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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 ...
Girlfriends is an American sitcom television series created by Mara Brock Akil that premiered on September 11, 2000, on UPN and aired on UPN's successor network, The CW, before being canceled in 2008. The final episode aired on February 11, 2008.
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]
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 ...
On Thursday, the ViacomCBS-owned streaming platform announced it has given the green light to a 10-episode revival of the Mara Brock Akil-created series about professional football players and the ...
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.
The Spring 2023 cohorts of Mara Brock Akil’s Writer’s Colony have been announced. The list includes the names of several rising multihyphenates including Rhema Boston, Paris Crayton III ...