Netflix Acquires Rights to 7 Black Sitcoms Including ‘Moesha’ and ‘Sister, Sister’
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Netflix has raided the former UPN network’s library, acquiring the rights to seven popular Black sitcoms, which will begin rolling out this weekend.
The streaming service has grabbed the rights to “Moesha,” “Sister, Sister,” “The Game,” “Girlfriends,” “The Parkers,” “Half & Half” and “One on One.” “Moesha,” which starred Brandy Norwood and ran for six seasons on UPN, will debut on Netflix Saturday. The first three seasons of “The Game,” which ran for nine years in total, will debut on Aug. 15. Netflix acquired the three seasons of the black comedy that aired on The CW, before it moved over to BET.
Popular ’90s sitcom, “Sister, Sister” will debut on Netflix starting Sept. 1. The series began on ABC before moving over to The WB, airing six seasons total. “Girlfriends,” which stars “black-ish” lead Tracee Ellis-Ross, ran for 9 seasons and 172 episodes and is one of the longer running live action sitcoms.
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“The Parkers,” “Half & Half” and “One on One” will debut in October. “The Parkers” was a spinoff of “Moesha” that starred Mo’Nique. All three of those series aired on UPN as well.
You can watch a special video by “Girlfriends” star Ellis-Ross below:
Time to pop bottles????????The following classic shows are coming to @Netflix (US)
Moesha – Aug 1The Game S1-3 – Aug 15Sister Sister – Sept 1Girlfriends – Sept 11The Parkers – Oct 1Half & Half – Oct 15One on One – Oct 15
To celebrate, here’s a message from your faves: pic.twitter.com/zohNPEo0rz
— Strong Black Lead (@strongblacklead) July 29, 2020
Between Elisabeth Moss and Bob Odenkirk getting pushed out of their respective categories and an unexpected nomination for “What We Do in the Shadows,” Tuesday’s Emmy nominations announcement came with more than its share of surprises.
Surprise: “What We Do in the Shadows” FX’s series adaptation of the vampire mockumetary from Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi only secured two below the line nominations for its first season, but it’s second outing scored big with eight nominations, including an Outstanding Comedy Series nod.
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Surprise: “The Mandalorian” Drama heavyweight “Game of Thrones” was out of the running this year, leaving room for a new series to sneak in among a slew of past nominees like “Better Call Saul,” “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “The Crown.” But instead of Apple TV+’s “The Morning Show,” voters went with a different new streaming service, nominated Disney+’s “The Mandalorian.”
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Snub: Bob Odenkirk, “Better Call Saul” Odenkirk has been a perennial nominee in the lead actor category since 2015, but this year the “Better Call Saul” star was overlooked in favor of a pair of actors from “Succession” and “The Morning Show” star Steve Carell.
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Snub: Elisabeth Moss, “The Handmaid’s Tale” Moss won the award for lead actress in a drama series in 2017 and has been nominated numerous times in the past, but, like “This Is Us” star Mandy Moore and “How to Get Away With Murder’s” Viola Davis, failed to make the cut for the most recent season of “Handmaid’s Tale.”
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Surprise: Zendaya, “Euphoria” In a category comprised mostly of returning players, dark horse candidate Zendaya managed to sneak a lead actress nod for her role on the HBO drama “Euphoria,” slipping in alongside fellow category newcomer Jennifer Aniston of “The Morning Show.”
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Snub: “Big Little Lies” HBO’s Liane Moriarty adaptation was the belle of awards season in 2017, all but sweeping the limited series categories with its roster of big-name stars including Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon. But Season 2’s move to the drama series category hurt the show, leaving “Big Little Lies” with only two nominations for supporting stars Laura Dern and Meryl Streep.
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Surprise: “The Masked Singer” Fox’s absurdist singing competition finally became too big for Emmy voters to ignore in Season 2, shaking up the Oustanding Competition Program category with 10-time winner “The Amazing Race” ineligible this year.
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Snub: “Westworld” Turns out “Westworld” wasn’t the “Game of Thrones” successor HBO hoped iy would be, earning only two acting nods for its third season, for supporting actors Thandie Newton and Jeffrey Wright, and missing out on the marquee drama series category entirely.
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Snub: Kaitlyn Dever, Merritt Wever, “Unbelievable” For much of the voting period, the two stars of Netflix’s harrowing “Unbelievable” seemed like locks for lead actress in a limited series nominations, but neither made the cut in a crowded category, not even TV Academy darling Merritt Wever, who has twice before pulled out a surprise upset on Emmy night.
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“Better Call Saul” and “The Handmaid’s Tale” leads miss out, while “What We Do in the Shadows” sneaks in
Between Elisabeth Moss and Bob Odenkirk getting pushed out of their respective categories and an unexpected nomination for “What We Do in the Shadows,” Tuesday’s Emmy nominations announcement came with more than its share of surprises.