Exclusive: Winning Time executive producer Rodney Barnes has boarded HBO’s limited series project, set to star Mahershala Ali as boxing legend Jack Johnson. Barnes, who is under an overall deal with HBO, will serve as writer and executive producer on the Untitled Jack Johnson limited series (fka Unruly), bringing a brand new take on adapting the PBS documentary Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, produced and directed by Ken Burns, and its companion book by Geoffrey C. Ward.
He is one of several new creative auspices who have joined the project in development, originally announced in 2020, along with Melina Matsoukas (Queen & Slim; Insecure), who has come on board as executive producer and director, and Khaliah Neal (The Last Black Man in San Francisco; P-Valley), who has signed on as executive producer.
Barnes succeeds Dominique Morisseau, who had been originally tapped to write the limited series from...
He is one of several new creative auspices who have joined the project in development, originally announced in 2020, along with Melina Matsoukas (Queen & Slim; Insecure), who has come on board as executive producer and director, and Khaliah Neal (The Last Black Man in San Francisco; P-Valley), who has signed on as executive producer.
Barnes succeeds Dominique Morisseau, who had been originally tapped to write the limited series from...
- 1/18/2023
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Emmy and Grammy Award-winning producer Rikki Hughes has signed with CAA, as the industry veteran expands her production company, Magic Lemonade, with the hiring of Saterah Moore to lead development.
Hughes’ resume as producer and showrunner of comedy specials, award shows and independent features is topped with her achievement as the first African American woman to win an Emmy in the outstanding variety special (pre-recorded) category for Dave Chappelle’s “Equanimity & the Bird Revelation” in 2018. Hughes won her second Emmy for Chappelle’s “Sticks & Stones” in 2020. Both projects also nabbed Grammy Awards for best comedy album, as did the comedian’s 2017 special “The Age of Spin.”
“I am excited to have a team to support Magic Lemonade as we have expanded to Magic Lemonade UK. Saterah Moore as our EVP of Development, Kali McIver as Head of Production, and now with CAA as our agency, I’m excited to unveil our new development slate,...
Hughes’ resume as producer and showrunner of comedy specials, award shows and independent features is topped with her achievement as the first African American woman to win an Emmy in the outstanding variety special (pre-recorded) category for Dave Chappelle’s “Equanimity & the Bird Revelation” in 2018. Hughes won her second Emmy for Chappelle’s “Sticks & Stones” in 2020. Both projects also nabbed Grammy Awards for best comedy album, as did the comedian’s 2017 special “The Age of Spin.”
“I am excited to have a team to support Magic Lemonade as we have expanded to Magic Lemonade UK. Saterah Moore as our EVP of Development, Kali McIver as Head of Production, and now with CAA as our agency, I’m excited to unveil our new development slate,...
- 7/11/2022
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
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