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HBO's Lanterns has officially redefined superhero storytelling with a self-contained, satisfying finale. bit.ly/4rOWF8q

LANTERNS ranks as HBO’s third biggest new series ever, only behind House of Dragon and The Last of Us. (Via yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/a…)

California strong.

It’s been a long journey since #Lanterns started as an idea from @TomKingTK in the DC writers’ room all those years ago. So happy to see how so many have embraced it, and can’t wait for you to see the Season Finale tonight. 9pm ET on @hbomax.

I once hired a writers room of six for a comedy pilot, and nobody in a room is there just because they can write. Every chair is a job. So I read the chairs HBO just filled for Lanterns Season 2, starting with the showrunner. Which hire jumps out at you?

had to make this known

Netflix's 'A Different World' sequel has been renewed for a second season! Have you seen it yet? 👀 Catch up on the original this weekend during our A Different World marathon on Sunday at 12p/11c.

Get ready for Season 2! Another season of A Different World is officially in the works!

Y’all we are RENEWED! #ADifferentWorld

Sophomore year here we come A Different World has been renewed for Season 2!

Felicia Pride’s remarks about the making of the ‘A Different World’ sequel stand as a clear record of what intentional production can look like: “We had an all-Black directing team that were all female and queer. We had a Black DP, we had a Black production designer, a Black costume designer, a Black head of makeup, a Black head of hair. We had a Black gaffer, we had Black Teamsters, which I've never seen in LA before in my life. We also created an HBCU council of current students who acted as an advisory board of sorts for the writers room. We replicated that model on set, so we had current students on set who acted as an advisory board to our writer-producers. I partnered with Netflix on their Next 13 program to have current students work as PAs across departments. 59% of our background were HBCU students and alumni. We were able to film at the AUC, at Spelman, Morehouse, and Clark. So I'm really proud of like those things that we did that were very intentional in the creation of this show.” These were not incidental hires or last-minute inclusions. They were structural choices: an all-Black writers’ room, an all-female and queer directing team, Black department heads in key creative and technical roles, and a sustained partnership with current HBCU students as advisors, production assistants, and on-screen talent. Filming at the Atlanta University Center further rooted the series in the campuses it sought to represent. Pride and her team treated representation as practice rather than talking point. They built pipelines while they built the show. In an industry where these outcomes remain rare, her statement is both a celebration of what was achieved and a reminder of what becomes possible when those decisions are made from the start. The result is a production that does more than depict a different world, it helped construct one.

It was already common knowledge but this pretty much confirms GNX as one of the greatest eras Hip-Hop has seen

The new class just enrolled. A Different World arrives SEPTEMBER 24!

The official poster of ‘Strung’, starring Chloe Bailey. 🍿

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II says the optics of Marvel cancelling Black-led projects like ‘BLADE’ and ‘WONDER MAN’ are obvious: “I think the optics are obvious. If I’m a big business, if I’m Disney, if I’m Marvel, I don’t want to be attached to these optics. So it should be a priority to change that narrative and to do what it takes to responsibly change that narrative with quality stories, with quality resources.” (vanityfair.com/story/yahya-a…)

DUNE: PART THREE

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Kobe and Gigi: Forever in our hearts 💜