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TCA: ‘Undercovers’ Producers Reluctant Trailblazers For Casting Two Black Leads

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday July 30, 2010 @ 4:58pm PDTTags: Boris Kodjoe, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, NBC Undercovers, Race Relations, TCA, TV Casting, Undercovers

Diane Haithman is contributing to Deadline’s TCA coverage.

Is a spy drama with two black actors as the male-female romantic leads a revolution for network television? At TCA today, the producers of NBC’s upcoming Undercovers, which is just such a show — hemmed and hawed in answering the question that really shouldn’t be a question in 2010 but, well, still is.

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Precious Time Left For ‘Selma’ To Mobilize As Director Lee Daniels Makes ‘Butler’ Deal

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday July 30, 2010 @ 9:47am PDTTags: Denzel Washington, Laura Ziskin, Lee Daniels, Lee Daniels Precious, Lee Daniels Selma, Race Relations, Sony Pictures The Butler
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: While Precious director Lee Daniels continues to wait for financing to mobilize on the Civil Rights drama Selma, he has closed a deal with Sony Pictures Entertainment to rewrite and direct The Butler. The Laura Ziskin-produced drama is based … Read More »

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