Robin Thede: Last News

 premieres Friday night, bringing fans another six episodes of new sketches, major guest stars and lots of laughs. The HBO series, which debuted in August 2019, is widely seen as the first of its kind — a sketch comedy series written, produced by, and starring Black women.

 means new sketches, major guest stars and lots of laughs behind the camera. When asked what fans can expect from season 4, creator and star Robin Thede shared her excitement for viewers to see the «bigger» installment. «It is broader — not that we're comfortable, because you can never be comfortable, right? It's a blessing to be four seasons of anything, right? But I think for us, we're just like, let's just go there with everything,» she told ET's Nischelle Turner.

 are back! HBO released the official trailer for season 4 of the Emmy-winning sketch comedy series on Wednesday, and viewers will be getting even more hilarity and show-stopping guest stars than ever before.The trailer for the series features the familiar faces of series regulars Robin Thede, Gabrielle Dennis and Skye Townsend in various sketches including the return of  «A Black Lady Courtroom» and our favorite pastel-representing gang members. Season 4 also introduces three new featured players -- DaMya Gurley, Tamara Jade, Angel Laketa Moore -- and more than 20 celebrity guest stars, including Omarion, Bobby Brown, Tracee Ellis Ross, Colman Domingo, Kyla Pratt, Sam Richardson, Yvette Nicole Brown, Jackée Harry, Tank, Jay Ellis and Kel Mitchell. The HBO series has received 13 Primetime Emmy nominations and three Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Directing for a Variety Series and Outstanding Picture Editing for Variety Programming. The series, which debuted in August 2019, concluded its third season on May 2022 and was renewed the next month.

Selome Hailu Robin Thede, creator and star of “A Black Lady Sketch Show,” has set a new comedy series for development at HBO. The half-hour project is titled “Disengagement,” and centers on the prestigious Cole family after a very public and embarrassing business implosion shatters their perfect Midwest image. Per the logline, it was just an image, because behind closed doors, even their dysfunction has dysfunction, proving family is the ultimate pyramid scheme. Thede serves as writer and executive producer of the series, which she is developing via the overall deal she signed with HBO in 2022. Meghan Cheek produces on behalf of For Better or Words, Inc.

HBO is developing the new comedy series Disengagement from writer and executive producer Robin Thede (A Black Lady Sketch Show).

Actress-writer-comic Janelle James will host the 2023 Writers Guild Awards show in Los Angeles, which will be held March 5 at the Fairmont Century Plaza. She currently stars in the Writers Guild Award-nominated Abbott Elementary on ABC.

EXCLUSIVE: Ken Marino, Anjelah Johnson-Reyes, and D.C. Young Fly have boarded Prime Video’s holiday comedy Candy Cane Lane, joining previously announced cast members Eddie Murphy, Tracee Ellis Ross, Jillian Bell, Genneya Walton, Madison Thomas, Thaddeus J. Mixson, Robin Thede, Chris Redd, and Danielle Pinnock.

EXCLUSIVE: Ghosts standout Danielle Pinnock has landed a supporting role alongside Eddie Murphy and Tracee Ellis Ross in the holiday comedy Candy Cane Lane from Prime Video.

EXCLUSIVE: A Black Lady Sketch Show‘s Bridget Stokes and Robin Thede are reteaming on Killing it — a zombie horror-comedy that Stokes will direct for Amazon Studios, from a script by Thede.

EXCLUSIVE: Hulu has announced that the R-rated dark comedy The Drop from executive producers Mark and Jay Duplass will bow on the streamer on January 13. New stills from the Hulu Original, starring Anna Konkle (PEN15) and Jermaine Fowler (Coming 2 America), can be found above and below.

EXCLUSIVE: Lauren Ashley Smith, a head writer of HBO’s A Black Lady Sketch Show, is developing a family comedy for ABC.

 is getting to work on its upcoming fourth season without a key member of the cast — Ashley Nicole Black. On Tuesday, the star, who served as a writer and performer on the variety series, revealed that she has exited the series ahead of production for season 4.«I am so happy that the fantastic @blackladysketch team will be back for a new season! I love these ladies and the whole team, and I can't wait to see what the new cuties get up to,» Black said on Twitter. «While I made the difficult decision to leave the show, I CANT WAIT to watch what they come up with!»«Well you can’t be on EVERY tv show at once so we remain grateful we had you for three beautiful seasons!!»  creator and star Robin Thede responded. Well you can’t be on EVERY tv show at once so we remain grateful we had you for three beautiful seasons!!Black has had her hands in a  of pots simultaneously; in addition to , the 37-year-old is just coming off of an Emmy-winning stint as a writer on and will next be seen in Apple TV+’s forthcoming 10-episode comedy , starring Vince Vaughn.Thede also shared a statement on Black's time on the series with, saying the writer would «always be part of our family.»«We are forever indebted to our sister, Emmy winner Ashley Nicole Black, whose contributions as a writer and performer on  for three seasons have made an indelible mark on our series and in comedy history,» Thede said.

Angelique Jackson Prepare for more Black lady hilarity as Robin Thede’s Emmy-winning HBO comedy series “A Black Lady Sketch Show” has started production on its fourth season. Created by and starring Thede, “A Black Lady Sketch Show” was renewed in June following a strong third season that netted two Emmys — one for outstanding picture editing for variety programming (a trophy the series has won in back-to-back years, with editors Stephanie Filo, Bradinn French, Taylor Joy Mason and S. Robyn Wilson honored for Season 3) and outstanding directing for a variety series (Bridget Stokes). The first three seasons of the sketch series have garnered 13 Emmy nominations and three wins.

Meghan Markle's "Archetypes" podcast is set return to Spotify with new episodes on Oct. 4, after a four-week hiatus following Queen Elizabeth II's death on Sept. 8, and a royal expert is weighing in on what royal watchers will be looking out for from Markle's upcoming guests.  The new episodes will feature guests Lisa Ling, Margaret Cho, Constance Wu, Issa Rae, Ziwe Fumudoh, Amanda Seales, Allison Yarrow, and Robin Thede.

The podcast by Meghan, Duchess of Sussex is to return to Spotify following the death of Queen Elizabeth. The royal's show 'Archetypes' - in which she chats with her celebrity pals - was halted in the aftermath of the monarch's passing on September 8 while the Duchess and her husband Harry, Duke of Sussex remained in the UK during the official mourning period and to attend the state funeral on September 19. New episodes of 'Archetypes' were shelved out of respect for the late Queen, but Spotify bosses have now confirmed they will continue from next week.

The stars are stepping out during Emmys Weekend!

Michaela Zee editorThe African American Film Critics Association held its fourth annual AAFCA Awards on Saturday to honor outstanding work in television. During the ceremony, Courtney B.

A.D. Amorosi “A Black Lady Sketch Show,” created by Robin Thede with fellow actors Gabrielle Dennis, Ashley Nicole Black and Skye Townsend is certainly an improvisational, production-heavy, comic masterpiece.

The 6th Annual Black Reel TV Awards were held and it was Quinta Brunson and ABC’s Abbott Elementary that took the most wins with seven in total. Brunson won four awards including Outstanding Comedy Series, Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series, Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series, and Outstanding Guest Actress.

Just a few hours shy of the deadline set in late July by hundreds of top female writers and showrunners on abortion safety protocols, most of Hollywood’s biggest studios and streamers today opted to side step specifics.

There are only two nominees in this year’s Outstanding Variety Sketch Series: NBC’s Saturday Night Live and HBO’s A Black Lady Sketch Show. But creator/star Robin Thede would prefer to focus on how her comedy  was nominated for the third year straight, not how they’re competing against only one other nominee.