Kelly Rowland Reality Show, Punk’d Reboot, Brandy Sitcom for BET

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NEW YORK: BET has unveiled its roster of new programming highlights, which includes a reality series centered on singer Kelly Rowland as well as a romantic sitcom featuring Brandy Norwood.

The reality series Chasing Destiny follows Rowland, a member of the female group Destiny's Child, on her quest to find the next big female superstar. About the Business is a new docuseries spotlighting a tight-knit group of friends in the world of urban Hollywood. The docu-crime series Criminals at Work explores crimes committed around the workplace. BET has also lined up Zoe Moon, a romantic sitcom featuring Brandy as a newly single mom embarking on a new life and career as a fledgling cosmetics mogul.

The popular hidden-camera series Punk'd is being rebooted for the BET audience. It will take audiences behind the scenes as pranks are conceptualized and carried out. Also coming to the network are The Label, a docuseries about the rise and fall of classic record labels over the past 25 years, and DeSean Jackson: Home Team, featuring Washington redskins' wide receiver DeSean Jackson and his family.

There are several new movies/specials coming to BET as well. They include a RocNation Sports Live Boxing event; Brotherly Love, which tracks the lives of the nation's number one high school basketball player; November Rule, about an up-and-coming sports shoe entrepreneur; and Deuces, in which an ambitious undercover agent infiltrates a crime ring. S.N.I.T.C.H. is inspired by the song of the same name from Pusha T's latest album. Pusha T also stars.

For digital, the series #BLX Sports Edition takes a look at top players from the NBA and NFL.

“BET is where cool is created and craved. We create content that lets our audience know we understand their culture and their lifestyle better than anybody else,” said Stephen Hill, the president of programming at BET Network. “Our programming lens is simple; we are showing the variety in black life in an authentic way. We are the only network that takes the complete, complex and comprehensive view of African-American life.”