While taking a break from the 9-6 monotony, guess who I spotted chillin' on a bus stop on Sunset Blvd? Mother-to-be, poetess, singer, actress, and one of my all time favorite performers, Jill Scott! Across 2 lanes of heavy trafficI couldn't watch the road and her too so I pulled Corolla into a nearby gas station and busted a "flick", papparrazzi style with the Blackberry. Okay, that first paragraph is obviously poetic license 'cause Jill is hardly riding city buses anymore. Not that she... Read Full Story
While taking a break from the 9-6 monotony, guess who I spotted chillin' on a bus stop on Sunset Blvd? Mother-to-be, poetess, singer, actress, and one of my all time favorite performers, Jill Scott! Across 2 lanes of heavy trafficI couldn't watch the road and her too so I pulled Corolla into a nearby gas station and busted a "flick", papparrazzi style with the Blackberry. Okay, that first paragraph is obviously poetic license 'cause Jill is hardly riding city buses anymore. Not that she... Read Full Story
Who knew that when she won appraised for her performance in Tyler Perry's 'Why Did I Get Married?' that she would follow that up by working with an Oscar winning director? On Sunday, March 29, Jill Scott will be playing the role of Precious Ramotswe in 'The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency,' when the series premieres on HBO. The pilot episode was directed by the late Anthony Minghella ('The English Patient').
Based on a series of novels by Alexander McCall Smith, Scott plays a Botswanan... Read Full Story
The BBC small-screen adaption of the best-selling book series - The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency - by author Alexander McCall Smith starring Jill Scott as traditional build Precious Ramotswe and Anika Noni Rose as her 97-percentiler secretary arrives in the stateside tonight on HBO. Keith Bernstein @ HBO The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency premieres tonight on cable television channel [HBO] as a 7-part drama series, with tonight's episode co-written and directed by the late Anthony Minghella... Read Full Story
Jill Scott is starring in the new HBO series, The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency. The two-hour premiere airs this Sunday, March 29th. The show is based on the best-selling novels by Alexander McCall Smith and features Jill Scott and Anika Noni Rose as the owner of Botswanas first and only female-owned detective agency for the benefit of those who need help the most and her secretary. J. HUD ON AMERICAN IDOL Jennifer Hudson is returning to American Idol for one night only. She taped a... Read Full Story
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Congrats to Jill Scott who just announced she is pregnant and expecting her first baby with fiancee Lil John.
Jill Scott is pregnant with her first child, the R&B singer and actress revealed to reporters at the Television Critics Association conference in Los Angeles on Friday.
Promoting her new HBO series The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, based on the popular novels by Alexander McCall Smith, Scott said she discovered that she was pregnant just before leaving... Read Full Story
By simply walking on stage to promote her new HBO series “The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency” at the Television Critics Association conference Friday, star Jill Scott revealed she is six months pregnant with her first child.
The film, due to premiere on the network in March, is based on the best-selling novels by Alexander McCall Smith and was filmed entirely on location in Botswana.
“The first trimester I spent in Botswana,” said Scott, who is due April 25. “That was one of the... Read Full Story
I was listening to Tom Joyner this morning and he quickly slipped in before a commercial break that Jill Scott was with child and it looks like she is going to try the marriage thingy again, as the happy couple is expected to have a wedding ceremony this weekend. Congratulations Jill and fiancé. Jill is one artist I missed in this area and I am dying to see her perform live.
From Celebrity Baby Scoop:
"Three-time Grammy Award winner, Jill Scott announced that she is expecting her... Read Full Story
Ms. Jill Scott is starring in a new HBO mini-series set in Botswana called the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Excerpt: "Ms. Scott, the Grammy-winning singer and songwriter, approaches Precious balancing the innocence of a newborn with the gentle weariness of a woman who has already borne the burdens of an insidiously discriminatory world. The first episode refers to a past, destructive marriage, obscuring the grimmer details of abuse, outlined in the first book, that seemed to have caused... Read Full Story
When books are translated into other media, it's very rare that fans are satisfied or the end result is worth anything. Sure, there are a few here and there that turn out to be pretty decent on their own but such cases tend to be few and far between.
When it comes to books, it seems that translations to TV shows have a better chance of succeeding, if only because they have the sheer potential length to truly cover a lot of the nuances of the book. Let's face it, even a single book as a... Read Full Story
