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Wayne Brady Talks About the Importance of Black Lightning Last month, DC fans were stunned when it was announced that Black Lightning will end with its upcoming fourth season on The CW. The series was a groundbreaking one as the first television series to focus on a family of Black superheroes and while a spinoff series following the character Painkiller (Jordan Calloway) is in the works, Black Lightning itself holds a special place for fans and that includes Wayne Brady. Brady brought the antagonist Gravedigger to life during the show's third season and says that being part of Black Light...

Wayne Brady Wants to Be Part of the Black Lightning Spinoff Last month, The CW announced that when Black Lightning returns for its fourth season, the series will contain a backdoor pilot for a potential Painkiller spinoff. While that news was exciting for fans of the series, it was soon followed by some less exciting news, that Black Lightning would end with the upcoming fourth season. But even with the series ending, one of its stars is hopeful that their character can return not just for the final season of the series, but for the Painkiller series as well. Wayne Brady, who played one of...

As we do when a year comes to a close, Realscreen is offering a look back at the major stories impacting the unscripted and non-fiction content industry over the course of the past 12 months. This year, of course, offered more than its share of unprecedented challenges. Still, as you’ll see in these recaps, the industry met them with innovation and dedication, and continues to do so as 2021 approaches. For our final look back at 2020, we examine the executive shuffles throughout the non-fiction screen content business as linear companies shift their focus to streaming. The enduring novel c...

Hi! Welcome to the Insider Advertising daily for December 21. I'm Lauren Johnson, a senior advertising reporter at Business Insider. Subscribe here to get this newsletter in your inbox every weekday. Send me feedback or tips at LJohnson@businessinsider.com. Today's news: The adtech companies that are hot acquisition targets, WPP slashes office space, and WarnerMedia's executive turnover. Acxiom CEO Scott Howe John Lamparski/Getty Images for Advertising Week New York Growth in adtech stocks, SPACs, and private equity has fueled...

From left: Susan Rovner, Pearlena Igbokwe, Channing Dungey, Karey Burke and Bela Bajaria As the town tries to make sense of 2020's sweeping changes in TV’s C-suites, streaming's priority is the only constant. "It's the great reckoning," Kevin Reilly warned in early August, still fresh from his ouster as head of HBO Max and a cadre of cable networks. "With the pandemic as an accelerant," he continued, "there will not be one corner or sector that will sit with their feet up thinking, 'I'm good!'" Prescient as those words were, even Reilly couldn't have predicted the upheaval that would come d...