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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 19:46 |
 Queen Latifah will continue as a celebrity spokesperson for Jenny Craig for 2009. The Grammy award winner and Oscar-nominated actress will continue to serve as an ambassador for the brand, playing an active role with the online community and other marketing-related programs.
In 2008, Queen Latifah helped convey Jenny Craig's core message of weight-loss and the impact it has on one's health. Having lost her great-grandmother to type II diabetes, she understands the impact of illnesses related to weight. By successfully losing 20 pounds and dropping 20 cholesterol points through the Jenny Craig program, she demonstrated that making small lifestyle changes, along with diet and exercise, can reduce the risk of obesity-related illnesses, like diabetes, high cholesterol and heart disease.
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Read more... [Queen Latifah to Continue Her Role as Jenny Craig Ambassador]
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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 00:00 |
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 Playwright-producer Tyler Perry's latest sitcom, Meet the Browns, premieres on TBS on Wednesday, January 7.
The show is based on Tyler's movie of the same name. According to TBS.com, "Leroy Brown (David Mann) transforms his inheritance – a dilapidated house – into Brown Meadows. It’s not the sprawling, green facility of geriatric dreams, but small, quaint and filled with quirky residents and employees struggling to keep their lives in order. Combine that with a lively fraternity house bustling with collegiate activity next door, and Brown gets way more than he bargained for." Meet the Browns airs on Wednesdays at 10 p.m. |
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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 00:00 |
 From history to performing arts to independent film, PBS offers viewers the opportunity to explore the rich and vibrant history and cultural contributions of African Americans throughout the year, but will offer a special slate of new and encore programs in honor of Black History Month, February 2009.
HISTORY DETECTIVES will hit the road to search for the truth about a slave songbook, a guitar once owned by African-American singer-songwriter Josh White and a house that some claim is the birthplace of hip-hop. Henry Louis Gates Jr. dissects the myths surrounding Abraham Lincoln in LOOKING FOR LINCOLN, while SIMON SCHAMA'S ROUGH CROSSINGS transports viewers on the journey of freed slaves who fought for the British during the Revolutionary War, from the cotton fields of George to sweltering Sierra Leone.
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Read more... [PBS Celebrates Black History Month With an Extensive Lineup]
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