Abdul Williams Archives

Gabrielle Dennis to Play Whitney Houston in BET Bobby Brown Biopic
Set to premiere in September 2018, the project began production this week in Atlanta; written by Abdul Williams (Lottery Ticket, The New Edition Story) and directed by Kiel Adrian Scott (Samaria, Darkly). Serving as a biographical "sequel" to January 2017's network ratings record-setter The New Edition Story, BET's The Bobby Brown Story traces Brown's (Woody McClain, reprising[...]
The Bobby Brown Story: Woody McClain Returns For BET Miniseries
Following up on the ratings success of BET's miniseries The New Edition Story, McClain will reprise his role as the R&B/pop singer in the network's two-part followup miniseries, The Bobby Brown Story. Stepping back into their The New Edition Story roles, writer Abdul Williams and executive producer Jesse Collins pick up Bobby Brown's story at the[...]