'Riches' Creator And Cast Dive Into Prime Video's Deliciously Bingeable Black Family Drama

Written and created by Abby Ajayi, Prime Video’s Riches is a delicious and highly bingeable global drama series. The show follows Nina Richards (Deborah Ayorinde), whose carefully curated world in Brooklyn comes crashing around her when she learns that her estranged father, Stephen Richards (Hugh Quarshie), has died unexpectedly. Convinced by her brother Simon (Emmanual Imani) to attend their father’s funeral in the U.K., Nina realizes that the late mogul has left more than a few loose ends. 

Upon landing in the U.K. and encountering their hostile stepmother, Claudia (Sarah Niles), and half-siblings, Gus (Ola Orebiyi), Alesha (Adeyinka Akinrinade), and Wanda (Nneka Okoye), Nina and Simon learn that their father has left his beauty empire, Flair & Glory in their hands. What happens next is more than any of the Richards — especially Nina could have expected. 

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'A League Of Their Own': Chanté Adams, Abbi Jacobson And More Talk Intersecting Truth With Joy In This New Take On Classic

A robust reimagining of the 1992 film of the same name, A League of Their Own, tells the stories of a women’s professional baseball league amid World War II.

While the classic Penny Marshall film mostly centered on the sexism and injustices that the ladies faced during the time, this Prime Video series, co-created by Will Graham and Abbi Jacobson, unpacks the women’s personal lives. 

Across the first season, the series dives into the personal lives of the women playing on the AAGPBL’s Rockford Peaches team as they contend with the era’s sexism, misogyny, racism, and homophobia. However, the series also carefully highlights the women’s joys and passions. 

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Why 'A League Of Their Own' Is A Throwback For Today: 7 Things To Know About Upcoming Show [ABFF 2022]

Penny Marshall's 1992 classic, A League Of Their Own, is getting an updated TV adaptation, inviting a new generation of women to lean into the beloved story. Like the film, the Prime Video series is set amid the Second World War and centers on several women with aspirations of playing for the Rockford, Illinois Peaches, an All-American Women Professional Baseball team.

However, the television version of A League of Their Own explores the women's lives well beyond the field. Chanté Adams and Abbi Jacobson lead the series as Maxine and Carson. The first two episodes of the series were screened at the American Black Film Festival (ABFF) and Shadow and Act was on hand for the screening and discussion with Adams and co-creator Will Graham. 

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