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Mara Brock Akil (born May 27, 1970) is an American television producer, screenwriter and director. She became the youngest African American female showrunner when she created the sitcom Girlfriends (2000–2008), airing on UPN and The CW, and the first African American female showrunner to have two series concurrently on broadcast network television when she created its spin-off The Game (2006 ...
Enter Mara Brock Akil. Waithe told theGrio exclusively at the 2024 Academy Awards in Los Angeles that Akil’s “Girlfriends” represented a defining moment in her career and in her life. Waithe ...
Being Mary Jane is an American drama television series created by Mara Brock Akil and starring Gabrielle Union. [1] The pilot aired on July 2, 2013, as an hour-long television film across a 90-minute timeslot, [2] [3] before resuming as a weekly series on January 7, 2014, on BET. [4]
Salim Akil is an American film and television producer, director, and screenwriter from Oakland, California. [1] He developed the television series Black Lightning based on a DC comics character of the same name. He is a co-founder of Akil Productions which he founded with his wife Mara Brock Akil. [2]
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She’s in the midst of shooting “Forever,” Mara Brock Akil’s adaptation of Judy Blume’s seminal — and controversial — 1975 novel about two teens’ first love and intimacy. “I love it!
Being Mary Jane is an American drama television series, created by Mara Brock Akil and starring Gabrielle Union, [1] that debuted January 7, 2014, on BET. [2] The series follows the professional and personal life of successful TV news anchor Mary Jane Paul (Union), who lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
Mara Brock Akil’s Netflix series adaptation of the 1975 Judy Blume novel “Forever” has found its two series leads, Variety has learned. Lovie Simone and Michael Cooper Jr. are set to star in ...