Did you catch last night’s BET Honors and the network’s tribute to singing diva Whitney Houston? If you missed it, you simply have to check out Jennifer Hudson’s moving rendition of Whitney’s 1993 hit “I Will Always Love You.”
Queen Latifah, Sean “Diddy” Combs, and Pharrell Williams will headline “SOS Saving Ourselves—Help for Haiti, “a benefit concert airing live Feb. 5 on BET and fellow Viacom networks MTV and VH1. The two-hour event (8PM-10PM) will feature live performances including one by rapper Wyclef Jean, who will deliver a special tribute to his home country, which was ravaged by a 7.0 earthquake on Jan. 12 that killed more than 200,000 people.
Next week’s event will benefit Clef’s Yele Haiti Foundation as well as CARE, Project Medishare, and Children’s Safe Drinking Water.
Get ready for a new season of Tiny & Tony. The hit BET reality series will return for a second season on Tuesday, April 13 at 10 p.m., the network announced Monday.
This season, former songbird Tameka “Tiny” Cottle and best friend Antonia “Toya” Carter will continue to uplift one another with love while balancing fame and family.
Last season, Tiny & Toya drew 3 million viewers, becoming the most-watched original series premiere in BET’s history.
BET has picked up the recently-cancelled CW sitcom The Game, with new episodes expected to begin airing sometime next year. “The show is getting picked up, so for people that have been petitioning and wondering, it is coming back to BET,” actress Drew Sidora spilled to Sister 2 Sister Magazine this week. “So, hopefully, you will see me back. It is official. The deal has been done.”
The Game — a spinoff of the now defunct series Girlfriends — has become a cult favorite among urban audiences since its premiere in 2006. The CW pulled the plug on the show in June.
“Right now, they’re just trying to figure out when it’s going to actually come back, as far as when we start filming the new episodes and things like that,” Drew says. “But BET has picked it up.”
Fresh off an 18 month prison stint, Michael Vick is picking up the pieces of his life — on a new television reality show.
The Michael Vick Project will premiere on Bamboozled Entertainment Television, AKA BET, later this year and is said to focus on the NFL quarterback’s controversial comeback with the Philadelphia Eagles.
First the trainwreck that is Frankie & Neffe, and now this? BET gives away more reality shows than social services gives away government cheese.
Vick, who served time for running an interstate dog fighting ring, tells The L.A. Times Blog: “I just want people to really get to know me as an individual. What I want to do is change the perception of me. I am a human being. I’ve made some mistakes in the past, and I wish it had never happened. But it’s not about how you fall, but about how you pick yourself up.”
We hear Black Entertainment Television is in discussions to save the recently axed CW series The Game. BET is reportedly negotiating with CBS Studio to pick up the Girlfriends spinoff, which was dropped by the network last spring.
Here’s a sneak peek at the latest D-List celebrity trainwreck coming to BET. Tiny & Toya, starring “Piglet” T.I.’s longtime companion, Tiny, and the former teenage bride of rapper Lil Wayne, Toya, premieres this summer on Black Entertainment Television.