Black Entertainment Television (Bet) has turned to the digital realm for new content. The cable and satellite channel picked up three original web series from entertainment and lifestyle network Black&Sexy for airing on linear television.
The first series picked up by Bet is RoomieLoverFriends, which debuts on September 16, 2015, at 11 Pm Est on the cable channel. The drama series, written by Black&Sexy co-founders Dennis Dortch and Numa Perrier and premiering online in 2012, follows the story of two roommates whose relationship gets complicated after they find themselves in bed together. Directed by Dortch, RoomieLoverFriends will have one hour-long episode aired each week on Bet.
Bet will also run Black&Sexy’s Sexless series, which debuted in early 2015 and follows a group of female friends who decide not to have sex to try to find real, lasting relationships. Finally, Bet will air episodes of the 2013 series Hello Cupid, about a young,...
The first series picked up by Bet is RoomieLoverFriends, which debuts on September 16, 2015, at 11 Pm Est on the cable channel. The drama series, written by Black&Sexy co-founders Dennis Dortch and Numa Perrier and premiering online in 2012, follows the story of two roommates whose relationship gets complicated after they find themselves in bed together. Directed by Dortch, RoomieLoverFriends will have one hour-long episode aired each week on Bet.
Bet will also run Black&Sexy’s Sexless series, which debuted in early 2015 and follows a group of female friends who decide not to have sex to try to find real, lasting relationships. Finally, Bet will air episodes of the 2013 series Hello Cupid, about a young,...
- 9/15/2015
- by Bree Brouwer
- Tubefilter.com
Yaani King - an actress who S&A readers would recognize from web series like RoomieLoverFriends, Milk & Honey, as well as Matthew Cherry's feature film debut The Last Fall), has landed a series regular role on Lifetime’s upcoming new drama Deliverance Creek, from Nicholas Sparks Prods. In what will be a two-hour movie/backdoor pilot, set at the end of the American Civil War, Deliverance Creek follows a young woman's attempts to defend her family’s land by any means necessary, even if it means becoming an outlaw. The series will star Lauren Ambrose, as the young woman. Yaani King will play a character named Kessiah “Kessie” Washington, who's...
- 10/31/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
A new season of Roomieloverfriends, the web series created by the Black & Sexy TV team (aka Dennis Dortch and Numa Perrier), and executive produced by Issa Rae (aka Awkward Black Girl) via her Issa Rae Productions. We here at S&A totally love what these folks are doing within the web series space, building a strong library of work, giving audiences (especially black audiences) varied slices *our* varied experiences mostly ignored by the mainstream. So take advantage of their offerings. And even if this one doesn't appeal to you specifically, there are others to choose from within the Black & Sexy TV/Issa Rae...
- 5/28/2013
- by Courtney
- ShadowAndAct
A new season of Roomieloverfriends, the web series created by the Black & Sexy TV team (aka Dennis Dortch and Numa Perrier), and executive produced by Issa Rae (aka Awkward Black Girl) via her Issa Rae Productions. We here at S&A totally love what these folks are doing within the web series space, building a strong library of work, giving audiences (especially black audiences) varied slices *our* varied experiences mostly ignored by the mainstream. So take advantage of their offerings. And even if this one doesn't appeal to you specifically, there are others to choose from within the Black & Sexy TV/Issa Rae...
- 5/19/2013
- by Courtney
- ShadowAndAct
Episode 3 of Roomieloverfriends is now available for viewing. The new webseries is a partnership between Black & Sexy TV (Dennis Dortch and Numa Perrier) and Issa Rae Productions (The Awkward Black Girl). The series follows the exploits of two roommates Tamiko (Shayla Hale) and Jayson (Andra Fuller) as they . . . complicate their lives. That's my description and did not come from the creative team . . . but I think you will agree that the description is appropriate. Roomieloverfriends can be viewed on Issa Rae's You Tube Channel. Catch up with the series below:...
- 10/1/2012
- by Natasha Greeves
- ShadowAndAct
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