On TV this Week, Elise Neal, Salli Richardson, Keke Palmer, Queen LatifahPosted by Wilson Morales
October 2, 2012
If you plan to be home or not, it would be good to set your DVRs this week as there are several leading ladies appearing on TV week.
Elise Neal appears on ABC’s Scandal in this week’s episode – ‘The Other Woman’
Scandal which stars Kerry Washington as political consultant Olivia Pope airs on Thursday, Oct.4 at 10pm on ABC.
Olivia and her team must do some heavy lifting—literally—to clean up the mess after a public figure is caught in a compromising position; Cyrus and Fitz must deal with a foreign-policy emergency.
I Will Follow stars Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Beverly Todd, Omari Hardwick, Michole White, Dijon Talton, Royale Watkins, Damone Roberts, Tracie Thoms and Blair Underwood.
Written, produced and directed by Ava DuVernay, the film will make its world broadcast debut on Friday, October 5, at 8 pm ET/PT on BET
Richardson-Whitfield portrays Maye, a successful artist who has taken leave from work to care for her ill aunt, Amanda (played by Beverly Todd). As the film begins, Maye is moving out of the home she once shared with Amanda after her death and contemplating her relationships, her career, her past and her future.
Abducted: The Carlina White Story stars Aunjanue Ellis, Keke Palmer, and Sherri Shepherd.
The film will make its world premiere on Saturday, October 6, at 8 pm ET/PT on Lifetime.
The film is based on a remarkable true story of the kidnapping of Carlina White (Palmer), who was abducted as an infant by Ann Pettway (Ellis) from a New York hospital and solved her own kidnapping and reunited with her biological parents 23 years later. The case is reported to be the first known infant abduction from a New York hospital. On July 30th of this year, Pettway was sentenced in a New York court to 12 years in prison for kidnapping Carlina.
In August of 1987, new parents Joy White (Shepherd) and Carl Tyson (Roger Cross, 24) took their 19-day-old daughter Carlina to Harlem Hospital in New York with a high fever. Ann Pettway, who had suffered a series of miscarriages and was desperate for a child of her own, posed as a hospital nurse and walked out of the hospital with Carlina hidden from view. While Joy and Carl desperately searched for their daughter over the years, Pettway was raising Carlina as Nejdra “Netty” Nance in Bridgeport, Connecticut – a mere 45 miles from New York City. As Carlina grew older she began to suspect Pettway was not her birth mother and launched her own investigation. After contacting the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Carlina was reunited with her biological parents in January 2011.
Steel Magnolias stars Queen Latifah, Alfre Woodard, Phylicia Rashad, Jill Scott, Adepero Oduye and Rashad’s daughter Condola Rashad.
Directed by Kenny Leon, the highly anticipated Lifetime Original Movie is set to debut Sunday, October 7 at 9pm ET/PT on Lifetime.
Queen Latifah stars in and executive produces the film, a television adaptation of the iconic play and 1989 film of the same name, reuniting her with producing duo Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, from the Oscar and Golden Globe winning Chicago and Hairspray.
In an updated contemporary version of the beloved stage play and 1989 film, Steel Magnolias chronicles the lives and friendship of six women in Louisiana. Supporting each other through their triumphs and tragedies, they congregate at Truvy’s beauty shop to ponder the mysteries of life and death, husbands and children – and hair and nails – all the important topics that truly unite and celebrate women.
