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Just call them Professors Kendrick Sampson and Carra Patterson! The two actors will star in Lena Waithe‘s upcoming Showtime series, How To Make Love To A Black Woman. Reportedly, the “half-hour comedy anthology series will feature themes of connection and rejection. With each multi-part episode…a new collection of characters in an authentic world, telling stories about connection and rejection that explore our most harrowing – and harrowingly comic – sexual secrets.”

Sampson (How To Get Away With Murder) and Patterson (Straight Outta Compton) will team up to play “will play married couple Edwin and Nora. Edwin is the earnest and devoted husband of Nora, a free-spirited wife longing for more excitement in her marriage,” according to Deadline.

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Showtime made headlines again this week announcing First Ladies, a series that will document the lives of the First Ladies of the United States, with Viola Davis portraying Michelle Obama.

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