Uptown Press Launch
New York, NY – December four, 2019 – Right this moment, BET Networks introduced new unique scripted miniseries “Uptown.” The three-part tv occasion will inform the great story of Andre Harrell’s iconic New York Metropolis document label, Uptown Information. Launched in 1986, following a three way partnership take care of MCA, Andre Harrell’s Uptown Information performed a significant position within the careers of a number of the most influential voices in hip hop, soul and R&B, together with Heavy D & The Boyz, Russell Simmons, Lyor Cohen, Mary J. Blige, Jodeci, Father MC, Al B. Certain, Christopher Williams, Teddy Riley, Infamous B.I.G., Sean “Diddy” Combs and plenty of extra. Every gripping episode will take viewers from the label’s inception to present day, that includes the music and powerhouse hit-makers that helped mildew what would come to be referred to as the Uptown ‘sound’ and outline a musical period that might impression generations to come back. “Uptown” is scheduled to premiere on BET in 2020.
“We’re proud to convey the story of Uptown Information to life and rejoice the indelible imprint the label has made on the trade, reworking the sound, face, and enterprise of hip-hop and R&B,” stated Scott Mills, President, BET Networks. “We look ahead to partnering with music trade titan Andre Harrell and powerhouse producer Jesse Collins on the Uptown miniseries, bringing viewers premium content material that displays and celebrates Black excellence.”
“I’m thrilled to companion with BET Networks and Jesse Collins Leisure to share my story, the rise of Uptown Information and profitable black entrepreneurship, and the administration and cultivation of a number of the most iconic artists to come back out of the late 80s and 90s hip hop, R&B, and soul music period,” stated Andre Harrell.
“Andre Harrell is a real visionary and tradition creator. It’s such an honor to inform the story of a label and an icon that not solely gave us such nice music, however was the blueprint for black excellence by means of leisure,” stated Jesse Collins, CEO, Jesse Collins Leisure.
“Uptown” is government produced by Jesse Collins (“The New Version Story,” “The Bobby Brown Story”) for Jesse Collins Leisure and Andre Harrell (Honey, “New York Undercover”). Writers Charles Murray (“Luke Cage,” “Sons of Anarchy”), Carlito Rodriguez (“Empire,” “The Leftovers”) and Barry Michael Cooper (New Jack Metropolis, “She’s Gotta Have It”) have penned the scripts.
