Dear White People

It’s a brave new world for the 2017 Emmy awards with Game of Thrones and others sitting this year out. The big announcement is finally here, as presented by Veep star Anna Chlumsky and Criminal Minds veteran Shemar Moore, so let’s find out what we’re all angry about/celebrating this year at the Emmys!

It’s that time of the year again when we begin to take stock of the best TV of the year and put our heads together to predict who will take home the gold come awards night. On Thursday, the TV Academy will announce their selections for the 2017 Emmy Awards. We already know the usual suspects will pop up, from shoo-in Julia Louis-Dreyfus to Modern Family and House of Cards, but what about the new series and the underdogs?

Six of the choices from last year either delayed airdates or ended outright, so let’s do some damage before Emmy season! ScreenCrush carves through 2017’s most memorable for all the Tales, Lies, Dicks and Unfortunate Events that had our TVs buzzing.

There’s a distinct rarity to acclaimed films that can re-brand as TV without losing step, and Netflix’s Dear White People may have set the bar. So much so, that Justin Simien’s controversial, but necessary college dramedy will have more stories to tell in Season 2.

Despite its 2014 release as a film, Dear White People caused some minor uproar with its first Netflix TV series announcements. Thankfully, the full trailer for the adaptation of Justin Simien’s racial satire comes with its very-own trigger warning to weed out misplaced outrage.

We’d been wondering if Netflix’s TV take on Justin Simien’s Dear White People would end up feeling like the movie, and now we have our answer. See for yourself in the first trailer, which also promises an April premiere for the college-set series.

Once Netflix set a Dear White People TV series with original creator Justin Simien, one had to wonder who else from the 2014 film might come aboard. Tessa Thompson is understandably busy with movies these days, for which Powers star Logan Browning nabs the leading role, while at least one other star will return from the original film.

Crowd-funding helped make Justin Simien’s Dear White People movie into the cultural success it became, but why stop there? Netflix has officially given a series order to a new Dear White People series extending the brand, with Simien onboard to write and direct.