Cyrus Langhorne
G-Unit boss 50 Cent has confirmed widespread news about having a new television show starting up in the coming months with major cable network Fox.
Fif spoke on the big announcement on his Instagram page this week.
Details about Fif’s new “My Friend 50” show bubbled online earlier this week.
Written on spec by Ava Tramer (TBS’ Angie Tribeca), My Friend 50, which has a script order, follows Amanda Kramer, an unstable twentysomething who believes that joining 50 Cent’s entourage is the answer to all her problems. Her unlikely journey with 50 Cent’s crew takes the form of a bizarre documentary commissioned by the most unreliable narrator in history: Amanda. (Deadline)
Hollywood producer Will Packer is also behind the series.
The project hails from Packer’s Will Packer Productions, Jackson’s G-Unit Film & Television and Universal Television, where Packer is under a first-look production deal. Korin D. Huggins, Head of Television for Will Packer Productions, co-executive produces. (Deadline)
Recently, 50 talked about Fox’s “Empire” series copying his “Power” show’s blueprint.
“When you’re the first show to have success with African Americans or Latinos and stuff like that, it follows you because it’s very difficult for you to hit the bullseye on the target demographic. After that happens, they borrow. They borrowed portions of the marketing, they borrowed different things to make ‘Empire’ go to where they wanted it to go. The executives are smart enough to say, ‘We need to do what they did because they just hit the bullseye.’ Because Fox is a different kind of network, commercial networks can spend more marketing dollars.” (“The Whoolywood Shuffle”)
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