Author Archives: Frazier Moore

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Let’s just go ahead and make it official. “Thursday” should be renamed “Shonday.” In this image released by ABC, Ellen Pompeo, left, and Christopher Redman appear in a scene from “Grey’s Anatomy.” The series is one of three by Shonda Rhimes that will air on Thursdays. (AP Photo/ABC, Adam Taylor) […]

Bill Cosby BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Bill Cosby could be returning to the network with a new comedy as soon as next summer. The series, described as a “classic, extended-family sitcom” with Cosby as the patriarch, is currently in the writing stage, NBC executives said at Sunday’s session of the summer TV critics’ tour. […]

Queen Latifah will play legendary blues singer Bessie Smith in a movie for the network. BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Beyonce and Jay Z will co-star in an HBO concert special, and Queen Latifah will play legendary blues singer Bessie Smith in a movie for the network. The music special will feature the married couple […]

Actor Meshach Taylor poses during an interview in Los Angeles, Calif. Taylor’s agent says the actor, who appeared in the hit sitcoms “Designing Women” and “Dave’s World” died of cancer on Saturday, June 28, 2014, at his home in Los Angeles. He was 67. Meshach Taylor, who played a lovable ex-convict surrounded by boisterous Southern […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Writer-comic Larry Wilmore of “The Daily Show” has earned Stephen Colbert’s coveted Comedy Central timeslot following Jon Stewart each night. Comedy Central said Friday that Wilmore will host “The Minority Report” at 11:30 each weeknight, starting in January. Wilmore, who’s Black, will add a different perspective to a late-night landscape dominated […]

NEW YORK— It was 30 years ago when he last filmed a concert special. Now he’s gone and done it again. “Bill Cosby: Far From Finished” finds this king of comedy onstage in Cerritos, Calif., where he rules for the 90-minute special airing Nov. 23 on Comedy Central (8 p.m. EST). Still, it’s fair to […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Slavery in the United States was once a roaring success whose wounds still afflict the country today. So says Henry Louis Gates, Jr., who examines both its success and shame in “The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross,” his new PBS documentary series that traces 500 years of black history. “Slavery […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Bonnie Franklin, the pert, redheaded actress whom millions came to identify with for her role as divorced mom Ann Romano on the long-running sitcom “One Day at a Time,” has died. She died Friday at her home due to complications from pancreatic cancer, family members said in a statement. She was […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Former football star Michael Strahan joined “Live! With Kelly” as permanent co-host on Tuesday, fulfilling a joking prophecy he made to Regis Philbin more than four years ago. The gap-toothed former New York Giant jogged onto the morning show set and picked up co-host Kelly Ripa in a bear hug, lifting […]