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As football fans know well, the quarterback occupies a crucial role in the game’s unfolding drama. For decades though, the position rarely featured faces like yours or mine. Evolution of the Black Quarterback aims to bring that overlooked story to the fore, detailing the profound challenges Black athletes overcame just to play the sport at its highest levels.

Hosted by Michael Vick across three illuminating episodes, the docuseries transports viewers from NFL beginnings to the present day. We learn that even without overt discrimination, insidious biases denied opportunities for talent and grit equally matched any rival. Pioneers like Fritz Pollard and Marlin Briscoe showed the way, their success paving the road others could now follow in football as civil rights progressed elsewhere.

Figures from Tony Dungy to the newly emerging also lend voices. Together they remind that struggle and progress coincide, each small victory hard won and building to the next.

Exclusive: Shaun Redick & Yvette Yates Redick’s production company, Impossible Dream Entertainment, is developing a series adaptation of Twenty Years Later, Kensington’s 2021 bestseller from author Charlie Donlea.

While the Redicks will be spearheading production, Brandon and Justin Weber’s Monte Cristo Entertainment along with Corey McGowan’s Lazy Mary Pictures were instrumental in acquiring rights to the book. The Weber Brothers have penned the adaptation and will exec produce alongside McGowan.

A mystery thriller in the vein of Big Little Lies, True Detective, and Gone Girl, Twenty Years Later follows Avery Mason, TV host of American Events, who knows her latest story – a murder mystery laced with sex, tragedy, and betrayal – is ratings gold. With new technology, the New York medical examiner’s office has made its first successful identification of a 9/11 victim in years. The twist: the victim in question, Victoria Ford, had been accused of murder at the time of her death.

For the first time in history, two Black quarterbacks will face off in a game which will decide the championship of a professional football league — in the U.S., that is.

The outcome of Super Bowl Lvii will likely be decided by those Black signal-callers: Patrick Mahomes, the newly-minted 2022 Mvp and engine of the Kansas City Chiefs’ dynamic offensive machine, versus Jalen Hurts, also an Mvp finalist and electrifying dual-threat Qb. Both are considered to be among the very best in the NFL, and Mahomes is well on his way...

Exclusive: Producer Joel B. Michaels has entered into an agreement with the family of Fritz Pollard to bring to the screen the life story of the pro football phenom who blazed a trail to become the first professional Black NFL player. Pollard was inducted into the Football Hall of Fame posthumously in 2005.

Pollard’s life story is an American biographical drama set against the backdrop of the “New Negro Movement” and the Roaring ’20s. In 1920, he became the first Black athlete to gain national notoriety by breaking the racial barrier in professional sports in America. He would go on to lead Brown University to play in the inaugural Rose Bowl game in 1916, and in 1920 he signed a pro contract and lead the Akron Pros to win the first NFL championship.

He went on to become the first Black NFL quarterback and the first Black NFL coach, all while becoming a...