Thanks to the mega success of the FOX hit show “Empire” and ABC’s “Scandal” and “How To Get Away with Murder”, networks are finally once again seeing the value in quality programming featuring people of color and creating leading roles that up until recently seemed non existent.
Following their addition of the Morris Chestnut led series “Rosewood” this season, FOX is tapping into its urban market once again with a planned series centered around the successful Steve Harvey books and film series “Think Like a Man”. According to Deadline:
Fox is developing Think Like A Man, a single-camera comedy executive produced by comedian Steve Harvey, on whose best-selling advice book the movies were based, and by the films’ producer Will Packer. Keith Merryman and David A. Newman, who wrote the 2012 movie and the 2014 sequel Think Like A Man Too, will pen the TV adaptation and will executive produce
Based on the movie franchise and Harvey’s book, the Think Like A Man series explores the never-ending battle of the sexes from four very different points of view: newly married, moving in, breaking up and hooking up. Featuring both the male and female perspectives, our couples and their friends will realize that it’s easy to fall in love and “be” in love but not necessarily stay in love.
Think Like A Man was a box office breakout, opening with $34 million in 2012 en route to a $91.5 million haul in North America on a $12.5 million budget. It spawned the 2014 sequel Think Like A Man Too,with the original ensemble cast returning including Michael Ealy, Jerry Ferrara, Meagan Good, Regina Hall, Kevin Hart, Terrence J, Taraji P. Henson, Romany Malco and Gabrielle Union.
No details on casting or if the films cast will reprise their roles for the television version of the show. Stay tuned!

