Girlfriends

4 Black TV Shows We Shouldn't Have to Live Without

source: Livesteez

 NY Created by Mara Brock Akil (the same genius who brought us Girlfriends), this show transports us into the lives of professional football players and all their drama. The language, familiar to that in your own household, keeps audiences in stitches each ...

Published Wed, May 20

'The Game' creator is job-hunting

source: S2Smagazine.com

 MD Mara Brock Akil, creator of "The Game" and "Girlfriends" is job-hunting, according to her blog on Rushmore Drive. While fans of the popular CW comedy anxiously await news of whether Executive Producer Mara and her team will be able to restructure the ...

Published Mon, May 4

Tia Mowery Vs. Media Takeout

source: CBS News

 CA and give information about where fans should mobilize to help "Change The Game". What are we trying to help change you ask. Well Mara Brock Akil creator of Girlfriends and The Game is pitching the series as a one hour drama next week. Read More »

Published Thu, Apr 9

Freddy Krueger To Kill Black CW Sitcoms In Their Sleep

source: Gawker

 NY Show creator Mara Brock Akil is expected to pitch the show as an hour-long dramedy. The series, about wives of famous athletes, is a spin-off from the net's more successful series Girlfriends. As THR gently points out, the rest of the net's series are ...

Published Mon, Apr 6

Soulful Singers On The Screen: Brandy Gets New TV Gig, Plus Jamie ...

source: SOHH Atlanta

 Jersey City The singer and her mother Sonja Norwood have teamed up with "Girlfriends" creator Mara Brock Akil for a new CW series. Faded Youth Blog spotted Brandy out in Century City last week toting scripts and concluded she must be gearing up for her currently ...

Published Mon, Mar 30

RushmoreDrive.com & Women's History Month - NewsBlaze

source: NewsBlaze

press release), CA Featured writers include Janine Sherman Barrois, Executive Producer on NBC's *ER*; Mara Brock-Akil, Executive Producer of *The Game* and *Girlfriends*; Gina Prince-Bythewood, Director of *Love and Basketball*, *Disappearing Acts * and *The Secret Life ...

Published Mon, Mar 16

‘Extreme Movie’ lives up — and down — to its name

source: Kansas City Star

 MO •“Girlfriends: The Sixth Season”: Tracee Ellis Ross stars in the series from Kansas Citian Mara Brock Akil. •“On the Other Hand, Death: A Donald Strachey Mystery”: Chad Allen stars as a tough, gay detective investigating gay hate crimes. ...

Published Wed, Feb 18

Will the ‘Obama effect’ bring change to TV?

source: Kansas City Star

 MO - Feb 6, 2009 Mara Brock Akil, the creator and executive producer of “The Game” and the recently departed “Girlfriends,” deplores the trend. “I have a theory: Everyone ...

Published Fri, Feb 6