BET Greenlights Bobby Brown Miniseries, ‘Lip Sync Battle’ Specials

April 27, 2017 | 03:00PM PT

BET is coming with a biopic of Boyz II Men too.

JabarR74 said:

phunkdaddy said:

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Sticky

luv4u said:

Sticky

This probably don't need to be sticky until 2019 when they premier.

SoulAlive said:

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Sorry, they could have picked 2 other bio pics. We just got a 3 part NE series and now a Bobby Brown 2 parter ... Same with Death Row. 2Pac movie comes out in a few months and we just had NWA and Michel'le movies.

Exactly.They are recycling stuff.Do we really need a Bobby Brown series? and they need to chill on the Death Row stuff,too.Those stories have already been told.

I definately don't want a Bobby Brown biopic. Never liked that guy.

wait, there's actually a show showing people trying to win a contest by lyp synching songs......

yeah, that well has nothing in it but air these days........

Scorp said:

wait, there's actually a show showing people trying to win a contest by lyp synching songs......

It's a celebrity show created by Jimmy Fallon, which is a spinoff of what originated on The Tonight Show. LL Cool J is the host of Lip Sync Battle. It's not a new idea. There was a show in the 1980s called Puttin' On The Hits, but it didn't have celebrities competing.

Ice Cube has a new version of Hollywood Squares called Hip Hop Squares

jungleluv said:

SoulAlive said:

LittleBLUECorvette said: Exactly.They are recycling stuff.Do we really need a Bobby Brown series? and they need to chill on the Death Row stuff,too.Those stories have already been told.

I definately don't want a Bobby Brown biopic. Never liked that guy.

me neither.And his "story" isn't exactly a big secret that needs to be told.We already know all there is to know

Seems they are sticking to a familiar formula to maintain the success achieved with the NE story. Also, probably keeping in competition with Lifetime because they are targeting a lot of R&B artists to do biopics on. Isn't VH1 doing one on Jodeci?

I'd like to see a story about Teddy Riley and I'm sure there's a whole lot to tell.

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LittleBLUECorvette said:

Sorry, they could have picked 2 other bio pics. We just got a 3 part NE series and now a Bobby Brown 2 parter ... Same with Death Row. 2Pac movie comes out in a few months and we just had NWA and Michel'le movies.

The Death Row one is not a biopic though, it's a documentary. It looks like TV One is doing a movie on Bobbi Kristina. Entertainment Tonight

Demetria McKinney, Joy Rovaris, Hassan Johnson

MickyDolenz said:

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Sorry, they could have picked 2 other bio pics. We just got a 3 part NE series and now a Bobby Brown 2 parter ... Same with Death Row. 2Pac movie comes out in a few months and we just had NWA and Michel'le movies.

The Death Row one is not a biopic though, it's a documentary. It looks like TV One is doing a movie on Bobbi Kristina. Entertainment Tonight

Demetria McKinney, Joy Rovaris, Hassan Johnson

they gone run this story to the ground......

MickyDolenz said:

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Sorry, they could have picked 2 other bio pics. We just got a 3 part NE series and now a Bobby Brown 2 parter ... Same with Death Row. 2Pac movie comes out in a few months and we just had NWA and Michel'le movies.

The Death Row one is not a biopic though, it's a documentary. It looks like TV One is doing a movie on Bobbi Kristina. Entertainment Tonight

Demetria McKinney, Joy Rovaris, Hassan Johnson

Are you fucking kidding me? Urgh.

journalism16 said:

The Bobbi Kristina story seems a little too much, and not to mention, I'm sure Bobby and the Houston family are not happy about this one, since there was no mention of authorization from the Brown and Houston families. And, I think this is also very disrespectful because it is still too soon for this.

There's probably not going to be any music from Whitney or Bobby in it, so I don't think the filmmakers have to get permission from them. Like the Hendrix estate didn't approve that movie with André 3000, but they blocked the filmmakers from using Jimi's recordings and any songs Jimi wrote. Also notice all of the biopics made about The Beatles so far are the Pete Best/Stu Sutcliff days, so don't need any songs written by the band members. I just don't see what a Bobbi Kristina movie could be about, she wasn't in show business.

MickyDolenz said:

journalism16 said:

The Bobbi Kristina story seems a little too much, and not to mention, I'm sure Bobby and the Houston family are not happy about this one, since there was no mention of authorization from the Brown and Houston families. And, I think this is also very disrespectful because it is still too soon for this.

There's probably not going to be any music from Whitney or Bobby in it, so I don't think the filmmakers have to get permission from them. Like the Hendrix estate didn't approve that movie with André 3000, but they blocked the filmmakers from using Jimi's recordings and any songs Jimi wrote. Also notice all of the biopics made about The Beatles so far are the Pete Best/Stu Sutcliff days, so don't need any songs written by the band members. I just don't see what a Bobbi Kristina movie could be about, she wasn't in show business.

It'll more than likely be a movie assuming how Bobbi Kristina grew up with two very famous, yet very troubled parents when no one knew what that was like but her. Obviously, she can't tell this story, so some genius feels that it'll be marketable giving that her parents are Whitney & Bobby. . This concept is just as silly as the failed Lifetime biopic about Whitney that was directed by Angela Bassett, who felt that since she filmed ONE movie with Whitney (Waiting to Exhale) that she knew enough about her to participate in a biopic about her life with Bobby Brown.

missfee said:

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Really. We don't need this. Whitney Houston movie New Edition movie Bobby Brown movie Bobbi Kristina movie What next, a Cissy Houston movie?

It doesn't directly involve the Houstons, but there's supposed to be a Dionne Warwick biopic with LeToya Luckett playing her. Dionne is related to the Houstons. In this case, Dionne is involved with her movie like New Edition was behind theirs. I'm not sure, but I think Dionne's is going to cinemas, instead of a TV movie.

MickyDolenz said:

LittleBLUECorvette said:

There are 2 Warwick biopics in the works. Pretty sure Whitney will get a mention, lol.

I didn't know about a 2nd movie, only the Dionne approved one. I wonder if Solid Gold will be mentioned.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

missfee said:

It'll more than likely be a movie assuming how Bobbi Kristina grew up with two very famous, yet very troubled parents when no one knew what that was like but her. Obviously, she can't tell this story, so some genius feels that it'll be marketable giving that her parents are Whitney & Bobby. . This concept is just as silly as the failed Lifetime biopic about Whitney that was directed by Angela Bassett, who felt that since she filmed ONE movie with Whitney (Waiting to Exhale) that she knew enough about her to participate in a biopic about her life with Bobby Brown.

Really. We don't need this. Whitney Houston movie New Edition movie Bobby Brown movie Bobbi Kristina movie What next, a Cissy Houston movie?

These movie ideas are becoming comical they're totally unnecessary.I think we already know all we need to know about Bobby/Whitney and Bobbi.These TV stations are just anxious to dig up the dirt to get high ratings,smh.I won't be watching any of this crap.

There's also a new Whitney documentary showing at the Tribeca Film Festival called Whitney: Can I Be Me.

missfee said:

missfee said:

MickyDolenz said:

There's probably not going to be any music from Whitney or Bobby in it, so I don't think the filmmakers have to get permission from them. Like the Hendrix estate didn't approve that movie with André 3000, but they blocked the filmmakers from using Jimi's recordings and any songs Jimi wrote. Also notice all of the biopics made about The Beatles so far are the Pete Best/Stu Sutcliff days, so don't need any songs written by the band members. I just don't see what a Bobbi Kristina movie could be about, she wasn't in show business.

It'll more than likely be a movie assuming how Bobbi Kristina grew up with two very famous, yet very troubled parents when no one knew what that was like but her. Obviously, she can't tell this story, so some genius feels that it'll be marketable giving that her parents are Whitney & Bobby. . This concept is just as silly as the failed Lifetime biopic about Whitney that was directed by Angela Bassett, who felt that since she filmed ONE movie with Whitney (Waiting to Exhale) that she knew enough about her to participate in a biopic about her life with Bobby Brown.

If anyone wants to see what Bobbi Kristina had to deal with growing up all they have to do is watch that fiasco "Being Bobby Brown" reality show.

I wonder if they're going to use the same actors from the New Edition movie for Bobby's movie. That would make the most sense to me.