Talkback: Which Other Tyler Perry Movies Should Be Adapted for Television?
I've got good news and bad news, Tyler Perry fans. Here's the bad news first: Perry's sitcom House of Payne is being canceled. (Moment of silence.) The good news is, a new Perry-backed sitcom is headed to the small screen based on his hit domestic dramaramas Why Did I Get Married and Why Did I Get Married Too, with Michael Jai White and Tasha Smith reprising their roles. Which other Perry film properties should follow suit and live on in syndicated perpetuity on television?
Caveat: Both House of Payne and Perry's other current series, Meet the Browns, are extensions of the Madea universe. But said universe has spawned countless side characters related and distantly related to Perry's famous be-wigged, take no prisoners matriarch that any number of fictional folks from the TP empire could potentially spawn their own television comedy spin-offs. (With the exception of For Colored Girls, which would probably not make the best sitcom.)
May we suggest something along the lines of Tyler Perry's Madea's Perfect Strangers, in which Madea gets an unexpected long term house guest played by Bronson Pinchot (of the Eastern Mediterranean branch of the family)? Or Tyler Perry's All in the Family, focusing on politically incorrect Uncle Joe, the Archie Bunker of the Perryverse?
Need inspiration? Review Perry's greatest hits in Movieline's Tyler Perry Box Office Paradox investigation and chime in with your best proposed Tyler Perry sitcom ideas below.
· House of Payne cancelled; TBS orders new Tyler Perry comedy series based on movie [EW]
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Hollywood will readily finance any form of black buffoonery, and Mr. Perry has successfully cashed in on that
So, we get Michael Jai White in this, but no Black Dynamite sequel?
Town needs an enema...
For Colored Girls.
There's going to be a Black Dynamite cartoon on Adult Swim next year.
DY-NO-MITE! DY-NO-MITE!
I retract my previous statement. Thanks for the heads up.
U should do a comedy version of 4 color girls staring madea,big momma,respucia, wanda.you ,Eddie Murphy,Martin,Jamie fox. I bet that will be a big seller.
R something with Mr brown, Clarence from house of payne,norbit,nutty professor man that will be comedy
Yeah I read about the show being cancelled before. I also heard that Tyler doesn't pay the people in his shows that much like he used to, have you noticed that some of them have been in other projects aside to Tyler Perry. From Doc Shaw who plays Malik, he was missing from the show for a season and and was on another show on Disney channel, and Lance Gross, who plays Calvin, he was in the movie Our Happy Wedding, and China, who plays Jazmine, was in the movie Grown Ups, and Keyshia Knight Pullium, who plays Miranda, was thinking about posing for Play Boy because she said that she doesn't get that much on her check from House Of Payne. Also I heard that the movie Madea Big Happy Family the cast is very upset with Tyler because they didn't get what they was suppose to get from making the movie and its probably won't be coming out on dvd or blueray. So, Mr. Perry is stingy with his money,.and his crew is fed up with his selfishness.