# Central Ave coming  to your TV

- Link: https://exclusiveaccess.net/central-ave-coming-to-your-tv/
- Published: 2020-09-25T13:31:14-04:00
- Author: EAN

_Following 2019’s Successful Weekday Test, the Provocative, Socially Conscious and
Diverse Magazine Will Launch for the Full 2020-21 Season with Two Original Weekly
Half-Hour Episodes _

 

_Sold to a Robust Roster of Syndication __Partners Including FOX Television Stations,
Sinclair, CBS and The CW-Plus, among many Others _

 

**Los Angeles and New York,** **September ****24, 2020 – Lionsgate’s Debmar-Mercury**
and record-breaking producer **Will Packer (_Night School_, _Girls Trip_) **will
bring back the nationally syndicated, multicultural, investigative entertainment&
pop culture magazine show **_CENTRAL AVE_** for the full 2020-21 season on **Saturday,
September 26, **with two original weekly half-hour episodes.

 

Following a limited run last year, the half-hour series will air in 210 markets 
including on FOX Television Stations, Sinclair, CBS and The CW-Plus, delivering 
relevant entertainment and pop culture stories through a provocative, socially conscious
and diverse lens.

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Veteran entertainment reporter Julissa Bermudez (BET’s _106 & Park_, _Empire Girls_)
and four-time Olympic gold medalist Sanya Richards-Ross return to their historic
roles as the first two women of color to host an entertainment magazine show.

 

“_Central Ave_ has changed the way audiences view and relate to pop culture and 
the entertainment world,” said Will Packer. “The diverse and powerful stories featured
on this show are meant to provoke, infuriate and inspire people to make positive
changes that will impact our society and the world around us.”

 

Co-Creator Monique Chenault will serve as showrunner of _Central Ave_ and, together
with Packer and Will Packer Media’s Kelly Smith, executive producer.

 

“Painstakingly positioned to be an authority on what drives popular culture, _Central
Ave_ is fully committed to investigating and examining the entertainment, trends
and celebrities that are making the greatest impact. The audience will get in-depth,
comprehensive storytelling through a culturally diverse lens that stems from a richly
diverse editorial team behind the scenes,” Chenault said about the vison of the 
show.

 

The series also features a diverse group of skilled correspondents with different
areas of expertise; Van Lathan, formerly of _TMZ,_ along with Kennedy- Rue McCollough,
Sloane Glass, Melissa McCarty, Neima Abdulaha and Zach Greenburg.

 

Debmar-Mercury Co-Presidents Ira Bernstein and Mort Marcus said, “_Central Ave_ 
will add a much-needed voice to this genre at such a critical juncture in our history.
We’re proud to be collaborating with Will, Monique and the great team they have 
assembled for this breakthrough series that, above all else, we find to be informative
and very entertaining.”

 

**For further information and local listings, visit: **[**https://centralavetv.com/**](https://centralavetv.com/)****

**Sizzle reel **[**here**](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HNlSEUUr5QKgIB3iXHs93YR-b5uWxmqk/view?usp=sharing)