Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Reed Between The Lines Premiers on BET on October 11, 2011


In BET's continuing bid to reinvent the network, a new sitcom, Reed Between The Lines, is set to launch on October 11, 2011.

Black Entertainment Television (BET) re-aired The  Game, a CW original with some awesome new talent and fresh drama to keep the fans locked to the television. So far, we have enjoyed the new sitcom, Let's Stay Together, and the new dance reality series, Born to Dance with LaurieAnn Gibson. The next new show to be launched will be Reed Between The Lines on October 11, 2011.

The Cast of Reed Between The Lines
There have been several commercials that have aired promoting Reed Between The Lines giving us a glimpse of the characters and their comraderie. The leading characters are Dr. Carla Reed, a therapist
played by Tracee Ellis Ross and Dr. Alex Reed, a university professor played by Malcolm-Jamal Warner. Ross and Warner are complimented by two sets of actors - the young and fresh and then the seasoned and the experienced. 
  • Malcolm-Jamal Warner from The Cosby Show: Malcolm Jamal Warner is no stranger to the television. We recognize him acting as Theo Huxtable from The Cosby Show. Warner can be considered a tv icon because he has appeared on several television series including The Cosby Show spin-off, A Different World and then Malcolm & Eddie, with co-star Eddie Griffin. Warner has also appeared on True Blue, Sherri, Hawthorne, Jeremiah, Here and Now and others shows.
  • Girlfriends' Tracee Ellis Ross: Everyone can remember the drama the character Joan Clayton, played by Ross, brought to Girlfriends. Ross has also appeared on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Private Practice. She also acted in the Tyler Perry movie Daddy's Little Girls (2007) with Idris Elba and Gabrielle Union.
  • New Faces on BET: The Reed's son is Keenan, played by Nadji Jeter, also a dancer, and who has acted in the movie Grown Ups (2010) and on the Chris Rock sitcom Everybody Hates Chris. The daughters are Kaci, Keenan's twin sister, a role played by Zoe Soul who seems to be an enthusiastic young actor and singer; and the youngest child, Alexis, played by Zoe Hernandez.
  • Other Cast Members: The Facebook page of Reed Between The Lines revealed that Anna Maria Horsford who appeared on BET's Let's Stay Together and who we know from Amen, The Wayans Brothers, Friday (1995) and Friday After Next (2002) and many other titles is one of the regulars on this new show. Horsford acts as Ms. Helen, Carla's assistant in Reed Between The Lines. Another familiar face of this new show is Melissa DeSousa who acts Gabby, an acupuncturist who seems to always have a bout with the character, Helen. DeSousa is known for her roles in The Best Man (1999), Miss Congeniality (2000) and the sitcoms Second Time Around and One on One.
 BET has seen the need to give the viewers fresh new programming and is working towards keeping its growing fan-base. Reed Between The Lines is a story about a family of successful parents with young children whose ages range from young to adolescence. Malcolm-Jamal Warner and Tracee Ellis Ross are no strangers to television so it is hoped that they will bring good chemistry to keep the viewers locked to television. 

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