“We take acts of intimidation and threats of violence seriously and investigate them thoroughly. As we continue to investigate, we have sent home the individual involved,” a Lionsgate rep said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter.
The alleged incident occurred Thursday afternoon in Georgia, where Bmf (as in Black Mafia Family) was in production on the third season of the series based on the lives of two brothers who founded an influential crime organization in 1980s Detroit. Writer Brian Egeston, who documented the alleged incident on Twitter, claims Bmf’s Ian Woolf sped toward him and other writers in his SUV and stopped short in what he dubbed as an “intimidation” tactic.
“As I marched with the WGA in a peaceful protest, similar...
- 6/9/2023
- by Lesley Goldberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Though Wanda Sykes began working on “I’m an Entertainer,” her latest Netflix stand-up special, in 2019, hardly any of the material she wrote prior to March 2020 made it into the show. Instead, it was the radioactive events of the pandemic era — from Covid vaccinations to the Jan. 6 insurrection, the battle over trans rights to the murders of Black Americans like George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and Elijah McClain — that Sykes was drawn to.
Those deaths and the racial reckoning that followed were not obvious fodder for making people laugh. “All that stuff just kept piling on,” Sykes says, her voice softer and more tentative than the tart Southern twang she deploys on stage. “I knew I wanted to talk about it, but I just didn’t know how to make it funny. We were all just so angry.”
So the 59-year-old comedian began with herself, digging deep into her...
Those deaths and the racial reckoning that followed were not obvious fodder for making people laugh. “All that stuff just kept piling on,” Sykes says, her voice softer and more tentative than the tart Southern twang she deploys on stage. “I knew I wanted to talk about it, but I just didn’t know how to make it funny. We were all just so angry.”
So the 59-year-old comedian began with herself, digging deep into her...
- 5/23/2023
- by Adam B. Vary
- Variety Film + TV
Benjamin Crump gave a fiery speech while accepting the Social Justice Impact Award at the 2023 NAACP Image Awards Saturday night.
“Tonight’s recipient of the Social Justice Impact Award is a voice for those whose mere existence has been criminalized,” Tracee Ellis Ross said as she introduced the nationally recognized trial lawyer. “A voice for the collective advancement and protection of Black people. Whether bringing international awareness to another senseless death of a Black person at the hands of police or taking to task those who wish to suppress and erase our history, attorney Benjamin Crump is a tireless advocate for justice and equality.”
Following a highlight video, Crump took the stage, where he thanked several people including NAACP National Board of Directors chairman Leon Russell, God, his family and “all of those who have fought with me throughout the years to make liberty and justice for all a reality.
“Tonight’s recipient of the Social Justice Impact Award is a voice for those whose mere existence has been criminalized,” Tracee Ellis Ross said as she introduced the nationally recognized trial lawyer. “A voice for the collective advancement and protection of Black people. Whether bringing international awareness to another senseless death of a Black person at the hands of police or taking to task those who wish to suppress and erase our history, attorney Benjamin Crump is a tireless advocate for justice and equality.”
Following a highlight video, Crump took the stage, where he thanked several people including NAACP National Board of Directors chairman Leon Russell, God, his family and “all of those who have fought with me throughout the years to make liberty and justice for all a reality.
- 2/26/2023
- by Carly Thomas
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Angela Bassett, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and Abbott Elementary were among the top winners of the 2023 NAACP Image Awards.
Bassett took the top prize of Entertainer of the Year at the Queen Latifah-hosted ceremony, with Latifah herself presenting her with the honor. And when Bassett took the stage to accept the last award of the Saturday night live ceremony, her first remarks referenced Ariana DeBose’s viral BAFTA rap.
“I guess Angela Bassett did the thing, huh?” Bassett said.
After acknowledging her “sisters” in the all-female Entertainer of the Year category, Bassett reflected on her past projects like What’s Love Got to Do with It and How Stella Got Her Groove Back and working with directors like Spike Lee and the late John Singleton. She mentioned her Black Panther: Wakanda Forever writer-director, Ryan Coogler, last, saying he “showed us that we are royalty and he built the crown for us all to wear.
Bassett took the top prize of Entertainer of the Year at the Queen Latifah-hosted ceremony, with Latifah herself presenting her with the honor. And when Bassett took the stage to accept the last award of the Saturday night live ceremony, her first remarks referenced Ariana DeBose’s viral BAFTA rap.
“I guess Angela Bassett did the thing, huh?” Bassett said.
After acknowledging her “sisters” in the all-female Entertainer of the Year category, Bassett reflected on her past projects like What’s Love Got to Do with It and How Stella Got Her Groove Back and working with directors like Spike Lee and the late John Singleton. She mentioned her Black Panther: Wakanda Forever writer-director, Ryan Coogler, last, saying he “showed us that we are royalty and he built the crown for us all to wear.
- 2/26/2023
- by Hilary Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Atlanta City Council has settled a wrongful death lawsuit with the family of Rayshard Brooks — a Black man shot and killed by a white police officer in 2020 — for 1 million, The New York Times reports.
The settlement comes three months after a special prosecutor cleared Garret Rolfe, as well as his partner that day, Devin Brosnan, of any wrongdoing. The Atlanta City Council, despite settling with Brooks’ widow and estate, also found the officers’ use of deadly force to be reasonable.
Lawyers for Brooks’ family, L. Chris Stewart, Justin Miller,...
The settlement comes three months after a special prosecutor cleared Garret Rolfe, as well as his partner that day, Devin Brosnan, of any wrongdoing. The Atlanta City Council, despite settling with Brooks’ widow and estate, also found the officers’ use of deadly force to be reasonable.
Lawyers for Brooks’ family, L. Chris Stewart, Justin Miller,...
- 11/22/2022
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Laura Jarrett is leaving CNN to join NBC News, where she will cover the Justice Department and the Supreme Court.
Her hiring comes after the retirement of longtime correspondent Pete Williams last summer. Kelly O’Donnell has covered the Scotus beat in the interim, in addition to her duties as senior White House correspondent. Jarrett will start in her role in January.
Laura Jarrett
In a memo to staff, Rich Greenberg, NBC News vice president and head of investigations, wrote that Jarrett will serve “as a leading voice on national legal, law enforcement, and other major breaking news stories.” She will report to him and work with the network’s investigative unit and with the Washington bureau reporting teams.
Jarrett spent six years at CNN covering the Justice Department and major legal cases, including the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial. She also was the co-anchor of Early Start, and was on-air...
Her hiring comes after the retirement of longtime correspondent Pete Williams last summer. Kelly O’Donnell has covered the Scotus beat in the interim, in addition to her duties as senior White House correspondent. Jarrett will start in her role in January.
Laura Jarrett
In a memo to staff, Rich Greenberg, NBC News vice president and head of investigations, wrote that Jarrett will serve “as a leading voice on national legal, law enforcement, and other major breaking news stories.” She will report to him and work with the network’s investigative unit and with the Washington bureau reporting teams.
Jarrett spent six years at CNN covering the Justice Department and major legal cases, including the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial. She also was the co-anchor of Early Start, and was on-air...
- 11/16/2022
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
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NBC News has hired CNN Early Start anchor Laura Jarrett.
Jarrett will be senior legal correspondent for NBC, covering the Supreme Court and Department of Justice, appearing on all NBC News programs and platforms. NBC News vp and head of investigations Rich Greenberg announced Jarrett’s hire in a memo Wednesday morning.
“Laura joins us from CNN where she spent six years covering the Justice Department and major legal cases for the network. Most recently, she was the co-anchor of Early Start and served as an on-air legal analyst for several notable legal stories including the Supreme Court’s decision overruling Roe v. Wade, the Congressional investigations into January 6th, the investigations into former President Trump, and the legal battles over Covid-19 vaccine mandates,” Greenberg wrote.
“She was a key correspondent covering the Depp-Heard trial, Alec Baldwin’s settlement with Halyna Hutchins’ family,...
NBC News has hired CNN Early Start anchor Laura Jarrett.
Jarrett will be senior legal correspondent for NBC, covering the Supreme Court and Department of Justice, appearing on all NBC News programs and platforms. NBC News vp and head of investigations Rich Greenberg announced Jarrett’s hire in a memo Wednesday morning.
“Laura joins us from CNN where she spent six years covering the Justice Department and major legal cases for the network. Most recently, she was the co-anchor of Early Start and served as an on-air legal analyst for several notable legal stories including the Supreme Court’s decision overruling Roe v. Wade, the Congressional investigations into January 6th, the investigations into former President Trump, and the legal battles over Covid-19 vaccine mandates,” Greenberg wrote.
“She was a key correspondent covering the Depp-Heard trial, Alec Baldwin’s settlement with Halyna Hutchins’ family,...
- 11/16/2022
- by Alex Weprin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
George Floyd’s Family Feel ‘Betrayed’ by Kanye West, as They Consider Suing Rapper and Candace Owens
An attorney for the family of George Floyd says the family feels “betrayed” by Kanye West’s false claim that the 46-year-old’s death was from fentanyl and not a police officer kneeling on his neck for nearly nine minutes.
Attorney Lee Merritt confirms to Rolling Stone that the Floyd family is considering pursuing a legal case against the rapper and says that he is also looking into whether ultra-right-wing pundit Candace Owens could be held liable as well, since West had plucked the debunked claim from her new Daily...
Attorney Lee Merritt confirms to Rolling Stone that the Floyd family is considering pursuing a legal case against the rapper and says that he is also looking into whether ultra-right-wing pundit Candace Owens could be held liable as well, since West had plucked the debunked claim from her new Daily...
- 10/17/2022
- by Cheyenne Roundtree
- Rollingstone.com
Kanye “Ye” West says she’s heard the term “crazy” being thrown his way, and he admits that it hurts his feelings.
During part two of the rapper’s interview on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight”, the rapper addressed those who questioned his mental health amid his controversial stances, such as him wearing a “White Lives Matter” shirt at his Yeezy fashion show in Paris. On top of that, several models wore the controversial shirt during his show’s presentation.
“They keep on using the, ‘Oh, he’s crazy, he’s crazy’ thing. And it hurts my feelings when people say that,” West admitted on the show. “It hurts my feelings that people can ask, ‘Hey, are you okay?'”
West also addressed co-parenting with Kardashian, saying he’s not willing to “compromise” when it comes to his children’s education, as he prefers them to attend the private school he created,...
During part two of the rapper’s interview on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight”, the rapper addressed those who questioned his mental health amid his controversial stances, such as him wearing a “White Lives Matter” shirt at his Yeezy fashion show in Paris. On top of that, several models wore the controversial shirt during his show’s presentation.
“They keep on using the, ‘Oh, he’s crazy, he’s crazy’ thing. And it hurts my feelings when people say that,” West admitted on the show. “It hurts my feelings that people can ask, ‘Hey, are you okay?'”
West also addressed co-parenting with Kardashian, saying he’s not willing to “compromise” when it comes to his children’s education, as he prefers them to attend the private school he created,...
- 10/9/2022
- by Brent Furdyk
- ET Canada
A few days after Kayne West and models for his new Yeezy line donned “White Lives Matter” T-shirts at Paris Fashion Week, “Ye,” made an appearance on the show where white lives matter most: Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Tonight.
“Everyone knows that Black Lives Matter was a scam. Now it’s over. You’re welcome,” West wrote on Instagram on Monday.
Not surprisingly, West found a sympathetic ear with Carlson on Thursday, Fox’s resident champion of white nationalist ideology and a professed critic of the Black Lives Matter movement...
“Everyone knows that Black Lives Matter was a scam. Now it’s over. You’re welcome,” West wrote on Instagram on Monday.
Not surprisingly, West found a sympathetic ear with Carlson on Thursday, Fox’s resident champion of white nationalist ideology and a professed critic of the Black Lives Matter movement...
- 10/7/2022
- by Nikki McCann Ramirez
- Rollingstone.com
Ahmaud Arbery’s mother, Wanda Cooper-James, is the latest to speak out against Kanye “Ye” West‘s controversial Yzy Szn 9 runway show.
In a statement to Rolling Stone, Cooper-James expressed her “extreme disappointment” for West’s “White Lives Matter” stunt.
“As a result of his display ‘White Lives Matter’ started trending in the U.S., which would directly support and legitimize extremist behavior, [much] like the behaviour that took the life of her son,” Cooper-James said per her attorney, Lee Merritt. “That is the thing that Wanda and families like hers continue to fight against.”
“This mockery of the Black Lives Matter movement and his now denunciation of the movement as some sort of hoax flies directly in the face [of what he’s said,]” the statement added. “It’s confusing for her, it’s confusing for the families to receive his support privately, but publicly to set us all back.”
West has drawn heavy criticism for his Oct.
In a statement to Rolling Stone, Cooper-James expressed her “extreme disappointment” for West’s “White Lives Matter” stunt.
“As a result of his display ‘White Lives Matter’ started trending in the U.S., which would directly support and legitimize extremist behavior, [much] like the behaviour that took the life of her son,” Cooper-James said per her attorney, Lee Merritt. “That is the thing that Wanda and families like hers continue to fight against.”
“This mockery of the Black Lives Matter movement and his now denunciation of the movement as some sort of hoax flies directly in the face [of what he’s said,]” the statement added. “It’s confusing for her, it’s confusing for the families to receive his support privately, but publicly to set us all back.”
West has drawn heavy criticism for his Oct.
- 10/5/2022
- by Anita Tai
- ET Canada
Kanye West’s latest stunt of championing the slogan “White Lives Matter” and decrying Black Lives Matter as a “scam” has not only brought sharp rebukes from his music and fashion industry peers, but from the mother of Ahmaud Arbery, whom the rapper had privately supported after her son was murdered in a racially-motivated attack.
Wanda Cooper-Jones tells Rolling Stone in a statement that West’s actions “flies directly in the face” of what he had expressed to her family after her 25-year-old son was killed when he went for...
Wanda Cooper-Jones tells Rolling Stone in a statement that West’s actions “flies directly in the face” of what he had expressed to her family after her 25-year-old son was killed when he went for...
- 10/4/2022
- by Cheyenne Roundtree
- Rollingstone.com
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The New York Film Festival on Saturday night hosted the world premiere of Chinonye Chukwu’s Till, about the lynching of Emmett Till and his mother Mamie Till-Mobley’s quest for justice.
After the screening, Whoopi Goldberg, who both produced and stars in the film that she’s said has taken more than a decade to come to fruition, spoke about the larger social issues that the film reflects and urged audiences to connect what they see to what’s happening now.
“Now you know what institutionalized racism looks like and you can connect it to your own life,” Goldberg told the crowd. “Maybe you’re a gay person. Maybe you’re a woman. Maybe you’re an Asian person. You all understand this hatred because it’s coming closer and closer. What we see on that screen is the culmination of what systematic racism looks like.
The New York Film Festival on Saturday night hosted the world premiere of Chinonye Chukwu’s Till, about the lynching of Emmett Till and his mother Mamie Till-Mobley’s quest for justice.
After the screening, Whoopi Goldberg, who both produced and stars in the film that she’s said has taken more than a decade to come to fruition, spoke about the larger social issues that the film reflects and urged audiences to connect what they see to what’s happening now.
“Now you know what institutionalized racism looks like and you can connect it to your own life,” Goldberg told the crowd. “Maybe you’re a gay person. Maybe you’re a woman. Maybe you’re an Asian person. You all understand this hatred because it’s coming closer and closer. What we see on that screen is the culmination of what systematic racism looks like.
- 10/2/2022
- by Hilary Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The officers originally charged with killing Rayshard Brooks in 2020 “committed no crime,” according to a special prosecutor in the case. The new decision is a stark contrast to the charges imposed on former officers Garrett Rolfe and Devin Brosnan by the previous Fulton County District Attorney.
Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia executive director Pete Skandalakis stated in his decision that the officer’s use of deadly force on the unarmed 27-year-old Black man was “reasonable.”
“Both acted as reasonable officers would under the facts and circumstances of the events of that night,...
Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia executive director Pete Skandalakis stated in his decision that the officer’s use of deadly force on the unarmed 27-year-old Black man was “reasonable.”
“Both acted as reasonable officers would under the facts and circumstances of the events of that night,...
- 8/23/2022
- by Tomás Mier
- Rollingstone.com
The man convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery was sentenced to life in prison for committing a federal hate crime on Monday, Aug. 8, The Associated Press reports.
Travis McMichael, as well as his father Gregory McMichael, and their neighbor, William Bryan, were all convicted on multiple federal hate crime charges back in February. All three men were found guilty of depriving the 25-year-old Arbery of his right to use a public street because of the color of his skin and attempted kidnapping. The McMichaels were each found guilty of brandishing or...
Travis McMichael, as well as his father Gregory McMichael, and their neighbor, William Bryan, were all convicted on multiple federal hate crime charges back in February. All three men were found guilty of depriving the 25-year-old Arbery of his right to use a public street because of the color of his skin and attempted kidnapping. The McMichaels were each found guilty of brandishing or...
- 8/8/2022
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
When Kary Antholis in 2019 stepped down as President, HBO Miniseries and Cinemax Programming, to launch Crime Story Media, his exit package included him staying on as executive producer on projects he had developed at the network that tackle crime and criminal justice. That included David Simon and George Pelecanos’ limited series We Own This City, which premiered April 25, and Dennis Lehane’s Black Bird, which ended up moving to Apple TV+. Headlined by Taron Egerton and Paul Walter Hauser and featuring Ray Liotta in his final TV role, the series premieres July 8.
Crime Story, dedicated to content that explores the criminal legal process, quickly made its mark in the podcast arena with The Crime Story Podcast, hosted by Antholis, which has produced 370 episodes so far; Firebug; as well as Jury Duty distributed by Acast, which has amassed 3.2 million downloads to date with its three seasons focused on the Robert Durst trial,...
Crime Story, dedicated to content that explores the criminal legal process, quickly made its mark in the podcast arena with The Crime Story Podcast, hosted by Antholis, which has produced 370 episodes so far; Firebug; as well as Jury Duty distributed by Acast, which has amassed 3.2 million downloads to date with its three seasons focused on the Robert Durst trial,...
- 7/8/2022
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
Bitterbrush (Emelie Mahdavian)
Watch an exclusive clip above.
While they don’t know it yet, this is, for friends Colie Moline and Hollyn Patterson, the end of five years range riding together in the American Pacific Northwest. It’s also their most comfortable after trading the usual camper for an old cabin this summer. With only themselves and a crew of herd dogs for assistance, they take to the Idahoan plains in search of the beef cattle and calves they’ve been contracted to reclaim. The work is tiring and tenuous in consistency, but also spiritually and physically rewarding—if not financially. Colie and Hollyn have grown close: an easy rapport and trust that allows director Emelie Mahdavian (and us) a glimpse into their personal lives,...
Bitterbrush (Emelie Mahdavian)
Watch an exclusive clip above.
While they don’t know it yet, this is, for friends Colie Moline and Hollyn Patterson, the end of five years range riding together in the American Pacific Northwest. It’s also their most comfortable after trading the usual camper for an old cabin this summer. With only themselves and a crew of herd dogs for assistance, they take to the Idahoan plains in search of the beef cattle and calves they’ve been contracted to reclaim. The work is tiring and tenuous in consistency, but also spiritually and physically rewarding—if not financially. Colie and Hollyn have grown close: an easy rapport and trust that allows director Emelie Mahdavian (and us) a glimpse into their personal lives,...
- 6/24/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
A simple list of Ben Crump’s clients tells us how important his work as a civil rights attorney is: Between 2020-2021 alone, he represented the families of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and Daunte Wright.
“Civil” began as a collaboration between Crump and Kenya Barris (“black-ish”), who considered working on a scripted series together. But as Crump puts it, Barris felt people would want to see “this real life superhero,” so they asked director Nadia Hallgren (“Becoming”) to make a documentary about Crump himself.
The result leaves us with the feeling that a combination of approaches might have worked best: a non-scripted series could have given Hallgren valuable opportunities to broaden the story, while still introducing viewers to her primary subject.
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As a straightforward portrait, “Civil” can feel a...
“Civil” began as a collaboration between Crump and Kenya Barris (“black-ish”), who considered working on a scripted series together. But as Crump puts it, Barris felt people would want to see “this real life superhero,” so they asked director Nadia Hallgren (“Becoming”) to make a documentary about Crump himself.
The result leaves us with the feeling that a combination of approaches might have worked best: a non-scripted series could have given Hallgren valuable opportunities to broaden the story, while still introducing viewers to her primary subject.
Also Read:
‘My Name Is Pauli Murray’ Filmmakers Explain How They Portrayed a ‘Legendary But Little Known American’ (Video)
As a straightforward portrait, “Civil” can feel a...
- 6/19/2022
- by Elizabeth Weitzman
- The Wrap
Father’s Day and Juneteenth overlap this year, and there is no shortage of programming on television for the latter holiday, which celebrates the day in 1865 when Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas, and delivered the news that all enslaved people were free. The Emancipation Proclamation arrived two years later on Jan. 1, 1863.
Juneteenth has gained more awareness in recent years, finally becoming recognized as a federal holiday in 2021.
Programming celebrating Black music, culture and more will run all weekend, culminating in the holiday itself on Sunday, June 19.
Below, check out our Juneteenth viewing guide to watch to watch on TV and streaming this weekend.
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Country singer Jimmie Allen will host an hourlong segment recognizing the influence of Black artists in music. The special will run on ABC on Friday, June 18 starting at 8pm Eastern and Pacific time. The “Sound of Freedom:...
Juneteenth has gained more awareness in recent years, finally becoming recognized as a federal holiday in 2021.
Programming celebrating Black music, culture and more will run all weekend, culminating in the holiday itself on Sunday, June 19.
Below, check out our Juneteenth viewing guide to watch to watch on TV and streaming this weekend.
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Country singer Jimmie Allen will host an hourlong segment recognizing the influence of Black artists in music. The special will run on ABC on Friday, June 18 starting at 8pm Eastern and Pacific time. The “Sound of Freedom:...
- 6/18/2022
- by Dessi Gomez
- The Wrap
A series revolving around a down and dirty strip club in the Mississippi Delta isn’t standard hit TV show fare. But Tony-nominated and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Katori Hall didn’t branch out from the stage to television to play by the rules. When her edgy TV series “P-Valley” debuted on Starz two years ago, circumstances were not ideal. The world was battling Covid plus social protests prompted by the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery were erupting all over the nation. In Season 2, those real-world events figure prominently as the show deftly avoids a sophomore slump and rises to its occasion.
Although ostensibly about mysterious stranger Hailey/Autumn Knight (British actress Elarica Johnson) arriving in the small fictional town of Chucalissa and making ends meet as a stripper, it’s “P-Valley’s” initial surrounding players who catapulted the show to cult status. Nonbinary female-presenting Uncle...
Although ostensibly about mysterious stranger Hailey/Autumn Knight (British actress Elarica Johnson) arriving in the small fictional town of Chucalissa and making ends meet as a stripper, it’s “P-Valley’s” initial surrounding players who catapulted the show to cult status. Nonbinary female-presenting Uncle...
- 6/3/2022
- by Ronda Racha Penrice
- The Wrap
Court TV will carry the televised feed of the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial, which is scheduled to begin next week in Fairfax County, Va.
The network will be the pool feed provider for the trial, and plans to provide coverage of the proceedings.
Ethan Nelson, Acting Head of Court TV, said in a statement, “Court cases that are as high-profile as this one often create a lot of noise, and it can be difficult for viewers to break through these distractions to have a clear picture of the facts, but that’s where we come in.”
Depp filed a 50 million defamation suit against Heard after she wrote a Washington Post essay in 2018, headlined “I spoke up against sexual violence — and faced our culture’s wrath. That has to change.” Although the essay didn’t mention Depp by name, he claims that it damaged his reputation and cost...
The network will be the pool feed provider for the trial, and plans to provide coverage of the proceedings.
Ethan Nelson, Acting Head of Court TV, said in a statement, “Court cases that are as high-profile as this one often create a lot of noise, and it can be difficult for viewers to break through these distractions to have a clear picture of the facts, but that’s where we come in.”
Depp filed a 50 million defamation suit against Heard after she wrote a Washington Post essay in 2018, headlined “I spoke up against sexual violence — and faced our culture’s wrath. That has to change.” Although the essay didn’t mention Depp by name, he claims that it damaged his reputation and cost...
- 4/5/2022
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
“Darkness is my friend.” Those sober words by Black classical painter George Anthony Morton, the introspective subject of Rosa Ruth Boesten’s “Master of Light” — which won the Grand Jury Award for documentary feature at SXSW — refracts the film’s title from an aesthetic ethos to a way of life. It paints Morton’s present mental health struggles — the obvious and unconscious reverberations of his socio-economic environment on his past and current life — and the seemingly inescapable cycles that still crush his family.
Boesten, however, doesn’t reduce Morton’s painful history to degradation. Because you don’t measure light through its absence; you find it in the human eye. And Black folks are filled with light. Even when the world, from conception to death, distorts Black people’s worth — even during structural racism and anti-blackness — or against the ceaseless undertow of mental trauma, Black people still project radiance. Morton...
Boesten, however, doesn’t reduce Morton’s painful history to degradation. Because you don’t measure light through its absence; you find it in the human eye. And Black folks are filled with light. Even when the world, from conception to death, distorts Black people’s worth — even during structural racism and anti-blackness — or against the ceaseless undertow of mental trauma, Black people still project radiance. Morton...
- 3/16/2022
- by Robert Daniels
- Indiewire
“61st Street” tracks the infamy of the Chicago criminal justice system as police, prosecutors, politicians, and defense attorneys investigate a deadly drug bust that threatens an enduring code of silence. It’s the latest entry in a spate of television series (and movies) — inspired by peak public outrage over unjustified police killings of Black men and women — that foregrounds the experiences of African Americans navigating historically prejudiced institutions. For that reason primarily, “61st Street’ will be familiar. It also doesn’t go out of its way to separate itself from its peers and predecessors. But thanks to convincing performances by a cast led by Emmy winner Courtney B. Vance, Emmy nominee Aunjanue Ellis, and Holt McCallany at maybe his most devious — complete with a propulsive pace — the AMC+ series mostly enthralls.
Moses Johnson (Tosin Cole) is a high school track star, raised by single mother Norma Johnson (Andrene Ward-Hammond), and...
Moses Johnson (Tosin Cole) is a high school track star, raised by single mother Norma Johnson (Andrene Ward-Hammond), and...
- 3/14/2022
- by Tambay Obenson
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Matthew Carnahan (House of Lies), Emmy nominee Nadia Hallgren (Becoming), and Ben Crump are developing the legal series Stokes, based on Crump’s life and work as a civil rights attorney. The series will also follow Crump and his team as they travel the country fighting to change the problems within the justice system.
Carnahan, creator and showrunner of Stokes, developed the script with Hallgren. Crump and Carnahan’s producing partner, Joel Ehninger, will executive produce.
“Working with Ben Crump is a stark rebuttal of the old saying about never meeting your heroes. Three years in, through a documentary and this wonderful scripted series, Stokes, Ben is more my hero than ever, and his work has undoubtedly changed the culture,” said Carnahan in a statement to Deadline.
Added Hallgren, “Ben Crump is one of the most nuanced, complex, and interesting characters I’ve ever met. The last two years...
Carnahan, creator and showrunner of Stokes, developed the script with Hallgren. Crump and Carnahan’s producing partner, Joel Ehninger, will executive produce.
“Working with Ben Crump is a stark rebuttal of the old saying about never meeting your heroes. Three years in, through a documentary and this wonderful scripted series, Stokes, Ben is more my hero than ever, and his work has undoubtedly changed the culture,” said Carnahan in a statement to Deadline.
Added Hallgren, “Ben Crump is one of the most nuanced, complex, and interesting characters I’ve ever met. The last two years...
- 3/8/2022
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
So what’s the shelf life of consequences? Well, Morgan Wallen just won the ACM Award for Album of the Year for “Dangerous” to enthusiastic applause (while Black artists were shut out), so while your mileage may vary, it looks like getting caught on video using a racial slur will land you in the doghouse for a few months. During that time you’ll have to suffer the indignity of having the most commercially successful album of the year, for which you will then be awarded one of the industry’s most prestigious prizes. Cancel culture is out of control!
Wallen released “Dangerous” in January of 2021 just as news broke of him using the N-word, but while he was suspended from his record label and pulled from country radio for a little while, “Dangerous” ended up spending 10 weeks at number-one, and it has since become the country album with the...
Wallen released “Dangerous” in January of 2021 just as news broke of him using the N-word, but while he was suspended from his record label and pulled from country radio for a little while, “Dangerous” ended up spending 10 weeks at number-one, and it has since become the country album with the...
- 3/8/2022
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
The three white men convicted last year of murdering 25-year-old Black man Ahmaud Arbery were also guilty of depriving him of his right to use a public street because of the color of his skin, a jury found on Tuesday, who found that the actions were a violation of federal hate crime laws. Father and son Travis and Gregory McMichael and their neighbor William Bryan were also convicted Tuesday of attempted kidnapping, and the McMichaels were each found guilty of brandishing or discharging a firearm during a violent crime.
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump,...
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump,...
- 2/22/2022
- by Andrea Marks
- Rollingstone.com
Protestors continued to take to the streets of Minneapolis Saturday following the death of Amir Locke, who was shot and killed Wednesday morning by a Minnesota Police Swat team executing a no-knock search warrant.
Bodycam footage released by the city Thursday shows the Swat team — who were carrying out a search warrant for a homicide suspect — quietly entering the apartment with a front door key and then yelling “Police, search warrant.”
Locke, a 22-year-old black man, is seen on the video sleeping under a blanket on the couch as police...
Bodycam footage released by the city Thursday shows the Swat team — who were carrying out a search warrant for a homicide suspect — quietly entering the apartment with a front door key and then yelling “Police, search warrant.”
Locke, a 22-year-old black man, is seen on the video sleeping under a blanket on the couch as police...
- 2/6/2022
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Update (2/3): Travis McMichael, one of Ahmaud Arbery’s killers, reaffirmed his plea of not guilty on hate-crime charges Thursday, The New York Times reports. His decision to plead not guilty comes after a federal judge rejected a plea deal on Monday, where McMichael would have pleaded guilty to one hate crime charge in exchange for a recommendation that he serve 30 years in federal prison.
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A federal judge on Monday rejected the plea deal between prosecutors and Travis McMichael on hate-crimes charges for the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, CNN reports.
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A federal judge on Monday rejected the plea deal between prosecutors and Travis McMichael on hate-crimes charges for the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, CNN reports.
- 2/4/2022
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
“I was really drawn to this subject matter at this time because of our contemporary moment and because of the murders of people like George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery,” explains Christine Turner about her film “Lynching Postcards,” which is on the Oscars shortlist for Best Documentary Short. She talked with us as part of our short-film directors panel. Watch our exclusive video interview above.
“Lynching Postcards” explores an especially disturbing chapter of American history. During the Jim Crow era thousands of Black men and women were tortured and murdered by white mobs, especially in the South. Those white mobs were so proud of their deadly acts of terrorism that they would pose with the bodies of their victims for photos that were turned into postcards to be shared as one might share a vacation postcard. “Token of a great day,” reads one postcard that gives this film its subtitle.
That phenomenon echoes in the present,...
“Lynching Postcards” explores an especially disturbing chapter of American history. During the Jim Crow era thousands of Black men and women were tortured and murdered by white mobs, especially in the South. Those white mobs were so proud of their deadly acts of terrorism that they would pose with the bodies of their victims for photos that were turned into postcards to be shared as one might share a vacation postcard. “Token of a great day,” reads one postcard that gives this film its subtitle.
That phenomenon echoes in the present,...
- 1/24/2022
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Fourth Update,12:09 Pm: Gregory McMichael and his son Travis were sentenced to life in prison without parole today in the death of Ahmaud Arbery.
A third defendant, William “Roddie” Bryan, who took the cellphone video of Arbery’s killing, was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole.
Superior Court Judge Timothy Walmsley announced the sentences on Friday.
The men were charged after a video surfaced that showed them tracking down Arbery as he jogged through the Satilla Shores neighborhood of coastal Georgia in February 2020. Bryan had taken the video of the chase, and that footage went viral, drawing calls for arrests to be made in Arbery’s death for an incident that happened months earlier.
The three men claimed self-defense and that they were making a citizens’ arrest, suspecting Arbery of burglary. They each faced a multitude of charges, including murder.
Prosecutors alleged that the men...
A third defendant, William “Roddie” Bryan, who took the cellphone video of Arbery’s killing, was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole.
Superior Court Judge Timothy Walmsley announced the sentences on Friday.
The men were charged after a video surfaced that showed them tracking down Arbery as he jogged through the Satilla Shores neighborhood of coastal Georgia in February 2020. Bryan had taken the video of the chase, and that footage went viral, drawing calls for arrests to be made in Arbery’s death for an incident that happened months earlier.
The three men claimed self-defense and that they were making a citizens’ arrest, suspecting Arbery of burglary. They each faced a multitude of charges, including murder.
Prosecutors alleged that the men...
- 1/7/2022
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
As a white-passing biracial woman, I really resonated with Rebecca Hall's film adaptation of Nella Larsen's 1929 novel, Passing. The story centers on two biracial Black women, Irene Redfield (Tessa Thompson) and Clare Kendry (Ruth Negga), who are light-skinned enough to pass as white in 1920s New York. When Irene bumps into her old friend Clare, she almost doesn't recognize her. Unlike Irene - who is living her life openly as a Black woman despite being able to pass for white if she wanted to - Clare has accentuated her already-light features with blond hair to help her pass as white in everyday society. Taking her deception even further, she's married a wealthy white man (Alexander Skarsgard), who not only doesn't know she's Black but also holds an extreme, violent hatred toward Black people.
In some ways, I identify with Clare, particularly when it comes to how easy it...
In some ways, I identify with Clare, particularly when it comes to how easy it...
- 12/14/2021
- by Adele Stewart
- Popsugar.com
Breonna Taylor became famous for the way she died, but the documentary short “Bree Wayy: Promise Witness Remembrance” explores her legacy from a different angle: through the artwork she inspired. The MTV Documentary Films release played at AFI Fest in November and is currently available to stream on Paramount+.
In March 2020, Taylor was murdered by plainclothes police officers in Louisville, Kentucky, who broke down her apartment door and shot her to death after her boyfriend Kenneth Walker fired a warning shot in self-defense at the unknown intruders. None of the officers involved were charged for killing her, which along with the murders of George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery — all taking place between February and May of that year — inspired international outrage and worldwide protests in support of Black lives.
See‘Lynching Postcards’ revisits an ugly chapter in American history
“Bree Wayy” starts with her mother, Tamika Palmer, marveling at the...
In March 2020, Taylor was murdered by plainclothes police officers in Louisville, Kentucky, who broke down her apartment door and shot her to death after her boyfriend Kenneth Walker fired a warning shot in self-defense at the unknown intruders. None of the officers involved were charged for killing her, which along with the murders of George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery — all taking place between February and May of that year — inspired international outrage and worldwide protests in support of Black lives.
See‘Lynching Postcards’ revisits an ugly chapter in American history
“Bree Wayy” starts with her mother, Tamika Palmer, marveling at the...
- 12/13/2021
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
The documentary “Attica” about the 1971 prison riot is all too timely as America continues to grapple with inequities in its criminal justice system. It debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, followed by an October 29 theatrical release and a November 6 premiere on Showtime.
The film chronicles the events that transpired exactly 50 years ago. On September 9 of that year, more than 1,200 inmates took control of the facility, leaving dozens dead but bringing public attention to the abuses rampant in America’s prison system. Critics have described it as “devastating” and “harrowing,” an “essential film that can now stand as a definitive vision of that epochal event.”
SEEFilm documentary roundtable panel: Becoming Cousteau, A Cop Movie, My Name is Pauli Murray, Simple as Water, The Velvet Underground
It earned three Critics Choice Documentary Awards nominations, including Best Documentary Feature and Best Director (Stanley Nelson and Traci Curry). Nelson has won...
The film chronicles the events that transpired exactly 50 years ago. On September 9 of that year, more than 1,200 inmates took control of the facility, leaving dozens dead but bringing public attention to the abuses rampant in America’s prison system. Critics have described it as “devastating” and “harrowing,” an “essential film that can now stand as a definitive vision of that epochal event.”
SEEFilm documentary roundtable panel: Becoming Cousteau, A Cop Movie, My Name is Pauli Murray, Simple as Water, The Velvet Underground
It earned three Critics Choice Documentary Awards nominations, including Best Documentary Feature and Best Director (Stanley Nelson and Traci Curry). Nelson has won...
- 11/29/2021
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Three men have been found guilty of felony murder in the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery. On Wednesday, Nov. 24, a nearly all-white jury convicted Travis McMichael of malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, false imprisonment and criminal attempt to commit a felony. His father, Gregory McMichael, and their neighbor William "Roddie" Bryan were acquitted of the top charge of malice murder. All now face up to life in prison. On Feb. 23, 2020, the McMichaels and Bryan, who are white, followed Arbery, who was Black, in pickup trucks after they spotted him jogging in their Georgia neighborhood. Travis McMichael shot Arbery, 25, with a shotgun at close range. Bryan filmed the...
- 11/24/2021
- E! Online
The three men involved in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery were found guilty of nearly every charge leveled against them Wednesday, Nov. 24, but Travis McMichael, his father Gregory McMichael and William Bryan all have much more court time ahead of them beyond their respective sentencing hearings. All three men are also facing federal hate crime charges, as well as a civil suit filed by Arbery’s mother.
Travis McMichael, who shot Arbery, was found guilty on all nine counts against him, including malice murder and felony murder. Gregory McMichael was...
Travis McMichael, who shot Arbery, was found guilty on all nine counts against him, including malice murder and felony murder. Gregory McMichael was...
- 11/24/2021
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
A jury on Wednesday found three men guilty of the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, who’d been shot at close range while running through a residential neighborhood in Georgia. Father and son Greg McMichael and Travis McMichael, along with their neighbor, William “Roddie” Bryan had each been charged with aggravated assault, false imprisonment, malice murder, felony murder, and other charges. Travis McMichael was the only defendant to be convicted of malice murder.
Jurors deliberated for around 10 hours over two days after closing arguments concluded with the prosecution’s final rebuttal Tuesday morning.
Jurors deliberated for around 10 hours over two days after closing arguments concluded with the prosecution’s final rebuttal Tuesday morning.
- 11/24/2021
- by Andrea Marks
- Rollingstone.com
The final weeks of the year are upon us and daylight is fading fast. It’s a hectic time, with parties and plans and dinners and desserts, and simultaneously more large chunks of free time than many people have had all year. And while hanging out with friends and family, particularly after two-ish years of a global pandemic is sure to be delightful, it’s safe to say that people are going to need a way to decompress after 37 rounds of Apples to Apples.
If TV is your game, it’s important to spend your viewing time wisely, keeping on top of the best that the medium has to offer and take in a little quality alongside your quantity. In that spirit, we’ve chosen five shows, potential awards contenders, no less, that you should try to sneak in while everyone else slips into a tryptophan-fueled slumber. All five series are new this year,...
If TV is your game, it’s important to spend your viewing time wisely, keeping on top of the best that the medium has to offer and take in a little quality alongside your quantity. In that spirit, we’ve chosen five shows, potential awards contenders, no less, that you should try to sneak in while everyone else slips into a tryptophan-fueled slumber. All five series are new this year,...
- 11/24/2021
- by Libby Hill
- Indiewire
The jury finished hearing closing arguments Tuesday morning in the trial of three white men charged with the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed Black man, on a residential street in Brunswick, Georgia. The February 2020 killing occurred while Arbery was running through the neighborhood of Satilla Shores; a father and son believed he looked like someone responsible for nearby break-ins, armed themselves, and pursued him in a pickup truck, with a neighbor joining the pursuit in a second pickup truck. Arbery was shot multiple times at close range. The case...
- 11/23/2021
- by Andrea Marks
- Rollingstone.com
The defense lawyer for a man accused of filming the murder of Ahmaud Arbery — a Black man who was jogging through a Georgia neighborhood when two residents shot and killed him in 2020 — said that he didn’t want “any more black pastors” in the courtroom during trial.
Reverend Al Sharpton sat with Arbery’s family on Wednesday to observe the court proceedings. Gregory and Travis McMichael, a father and son, stand accused of murder and aggravated assault. Also on trial is William “Roddie” Bryan, who filmed the incident. Bryan is represented by Kevin Gough,...
Reverend Al Sharpton sat with Arbery’s family on Wednesday to observe the court proceedings. Gregory and Travis McMichael, a father and son, stand accused of murder and aggravated assault. Also on trial is William “Roddie” Bryan, who filmed the incident. Bryan is represented by Kevin Gough,...
- 11/11/2021
- by Peter Wade
- Rollingstone.com
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