Season five “Sunday Best” finalist Danetra Moore has inked a recording contract. The standout singer from the BET competition show has signed a new deal with Tyscot Music. The Atlanta-based vocal powerhouse honed her skills as a vocalist singing background on tour with artists like Ledisi, Ne-Yo and Angie Stone; as well as providing backup [...]

Season six of BET’s “Sunday Best” is currently shooting in Atlanta and a who’s who of gospel luminaries will be performing on the popular competition series. This week, some of gospel’s younger superstars were on hand to tape appearances on the show, which will premiere in July. Gospel artists James Fortune, Jonathan Nelson, Kierra Sheard, [...]

Oscar-winning actress Mo’Nique began losing weight prior to winning her Academy Award for her starring role in Lee Daniels’ “Precious” in 2009. The “Queens of Comedy” funny woman—who released two best-selling books, “Skinny Women Are Evil: Notes of a Big Girl in a Small-Minded World” and “Skinny Cooks Can’t Be Trusted”—built a great portion of [...]

AlwaysAList.com reported back in January that there was speculation that Black Entertainment Television had ended T.J. Holmes’ late-night series “Don’t Sleep” – though they refused to acknowledge it at the time. READ: T.J. Holmes: “Don’t Sleep” Is Taking A Nap Now, BET has confirmed that the show will not return. Holmes has also acknowledged that he [...]

Ed Gordon is one of the most recognizable African American news personalities in the business and starting on April 28, he’s back on television with a new series, “Conversations with Ed Gordon.” The award-winning journalist’s new show is a quarterly, one hour special hosted and executive produced by him. The series will air in 50 [...]

The news just keeps better for Oprah Winfrey’s OWN Network. The ratings growth of the network continued this past weekend with the premiere of comedienne Kym Whitley’s new series, “Raising Whitley.” The 30-minute reality series, which airs on Saturdays at 10pm ET between “Iyanla: Fix My Life” and “Life With La Toya,” earned 1.2 million [...]

“Real Husbands of Hollywood” star Kevin Hart was arrested this past weekend under suspicion of DUI. The arrest happened around 4:30am on Sunday morning after California Highway Patrol said they spotted the comic driving erratically at a high rate of speed and witnessed him almost colliding with a gas tanker truck. The 30-year-old funnyman was [...]

It’s the Super Bowl of professional wrestling and it took place Sunday night at the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. WWE‘s WrestleMania 29 played to a sold out crowd of 80,676 fans in New Jersey and grossed $12.3 million. The professional wrestling extravaganza was broadcast around the world on pay-per-view in more than 100 countries [...]

A few weeks ago, AlwaysAList.com caught wind that there was trouble on the set of BET’s hit series “Real Husbands of Hollywood.” We didn’t report what we learned at that time because a BET rep asked us to hold off on the story because they were working to provide us with detailed insight. Unfortunately, it’s [...]

“Get Ready, Get Ready, Get Ready” for Bishop T.D. Jakes new talk show on Black Entertainment Television. BET will launch the renowned televangelist’s show, “T.D. Jakes Presents: Mind, Body & Soul” on Sundays starting this fall. The network is describing the show as “better talk” and the show will explore a wide range of issues [...]