Her interactions with real experts were intolerably funny. Five teens from Harlem become trapped in a nightmare when they're falsely accused of a brutal attack in Central Park. | A cynical young woman in New York City keeps dying and returning to the party that's being thrown in her honor on that same evening.
572 min Their original half-hour late-night comedy guest show brings an updated spin to the standard talk show. Griffin Gluck, | From family dramas and comedies to shows about navigating the criminal underworld, there is literally something on TV that every Black person can appreciate.
35 min TV-MA Instead, they embraced anarchic queerness – and great writing. | |
Stars: Theo James, Netflix. Stephen Root,
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Katheryn Winnick, | Betty Gilpin, the most important election of our lifetime. William Jackson Harper, Season 4 Rating: 8.5/10 Action, Comedy, Crime. Read more, (BBC One) We might still be waiting for her first stone-cold classic episode, but Jodie Whittaker has coolly excelled in her first shift at the Tardis controls, with no drop in ratings and an instantly snug new slot on Sunday nights. Stars: Highlight: Episode 7 - Veep, TV-MA Genres (Tv): Drama, Family drama, Soap opera. Season 3 Rating: 8.0/10 On Black Monday October 19, 1987, famous for the enormous ... Godfather of Harlem.
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Action, Adventure, Drama.
| In New Jersey, Ramy, son of Egyptian migrants, begins a spiritual journey, divided between his Muslim community, God, and his friends who see endless possibilities. Read more, (BBC One) A sober, exhaustive three-part documentary about the killing of teenager Stephen Lawrence, showing with careful rigour why the pain it caused and the questions it raised are still with us, 25 years on.
22 min Season 2 Rating: 8.5/10 It was a world of bad sex, disappointing rented rooms and smothered emotions, captured. Read our full review, (Netflix) Laura Linney and Jason Bateman’s amateur criminals broke even badder in season two of a show that’s too well acted and too irresistibly, addictively dark for any of its manifest flaws to register. A reporter confronts the psychological demons from her past when she returns to her hometown to cover a violent murder.
Rafi Gavron, Hulu. 45 min John Mulaney, An aging actor, who long ago enjoyed a brush with fame, makes his living as an acting coach. Season 2 Rating: 9.0/10 Patricia Arquette,
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Action, Crime, Drama. Read more, (BBC Two) Spoof presenter Philomena Cunk (Diane Morgan) cranked up her malapropistic shredding of pompous factual TV with a sweeping, ambitious and totally stupid history of the UK. Highlight: Episode 5 - The Columbian Connection, TV-MA Read our full review, (Channel 5) A miniature renaissance for Channel 5 this year was led by Britain’s least dislikable travel presenter, finding the odd moment of friendly human connection in an inevitably restricted view of the awfully secretive DPRK. Taryn Manning,
BoJack Horseman was the star of the hit television show "Horsin' Around" in the '80s and '90s, now he's washed up, living in Hollywood, complaining about everything, and wearing colorful sweaters.
D'Arcy Carden, NBC.
Highlight: Episode 5 - Where Am I Going. It was a case study in the corrupting nature of privilege and a demonstration of how Britain’s upper classes nurture myths to obscure difficult truths.
Carla Gugino,
Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Read our full review, (Netflix) When this dropped on Netflix, word soon spread: don’t watch it alone.
Season 1 Rating: 9.0/10 For all its the humour, there is also a gravitas missing from other nostalgic teen comedies. 30 min Read our full review, (NBC/More 4) No tears left to cry? Adventure, Comedy, Drama. Stars: While 2018 may have been lacking in terms of films that showcase Black life, TV more than picked up the slack.
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Travis Tope, Netflix.
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Jason Bateman,
Sarah Paulson, FX.
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy. | Season 6 Rating: 8.5/10
Issa Rae, Highlight: Episode 2 - Please Remain Calme, TV-MA
Season 2 Rating: 8.0/10 After the loss of their parents in a mysterious fire, the three Baudelaire children face trials and tribulations attempting to uncover dark family secrets. Maggie Gyllenhaal,
The hilarious sitcoms Black-ish and its spinoff Grown-ish will also continue to spread humor on traditional network television.
Watch as Max can’t sit still as Kyle serenades her with “My Funny Valentine.” Don’t fight it, Max!
Animation, Comedy, Romance. Stars: Read our full review, (BBC One) A twist on the old grizzled-veteran-plus-idealistic-rookie cop show: Paddy Considine and Bel Powley were counter-terror police, exploiting reluctant informant Nabhaan Rizwan. Limited Rating: 8.5/10 |
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It was Mary Wilson of the Supremes who convinced Don Cornelius to take his talents down the Soul Train line.
| Read our full review, (BBC One) Russell T Davies homed in on this country’s contradictory obsession with moral propriety and tabloid titillation – as well as repression, class-based strictures and the high camp of British politicians. Power consistently brings nothing but jaw-dropping action and plot twists galore every season, and Season 5 was no exception. Jay Ellis, Limited Rating: 9.5/10 Margarita Levieva, HBO. Classy, but brutal. Last month we also compiled a list of 12 life lessons from Dr. Huxtable. |
If you're looking for more movies and TV shows to watch featuring black leads, here are 30 titles on Netflix to start with. Premiered: 2016. Sophie Rundle, | Limited Rating: 10/10 Paul Dano,
Drama, Fantasy, Mystery.
Sterling K. Brown, Season 3 Rating: 8.0/10
Kaitlin Olson, FX. Season 1 Rating: 9.0/10 Read more, (Netflix) The first half of Kimmy’s farewell – season four concludes next year – smartly used the idea of its main character being a victim in recovery to tackle a host of difficult, very 2018 issues. Stars: Sarah Baker, Season 1 Rating: 8.0/10
Read our full review, (BBC One/AMC) A year would feel incomplete now without a graceful Le Carré dramatisation.
Natasha Rothwell, HBO.
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42 min 22 min Stars: Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s influence as writer and producer meant that, alongside the tension, shocks and gore, it was also very human and very funny.
Highlight: Episode 9 - Janet(s), TV-MA
| Here’s a look at the best current TV shows with Black casts that are have aired or are currently airing new episodes in 2019. Sarah Steele, CBS All Access.
Read more, (HBO/Sky Atlantic) Issa Rae’s dramedy couldn’t just remain as a document of aimless late-20s Angelenos for ever and this year, as its protagonists settled into their 30s, the show itself changed, grew, tried new things and came out stronger. Jessi Klein, Vincent Franklin, The votes have been tallied! A housewife in 1958 decides to become a stand-up comic. | Erin E. Evans is a writer and editor in Brooklyn, N.Y.
A recently released ex-convict named Shadow meets a mysterious man who calls himself "Wednesday" and who knows more than he first seems to about Shadow's life and past. Stars: A financial advisor drags his family from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks, where he must launder money to appease a drug boss. Posted March 28, 2016 Stars: Greta Lee,
Season 2 Rating: 8.0/10 Louis Hynes, Netflix. Cole Allen, Showtime. It's refreshing to see more and more shows - from comedies to dramas and even superheroes - with majority Black casts.
Melissa McBride,
Highlight: Episode 10 - The One About the end of the World, TV-MA Comedy, Romance. Highlight: Episode 4 - Time's Up for the Gang, TV-MA Stars: Stellan Skarsgård,
Flashing between past and present, a fractured family confronts haunting memories of their old home and the terrifying events that drove them from it. Here's the deal: TV Guide recently compiled a list of their top 100 TV shows that are currently airing.
Season 1 Rating: 8.0/10 50 min Read our full review, (NBC/Netflix) Yet another flipping of the set-up spun TV’s most philosophical comedy into a more direct, traditional sitcom satire of the modern world in its third season. Comedy, Crime, Drama.
Skylar Gaertner, Netflix.
60 min genuinely astonishing live episode for Halloween, male privilege, white privilege and the show itself. Highlight: Episode 13 - The Whirlwind, TV-MA Animation, Comedy. Two strangers are drawn to a mysterious pharmaceutical trial for a drug that will, they're assured, with no complications or side-effects whatsoever, solve all of their problems permanently.
Season 1 Rating: 9.5/10 Natasha Lyonne,
Highlight: Episode 2 - Frozen Worlds, TV-MA Read our full review, (BBC Two) A sort-of remake of the Kenneth Clark classic, but with three presenters and a subtly more inclusive, pluralised title. Danai Gurira, AMC. Highlight: Episode 8 - You're Mine, TV-PG Highlight: Episode 8 - The Good Twin, TV-14
Stars: | Comedy, Drama. Read more, (Sky One) Lennie James created his best TV role yet for himself, writing a tight thriller – about a man accused of kidnapping his own daughter – that was grounded in an astute, humane take on working-class urban life. Highlight: Episode 10 - The Gold Coast, TV-MA
Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s femme fatale takes the top spot, above political high camp, breakneck drama and the water-cooler hit of the decade, Fri 21 Dec 2018 06.03 EST advice and career trends - and MadameNoire provides all of that. Tituss Burgess, Stars: Season 9 Rating: 8.5/10
55 min Alex Karpovsky, Amazon.
Ben Barnes, Julia Goldani Telles, Showtime. 330 min
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Britt Baron, Netflix. | Season 3 Rating: 8.5/ 10
Biography, Drama, Music.
Season 3 Rating: 8.5/10 A look into the daily (or rather, nightly) lives of three vampires, who've lived together for over 100 years, on Staten Island.
Highlight: Episode 9 - Vote for Kennedy, Vote for Kennedy, TV-MA
The comedy duo Desus Nice and The Kid Mero will move from Viceland to Showtime this year. Season 8 Rating: 9.5/10 Danielle Brooks, Nancy Travis, Netflix. Crispin Glover, ", Stars:
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