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SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from the Season 2 finale of Starz’s Blindspotting. Season 2 of Blindspotting came to an end on Friday with a cathartic episode where the characters finally addressed some of the tensions that have been brewing since Miles [Rafael Casal] went to prison…

Blindspotting makes its long-awaited return next month, and Starz released the first trailer for Season 2 on Wednesday. The second installment of Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs‘ comedy series, which is a follow-up to the pair’s 2018 film, picks up nine months after Ashley (Jasmine Cephas Jones) and…

Starz has set the Season 2 premiere of Blindspotting for April 14 and released first-look images (below). The two-episode premiere will air linearly on Starz in the U.S. and Canada at 9 p.m. ET/PT immediately followed by episode two at 9:30 pm ET/PT. All subsequent episodes will air Fridays at 9…

Ava DuVernay’s feature adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents has just added Niecy Nash-Betts, Jon Bernthal, Vera Farmiga, Nick Offerman, Jasmine Cephas Jones and Connie Nielsen to the movie, which is shooting in Georgia. The group joins King Rich…

EXCLUSIVE: Blumhouse and Miramax’s Dracula film Mina Harker isn’t happening, Deadline has learned. Originally, Blindspotting actress and #FreeRayshawn Emmy winner Jasmine Cephas Jones was set to headline Karyn Kusama's Mina Harker, with cameras set to roll in three weeks. However, the production isn’t moving forward…

Blindspotting co-creators Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs initially thought that a series spinoff of their 2018 film wouldn’t work when Lionsgate first brought up the idea. “We said, ‘No it wouldn’t,’ and we thought that was the end of it,” Diggs said. Contenders TV — Deadline’s Complete Coverage Nearly four years after…

EXCLUSIVE: Jasmine Cephas Jones has signed with CAA for representation in all areas. Jones is most famously recognized for her dual portrayal of Peggy Schuyler and Maria Reynolds in the Tony Award-winning Broadway hit Hamilton. She reprised the roles in the feature film adaptation of the stage play for Disney+. Her…

This Is Us co-star Ron Cephas Jones and Hamilton’s Jasmine Cephas Jones have been set to reveal the Primetime Emmy Awards nominations July 13. The father and daughter, who both won Emmys in 2020 in a first, will co-host the virtual event alongside Television Academy chairman and CEO Frank Scherma. The nominations…

On Saturday night Ron Cephas Jones took home a second Emmy for his guest turn in NBC mega-hit This is Us, and it’s been a family affair, since Jones’ daughter Jasmine Cephas Jones also won an Emmy Thursday night, for her work on Quibi's #FreeRayshawn, making them the first ever father-daughter duo in Emmy history to…

Starz has ordered its television spin-off of Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs' feature Blindspotting to series. Jasmine Cephas Jones, who starred in the Lionsgate film, will reprise her role and will also serve as a producer. The film, which was released in 2018, is being spun off as a half-hour dramedy with Casal…

On #FreeRayshawn, Jasmine Cephas Jones threw herself into the emotional whirlwind of a nightmare scenario, working tirelessly to get to the truth of a story that is, unfortunately, all too common in America today. Created by Marc Maurino, the Quibi short-form series centers on Rayshawn (Stephan James), a young, Black…

In the Quibi original drama #FreeRayshawn, from director Seith Mann and executive producer Antoine Fuqua, a young Black man is pursued aggressively by law enforcement officials for a crime he did not commit. It’s a sadly all-too-familiar story that addresses an issue many African Americans still face. “It seemed like…