{"id":10119,"date":"2017-05-15T10:53:57","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T14:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/grb-entertainment-lands-factual-sales-in-africa\/"},"modified":"2017-05-15T12:17:07","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T16:17:07","slug":"grb-entertainment-lands-factual-sales-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/grb-entertainment-lands-factual-sales-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"GRB Entertainment Lands Factual Sales in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GRB Entertainment has finalized sales in Africa for a number of crime shows, documentaries\u00a0and docuseries, including LeBron James\u2019 <em>Cleveland Hustles<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Among the docuseries that MNET scooped up is\u00a0<em>Cleveland Hustles<\/em>, which follows basketball star James and his friend Maverick Carter as they give four aspiring local entrepreneurs the chance to realize their dreams while also revitalizing neighborhoods in their hometown of Cleveland. MNET also picked up two seasons of <em>Braxton<\/em><em> Family Values<\/em>, offering a look at the lives of the Braxtons, including Grammy winner Toni Braxton, her four sisters and their mother.<\/p>\n<p>Other MNET acquisitions are <em>Flex and Shanice<\/em>, about \u201990s pop singer<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Shanice, her husband, actor Flex Alexander, and their extended family as they all live together under one roof; <em>Raising Whitley<\/em>, which looks on as comedian Kym Whitley and her friends attempt to raise a baby together; and <em>Black In America<\/em>. The latter is<em>\u00a0<\/em>a collection of eight documentaries exploring race and identity for African Americans as it pertains to education, business, community life and families.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, e.tv acquired two seasons of\u00a0<em>Braxton Family Values<\/em>,\u00a0along with the spin-off series\u00a0<em>Tamar &amp; Vince<\/em>,\u00a0following rising music superstar\u00a0Tamar Braxton and her music mogul husband, Vince Herbert. e.tv also took all seven seasons of the long-running investigative crime series\u00a0<em>On the Case<\/em>, exploring murder mysteries through in-depth interviews with witnesses and suspects, and examining the forensic evidence that helped to unravel the mystery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the television market in Africa continues to grow, GRB is thrilled to be working with MNET and e.tv,\u201d said\u00a0Michael Lolato, the senior VP of international distribution at GRB Entertainment. \u201cOur documentaries, entertaining reality series and real-life investigative crime series have captured audiences around the world, and we are very excited to bring these titles to Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GRB Entertainment has finalized sales in Africa for a number of crime shows, documentaries and docuseries, including LeBron James\u2019 Cleveland Hustles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":477,"featured_media":10120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[557,1583,2190,170,559],"class_list":["post-10119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-braxton-family-values","tag-cleveland-hustles","tag-e-tv-africa","tag-grb-entertainment","tag-mnet-africa","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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