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  Ralph Farquhar, Veteran TV Producer on "Inside Urban Hollywood"

  Tanya Kersey

  Date / Time: 11/24/2009 2:00 AM UTC

  Category: Entertainment

  Call-in Number: (646) 200-3290

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  Veteran TV producer Ralph Farquhar will discuss producing for television. Farquhar created and executive produced “South Central,” "Moesha" and "The Parkers." He also served as the executive producer for “The Proud Family.”

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  12/1/2009 2:00 AM UTC - Funnyman Bill Bellamy on "Inside Urban Hollywood"

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  Lonnie Ramati on "Inside Urban Hollywood" Mon. Nov. 16

  Tanya Kersey

  Date / Time: 11/17/2009 2:00 AM UTC

  Category: Entertainment

  
  

  Lonnie Ramati - Executive VP Business And Legal Affairs, Nu Image/Millenium Films, will engage in a broad conversation about film financing and distribution from the perspective of a major indie production company.

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  Original Air Date: 3/31/2009 1:00 AM UTC

  Actor-Director-Producer-Writer Bill Duke on "Inside Urban Hollywood"

  Multi-hyphenate Bill Duke will discuss building a successful branded career in Hollywood on the Monday, March 30th edition of "Inside Urban Hollywood" with host, Tanya Kersey at 6pm PST/9pm EST. Duke's widely respected talents span almost every film and television discipline, including directing, producing, acting and writing.
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• Date / Time: 3/28/2009 3:12 AM UTC

  Actor-Director-Producer-Writer Bill Duke on "Inside Urban Hollywood," Monday, March 30, 6pm PST/9pm

  Multi-hyphenate Bill Duke will discuss building a successful branded career in Hollywood on the Monday, March 30th edition of "Inside Urban Hollywood" with host, Tanya Kersey at 6pm PST/9pm EST. Duke's widely respected talents span almost every film and television discipline, including directing, producing, acting and writing.
  
  Duke began his film acting career in Michael Schultz's boisterous comedy "Car Wash" (1976), shortly after he started writing for the TV series "Good Times". A prolific TV director with scores of primetime episodes to his credit, including "Knots Landing", "Falcon Crest," "Hill Street Blues", "Spenser: For Hire," "A Man Called Hawk," "City of Angels," "New York Undercover" and the miniseries "Miracle's Boys," he won acclaim for his award-winning PBS film "The Killing Floor" (1984), about WWI stockyard workers, and "The Meeting" (1989), about a hypothetical encounter between Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.
  
  Duke began directing feature-length films in the 1990s with crime dramas "A Rage in Harlem," Deep Cover" and "Hoodlum" starring Laurence Rishburne.  He also directed "The Cemetery Club" and "Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit," starring Whoopi Goldberg. He most recently directed and produced TD Jakes' "Not Easily Broken" starring Morris Chestnut and Academy Award nominee Taraji P. Henson.
  
  As an actor, he has turned in memorable performances as the villainous gay pimp in "American Gigolo" (1980), Arnold Schwarzenegger's comrade in "Commando" (1985) and "Predator" (1987), and the heavy in "Bird on a Wire" (1990).
  
  As his film credits--when not playing bad guys Duke specialized in menacing law enforcement agents--seemed to multiply exponentially, some of the more memorable films on his resume included "Menace II Society" (1993), "Payback" (1999), "The Limey" (1999), "Exit Wounds" (2001) and "Red Dragon" (2002). Duke also began reappearing on the small screen, playing Carla Gugino's colleague Amos Andrews in the critically beloved but short-lived ABC series "Karen Sisco" (2004) based on the Elmore Leonard character from the 1998 film "Out of Sight," and a recurring role as Capt. Bob Parish on the slick MTV-style NBC cop drama "Fastlane" (2002-2003), a series which he also directed. Duke got one of his larger roles as the drug kingpin Levar in director Jim Sheridan's urban drama "Get Rich Or Die Tryin'" (2005) based on the real life of star Curtis "50 Cent" Johnson.
  
  

  Duke founded Duke Media, formerly Yagya Productions, which has been in existence for approximately twenty years.  For three years, Mr. Duke served as the Time Warner Endowed Chair in the Department of Radio Television and Film at Howard University in Washington, DC.  He was then appointed to the National Endowment of the Humanities by former president Bill Clinton. Mr. Duke has also been appointed to the California State Film Commission Board by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Mr. Duke now serves on the Board of Trustees at the American Film Institute.

  Duke is now producing and directing independent projects and content for multiple platforms. 

  
  "Inside Urban Hollywood," is a live, Internet talk-radio show that airs live every Monday night at 6pm PST/9pm EST and streams from the host page at http://blogtalkradio.com/InsideUrbanHollywood. Listeners are also welcome to call-in to ask questions at (646) 200-3290.
  
  Hosted and produced by veteran entertainment journalist, commentator, author and film festival director Tanya Kersey, "Inside Urban Hollywood" features interviews with some of Hollywood's movers and shakers -- from filmmakers, directors and writers to studio executives, agents and entertainment attorneys -- who share their knowledge and insights to help those aspiring, beginning and hoping to grow their careers in the entertainment industry.
  
  Listen in to "Inside Urban Hollywood" with special guest Bill Duke, on Monday, March 30 at 6pm PST/9pm EST at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/insideurbanhollywood. An archive of each show will be available at the same link immediately following the show or listeners can subscribe to the archives via the RSS feed located on the host page at http://blogtalkradio.com/insideurbanhollywood.
  
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• Original Air Date: 3/24/2009 1:00 AM UTC

  Writer/director/producer Rob Hardy from Rainforest Films on "Inside Urban Hollywood," March 23

  Writer/director/producer Rob Hardy will discuss the business of independent filmmaking on the Monday, March 23rd edition of "Inside Urban Hollywood" with host, Tanya Kersey at 6pm PST/9pm EST. The discussion with focus on producing independent films, building a successful career. Hardy is the co-founder of Rainforest Films. His credits include "Stomp the Yard" and "The Gospel." Rob Hardy who is a recent nominee of the HBO Director to Watch Award, broke into network television with his January 2008 directorial debut of the Emmy Award winning show "ER." Soon after, Black Enterprise Magazine listed him among the Top 40 Entertainers under 40 for the year 2007. Hardy began his career as a high school Senior, with the camcorder-shot movie "G-Man." While pursuing a degree in Mechanical Engineering at Florida A & M University, he made the leap to film with the low-budget motion picture "Chocolate City." This experience earned him the institution's highest honor, the Bernard Hendricks Student Leadership Award, and launched his company Rainforest Films. The underground buzz on the project soon led to his controversial film "Trois." Hardy not only directed and co-wrote the thriller, he was also instrumental in self-distributing the project to be the fastest Independent African American film to pass the $1million dollar mark. In 2003, after directing the critically acclaimed thriller "Pandora's Box," he added the role of "Producer" to his credits by collaborating with business partner Will Packer, to produce "Motives." 2004 saw Hardy Executive Producing "Trois: The Escort," and penning an "untitled Usher" project for MTV Films. Hardy then wrote and directed the spiritually themed drama entitled "The Gospel," and produced the companion "Gospel Live!." Executive producing Mekhi Phifer's directorial film debut "Puff Puff Pass," soon followed, before serving as Executive Producer of "Stomp The Yard," which held the #1 position at the box office for two weekends in January of 20
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• Original Air Date: 3/19/2009 1:00 AM UTC

  Writer-director Gary Hardwick "Inside Urban Hollywood" with Host, Tanya Kersey

  Writer-director Gary Hardwick will be here to talk about the art, craft and business of writing and directing for TV and film. Gary Hardwick is the screenwriter and director of the feature films "Trippin," "The Brothers" and "Deliver Us from Eva," as well as a television writer and executive producer. His TV writing credits include "South Central," "Me and the Boys," "In the House" and "Matt Waters." A former attorney Hardwick is the author of the novels Cold Medina, Double Dead, Supreme Justice, and Color of Justice.
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• Date / Time: 3/17/2009 1:10 AM UTC

  Writer-director Gary Hardwick has been rescheduled for Wed. March 18th at 6pm PST/9pm EST

  We've rescheduled tonight's show with writer-director Gary Hardwick for this Wednesday, March 18th at 6pm PST/9pm EST.  Tune in!!!
  
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• Original Air Date: 3/10/2009 1:00 AM UTC

  Director Jeff Byrd on "Inside Urban Hollywood"

  Director/producer/screenwriter Jeff Byrd will discuss the art, craft and business of the director on the Monday, March 9th edition of "Inside Urban Hollywood" with host, Tanya Kersey at 6pm PST/9pm EST. The discussion with focus on the development of the film from script to screen including storyboarding, location scouting, casting, collaboration with producers, cinematography, budget, and scheduling. Jeff has directed well over one hundred plus music videos, countless commercials, episodic television as well as feature films such as "Jasper, Texas" and "King's Ransom." This multi talented craftsman has also directed 12 episodes of the critically acclaimed television series "Soul Food." He currently has several projects in development.
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• Date / Time: 3/8/2009 4:32 PM UTC

  Director Jeff Byrd on "Inside Urban Hollywood" March 9th 6pm PST/9pm EST

  Director/producer/screenwriter Jeff Byrd will discuss the art, craft and business of the director on the Monday, March 9th edition of "Inside Urban Hollywood" with host, Tanya Kersey at 6pm PST/9pm EST. The discussion with focus on the development of the film from script to screen including storyboarding, location scouting, casting, collaboration with producers, cinematography, budget, and scheduling.
  
  Jeff has directed well over one hundred plus music videos, countless commercials, episodic television as well as feature films such as "Jasper, Texas" and "King's Ransom." This multi talented craftsman has also directed 12 episodes of the critically acclaimed television series "Soul Food." He currently has several projects in development.
  
  "Inside Urban Hollywood," is a live, Internet talk-radio show that airs live every Monday night at 6pm PST/9pm EST and streams from the host page at http://blogtalkradio.com/InsideUrbanHollywood. Hosted and produced by veteran entertainment journalist, commentator, author and film festival director Tanya Kersey, "Inside Urban Hollywood" features interviews with some of Hollywood's movers and shakers -- from filmmakers, directors and writers to studio executives, agents and entertainment attorneys -- who share their knowledge and insights to help those aspiring, beginning and hoping to grow their careers in the entertainment industry.
  
  Listeners are welcome to call-in to ask questions at (646) 200-3290. An archive of each show will be available at the same link immediately following the show or listeners can subscribe to the archives via the RSS feed located on the host page at http://blogtalkradio.com/insideurbanhollywood.
  
  Previous guests on "Inside Urban Hollywood" include talent manager/producer E. Brian Dobbins (Principato-Young Entertainment); Shelby Stone, Senior Vice President of Development and Production at Foxx-King Productions; Robyn Lattaker-Johnson, President, duBose Entertainment; producer/manager Lita Richardson; film financier/investor Steven Belser; distribution executives Brett Dismuke (One Village Entertainment), Angela Northington (Codeblack Entertainment), Tanya York (York Entertainment) and Melvin Butters (Barnholtz Entertaiment), film financing consultant/author Louise Levison; film producer Effie T. Brown ("Real Women Have Curves"); screenwriter Ben Ramsey; Nikita S. Adams, Creative Executive, Foxx/King Entertanment; producer/consultant Stu Pollard (Pollard Film); Terrell D. Whitley and Nick F. Nelson, co-founders, Liquid Soul Media; Quincy Newell, President, Code Black Entertainment; entertainment attorney Mychal Wilson; writer/director/producer Don B. Welch; film financier Kevin Kinsey, film distribution guru Stacey Parks; casting directors Twinkie Byrd and Pamela Station; filmmaker Dwayne Johnson-Cochran; Doreen Hamilton, head of the Cosby Program; Sunny Fuller, script analyst, Story Pointe; Scilla Andreen, CEO of IndieFlix; and film festival programmer Jacqueline Blaylock.
  
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