{"id":10286,"date":"2018-11-01T09:56:12","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T13:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/bet-networks-picks-carl-webers-family-business\/"},"modified":"2018-11-01T12:15:52","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T16:15:52","slug":"bet-networks-picks-up-carl-webers-the-family-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/bet-networks-picks-up-carl-webers-the-family-business\/","title":{"rendered":"BET Networks Picks Up Carl Weber\u2019s The Family Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BET Networks has acquired <em>Carl Weber\u2019s The Family Business<\/em>, based on<em> The New York Times<\/em> best-selling author\u2019s family crime drama novel.<\/p>\n<p>Starring actor and executive producer Ernie Hudson, <em>Carl Weber\u2019s The Family Business<\/em> was originally developed and produced as an indie film franchise. BET will air it as an eight-parter.<\/p>\n<p>It tells the story of the Duncans, a prominent family from Jamaica, Queens, living fast and luxurious. By day, they\u2019re an upstanding family; by night, they live a dangerous secret life. The series debuts on November 13 at 9 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe at Urban Books are excited about our new venture with BET Networks and Tri Destined Studios. We look forward to years of making great film and television productions together,\u201d said Carl Weber, president of Urban Books Media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are so grateful to bring Carl Weber\u2019s acclaimed literary works to our BET family and to empower this level of esteemed diverse talent in front and behind the camera,\u201d added Nikaya D. Brown Jones, CEO of Tri Destined Studios.<\/p>\n<p>Maureen Guthman, senior VP of content strategy at BET Networks, added, \u201c<em>Carl Weber\u2019s The Family Business<\/em> is gloriously addictive and a prime example of BET\u2019s on-going commitment to telling compelling dramatic, character-driven original stories, anchored in the Black experience. We look forward to our partnership with Tri Destined Studios, Urban Books Media and are thrilled to welcome Carl Weber to the BET family.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BET Networks has acquired Carl Weber\u2019s The Family Business, based on The New York Times best-selling author\u2019s family crime drama novel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":10287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[1895],"class_list":["post-10286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-bet-networks","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BET Networks Picks Up Carl Weber\u2019s The Family Business - TVDRAMA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/bet-networks-picks-up-carl-webers-the-family-business\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BET Networks Picks Up Carl Weber\u2019s The Family Business - 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