Garcelle Beauvais is continuing her partnership with Lifetime. The Hollywood vet will be adding two new original movies to her ever-growing slate as both star and executive producer.
These include Taken at a Truck Stop: A Black Girl Missing Movie, a continuation of the Black Girl Missing franchise, and Terry McMillan Presents: Tempted 2 Love, a sequel to the previously aired Tempted by Love.
Per Deadline, the installment of the Black Girl Missing franchise continues to spotlight stories often overlooked, focusing on the disparities in missing persons cases involving Black women and girls.
The original movie received a Gracie Award win for Made for TV Movie, an NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Television Movie, an Astra Award win for Best Broadcast Network or Cable TV Movie, and nominations for a NAMIC Vision Award and Black Reel Award for Television. Nautori Naughton, who starred in Abducted at an HBCU: A Black Girl Missing Movie, also won an NAACP Award for Best Actress.
This continued partnership shows the networks commitment to diverse storytelling that will continue keep audiences engaged and entertained. These stories have also given on screen representation to many black viewers across multi age demos with meaningful and multifaceted storyline.