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(from BET's press release) A massive power outage sets off a chain reaction of frustration, violence and despair in an inner city neighborhood when BET world premieres BLACKOUT, a riveting new drama inspired by actual events, on Friday, February 1 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Starring Emmy(R) and Golden Globe(R) winner Jeffrey Wright (Casino Royale, "Angels in America"), NAACP Image(R) Award nominee Zoe Saldana (Guess Who, Vantage Point), pioneering filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles (Sweet Sweetback's Badasssss Song), and veteran actress LaTanya Richardson-Jackson (The Fighting Temptations, Freedomland), BLACKOUT recounts the devastating events of two days and a night in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, a simmering African American enclave forgotten in the midst of the largest power failure in American history. |
