Discover What’s Streaming On: Not many people would look at a 50-year-old novel by Judy Blume and see a story that could just as easily be set in present-day Los Angeles with two Black teens. Mara ...

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The showrunner and director launched artists residency The Writers Colony, with alumni from the program now able to shadow Akil on the set of her upcoming Judy Blume adaptation 'Forever.' By Mia ...

In an interview with Deadline, the series creator was vague about the details of the forthcoming second season of her television adaptation of Judy Blume’s controversial titular novel. However, she ...

Simone and Cooper possess magnetic chemistry, capturing the joyous innocence of first love and the desperate uncertainty of the future, especially as real life seeps into the bubble they try to form ...

Mara Brock Akil's "Forever" is a story both timeless and of the moment. A skillful update of the 1975 Judy Blume novel of the same name chronicling two teens experiencing first love, the series stars ...

Getting the ensemble cast for 'Girlfriends' wasn't as seamless as one may think, Akil revealed Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic Twenty-five years after Girlfriends premiered, Mara Brock Akil is giving fans of ...

“Girlfriends” creator Mara Brock Akil is slated to develop and write a scripted series to air on Fox as part of a network-direct script deal with Fox Entertainment. “Mara is a truly gifted writer, ...

Those are queries Mara Brock Akil, 49, and her husband, Salim Akil, 54, have heard for years. Now the power couple behind Being Mary Jane and Black Lightning are providing "an honest answer to a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Writer Mara Brock Akil attends the Storytelling Summit - Mara Brock Akil - 2025 Tribeca Festival at Spring Studios on June 14, ...