‘Halo’ star Michael Ealy has bagged a role in a hit ABC series.
Which one?
All you need to know below…
The actor has signed on to portray the lead character in the second season of ‘Secrets & Lies.’
He inked the deal doing so as the network continues to push diversity to the forefront of its agenda following the launch of the hit TV shows ‘Scandal’ and ‘How To Get Away With Murder‘, also led by African-American thespians.
Indie Wire reports:
Season 1 of “Secrets and Lies” premiered on March 1, 2015, airing on Sunday nights at 9pm, and starred Ryan Phillippe as a family man who discovers the body of a young boy and quickly becomes the prime suspect in his death, and has to clear his name.
Based on the Australian TV series of the same name, the 10-episode first season averaged roughly 6 million viewers per episode, and was renewed for a second season on May 7, 2015.
‘Lies’ is one of many Ealy projects his fans can look forward to.
For, said supporters are also anticipating the release of the thriller ‘The Perfect Guy’ in which he stars in alongside Morris Chestnut.
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I would do some dirty and probably illegal things to this man.
Based on trends for major network dramas (besides Empire), he probably won’t have an African American wife. The major networks lack portrayals of black marriages in dramas; it’s always a mixed couple like in HTGAWM & Extant (where Halle’s black husband died before the pilot, we only see flasbacks to him and now she has a white husband; similarly Taye Diggs’ black wife dies in the first few episodes of Murder in the First, a cable program) or the shows feature single black stars (like Scandal). I know it’s just an effort to attract a diverse audience but they could at least throw in black couples as costars to make it somewhat reflective of reality. Black people do still marry each other for goodness sakes and newsflash–some of those marriages actually last. I don’t watch a lot of TV but this assessment is just based on my limited observations so I could be off base.
Well put Anne.
Blackish is a perfect example that refutes what you said. While there are not a lot of black couples on TV, there are some. Another would be the FBI boss in the recently cancelled The Mentalist. You’re wrong.
Blackish is a comedy, I specifically said dramas. Anyway, I guess I’m glad you were at least able to come up with one cancelled exception. There may be one or two exceptions but it doesn’t change the fact that black love is insufficiently portrayed on TV, particularly in series dramas on major networks, as it’s not a realistic reflection of society in general. The trend to portray otherwise in dramas on major networks is much more apparent based on my observations.
Good for him.
He has been getting steady work since he played the vilain and dropped them poor chirrren in “For Colored Girls”.
I just wish he would loosen up a bit, he takes himself too d*mn seriously on set and on talk shows. That’s kind of boring.
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