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‘Anchorman 2′ Adds Meagan Good And Dylan Baker

By JEN YAMATO | Thursday February 28, 2013 @ 4:39pm PSTTags: Anchorman 2, Anchorman: The Legend Continues, Meagan Good

Meagan Good Anchorman 2EXCLUSIVE: With filming set to begin soon in Atlanta, Paramount’s Anchorman: The Legend Continues is still quietly adding thesps to its growing roster. Deception‘s Meagan Good is the latest to join Will Ferrell, Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, Christina Applegate, David Koechner, and new cast members Kristen Wiig and James Marsden in the comedy sequel. We hear the NBC primetime star is set to play Ron Burgundy’s boss in the pic, which hits theaters December 20. Good graced the big screen last year in the box office hit Think Like A Man and is repped by Gersh and Untitled.

Good’s not the only new face in the cast: Paradigm and Viking Entertainment client Dylan Baker (Spider-Man 2 and 3) has also joined the pic, Paramount confirms. Adam McKay, who’s directing from a screenplay he wrote with Ferrell, revealed to Empire this week that the sequel will see Burgundy & Co. head to New York City. Meanwhile, speculation that Ferrell’s StepBrothers co-star John C. Reilly will also pop up in Anchorman 2 swirled this week following reports that the film was looking to hire Reilly lookalikes. (One explanation from the production, via a rep: “We were looking for a stand-in for lighting purposes who looks like John C. Reilly. We always demand that every stand-in looks like John C. Reilly”.)

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‘Deception’ Creators See No Need To Call Attention To Race: TCA

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday January 6, 2013 @ 2:57pm PSTTags: Deception, Liz Heldens, Meagan Good

Ray Richmond is contributing to Deadline’s TCA coverage.

DeceptionGiven that a pair of its primary lead performers happen to be African American, it might seem logical to assume that the ethnicity of stars Meagan Good and Laz Alonso would … Read More »

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2012-13 New Series Leads: Strong Year For Black Actors, Foreigners & Famous Offsping

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday May 15, 2012 @ 5:55am PDTTags: Andre Braugher, Big Deals TV, Meagan Good
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Last season there wasn’t a broadcast drama series with a black lead until Shonda Rhimes’ Scandal launched in the spring with Kerry Washington as the star. That series is coming back next season, joined by several new ones toplined by black actors. It’s a rarity on broadcast television, which has seen only a handful of dramas with black actors as the leads in the past decade. The list of newcomers includes ABC’s Last Resort starring Andre Braugher; Infamous, whose lead is played by Meagan Good; and the CW’s Cult starring Jessica Lucas. Additionally, Fox in keeping in midseason contention its legal drama pilot Guilty toplined by Cuba Gooding Jr. Surprisingly, among comedies, which have been far more welcoming to black actors than dramas with such long-running sitcoms as Cosby and My Wife And Kids, there is only one that features a black actor in a lead role: NBC’s Guys With Kids, where Anthony Anderson plays one of the three leads. (There is a new comedy series with a minority single lead, Fox’s The Mindy Project, created by and starring Indian American Mindy Kaling.) Read More »

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Meagan Good Lands The Lead In NBC Drama Pilot ‘Notorious’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday March 21, 2012 @ 12:41pm PDTTags: Meagan Good, NBC, Notorious
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: In her first series regular gig, Meagan Good has been tapped as the lead of NBC’s drama pilot Notorious, from Universal TV and BermanBraun. Written by Liz Heldens, Notorious is described as an opulent soap in which detective Joanna … Read More »

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