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Harlem, from creator Tracy Oliver—premiered last week on Amazon Prime Video and brings laughs, relatable characters, and a story of four Black girlfriends as different as the city itself.“There's so much thought that went into the character development, but I knew I definitely wanted to do something where everybody had a clear, distinct point of view on things,” Oliver tells Glamour about the series' main characters, Camille (Meagan Good), Quinn (Grace Byers), Tye (Jerrie Johnson), and Angie

Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticAs anthropology professor Camille (Meagan Good) puts it, the beginning of winter signals the beginning of a season full of giant sweaters, seasonal lattes, and the irrepressible urge to burrow at home in as cozy a fashion as possible. While Camille brings this all up to explain “cuffing season” (i.e.

From writer Tracy Oliver (“Girls Trip”), Amazon’s latest streaming comedy “Harlem” follows a set of girlfriends in their 30s—Columbia University anthropology professor Camille (Meagan Good), fashioner designer Quinn (Grace Byers), queer dating app creator Tye (Jerrie Johnson), and aspiring singer Angie (Shoniqua Shandai)—as they navigate their professional and personal lives in their rapidly changing neighborhood.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched “Harlem,” streaming now on Amazon Prime Video.Tracy Oliver’s “Harlem,” a 10-episode half-hour series for Amazon Prime Video, is the latest in her signature line of comedies that center on a group of Black female friends. But this is the one that started it all, according to the “Girls Trip” screenwriter, and the one that is most personal to her.“I wrote it before ‘Girls Trip’ came out.

success of her movie “Girls Trip.”“It was a pretty astronomical change [to my life]. After ‘Girls Trip’ came out.

Season One of the comedy series Harlem, from Girl's Trip creator Tracy Oliver, will premiere Friday, December 3, on Prime Video, with the official first-look images out now.

Tracy Oliver is doing it again.

Season one of the comedy series Harlem , from Girl’s Trip creator Tracy Oliver, will premiere on Amazon Prime Video, with the official first-look images out now.

Jack Black is in talks to star with Ice Cube in Sony Pictures’ comedy Oh Hell No, to be directed by cutting-edge comedy director Kitao Sakurai. Matt Tolmach is producing through Matt Tolmach Productions with Black and Roz Music.

Joy Ganes is joining Tracy Oliver’s shingle, Tracy Yvonne Productions, after serving as Vice President of Business and Legal Affairs at BBC Studios.  She produced the 2019 Sundance Selection and 2020 Spirit Award-nominated feature Prematureas well as the 2020 SXSW Selection feature I’ll Meet You There. Prior to that, Ganes started her career at Fox Searchlight in the Acquisitions department.

Tracy Oliver, the writer behind “Girls Trip,” “Little” and “The Sun Is Also a Star,” has signed an overall deal with Apple.Apple landed the multiyear deal with Oliver in a competitive bidding situation. The deal will span original TV series and films, all through Oliver’s Tracy Yvonne Productions banner.

Tracy Oliver, the co-writer of Girls Trip and creator of The First Wives Club, has signed an overall deal with Apple.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterIn a competitive situation, Tracy Oliver has signed an overall film and television deal at Apple.Under the multi-year deal, Oliver and her her Tracy Yvonne Productions shingle will work to develop projects across film and TV with an emphasis on diverse and meaningful stories.Oliver is best known for co-writing the film “Girls Trip,” which came out in 2017.

Andrea Martin (Great News), Robert Ri’chard (Empire), Juani Feliz (Blue Bloods), Kate Rockwell (Mean Girls: The Musical) and Sullivan Jones (The Surrogate) are set for recurring roles on Amazon’s Harlem, the comedy series from Tracy Oliver (Girls Trip), Amy Poehler’s Paper Kite Productions and Universal TV. They’ll join previously announced Whoopi Goldberg and Jasmine Guy, who also recur.

Natalie Oganesyan editorIn today’s TV news roundup, Whoopi Goldberg and Jasmine Guy have joined the cast of Tracy Oliver’s comedy series “Harlem,” and “RuPaul’s Drag Race” will air special documentary “RuPaul’s Drag Race: Corona Can’t Keep A Good Queen Down” on Feb. 26.Whoopi Goldberg and Jasmine Guy have been cast in recurring roles in “Harlem,” series from Tracy Oliver and also executive produced by Amy Poehler, Dave Becky, Kim Lessing, Pharrell Williams and Mimi Valdés.

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures has closed a deal to acquire rights to Tracy Yvonne Productions’ reunion comedy Homecoming. Pic will be written by Tracy Oliver, Kevin A. Garnett & Dewayne Perkins. Oliver and Joy Ganes are producing.

EXCLUSIVE: Whoopi Goldberg and Jasmine Guy are set for recurring roles in Amazon’s Harlem (fka Untitled Tracy Oliver Project) comedy series from Tracy Oliver (Girls Trip), Amy Poehler’s Paper Kite Productions and Universal TV.

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures has closed a deal to acquire rights to Tracy Yvonne Productions’ reunion comedy Homecoming. Pic will be written by Tracy Oliver, Kevin Garnett & Dewayne Perkins. Oliver and Joy Ganes are producing.

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios is teaming with Topic Studios and PKM Productions to develop the series Savannah from Tracy Oliver (Girls Trip, BET’s First Wives Club) and Joey Falco (The CW’s Charmed).

EXCLUSIVE: Michelle Mitchenor (Lethal Weapon) is set as a new series regular opposite Ryan Michelle Bathe, Jill Scott and Michelle Buteau in the upcoming second season of BET+’s The First Wives Club. Additionally, Gary Dourdan (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation), Jordan Carlos (The Drew Barrymore Show), Essence Atkins (Ambitions) and Mikhail Keize (She Had To Ask) join in recurring roles.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterOut of hundreds of submissions, BET and Tracy Yvonne Productions has selected Thaddeus McCants as the winner of Project CRE8 which gives emerging TV writers the opportunity to develop an original comedy for the small screen.The contest culminated on September 17 where the five Project CRE8 finalists pitched their original TV comedies to Tracy Oliver, Connie Orlando and a panel of TV execs. McCants’ original TV script Lit Lounge raced ahead to win.

Dave McNary Film ReporterMONDAY, AUG. 24The American Film Institute and Universal Pictures have launched a week-long “Black Stories Matter” series with  “BlacKkKlansman,” “Get Out,” “Girls Trip,” “Loving” and “Straight Outta Compton” available for free through Aug.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVIn creating the nine-episode first season of “First Wives Club,” Tracy Oliver had a solid starting point: the 1996 feature film of the same name.

Tiffany Haddish isn’t letting social distancing halt work on a planned Girl’s Trip sequel.

Tiffany Haddish might be social distancing and staying home like the rest of us, but she’s also working on the sequel to Girl’s Trip, too!

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