{"id":9833,"date":"2019-04-26T23:15:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T06:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9833"},"modified":"2019-05-18T23:19:57","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T06:19:57","slug":"lena-scores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/04\/26\/lena-scores\/","title":{"rendered":"Lena Scores"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2019\/04\/lena-waithe-comedy-twenties-series-order-bet-1202595103\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"from Deadline (opens in a new tab)\">from Deadline<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lena Waithe Comedy \u2018Twenties\u2019 Gets Series Order At\u00a0BET<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/author\/dpetski\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Denise Petski<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pmcdeadline2.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/04\/lena-waithe_credit-shayan-asgharnia-e1555180085431.jpg?w=450&amp;h=253&amp;crop=1\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>Photo by Shayan Asgharnia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On the heels of the second season pickup of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/lena-waithe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Lena Waithe<\/a>\u2019s critically-acclaimed\u00a0<em>Boomerang<\/em>\u00a0reboot,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/bet\/\" target=\"_blank\">BET<\/a>\u00a0has ordered\u00a0<em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/twenties\/\" target=\"_blank\">Twenties<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0a single-camera comedy series from the Emmy-winning creator\/writer\/actor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Created and written by Waithe when she was in her early 20s, the eight-episode half-hour series follows the adventures of a queer black girl, Hattie, and her two straight best friends, Marie and Nia, who spend most of their days talking \u2018ish\u2019 and chasing their dreams.<em>\u00a0Twenties<\/em>\u00a0is a scripted show about friendship, finding love, and messing everything up along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Waithe executive produces with Susan Fales-Hill, who will co-showrun with Waithe. Rishi Rajani and Andrew Coles also executive produce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2019\/04\/lena-waithe-comedy-twenties-series-order-bet-1202595103\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"click to continue reading at Deadline (opens in a new tab)\">click to continue reading at Deadline<\/a> ]<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Deadline Lena Waithe Comedy \u2018Twenties\u2019 Gets Series Order At\u00a0BET By\u00a0Denise Petski On the heels of the second season pickup of\u00a0Lena Waithe\u2019s critically-acclaimed\u00a0Boomerang\u00a0reboot,\u00a0BET\u00a0has ordered\u00a0Twenties,\u00a0a single-camera comedy series from the Emmy-winning creator\/writer\/actor. Created and written by Waithe when she was in her early 20s, the eight-episode half-hour series follows the adventures of a queer black girl, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}