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Holy Rolling Hee Haw: Lee Daniels Blends Gospel and Country Music for Upcoming Interracial Love Story

Empire creator Lee Daniels is teaming up with musician Brian Kelley of Florida Georgia Line for a new drama series with country music as its backdrop. Suggested Reading The Root 100 – 2020 Black History Month – 2022 Hip-Hop 50 Year – 2023 Video will return here when scrolled back into view Stefon Diggs and…

Empire creator Lee Daniels is teaming up with musician Brian Kelley of Florida Georgia Line for a new drama series with country music as its backdrop.

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A new series titled Moss Landing has been announced to come from Disneyโ€™s 20th Century Fox TV and The Son creator Lee Shipman, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

The potential series, which both are set to produce, will take place in a small Florida coastal town, and follows the love story of disgraced country star Marion James and Sky Miller, who is an African-American gospel and soul singer.

Mysteries will unravel from the coupleโ€™s troubled pasts and follow them through the highs and lows of rebuilding their lives and the love that binds themโ€”all set to genre-blending musical numbers.

Moss Landing is the second ABC project from the Monsterโ€™s Ball producer; thereโ€™s also a comedy, titled Cupcake Men, about brothers (two ex-NFL players) who run a cupcake shop together.

Announced in October, that series was inspired by the real-life story of former Tennessee Titans players Brian Orakpo and Michael Griffin who, along with their childhood friend Bryan Hynson, opened a cupcake shop in Austin, Texas.

Ex-NFL champ and current Good Morning America host Michael Strahan will co-produce, Variety reported.

It was also reported that Daniels and former Star showrunner Karin Gist are developing Our Kind Of People, a drama inspired by Lawrence Otis Grahamโ€™s 1999 tome Our Kind Of People: Inside Americaโ€™s Black Upper Class.

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