Fashioning Modern Africanism

Now streaming on Showmax,  Grand Crew  follows a group of young Black professionals who gather at their favourite bar to wine down and unpack the ups and downs of life and love in LA, proving that life is always better with your crew. The sitcom is created by Phil Augusta Jackson ( Brooklyn Nine-Nine ,  Insecure ,  Key & Peele ), with Oscar winner Matthew A. Cherry ( Hair Love ) and  Brooklyn Nine-Nine  actor Melissa Fumero among the directors.   Buzzfeed  calls  Grand Crew  “a TV game changer”, “a television gem” and “a black sitcom that’s for everyone.”  Nicky (triple-Emmy nominee Nicole Byer from  Nailed It! ) is a go-getter in both real estate and romance, while her brother Noah ( Arrow ’s Curtis Holt / Mr Terrific, Echo Kellum) is a hopeless romantic too eager to settle down. Sherm (comedian Carl Tart, who writes on  Kenan ) is a low-key genius who plays the dating odds, Anthony (Aaron Jennings from  Pure Genius ) is mostly in love with his career, and Wyatt (Justin Cunningham

Hailed as “a modern crime family masterpiece” by   Rotten Tomatoes ,   Gangs of London   is now available to binge, first on Showmax. Nominated earlier this year for both a BAFTA and a Hollywood Critics’ Association Award for Best Drama, as well as an Emmy for its stunts,  Gangs of London  tells the story of a city torn apart in the wake of the assassination of Finn Wallace (Golden Globe nominee Colm Meaney from  Layer Cake ), the head of its most powerful crime family.  The 10-part series, which has a 91% critics rating on  Rotten Tomatoes,  is the latest offering from action auteur Gareth Evans (who wrote and directed the multi-award-winning Indonesian martial arts crime classics  The Raid  and  The Raid 2 ) and his co-writer and cinematographer Matt Flannery.  As  Rolling Stone  says, “ Gangs of London  will grab you by the scruff of the neck, hurl you against a wall, and remind you with repeated blunt force that the show comes from Gareth Evans, one of the great action directors al