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Mara Brock Akil’s Hourlong BET Pilot Starring Gabrielle Union Goes To Series

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday August 8, 2012 @ 9:10am PDTTags: BET, Big Deals TV, Gabrielle Union
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: I hear BET is picking up hourlong pilot Being Mary Jane (formerly Single Black Female) starring Gabrielle Union to series. Written by Mara Brock Akil and directed by Salim Akil, Being Mary Jane centers on successful talk show host Mary Jane Paul (Union) looking to one day become the No.1 nightly news anchor while searching for Mr. Right.  Latarsha Rose and Omari Hardwick co-starred in the pilot.

I hear production on the series is eyed to be begin in January for a launch later in the year. This marks Mara Brock Akil’s second series on BET along with hit comedy The Game, which also is directed by Salim Akil. Married duo Mara Brock Akil and Salim Akil are under a mega deal with BET, which includes a series and several pilot commitments. Mara Brock Akil recently wrote the feature Sparkle, which was directed by Salim Akil. The film, which opens next week, stars Whitney Houston in her final role. The Akils are with ICM. Union, repped by Paradigm and Intellectual Artists Management, was recently seen in Kevin Hart’s sleeper hit Think Like A Man.

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Gabrielle Union To Star In Mara Brock Akil’s BET Comedy Pilot ‘Single Black Female’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday March 2, 2012 @ 3:39pm PSTTags: BET, Gabrielle Union, Single Black Female
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Gabrielle Union has been tapped for the lead in Single Black Female, BET’s hourlong pilot from Mara Brock Akil and Salim Akil, the husband-and-wife duo behind the cable network’s hit comedy series The Game. Written by The Game creator … Read More »

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‘Entourage’s Jerry Ferrara Hops Fright Flight ‘7500’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday November 8, 2011 @ 2:20pm PSTTags: Amy Smart, Christian Serratos, Gabrielle Union, Kevin Hart, Leslie Bibb, Michael Ealy, Ryan Kwanten, Takashi Shimizu
Mike Fleming

Entourage‘s Jerry Ferrara has joined the cast of the Takashi Shimizu-directed CBS Films thriller 7500. He stars with Ryan Kwanten, Amy Smart, Leslie Bibb, Jamie Chung, Christian Serratos, and Scout Taylor-Compton. It is Ferrara’s second film since the end … Read More »

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Screen Gems Casts ‘Think Like A Man’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday May 24, 2011 @ 6:40am PDTTags: Gabrielle Union, Gary Owen, Kevin Hart, Michael Ealy, Steve Harvey, Tim Story, Will Packer
Mike Fleming

Screen Gems has set the cast to surround Kevin Hart in Think Like A Man, the comedy based on Steve Harvey’s bestselling book. Michael Ealy, Jerry Ferrara, Taraji Henson, Romany Malco, Gary Owen and Gabrielle Union have joined the cast. … Read More »

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Jean Smart, Gabrielle Union & Kelly Hu Among Latest Pilot Casting Additions

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday March 4, 2011 @ 12:09am PSTTags: A Mann's World Casting, A Mann's World Pilot, Berman/Braun, Dan Goor Pilot Project, Gabrielle Union, Jean Smart, Little in Common Pilot, TV, TV Deals, TV Pilots
Nellie Andreeva

 Jean Smart is set to star in NBC’s untitled Dan Goor pilot. The multicamera comedy, from BermanBraun, UMS and writer-exec producer Dan Goor, centers on Adam Foote, a young doctor who joins his parents’ medical practice and spends as much time tending to his family as to his patients. Smart will play Adam’s doting, meddlesome mom, Dr. Barbara Foote. Emmy winner Smart recurs on two CBS series this season, drama Hawaii Five-0 and comedy $#*! My Dad Says.

Gabrielle Union is set to co-star opposite Rob Corddry, Paula Marshall and Kevin Hart in Rob Thomas’ single-camera comedy pilot for Fox Little in Common. The WBTV-produced pilot is about three families united through their kids’ little league sports. It centers on the Wellers (Corddry, Marshall), who move from San Jose, CA to Austin, TX, but find that their adjustment won’t be quite that easy considering that their Latino neighbors, the Pachecos, have a radically different approach to child-rearing than they do, while their other new neighborhood acquaintances, the African American Burlesons (Hart, Union), take sports very seriously. Union’s Nicole Burleson is a lobbyist on the fast track to success who is every bit as competitive and intense as her husband. Read More »

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Producer Mark Gordon Uses N-Word Twice At TV Pilot Table Read: Lifetime Notifies ABC Studios “This Needs To Be Dealt With”

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Wednesday August 11, 2010 @ 4:06pm PDTTags: Army Wives Spinoff, Gabrielle Union, Lifetime, Mark Gordon, Mark Gordon ABC Studios, Mark Gordon N-Word

Producers Guild Co-Prez Mark Gordon Apologizes To Board

EXCLUSIVE: I’ve learned that Lifetime formally notified Disney’s ABC Studios that prominent TV and film producer Mark Gordon six weeks ago used the word “nigger” twice … Read More »

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