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Happy’s Place is a comedy series created by Julie and Kevin Abbott. The NBC series follows Bobbie, an old woman who co-inherits her father’s bar with her half-sister she never knew she had. After learning this Bobbie tries to make her sister feel welcome in the family business but their completely different life experiences always get in the way. Happy’s Place stars Reba McEntire, Melissa Peterman, Rex Linn, Belissa Escobedo, Tokala Black Elk, and Pablo Castelblanco. So, if you loved the hilarious comedy, family-like bonds, and compelling characters in Happy’s Place here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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Cheers is a comedy series created by James Burrows, Glen, and Les Charles. The NBC series is set in Boston and it follows Sam who runs a bar where people from all walks...

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Frasier is one of the best classic multi-cam sitcoms with one of the best cast of characters. Based on the character from the hit series Cheers, Frasier follows Dr. Frasier Crane as he moves to Seattle to reset his life after finalizing his divorce. Dr. Crane thinks that he is getting a new life but his plans are interrupted when his father moves in with him. The comedy of the series came from the highly dysfunctional relationship between Frasier and his father Niles Crane. Frasier provided laughter to its audience for 11 eleven brilliant seasons and ended its run in 2004. Eighteen years later we go a great revival and new life for Frasier Crane on Paramount+ with him living with his son. So, if you loved the cringe comedy and compelling characters in the original and the new revival...

As Amazon Prime Video’s premiere of sequel Coming 2 America ends decades’ worth of wait for fans of the 1988 Eddie Murphy comedy classic, Coming to America, it seemed as good a time as any to look back at the first attempt to capitalize on the franchise, the 1989 spinoff television pilot. Indeed, it’s an endeavor of which few fans are aware, and a fascinating failure during an era in which television was churning out cinematic-inspired sitcoms left and right.

Of course, the Coming to America movie was a resounding success, a widely-accessible romantic comedy that permeated pop culture in a manner evocative of the A-list heyday of star Eddie Murphy. The 1988 film, put in the stable hands of director John Landis, wrought $288 million worldwide box office success, which made the notion of a sequel seem inevitable, despite how long it would take. However, the property first became fodder for...

THR to look back at her career highlights. "I would say my career began with high points." She speaks fondly of the months after her sophomore year at Howard University when she spent the summer with the Negro Ensemble Company in New York. "This was during its heyday. The actors in that company were Moses Gunn, Hattie Winston, Rosalind Cash, Frances Foster, Esther Rolle," she says. "Robert Hooks was one of the directors of the theater. Douglas Turner Ward ...

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The Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival will debut a men’s program and youth performances when it opens for the 20th time this March. The annual exhibition of performance artists, which was founded by Adilah Barnes, an African-American solo artist, and Miriam Reed, a white solo artist, has long been a heaven for female actors, poets, and storytellers—particularly those of color. “We have been multi-ethnic and multi-disciplined—African American, Jewish, Middle Eastern, Asian, Latina,” Barnes told Backstage. “The majority of them are actors—80 percent—because a lot of actors are now doing solo shows, they’re becoming a lot more autonomous, and with more autonomy the more empowered you are.” This year’s festival, which opens March 21 with a gala hosted by Danny Glover and “Becker” star Hattie Winston, is moving its main venue from the Electric Lodge Performing Arts Center in Venice, a 97-seat theater, to the...

Terrence Malick's non-linear existential meditation on family, "The Tree of Life," earned another accolade yesterday as the African-American Film Critics Association named it their selection for Best Picture of 2011.

In other major categories, "The Help" and the independent film "Pariah" led the way with two wins each, with "The Help"'s Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer winning Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress respectively. "Pariah" took home the award for Best Independent Film, while star Adepero Oduye won for breakout Performance.

Meanwhile, Albert Brooks continued to build Oscar momentum, winning the award for Best Supporting Actor for his villainous turn in "Drive." Woody Harrelson took top honors in the Best Actor category for an even more villainous performance as a corrupt L.A. cop in "Rampart," while Malick was surprisingly stoned in the Best Director category; despite the singular vision of "Tree of Life," the Aafca bestowed the award...

Brad Pitt, Laramie Eppler, Tye Sheridan, The Tree of Life

Best Picture: The Tree of Life

Top Ten Movies: Drive, Pariah, Rampart, Shame, Moneyball, The Descendants, A Better Life, My Week with Marilyn, The Help

Best Foreign Film: Alrick Brown, Kinyarwanda

Best Director: Steve McQueen, Shame

Best Actor: Woody Harrelson, Rampart

Best Actress: Viola Davis, The Help

Best Supporting Actor: Albert Brooks, Drive

Best Supporting Actress: Octavia Spencer, The Help

Breakout Performance: Adepero Oduye, Pariah

Best Documentary: The Black Power Mixtape

Best Screenplay: Ava DuVernay, I Will Follow

Best Song: Jason Reeves & Lenka Kripac, “The Show” from Moneyball

Best Independent Film: Pariah

Cinema Vanguard Award: George Lucas

Aafca Legacy Award: Richard Roundtree

Aafca Horizon: Hattie Winston

Institution Award: Sony Pictures Entertainment

The Tree of Life picture: Merie Wallace / 20th Century Fox...

Rank the week of October 4th’s Blu-ray and DVD new releases against the best films of all-time: New Releases Fast Five

(Blu-ray & DVD | PG13 | 2011)

Flickchart Ranking: #803

Win Percentage: 57%

Times Ranked: 5781

Top-20 Rankings: 40

Directed By: Justin Lin

Starring: Dwayne Johnson • Vin Diesel • Paul Walker • Jordana Brewster • Elsa Pataky

Genres: Action • Action Thriller • Chase Movie • Crime • Drama • Thriller

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Scream 4

(Blu-ray & DVD | R | 2011)

Flickchart Ranking: #1420

Win Percentage: 49%

Times Ranked: 6843

Top-20 Rankings: 26

Directed By: Wes Craven

Starring: Alison Brie • Neve Campbell • David Arquette • Hayden Panettiere • Courteney Cox

Genres: Horror • Mystery • Slasher Film • Thriller

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Submarine

(Blu-ray & DVD | Nr | 2010)

Flickchart Ranking: #2772

Win Percentage: 60%

Times Ranked: 1079

Top-20 Rankings: 10

Directed By: Richard Ayoade

Starring: Craig Roberts • Yasmin Paige • Sally Hawkins • Paddy Considine • Noah Taylor

Genres: Comedy Drama • Coming-of-Age • Drama

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Classics & Re-releases Salo, Or The 120 Days Of Sodom

(Criterion Blu-ray & DVD | Nr | 1976)

Flickchart Ranking: #4386

Win Percentage: 43%

Times Ranked:...

James Stovall, a Broadway performer who performed in the original production of "Ragtime," died on Sep. 26 at a Manhattan hospital. The cause of death has not been confirmed but the actor had been suffering from heart ailments.Stovall had been scheduled to appear in the New York Theatre Company's developmental lab staging of "Woulda, Coulda, Should: A Jazz Musical Comedy" on Sep. 23rd. His most recent performance was as a preacher and a Begat singer in the 2009 Broadway revival of "Finian's Rainbow."He was the executive director of Ministry of the Arts & Culture at the United Palace Theatre in Harlem, where the original production of "Nativity: A Life Story" was performed. Stovall had directed, produced and co-written the musical with Hattie Winston. The play has since been produced annually at the Schomburg Center in Manhattan.His other writing credit was "Black Nativity," which he co-produced and co-directed with Winston. It won five Audelco Awards.