BET Captures the Flavor of the 'New Harlem Renaissance' With the Debut of the Original Series 'HARLEM HEIGHTS' Premiering Monday, March 2 at 10:00 p.m.*
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 12 -- People from all walks of life flock
to New York City, but the historic neighborhood of Harlem seems to attract the
best and brightest of Black America. Some of the country's grandest young
tastemakers now call the legendary neighborhood home, and this beautiful and
eclectic bunch are determined to take the biggest bite they can out of the Big
Apple. They work hard and play harder, living life to the fullest while
acknowledging the past AND confidently claiming the future. The glamorous
lives of this new crop of the young Black elite have never been captured,
until now.
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Premiering on Monday, March 2 at 10:00 p.m.,* HARLEM HEIGHTS will provide
a window into the fascinating world of New York's young, Black and fabulous
crowd. Set against the backdrop of the increasingly gentrified neighborhood of
Harlem, the series features a diverse cast of eight young adults from
different backgrounds who share common goals -- making the post-college leap
into adulthood and finding love and success in the big city on their own
terms.
Each person joins the series at a defining moment in his or her life,
including: the beautiful, bewitching ex-girlfriend of an international music
superstar who is trying to carve out her own identity; a budding magazine
lifestyle editor who seeks to shed the label of "spoiled rich kid" by striking
out on his own; the struggling actress trying to balance her social life with
her career ambitions; a young man with a troubled family past attempts to find
success and give back to his community while overcoming his fear of failure; a
native Harlem-ite who has turned his life around to make a way for his young
daughter; the hard-partying son of a prominent Harlem political leader who
struggles to live up to his father's clean cut reputation and explores a
future in politics; an aspiring lawyer with big ambitions and even bigger
opinions; and the driven fashionista seeking to maintain her A-list
aspirations.
Every cast member moved to the big city with dreams of living the good
life. But in New York, dreams can easily turn into nightmares if you lose your
focus and your way.
HARLEM HEIGHTS is a production of MC Filmworks, Minna Mae Productions,
KurtWurks Inc. and BET. Randolph Sturrup and Kurt Williamson are series
creators and executive producers, Michael McNamara and Sheri Maroufkani
executive producer for MCFilmworks, and Connie Orlando serves as the executive
in charge of production for BET.
For more on HARLEM HEIGHTS, please visit www.bet.com.
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BET Networks, a division of Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), is the
nation's leading provider of quality entertainment, music, news and public
affairs television programming for the African-American audience. The primary
BET channel reaches more than 98 million households and can be seen in the
United States, Canada, the Caribbean, the United Kingdom and sub-Saharan
Africa. BET is the dominant African-American consumer brand with a diverse
group of businesses extensions: BET.com, a leading Internet destination for
Black entertainment, music, culture, and news; BET Digital Networks - BET J,
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entertainment tastes; BET Home Entertainment, a collection of BET-branded
offerings for the home environment including DVDs and video-on-demand; BET
Mobile, which provides ringtones, games and video content for wireless
devices; and BET International, which operates BET in the United Kingdom and
oversees the extension of BET network programming for global distribution.
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