A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Premiere:
February 5, 2000
# of Seasons: 2
# of Episodes: 128
Finale:
April 8, 2014
Original Title:
The Queen Latifah Show
Production Companies:
Flavor Unit Entertainment
Overbrook Entertainment
Sony Pictures Television
Telepictures
Countries:
US
The First iteration (1999-2001) was described as the "Dear Abby for the Hip-Hop Generation", with the series covering various topics and including interviews with celebrities and non-celebrities alike. The Second iteration (2013-2015) featured celebrity interviews, human interest stories, musical performances, and Queen Latifah's take on pop culture news. Latifah also ventured into communities across the country to share compelling stories, celebrate individuals who give back to their communities and delivers life-changing surprises. Previously, a talk show with the exact same title aired from 1999 to 2001; however, the second iteration is not a revival of this older syndicated television production. Telepictures (1999-2001) / Sony Pictures Television (2013-205) with Flavor Unit and Overbrook.
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.