EXCLUSIVE: BET+ has renewed its Emmy-nominated collection The Ms. Pat Show for a fourth season.
From Patricia “Ms. Pat” Williams and Jordan E. Cooper, the collection lifts from Williams’ life experiences coated in her memoir Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat, which tells the story of a drug seller and convicted felon turned suburban mother.
“It’s going to be another great and funny season and we’re so excited,” Williams tells Deadline completely. “I don’t want to give anything away but as you know, we’re always challenging ourselves. What I will say is that Season 4 will be better than prior seasons.”
When requested how she retains storylines contemporary and doesn’t run out of latest content material she mentioned with amusing, “There’s something happening in my house every day.”
Williams confirmed work on Season 4 was set to start the week the WGA referred to as for a strike because the AMPTP declined to barter phrases. The comic mentioned The Ms. Show staff is “just waiting” now [for a fair deal]. “We’re ready to get back to work,” she mentioned.
Cooper supported the WGA Black writers picket line at Paramount Studios on May 10.
Deadline introduced Williams signed an general take care of BET in July underneath which she’s going to produce, write and carry out in new collection and different tasks—each scripted and unscripted— throughout BET linear and streaming. Under that deal, Williams has two new reveals which might be in growth: the animated collection Krack Babies and the office comedy Hud.
Krack Babies—referencing youngsters that fall by way of the cracks of the system—is ready in Nineteen Eighties inner-city Atlanta and based mostly on Williams’ childhood tales.
As per the logline, Atlanta is a loopy place for teenagers to develop up, the streets round Corn Ridge house in Little Five Points are filled with sellers and liquor homes. When you’re not at college you’re hustling, doing issues like promoting garments you steal from the Goodwill. Growing up there was arduous, however you determine the way to make it by way of.
The children attend lessons at Jim Crow Elementary, attempt to hustle for a greater life, and maintain one another out of, whereas by some means nonetheless speaking one another into, hassle. The system would possibly fail you, but when the folks caught within the system all assist one another, there’s an opportunity you may make it out collectively.
Krack Babies is described as “Hey Arnold! for adults but that’s not afraid to get real AF.” The collection is govt produced by Williams, Starburns Industries and Reg Tigerman.
(*4*) she defined. “I’m one of those kids that fell through the cracks but somebody wanted me and I came back up. It’s about me and so many kids growing up in the inner city in animation form. It’s gonna be great, watch what I tell you.”
Williams’ second venture is a half-hour office comedy HUD, which stands for House and Urban Development. HUD follows a staff of public servants as they navigate the trials and tribulations of working within the authorities sector of Housing and Urban Development.
(*2*) she shared.
Williams govt produces alongside Patrick Walsh and Aaron Kaplan; Vincent Bryant serves as supervising producer.
In the meantime, Williams is gearing as much as headline a theater tour throughout the United States kicking off on June 16 at Levity Live in West Nyack, New York. Stops embody Miami, Omaha, Louisville, Los Angeles, Raleigh, San Antonio, and naturally, her residence base, Atlanta, amongst others.
Williams is repped by APA, Tigerman Management and Cohen Gardner.
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