POPPA’S HOUSE: Actor, co-creator and executive producer Damon Wayans on new CBS comedy – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/04/2024
Damon Wayans as Poppa, from the CBS original pilot POPPA’S HOUSE - Season 1 | ©2023 CBS Broadcasting, Inc./ Sonja Flemming/ All Rights Reserved

The new CBS Monday night (streaming subsequently on Paramount+) half-hour series POPPA’S HOUSE is a family comedy in multiple ways. Onscreen, POPPA’S HOUSE concerns amicably divorced podcaster Poppa, who goes from working as a radio host to doing a podcast from his home studio. His routine is disrupted when his adult son Damon, Damon’s wife Nina (Tetona Jackson), and their little daughter Maya (River Blossom) move in next door to him. Behind the scenes, the series was co-created, with Kevin Hench, by executive producer Damon Wayans, who plays Poppa. Wayans’s real-life son, Damon Wayans Jr., plays Damon. Wayans Jr. is […]Read On »


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Movie Review: AIR

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/05/2023
AIR movie poster | ©2023 Amazon Studios

Rating: R Stars: Matt Damon, Jason Bateman, Ben Affleck, Viola Davis, Chris Messina, Julius Tennon, Chris Tucker, Matthew Maher, Marlon Wayans, Damian Young Writer: Alex Convery Director: Ben Affleck Distributor: Amazon Studios Release Date: April 5, 2023 (theatrical) It might be easier to find Bigfoot than a person in modern society who doesn’t know what an Air Jordan is. Likewise, pretty much everybody knows that Nike makes the shoe, and that it is the namesake of basketball great Michael Jordan. All of this makes it a pleasant surprise that AIR, the dramatized story of how Nike got into business with […]Read On »


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MARLON: Actress Bresha Webb on her new NBC comedy – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/30/2017
MARLON - Season 1 Key Art | ©2017 NBCUniversal

Marlon Wayans is back on TV in the half-hour comedy MARLON, Wednesday nights on NBC. His eponymous character Marlon is so involved in the lives of his ex-wife Angie (Essence Atkins) and two young children Marley (Notlim Taylor) and Zachery (Amir O’Neil) that he doesn’t seem to fully understand he’s divorced. Bresha Webb plays Angie’s brash friend Yvette. The actress and comedian was also a regular on another NBC comedy, TRUTH BE TOLD, in 2015. Webb was also a series regular on four seasons of TV One’s LOVE THAT GIRL, had arcs on ER and GREY’S ANATOMY and appeared in […]Read On »


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Host Marlon Wayans reveals I CAN DO THAT! – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 06/30/2015
Marlon Wayans hosts I CAN DO THAT! | ©2015 NBC Universal/Paul Drinkwater

Actor/writer/producer Marlon Wayans, of the Wayans family entertainment dynasty, has done a lot of things in his career, from co-creating comedy series THE WAYANS BROS. to costarring in the completely serious film REQUIEM FOR A DREAM. However, Wayans says he never has been nor wanted to be a variety show host. However, NBC’s I CAN DO THAT!, Tuesdays at 10 PM, changed his mind. Wayans oversees a group of celebrities, paired into teams, who then attempt to learn song, dance and/or athletic routines outside their comfort zones. ASSIGNMENT X: What made you decide that you wanted to host I CAN […]Read On »


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MUPPETS MOST WANTED Highlights this week in Blu-ray, DVD and VOD Releases

By PETER BROWN 08/16/2014
MUPPETS MOST WANTED | © 2014 Disney Home Video

Your time is short. We know this. So in order to expedite your buying and Netflix decision making, we provide you with a list of the cool and not-so-cool titles coming out for movies, television and everything in-between. So put your feet up, grab some popcorn and check out this week’s selections. Movies: MUPPETS MOST WANTED – I appreciate that the creators of the MUPPETS are down to create something so incredibly different that it actually makes a franchise that has been around for more than three decades relevant again on the pop culture stage. Just look at the attention […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: DJ Qualls talks LEGIT and SUPERNATURAL

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/21/2013
DJ Qualls in LEGIT - Season 1 | ©2013 FX/Matthias Clamer

In LEGIT, the new half-hour comedy created by Jim Jefferies and Peter O’Fallon on FX, Thursdays at 10:30, Jefferies’ character Jim is trying belatedly to grow up. One of his friends is Billy, a quadriplegic who has muscular dystrophy, played by DJ Qualls. Qualls, whose initials stand for Donald Joseph, is an uncommonly lanky native of Tennessee– he’s 6’1” and weighs about 140 pounds, the after-effects of surviving cancer in adolescence. Qualls has been appearing in feature films since his career-making co-star turn in 2000’s comedy ROAD TRIP, with credits as varied as THE CORE and HUSTLE & FLOW, with […]Read On »


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