TCM’s Critically Acclaimed Podcast To Highlight Iconic Actress Pam Grier

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The Plot Thickens Season 4 Premieres This Fall

TCM’s Critically Acclaimed Podcast To Highlight Iconic Actress Pam Grier

Actress Pam Grier will  be on the primary episode of season 4 of “The Plot Thickens.” (Picture courtesy of Warner Media)

Turner Traditional Films (TCM) award-winning podcast The Plot Thickens will premiere season 4 this fall, during which trailblazing actress Pam Grier shares her outstanding life story with host Ben Mankiewicz.

“The phrase ‘iconic’ is overused on this business, however Pam has been a real revolutionary concerning the depiction of Black ladies in Hollywood,” stated host Ben Mankiewicz. “Pam’s characters are
unapologetic, powerful, and fiercely impartial, identical to she was when she began in Hollywood 5 many years in the past and stays to at the present time.”

Pam Grier starred within the lead position of Coffy and is depicted on the movie’s poster above.

In August of 1973, an unknown Black actress named Pam Grier knocked James Bond out of the primary spot on the field workplace. Pam Grier was the lead in Coffy, a Blaxploitation movie with a ridiculously low finances, tons of nudity, and blood-splattering violence. Pam was simply 24, and he or she was instantly Hollywood’s first feminine motion hero.

Pam Grier will probably be showing this weekend on the TCM Traditional Movie Pageant in Hollywood to introduce her breakout movie Coffy. This will probably be Pam Grier’s first look on the TCM Traditional Movie.

Keep tuned this summer time for the primary trailer for season 4 of “The Plot Thickens.” Earlier seasons can be found on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

About The Plot Thickens

The Plot Thickens is the official podcast from Turner Traditional Films (TCM) about films and the individuals who make them. Season one premiered in Might 2020, diving into the life and work of Oscar®-nominated director, author, and actor Peter Bogdanovich.  Season two, “The Satan’s Sweet,” launched in June 2021 and chronicled the tumultuous manufacturing of the 1990 movie The Bonfire of the Vanities. Season three uncovered contemporary insights into the life and instances of the enduring Lucille Ball and debuted in October 2021. The podcast has garnered greater than six million downloads and a number of other business awards: it was named a Webby Honoree in 2021 and 2022; received best-branded podcast from the 2021 Adweek Podcast Awards; and was nominated for greatest leisure podcast on the Ambie Awards two years in a row. It has been featured on “best-of” lists from The New York Occasions, Leisure Weekly, NPR and Vainness Truthful.

About Turner Traditional Films (TCM)

Turner Traditional Films (TCM) is a two-time Peabody Award-winning community that presents basic movies, uncut and commercial-free, from the most important movie libraries on the earth highlighting “the place then meets now.” TCM options the insights from Primetime host Ben Mankiewicz together with hosts Alicia Malone, Dave Karger, Jacqueline Stewart, and Eddie Muller, plus interviews with a variety of particular friends, and serves as the final word film lover vacation spot. With greater than twenty years as a number one authority in basic movie, TCM gives critically acclaimed collection like The Necessities, together with annual programming occasions like 31 Days of Oscar® and Summer time Beneath the Stars. TCM additionally instantly connects with film followers via in style occasions such because the annual TCM Traditional Movie Pageant in Hollywood, the TCM Huge Display screen Classics screening collection, and the TCM Traditional Cruise. As well as, TCM produces the wildly profitable podcast “The Plot Thickens,” which has had greater than 6 million downloads so far. TCM hosts a wealth of fabric on-line at tcm.com and thru the Watch TCM cell app. Followers can even take pleasure in a basic film expertise on the Classics Curated by TCM hub on HBO Max.

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