I'm late, but better late than never... So I'll make this quick. Tonight, ASPiRE, Wednesday, May 6 at 9 pm Est only on the ASPiRE TV network, the season premiere of its weekly talk series, “Exhale” (@exhaleTV), which is hosted by renaissance woman Issa Rae; journalist and media maven Angela Burt-Murray; comedian Erin Jackson; author and TV anchor Rene Syler; and actress Malinda Williams. “The ladies of ‘Exhale’ are back!,” said ASPiRE general manager Paul Butler. “Our viewers are going to love the way ‘Exhale’ delivers the perfect blend of real talk on important topics, along with real laughs and emotion." In the all-new episodes (there'll be 8...
- 5/6/2015
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Los Angeles — Five women sitting around talking has become a TV staple. Five women talking, each of whom is either black, Asian or Latino, is something different.
It's the approach tested by two shows: "The Real," airing on a handful of Fox-owned stations, and the Aspire channel's "Exhale."
For "The Real," concluding an experimental run Friday, the multi-ethnic panel of Tamar Braxton, Loni Love, Adrienne Bailon, Jeannie Mai and Tamera Mowry-Housley isn't the point, said executive producer SallyAnn Salsano.
"It's something we don't really talk about. ... We just picked who's best for the show. We didn't say, `Where's our white one?'" Salsano said.
The difference in "The Real," she said, is generational. Other female-centric talk shows like "The View," the genre groundbreaker when Barbara Walters launched it in 1997, tend toward older hosts with more settled lives and perspectives.
As a 39-year-old woman with friends who are single like her...
It's the approach tested by two shows: "The Real," airing on a handful of Fox-owned stations, and the Aspire channel's "Exhale."
For "The Real," concluding an experimental run Friday, the multi-ethnic panel of Tamar Braxton, Loni Love, Adrienne Bailon, Jeannie Mai and Tamera Mowry-Housley isn't the point, said executive producer SallyAnn Salsano.
"It's something we don't really talk about. ... We just picked who's best for the show. We didn't say, `Where's our white one?'" Salsano said.
The difference in "The Real," she said, is generational. Other female-centric talk shows like "The View," the genre groundbreaker when Barbara Walters launched it in 1997, tend toward older hosts with more settled lives and perspectives.
As a 39-year-old woman with friends who are single like her...
- 8/9/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Issa Rae is having the best year ever! Although, it's more like the best 2 years ever! She's already developing a series with the Queen of scripted TV currently, aka Shonda Rhimes; she's one of 5 hosts of ASPiRE TV's new talk show, Exhale; she'll be playing Nina Simone in a film on the life of Lorraine Hansberry, from long time collaborators Taye Hansberry (grand niece of Lorraine Hansberry), and Numa Perrier; she's producing a series for the newly-formed Alright TV - a faith/family-friendly YouTube channel created by Robert Johnson and Tracey E. Edmonds; she's got a thriving YouTube channel, producing...
- 8/6/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
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