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MO' FILM/TV BITS: Steffans on ‘Oprah’; TV One grows; BET’s ‘Tiger’; Brangie’s Namibian newborn?; ‘Kietta’ on tap.
*TV One has added nearly four million new subscriber households so far in 2006, growing from 24.6 million in January 2006 to 28.4 million in April 2006, according to Nielsen Media Research. "TV One is now available to cable customers in 44 of the top 50 and 53 of the top 60 African American markets," said TV One Executive Vice President of Affiliate Sales and Marketing Brad Samuels. "We so appreciate the strong, broad-based support TV One continues to receive from the affiliate community and their customers. We've received tremendous response to TV One from viewers, and we're enjoying great success with our local ad sales and marketing efforts to help our affiliates reach out to an underserved audience and achieve their growth goals."
*BET will premiere a new half-hour series that follows the Grambling State University football team and marching band. “Season of the Tiger,” premiering 9:30 p.m. April 27, chronicles some of the players and musicians on the respective squads, and explores their challenges en route to game day each week.
*Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt may have their baby in Namibia, Africa. Jolie, due to pop in “late spring,” is laid up at a secluded Namibian beach resort with beau Pitt and their adopted kids, Maddox and Zahara, prompting speculation their baby will be born in the African country. They’ve rented all 14 rooms and suites at the Burning Shores resort, a luxury boutique hotel on Long Beach north of Walvis Bay and near the famous dunes of the Namibian desert. A private security firm and local police officials have set up shop around the area and threatened to snatch any cameras within eyesight, Namibian media reported Friday.
*“Real Talk With Kietta,” an issues based, adult-oriented program discussing such topics as surviving cancer, teens at risk and men on the "down low," earned rave reviews from audience members of NBC’s “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” during his “Sold/Not Sold” segment. Well received at the 2006 NATPE Convention, “Real Talk” has received multiple network bids. An official network and show schedule announcement is forthcoming. Hostess Kietta Mayweather-Gamble, a Florida A&M graduate, has a Bachelor's Degree in Business Economics and Master's Degree in Business and Administration of Educational Programs from Nova University.
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