Out With The Old, In With The New Networks Gear Up For 2002-03 And there's a new drama in development at The WB from producer yvette lee bowser,and a comedy about a Latin American family a la George Lopez. ABC is http://new.blackvoices.com/entertainment/opinion/bv-littlejohn042402,0,3125300.c
Another Fall, Another Band Of Docs, Cops And Lawyers - Bernie And Longtime showrunner yvette lee bowser (Living Single) produces this series, so Imholding out hope that more laughs maybe three or four are in store. http://new.blackvoices.com/entertainment/opinion/bv-ent-2002-fallroundup,0,45637
Extractions: The big news this television season is not about the new series in the line up, but rather two returning comedies that were monster hits last fall. The news that FOXs The Bernie Mac Show will be competing head-to-head with Damon Wayans ABC show My Wife and Kids on Wednesday nights at 8 oclock has tongues wagging from Madison Avenue to Hollywood.
Living Single Living Single. Premiered August 22, 1993, on Fox. Created by yvette lee bowser.Primary cast Queen Latifah as Khadijah James. Kim Coles as Synclaire James. http://www.albany.net/~genxtv/living.html
Extractions: Living Single Premiered: August 22, 1993, on Fox Created by: Yvette Lee Bowser Primary cast: Queen Latifah as Khadijah James Kim Coles as Synclaire James Erika Alexander as Maxine Shaw T.C. Carson as Kyle Barker John Henton as Overton Wakefield Jones Kim Fields as Regine Hunter Plot: Six twentysomethings living in New York deal with love and friendship. Three of the women share a brownstone, while the guys are their neighbors. Khadijah founded Flavor , an urban magazine with a woman's point of view. Her cousin Synclaire works there too, while their third housemate, Regine, climbs social ladders in an ongoing attempt to marry a rich man. Maxine, Khadijah's college roommate, is a divorce attorney who visits the girls frequently. The guys include Kyle, a ladies' man and stockbroker and his roommate, Overton, the building's Mr. Fix It. Return to Gen X TV in the '90s
TV Guide Online - [ShowGuide] Premise Musings on married life from Living Single creator yvette lee bowser.Episode Guide. Season One. Season Two. Season Three. Season Four. Season Five. http://www.tvguide.com/showguide/ShowPage.asp?iprogramid=233053
BENTON> Communications-related Headlines For 8/27/99 yvette lee bowser, an established TV writer, said, There's a very unfortunatereality that we have to deal with this particular season, she said. http://scout.wisc.edu/addserv/net-news/99-08/99-08-27/0004.html
Famous Sorors yvette lee bowser Producer of Hangin' with Mr. Cooper and A Different World,and creator and executive producer of Living Single and For Your Love. http://www.shsu.edu/~org_aka/famousAKA.html
Extractions: Marian Anderson - The first Black woman to sing at the Metropolitan Opera. Maya Angelou - Renowned novelist and poet. Yvette Lee Bowser - Producer of Hangin' with Mr. Cooper and A Different World, and creator and executive producer of Living Single and For Your Love. Angie Brookes - The first woman President of the United Nations. Yvonne Braithwaite-Burke - Former Congresswoman from California and first woman to chair the Democratic National Convention. Bebe Moore Campbell - Award-Winning Author of Brothers and Sisters and Your Blues Ain't Like Mine Suzette Charles - Former Miss America, 1984, contemporary singer and actress. Marva Collins - Founder of her own private school on Chicago's west side.
TV NewsLite: UPN 2002-2003 Season yvette lee bowser ( A Different World, Living Single, and For Your Love )is executive producer. Jeffrey Klarik ( Mad About You ) is the writer. http://pw1.netcom.com/~gstuart1/fall2002/upnfall.html
Women's Images In The Media yvette lee bowser (creator of Living Single ) She said that the women onthe show are positive because they're coming from a positive place. http://www.daveyd.com/women.html
Extractions: This was a prerecordeed live interview in which Ms Hart spoke on the importance of sublties.. She explained that little things like billing the show as John Tesh and Mary Hart..rflect the power males have in this industry.. She encouraged people to remain committed and to try and look good when in front of the camera. She explained that viewers are usually checking to see how good you look.. She added that when she looks good she feels good. Ms Hart also explained that after being in the business for more then 20 years that things were improving. Sydney Kohara (KGO TV - Marketplace)
News And Events Rodney Peete, will host the 4TH Annual DesignCure Benefit on Saturday, June 22, 2002at the estate of honorary chairs, Kyle yvette lee bowser in Encino, CA. http://www.hollyrod.com/news_designcure.html
Broadcasting & Cable Girlfriends. The show is produced by CBS Productions, was created byJeffrey Klarik and is executiveproduced by yvette lee bowser. http://www.broadcastingcable.com/esec/Article_252111.htm
Broadcasting & Cable Part of UPN's Mondaynight comedy lineup that targets African-Americans, the showis executive-produced by yvette lee bowser (A Different World and more). http://www.broadcastingcable.com/esec/Article_218109.htm
Extractions: SIGN UP for a FREE trial today! Abstract: The plan "Did I just say 18 to 34?" asked Les Moonves at the UPN upfront last week, recalling that, in his role as president and CEO of CBS, he's the guy who's always telling advertisers it's those older viewers they ought to be paying attention to. Different strokes, perhaps, for Moonves, who was presiding at UPN's first upfront presentation since officially being acquired by Viacom's CBS.
Letterten 2002 Fall Preview debut, Monday, Sep 23 930, producers, yvette lee bowser. stars, RachelTrue (The Craft) Essence Atkins (Smart Guy) Telma Hopkins (Family http://www.letterten.com/fallpreview/upn/half.html
Extractions: Theron "Chico" Benymon (Moesha) studio CBS Productions What I Say Been here many times before. Probable full season and should generate a similar audience/rating as the lead-in, "Girlfriends." I don't expect it to be discarded since it's CBS-owned on CBS2, oops, I mean UPN. Kudos to Telma Hopkins: According to the Internet Movie Database, this is her SEVENTH series (as a regular) in the last 28 years. What They Say Two half-sisters who only have their father in common suddenly find themselves neighbors in the same San Francisco apartment building. One's a free spirit, the other an overachiever. One was raised by a single parent, the other had two. Although they agree on next to nothing, the blood bond takes over. Luckily, there's a third-party friend to help smooth the waters when things get rough. Two half-sisters, Dee Dee (Essence Atkins) and Mona (Rachel True), have been raised in very different environments, but when they discover they are living in the same apartment building, they try to create a sisterly bond.
Letterten 2002 Fall Preview debut, Tuesday, Sep 24 900, producers, yvette lee bowser. stars, MatthewFox (Party of Five) Russell Hornsby (Gideon's Crossing), studio, http://www.letterten.com/fallpreview/upn/haunted.html
Extractions: CBS Productions What I Say "Flatliners" and "Ghost" meets "The Profiler." Viacom AND CBS Productions? Couldn't they just save on paperwork and combine? They are essentially the same company. Unless it loses more than 40% of the Buffy lead-in, it's going to be around for the whole year. UPN and CBS have too much interest here to cash out early, but there is a chance it could become this year's "Special Unit 2." The premise could lend it to be a younger cousin of "The X Files" Still haven't figured out why there isn't a female lead. What They Say A happily married cop's life is turned upside down when his son is kidnapped and never found. Four years later, he's divorced and working as a private detective when a near-death experience makes him begin receiving communications from lost souls beyond the grave. After the kidnapping of his son and subsequent divorce from his wife, once-successful police detective Frank Taylor (Matthew Fox) has become a sullen private eye. His life is changed beyond belief when a near-death experience causes him to be haunted by otherworldly souls who help him solve cases.
Global Diversity @ Work - Global News, April 2000 actresses Erika Alexander (Cosby, Living Single) Ann Marie Johnson (JAG, In theHeat of the Night), and producer/director yvette lee bowser (Living Single http://www.diversityatwork.com/news/apr00/news_usa.html
Extractions: by Norm Bond In February of this year the NAACP and it's coalition partners representing Latinos, Asian American, and Native American groups, signed far reaching agreements with the CBS television network and the FOX broadcasting company. These were designed to increase opportunities for people of color in programming and the executive, production, and talent ranks of network television. Later ABC and NBC television adopted goals and timetables for increasing opportunities for people of color at the television networks. It was in November of 1999 when the NAACP held public hearings in Los Angeles to examine the pattern of discriminating treatment by the television industry against African Americans, Latino, Native Americans and other minorities. A capacity crowd jammed the Westside Room at the Century Plaza Hotel and Towers in LA, California to hear what many have known for a long time. Actors Blair Underwood (City of Angels, LA Law), Apensenahkwat (Northern Exposure) actresses Erika Alexander (Cosby, Living Single) Ann Marie Johnson (JAG, In the Heat of the Night), and producer/director Yvette Lee Bowser (Living Single) presented their personal testimony. The NAACP has monitored the portrayal of African Americans in television since 1951. The agreements were reached between the networks and the NAACP after the networks were threatened with the "risk of a sustained, focused, and continuous consumer action in the form of repetitive boycotts, picketing, and large scale demonstrations in front of their network headquarters, the offices of network owned affiliates nationwide and the headquarters of their major advertisers". Kweisi Mfume NAACP President stated that, "only real results, in the form of real change will demonstrate their commitment."
Bizbuzz1a-body1talkoffame2 Hopkins (FAMILY MATTERS) will portray the family matriarch in the Warner Bros./NBCpilot THE THING ABOUT FAMILY for writer/producers yvette lee bowser and Kyle http://www.hollywoodscreentest.com/imag/talkold050400.html
Extractions: For Joss Whedon, managing a heavy workload on BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER has been an almost insurmountable task. Toss in a handful of BUFFY episodes he directs throughout the season and some original and rewrite work on features and Whedon could vie for the title as one of the hardest working men in show business (but don't tell James Brown, David E. Kelly or Dick Wolf that). ( click here for full story INDUSTRY BUZZ - By M. Steven Felty WHO'S DOING WHAT Jonathan Silverman has signed on for one of the leads in Artisan's MADE . Written, directed and starring Jon Favreau ( SWINGERS ), the film also stars Vince Vaughn, Famke Janssen and Sean "Puffy" Combs. Silverman is repped by Innovative Artists and manager Erwin More of Talent Entertainment Group. LL Cool J will co-star with Whoopi Goldberg in Fox Searchlight Pictures' KINGDOM COME . He then segues into MGM's ROLLERBALL with Chris Klein. The performer is repped by ICM and Jeff Gohlenberg at 3 Arts Entertainment.
Africana.com: Gateway To The Black World.Screen Name Service of black women behind the scenes in television production may some day begin tochange the landscape Tharps mentions that yvette lee bowser, who headed http://www.africana.com/Column/bl_lines_49.htm
New Fall Show Half And Half PRODUCTION CBS Productions Executive producer yvette lee bowser ABOUT THE CASTRachel True Mona Essence Atkins Dee Dee Telma Hopkins Phyllis Valarie http://www.upn924.com/half_half.html
CMU 200 Winter 2000 According to yvette lee bowser, TV executives prefer which characterizationsof AfricanAmerican women? Paul Espinosa, The Rich http://faculty.washington.edu/baldasty/200wk5read.htm
Extractions: CMU 200 Winter 2000 Questions to consider while going over the Week 5 readings on representation of minorities on television. No papers are due on the readings, but points may be discussed in sections. These questions may also help you prepare for the exams. New York Times: "Stung by Criticism of the New Fall Shows, TV Networks Rush to Add Minority Roles" Paul Espinosa, "The Rich Tapestry of Hispanic America Is Virtually Invisible on Commercial Television" Why does the author say television is a "vast wasteland" for Hispanics in the U.S.?
E! Online News - Peacock Changing Its Colors Additionally, the network announced development deals with two establishedblack producers, Keenen Ivory Wayans and yvette lee bowser. http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,5114,00.html
Extractions: The Peacock network has added some new colors to its rainbow plumage. Criticized by the NAACP as being the most white-bread of the major networks, NBC has injected many minority charactersthe majority of them African-Americaninto both its returning and debuting shows. Sherri Shepherd joins the revamped Suddenly Susan as an editorial assistant. Jesse L. Martin (briefly Ally McBeal's love interest) takes over the detective's spot vacated by Benjamin Bratt on . Michelle Hurd earns a recurring role as a detective on the spinoff, . Darryl Theirse will be a nurse's aide on the overhauled Jesse Homicide 's Michael Michele will become a resident medic on ER . And the Asian actress, Ming Na, will return to the hospital drama, reprising the character of Deb Chen from ER 's first season. a d v e r t i s e m e n t Additionally, the network announced development deals with two established black producers, Keenen Ivory Wayans and Yvette Lee Bowser. Wayans' show, called Not the Bradys , is a comedy about an interracial couple with two white and two black children. Bowser, who is also developing a drama series at the WB, is working on a midseason comedy pilot, its content as yet to be determined.
Firehouse: CBS Slate To Return Focus ... TV and Living Single creator yvette lee bowser. Salinas A singlemom is ready to remedy that condition, except for her kids. http://www.uplinktech.net/macgyver/misc/article2.html
Extractions: CBS Slate To Return Focus On 25-54 Demographic By Gary Levin NEW YORK (Variety) - Despite the hard lessons learned by the networks in trotting out 42 new series last fall, CBS Entertainment president Leslie Moonves expects much the same to happen next season. "There's still going to be the same problem," Moonves told reporters Thursday after unveiling the Eye web's fall development slate to nearly 400 advertisers and financial analysts. "There'll still be 35 of them." Still, he added, the networks "will look at more diversity; people are moving back to where they were" before the disastrous 1995-96 season, when everyone aped leader NBC and programmed for the same 18-49-year-old urban audience. For its part, CBS now plans to refocus on the 25-54 crowd and "especially right in the middle of that target," said CBS network president Jim Warner. "This is where the audience is growing, and it is CBS' strength. It is our hitting zone." Moonves pointed to recent ratings rebounds along with new commitments for series with Bill Cosby and Ted Danson as evidence of the "cautious optimism at CBS these days. Living through the disappointments of the last season has not been easy, but we feel like we've stopped the bleeding and have begun taking baby steps in the right directions." Season-to-date ratings are down 15%, however, and only one of CBS' 11 freshman series is likely at this point to get a renewal: "Almost Perfect," the Nancy Travis/Kevin Kilner sitcom recently moved to Mondays.
