Tyler Perry

By hbarber BET will host Inauguration Ball. BET will kick off the inaugural festivities in Washington, D.C., with the second annual BET Honors on Saturday, Jan. 17 and conclude with the network’s first Inaugural Ball on Tuesday, Jan. 20. The BET Honors will celebrate legendary songstress Mary J. Blige fo...

By hbarber “House of Payne” is No. 1 with Blacks.  Tyler Perry’s ‘House of Payne, is running in the middle of the pack when it comes to off-network sitcoms, but among the African-American audiences, it is tops of the pack of all other television shows, according to the Broadcast & Cable publicatio...

By hbarber Tyler Perry takes the stand in a copyright lawsuit. Saying he did not steal material for his blockbuster movie “Diary of a Mad Black Woman,” actor-screenwriter Tyler Perry defended his work on the stand in a copyright-infringement lawsuit Wednesday that he did not steal material from a w...