Jurnee Smollett (Underground, Lovecraft Country) has been cast opposite Taron Egerton (Rocketman, Black Bird) in Firebug, an Apple TV+ drama written by Dennis Lehane (Black Bird). “Loosely inspired by true events” (namely, notorious California arsonist John Leonard Orr), Firebug follows a troubled

Birds of Prey‘s bat-swinging girl is still planning to step up to the plate for HBO Max. In the wake of Warner Bros. Discovery abruptly pulling the plug on the nearly complete, Leslie Grace-starring Batgirl movie, a spokesperson for Warner Bros. Pictures confirms for TVLine that the Black Canary

Lovecraft Country is having the last laugh. The acclaimed sci-fi drama scored 18 Emmy nominations on Tuesday, roughly two weeks after its surprise cancellation at HBO. (View complete nominations list here.) The hybrid genre series — which concluded its first (and only) season back in October — was

THE PERFORMER | Jurnee Smollett THE SHOW | HBO’s Lovecraft Country THE EPISODE | “Holy Ghost” (Aug. 30, 2020) THE PERFORMANCE | It can’t be easy to act next to bloodthirsty forest demons and decapitated ghosts, but amid the swirl of CGI terrors served up each week by HBO’s eye-popping horror drama,

Lovecraft Country, HBO's genre-melding new horror drama, has a predominately Black cast, which is rare to see in mainstream horror, sci-fi or any of the the other pulp genres the series operates in. Showrunner Misha Green, using author Matt Ruff's book as a template, consciously put her flag down