Netflix dropped its trailer for season 5 of Black Mirror and showed some familiar faces. Anthony Mackie (Falcon, from Avengers: Endgame), Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Black Manta from Aquaman and Us) and Nicole Beharie, our beloved Abbie Mills from Sleepy Hollow. I, for one, am really excited to see Beharie back acting again. None of us have fully recovered from how she got killed off of SH. (Co-Star Orlando Jones has some details on that btw.)

In Johannesburg this week, Netflix announced its first original African animated series, Mama K’s Team 4, produced by Cape Town-based Triggerfish Animation Studios and leading London-based kids’ entertainment specialist CAKE.

Mama K’s Team 4 tells the story of four teen girls living in the neo-futuristic African city of Lusaka, Zambia who are recruited by a retired secret agent still committed to saving the world. The series joins Netflix’s growing slate of original animated programming designed for kids and families everywhere, brought to 190 countries by artists from around the world.

Mama K’s Team 4 is created by Zambian writer Malenga Mulendema, who was one of eight winners in the Triggerfish Story Lab initiative in 2015, a pan-african talent search.

Designed by Cameroonian artist Malcolm Wope, it draws visual inspiration from retro-’90s R&B and hip hop girl groups.

To join the creative team on the series, Netflix is collaborating with Triggerfish Animation studio and CAKE to launch a continent-wide search for local female writing talent.

It took 50 years to bring Warrior to Cinemax this week. The show is based on a treatment that Bruce Lee wrote 2 years before his death for a show that Hollywood rejected but was preserved by his daughter Shannon Lee. Lee’s treatment featured a young martial artist that wandered the old west teaching Kung Fu., but in 1971 when he made his pitch to Paramount and Warner Bros they balked at the idea of an Asian male lead in an American show.

Cloak and Dagger returns Thursday April 4 on Freeform with a 2-hour season premiere of the show’s second season. This time around is definitely going to be darker with more action. If the first season schooled us on the characters powers and origins, then season two definitely feels like mid-terms. Not just for Tandy (Olivia Holt) and Ty (Aubrey Joseph), but judging by the first two episodes, Detective Brigid O’Reilly (Emma Lahana) as well. So here’s my non-spoilerly take on the first two episodes of the new season and what you can expect.

 On Thursday, February 7, 2019 AMC’s Shudder network presents documentary Horror Noire. Based on the acclaimed book of the same name by Dr. Robin R.  Means  Coleman, and Directed by Xavier Burgin Horror Noire takes  a critical look at a century of genre films that by turns utilized, caricatured, exploited, sidelined, and embraced both black filmmakers and black audiences. Horror Noire traces a secret history of Black Americans in Hollywood through their connection to the horror genre. There is even a special screening here in New York atBrooklyn Academy of Music on Monday Feb. 4. A double bill with Rusty Cundieff’s 1995 classic, Tales from the Hood. Tickets for this special event are on sale now at BAM.org. 

TNT’s Supernatural has been on the air so long, the show can parody itself. And in case you missed it, TNT is celebrating the 300th episode of the show by bringing back  Sam and Dean’s Dad John (played by Walking Dead’s Jeffrey Dean Morgan) AND the show just got picked up for it’s 15th season. I’ve been a fan off and on of this series for years. (My recent fave is the Scooby Doo episode). But if you’ve never watched the show and are wondering what the hype is all about, TNT is having a special marathon of fan favorites starting

A few weeks ago Freeform reached out and was kind enough to invite me to be on a panel for their new show Marvel’s Cloak and Dagger based on the old comicbook series.The show will make it’s two-hour debut on Freeform on June 7th starting at 8pm EST.  The event was co-sponsored by GirlForward an organization dedicated to empowering refugee girls. Freeform flew me out to Chicago, (where I actually just was a couple of months ago for C2E2 with SYFY), to screen the premiere with contest winners as well as speak on a short panel about the show.

BBC America dropped the news like a Beyoncé album this morning and I as well as many other fans of Doctor Who lost our collective minds. The 13th Doctor, who is essentially the previous 12th Doctor (played wonderfully by Peter Capaldi) in regenerated form, will be played by Jodie Whittaker. Whittaker is actually best known for her roles on the BBC’s hit show Broadchurch as well as movies like Attack the Block and One Day. If you haven’t finished Season 10 of Doctor Who I won’t spoil it for you but let’s just say at one point I was wondering if the Doctor was going to be able to regenerate at all. I am happy that for the first time in the show’s 54 year history they decided to make the Doctor a woman. But before all you SJW-haters hit your keyboards with reckless abandon, let me remind you