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Yahoo
25-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Sterling K. Brown's ‘Washington Black' Limited Series Gets Premiere Date At Hulu
Hulu has set a July premiere date for Washington Black, the Sterling K. Brown-fronted adaptation of Esi Edugyan's novel. The series, which received a straight-to-series order, will launch with all eight episodes on Wednesday, July 23 on Hulu in the U.S. and Disney+ internationally. Based on the bestselling novel of the same name, Washington Black follows the 19th-century odyssey of George Washington 'Wash' Black, an eleven-year-old boy born on a Barbados sugar plantation, whose prodigious scientific mind sets him on a path of unexpected destiny. When a harrowing incident forces Wash to flee, he is thrust into a globe-spanning adventure that challenges and reshapes his understanding of family, freedom and love. As he navigates uncharted lands and impossible odds, Wash finds the courage to imagine a future beyond the confines of the society he was born into. More from Deadline 2025 Premiere Dates For New & Returning Series On Broadcast, Cable & Streaming 2025 TV Series Renewals: Photo Gallery 'The Secret Lives Of Mormon Wives' Season 2 Draws 5M Views Globally In First 5 Days On Disney+ & Hulu Brown stars and executive produces the series. Also starring are Ernest Kingsley Jr., Rupert Graves, Iola Evans, Edward Bluemel, Sharon Duncan Brewster, Eddie Karanja and Tom Ellis. Washington Black is produced by 20th Television in association with Indian Meadows Productions and The Gotham Group. Selwyn Hinds, Kim Harrison, Brown, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Wanuri Kahiu, Mo Marable, Rob Seidenglanz, Jeremy Bell, Lindsay Williams, D.J. Goldberg, Jennifer Johnson and Anthony Hemingway executive produce. Hinds and Harrison are also showrunners for the series. Edugyan is co-producer. Best of Deadline Everything We Know About The 'Hunger Games: Sunrise On The Reaping' Movie So Far Sean 'Diddy' Combs Sex-Trafficking Trial Updates: Cassie Ventura's Testimony, $10M Hotel Settlement, Drugs, Violence, & The Feds All The 'Mission: Impossible' Movies In Order - See Tom Cruise's 30-Year Journey As Ethan Hunt
Hamilton Spectator
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Hamilton Spectator
Nova Scotia-shot ‘Washington Black' to make summer premiere on Disney Plus
TORONTO - The limited series adaptation of Esi Edugyan's 2018 Giller Prize-winning novel 'Washington Black' will arrive on Disney Plus this summer. The streaming service says it has marked July 23 for the premiere of all eight episodes of the sprawling Nova Scotia-shot series. 'Washington Black' tells the story of George Washington Black, an 11-year-old slave who unexpectedly escapes a Barbados sugar plantation with the help of the owner's kinder brother, an ambitious inventor. The scientist sees himself in Black and wants the boy to act as his assistant while he builds a flying machine. The series stars Ernest Kingsley Jr., Rupert Graves and Sterling K. Brown, who's also credited as one of its executive producers. 'Washington Black' followed Edugyan's Giller Prize-winning 2011 novel 'Half-Blood Blues,' and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the American Library Association's Carnegie medal for fiction. This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 20, 2025.
Winnipeg Free Press
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Winnipeg Free Press
Nova Scotia-shot ‘Washington Black' to make summer premiere on Disney Plus
TORONTO – The limited series adaptation of Esi Edugyan's 2018 Giller Prize-winning novel 'Washington Black' will arrive on Disney Plus this summer. The streaming service says it has marked July 23 for the premiere of all eight episodes of the sprawling Nova Scotia-shot series. 'Washington Black' tells the story of George Washington Black, an 11-year-old slave who unexpectedly escapes a Barbados sugar plantation with the help of the owner's kinder brother, an ambitious inventor. The scientist sees himself in Black and wants the boy to act as his assistant while he builds a flying machine. The series stars Ernest Kingsley Jr., Rupert Graves and Sterling K. Brown, who's also credited as one of its executive producers. 'Washington Black' followed Edugyan's Giller Prize-winning 2011 novel 'Half-Blood Blues,' and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the American Library Association's Carnegie medal for fiction. This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 20, 2025.
