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Angel (2023 TV Series)
''Angel'' is a TV series (originally a miniseries) streamed on BET+. It premiered in January 2023. The show functions as a prequel to the 2021 feature film ''Dutch'', based on Teri Woods' 2003 novel. It stars Efrangeliz Medina, Elise Neal, Iyana Halley, Michele ‘Siya’ Sherman, Lana ‘MC Lyte’ Moorer, Ej King, Manny World, Jadah Blue, Nize, Jeremy Weaver, and Malcolm David Kelley as Dutch. The miniseries was produced by Imani Films. In 2024, it was announced that the show would become a series with a full season. Premise Angel Alvarez (Efrangeliz Medina) escapes foster care with other foster girls. To survive, she turns to a life of crime. Cast of characters * Efrangeliz Medina as Angel ** Kaya Jackson as Young Angel * Elise Neal as Teresa * Iyana Halley as Sheree, Angel's mother * Malcolm David Kelley as Dutch * Michele ‘Siya’ Sherman as Diamond, a gangster and mentor to Angel * Lana ‘MC Lyte’ Moorer as Detective Monroe * Jeremy Miller as Detective Holt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elise Neal
Elise Demetria Neal (born March 14, 1966) is an American actress known for her work in television and film. She rose to prominence in 1997 with roles in ''Rosewood'', '' Money Talks'', and ''Scream 2''. She later starred as Yvonne Hughley in the ABC/UPN sitcom ''The Hughleys'' (1998–2002), earning two NAACP Image Award nominations for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series. Her notable film credits include ''Restaurant'' (1998), '' Mission to Mars'' (2000), and '' Logan'' (2017). For her performance in ''Hustle & Flow'' (2005), she received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. Early life Neal was born on March 14, 1966, in Memphis, Tennessee, the daughter of a nurse and a construction worker. She attended Lakeview Elementary. She was a ballet dancer and a cheerleader. She broke her left wrist in a high toss cheerleading stunt; after the bones healed, her wrist never straightened back out completely. She graduated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malcolm David Kelley
Malcolm David Kelley (born May 12, 1992), sometimes credited as just Malcolm Kelley, is an American actor and singer best known for portraying the character Walt Lloyd on the American Broadcasting Company, ABC series ''Lost (2004 TV series), Lost'' and as one half of the pop duo MKTO. Career Acting Kelley's first major acting role was in the 2002 film ''Antwone Fisher (film), Antwone Fisher'', in which he played the title character as a child. Prior to this, he appeared in several small television roles in programs such as ''Malcolm in the Middle'' and ''Judging Amy.'' His next film role was ''You Got Served,'' in which he was cast in the supporting role of Lil' Saint. In 2004, he was cast to play Walt in the TV show ''Lost.'' A regular cast member in the show's first season (2004–2005), he appeared only occasionally thereafter due to a dramatic growth spurt. He returned for an appearance in "Through the Looking Glass (Lost), Through the Looking Glass", Lost's third season fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 American Television Series Debuts
3 (three) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number. It has religious and cultural significance in many societies. Evolution of the Arabic digit The use of three lines to denote the number 3 occurred in many writing systems, including some (like Roman and Chinese numerals) that are still in use. That was also the original representation of 3 in the Brahmic (Indian) numerical notation, its earliest forms aligned vertically. However, during the Gupta Empire the sign was modified by the addition of a curve on each line. The Nāgarī script rotated the lines clockwise, so they appeared horizontally, and ended each line with a short downward stroke on the right. In cursive script, the three strokes were eventually connected to form a glyph resembling a with an additional stroke at the bottom: ३. The Indian digits spread to the Caliphate in the 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard T
Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic language">Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong in rule'. Nicknames include " Richie", " Dick", " Dickon", " Dickie", " Rich", " Rick", "Rico (name), Rico", " Ricky", and more. Richard is a common English (the name was introduced into England by the Normans), German and French male name. It's also used in many more languages, particularly Germanic, such as Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, and Dutch, as well as other languages including Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Finnish. Richard is cognate with variants of the name in other European languages, such as the Swedish "Rickard", the Portuguese and Spanish "Ricardo" and the Italian "Riccardo" (see comprehensive variant list below). People named Richard Multiple people with the same name * Richard Ander ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremy Miller
Jeremy James Miller (born October 21, 1976) is an American actor, known mostly as a child actor. He is known for his portrayal of Ben Seaver on the TV series ''Growing Pains'' and its two reunion movies. He also voiced Linus van Pelt in the animated TV special ''Happy New Year, Charlie Brown!''. Early life, family and education Born in Covina, California, Miller began acting as a youth. Miller attended the University of Southern California for one year. Career Miller began acting professionally in a few commercials, then he landed a 1984 guest role in the kid-centered TV series ''Punky Brewster''. He subsequently was cast as Ben Seaver, the youngest sibling on ''Growing Pains''. The show ran for six seasons (1985-1992) and spawned two TV movies (2000, 2004). He starred in the 1990 Hanukah episode of '' Shalom Sesame'' (an American/Israeli coproduction of ''Sesame Street''). He performed in commercials for McDonald's "Dollar Menunaires" promotion shot as a parody of the VH1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bowie State University
Bowie State University (Bowie State or BSU) is a public historically black university in Prince George's County, Maryland, north of Bowie. It is part of the University System of Maryland. Founded in 1865, Bowie State is Maryland's oldest historically black university and one of the ten oldest in the country. Bowie State is a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. History Teachers College Bowie State University is the oldest historically black university in Maryland. It was founded in 1865 by the Baltimore Association for the Moral and Educational Improvement of the Colored People as a teaching school. The school first used space at the African Baptist Church at Calvert Street and Saratoga Street, in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1867, a dedicated facility was purchased nearby at Saratoga Street and Courtland Street, and the school was formally named the Baltimore Normal School for Colored Teachers. After being reorganized in 1883 as the Baltimore Normal School, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TV Guide
TV Guide is an American digital media In mass communication, digital media is any media (communication), communication media that operates in conjunction with various encoded machine-readable data formats. Digital content can be created, viewed, distributed, modified, listened to, an ... company that provides television program listings information as well as entertainment and television-related news. In 2008, the company sold its founding product, the '' TV Guide'' magazine and the entire print magazine division, to a private buyout firm operated by Andrew Nikou, who then set up the print operation as TV Guide Magazine LLC. Corporate history Prototype The prototype of what would become '' TV Guide'' magazine was developed by Lee Wagner (1910–1993), who was the circulation director of Macfadden Communications Group#Macfadden Publications, MacFadden Publications in New York City in the 1930s – and later, by the time of the predecessor publication's creation, for Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foster Care
Foster care is a system in which a minor has been placed into a ward, group home ( residential child care community or treatment centre), or private home of a state- certified caregiver, referred to as a "foster parent", or with a family member approved by the state. The placement of a "foster child" is normally arranged through the government or a social service agency. The institution, group home, or foster parent is compensated for expenses unless with a family member. Any adult who has spent time in care can be described as a "care leaver", especially in European countries. The state, via the family court and child protective services agency, stand '' in loco parentis'' to the minor, making all legal decisions while the foster parent is responsible for the day-to-day care of the minor. Scholars and activists have expressed concerns about the efficacy of foster care services provided by non-government organisations. Specifically, this pertains to poor retention rates o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teri Woods
Teri Woods (born March 8, 1968) is an American novelist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, associated with the urban fiction genre. Woods finished writing her first novel, ''True to the Game'', in 1992 while working at a law firm in Philadelphia. She spent six years submitting the work to numerous publishers, all of which rejected her. In 1998, Woods had copies of the book printed herself and began to hand-sell the novel to booksellers in and around the Philadelphia area and eventually across the United States, ultimately starting Teri Woods Publishing. Principally publishing in the urban fiction genre, the publishing house is aimed at a demographic largely ignored by major publishers. Woods's success helped her negotiate a multimillion-dollar contract with Hachette Book Group USA to re-release her previously published novels. In 2015, it was announced that ''True to the Game'' was being produced into a film of the same name. Woods is the sister of Dexter Wansel, American keyboard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iyana Halley
Iyana Halley (born January 27, 1993) is an American actress. She appeared in films '' True to the Game'' (2017) and its sequels, '' If Not Now, When?'' (2019), '' Dutch'' (2021), '' Licorice Pizza'' (2021) and '' Beast'' (2022). Early life, family and education Halley was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York City. Career Halley's career began with appearances in television series '' Justice for All with Judge Cristina Perez'', '' Tosh.0'', '' Family Time'' and '' The Mayor''. She made her big screen debut in the drama film '' True to the Game'' (2017) and later reprised her role in its sequels (2020 and 2021). In 2018 she was featured in the final episode of HBO miniseries '' Sharp Objects'' and later co-starred in the drama film '' If Not Now, When?''. In 2019 she appeared in the miniseries '' I Am the Night'' and starred in an episode of HBO anthology series, '' Room 104''. She also appeared in films '' The Hate U Give'' (2018), ''Nineteen Summers'' (2019), '' Dutch'' (2021), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dutch (2021 Film)
''Dutch'' is a 2021 American romantic crime drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ... written and directed by Preston A. Whitmore II and based on Teri Woods's novel of the same name. The film stars Lance Gross as Benard "Dutch" James, with Natasha Marc, James Hyde, Jeremy Meeks, Anthony Jacobs, O.T. Genasis, Isabella Ferreira, Miles Stroter, James Quattrochi, Macy Gray, Markice Moore, Tyrin Turner, Melissa L. Williams, Robert Costanzo and JJ Batteast. The film was released in selected theatres on March 12, 2021, by Faith Media Distribution. It received negative reviews from critics and grossed $404,371. Cast Production On February 28, 2020, it was reported that Lance Gross would star in the film directed by Preston Whitmore II and based on the ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BET+
BET+ is a Video on demand#Subscription models, streaming service operated by Tyler Perry Studios and the BET Networks, BET Media Group, a subsidiary of Paramount Global's CBS Entertainment Group. The service was first announced on June 24, 2019, and launched on September 19, 2019. BET+ features both original films and television series from the BET program library and is the exclusive streaming home of programming produced by Tyler Perry, as part of BET's overall deal with him. Will Packer and Tracy Oliver have also signed on to produce original programming for the service. BET+ was part of Viacom (2005–2019), Viacom's 2017 turnaround strategy, which saw the company acquiring and investing into digital platforms. Prior to the announcement of BET+, Viacom acquired the free streaming platform Pluto TV on March 4, 2019, and launched several channels branded after Viacom-owned cable networks and Intellectual property, IPs, including BET-branded channels. History In 2017, Viacom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
