Deon Cole
With the latest news of the new Freeform order of the Black-ish spin-off titled College-ish , comedian and actor Deon Cole quietly is making a television run for the ages ! How might you ask ? Well , if you hadn ' t noticed , Cole is making comedy history as he will be on five , count ' em FIVE , series and or TV shows at the same time ! Never before has any actor guest starred or appeared in FIVE series / TV shows at the same time . Cole is currently on Conan ( he ' s also a writer on the show ), Black-ish , College-ish , Face Value and Angie Tribeca and we hear that he ' s even up for several film roles including the film titled The Female Brain supposedly set to debut later this year . In comparison , none of the TV greats in comedy has done this feat , and even today ' s hottest star Kevin Hart is not starring in five series-yet . What ' s the future hold for Cole ? Well , we think Hollywood is quickly taking notice , and he ' s sure to be one of the next future stars . Stay tuned , as we will hopefully get a chance to ask Cole about some of his future endeavors .
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It seems that actor , comedian and director Jordan Peele is getting back into the television game . Reports state that HBO has handed out a straight-to-series order for Lovecraft Country , a drama series from the Get Out writer-director . Based on the 2016 novel of the same name by Matt Ruff , the hour-long show be written by Underground executive producer and writer Misha Green , who will also serve as showrunner . The drama is described as an anthological horror series that reclaims genre storytelling from the African- American perspective . Lovecraft Country follows 25-year-old Atticus Black , who joins up with his childhood friend Letitia and his Uncle George to embark on a road trip across 1950s Jim Crow America to find his missing father . The journey sets off their fight to survive and overcome both the racist terrors of white America and malevolent spirits . The news of the series order comes not long after Peele ' s production company set a first-look film deal with Universal Pictures , the studio behind his critical and commercial hit Get Out . Peele first formed Monkeypaw in 2012 while starring on the Emmy-winning Comedy Central sketch series Key & Peele .
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Snoop Dogg will host a revival of classic game show The Joker ’ s Wild for TBS , it was announced . The half-hour program will be set in a faux casino with giant dice , playing cards , streetwise questions and problem solving — in addition to the giant slot machine featured in the original . Snoop Dogg will executive produce the project with Michael Strahan , Constance Schwartz-Moriniof SMAC , Ted Chung of Snoopadelic Films , and Vincent Rubino .
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