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The commercialization of hiphop will not stop until every dollar has been squeezed from it…

The debut of MTV2’s Hollywood Squares offshoot, the comedic-game show series Hip Hop Squares, became the cable network’s highest-rated and most-watched series launch in the  persons 12-34 demographic ever with a 0.39 rating. Continue Reading…

HSK Exclusive - BET executives are encountering some technical difficulties during this sixth season of their program The Game. Because “The Game” main actors – Tia Mowry and Pooch Hall – won’t be returning to the set anytime soon.

Inside sources say that’s the only way the struggling actor pair believe they can keep their careers afloat.

Here’s the tea surrounding Pooch Hall and Tia Mowry’s abrupt decisions: Continue Reading…

HSK Exclusive - HSK has learned the real reason why CBS decided to shelve Martin Lawrence’s latest sitcom.

According to an inside source, the network giant saw the pilot of the untitled television show as being “too black”. Know why? Because the people over at CBS believe their demographic to be a predominately older and whiter audience, who won’t accept a program featuring an all-black cast.

Here’s the drop: Continue Reading…

HSK Exclusive - According to one industry insider, BET’s President Of Programming Loretha Jones is blacklisting talented writers from presenting television shows to the network. Don’t believe me.. Ask Felica Henderson.

Here’s the tea about Loretha Jones’ controversial shot calling:

“Loretha Jones was Robert Townsend”s assistant, back in the ’90s. Townsend is a sex addict, so you know he was smashing Loretha. Continue Reading…

I was playing Scrabble last night when the Jimmy Kimmel Show began to air. That’s when my guest asked me to change the channel, adding “Jimmy Kimmel sucks”. I’m a gentleman, so I began to channel surf – and I ran into the new MTV show The Hip Hop POV. It seems to me that The Hip Hop POV is MTV’s attempt to bring music back to their network, and guess what? I’m going to review it…

The Hip Hop POV features a round table discussion, involving multiple guests. Heading the discussion was Sowmya Krishnamurt (who reminds me of a East Indian, British journalist), she’s clearly the boss – but what does Sowmya Krishnamurt know about Hip Hop or black culture? Continue Reading…

Oprah Winfrey’s television OWN Network is struggling and guess what? Executives over at Oprah’s network believe that they can stay in the game and get more ratings if the network catered more to a black audience. Don’t believe me? Ask OWN president Erik Logan.

Here’s what Erik Logan had to say:

“The silver lining in an otherwise bleak performance record for the network since its launch last January is that it’s performing particularly well among its African-American audience members.

Anytime you have a program that pops like Sweetie Pies did, you start looking at what drove it. And we saw that the African-American audience really had a connection with that show. . . . Continue Reading…

Jamie Foxx and BET are going to revamp the television show “Showtime At The Apollo” and guess what? During a charity fundraiser this past weekend at the Apollo, Jamie Foxx made the announcement.

Here’s what Jamie Foxx had to say:

“The Apollo did it long before American Idol, except the audience were the judges.”

Here’s what an insider from Foxx’s camp had to say: Continue Reading…