Welcome to New Jill TV, a portal to delicious entertainment by black and brown girls. Good web series are our focus but we’ll also have blogs, funny street segments, ridiculous lists, big important questions and and spotlights on up and coming artists, usually filmmakers.

Produced by Hollie Harper, Keith Sage-EL and Keith Harper, New Jill TV aims to close the gap Hollywood leaves; juicy entertainment for women of color. New Jills are the girls who love “Sex and the City” and “Girlfriends”, “Waiting to Exhale” and “Bridget Jones Diary”, Kate Hudson and Sanaa Lathan, Jackie Collins and Zane. We’re black, brown, yellow, white and All-American.

So thanks for popping in on us! Please stay a while, check out our stuff and comment, comment, comment!!

Head Jill – Hollie Harper

Romantic comedy writer/director, improv girl, PLAYGROUP teacher, sketch comedy artist, supermom…I’m all that. But most of all I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE entertainment for women, especially black and brown women. So while I create things everyone can enjoy, the black/brown girl is always at the center and for two reasons. One, we’re fabulous and two, we have a lot of catching up to do.

I was raised in Mt. Airy, Philadelphia and later Cape May, New Jersey. My biggest educational influences were The George School, a Quaker boarding school in Bucks County, PA and The Theatre School at DePaul University. The George School taught me that artistically, anything is possible and The Theatre School taught me that hard work, preparation and pure fearlessness are the keys to success.

Darnell Martin’s romantic comedy “I Like it Like That” was hugely inspirational for me. Seeing a brown girl experience all that goes into a great romantic comedy was like a drug I wanted to have again and again. Except I couldn’t find it again and again. Actually over the years I’ve come to experience her brilliant level of romantic comedy within a black/brown character only a handful of times. So I set out to be the change I wanted to see.

I became a writer/director in 1999 and 10 years and 19 productions later I find myself finally able to put forth the dream I have for myself and my daughter’s generation; Romantic comedy with women of color in the front and center.

Twenty years ago an explosion of black male directors emerged into our collective conscious. Spike Lee, John Singleton, Mario Van Peebles, Robert Townsend, and Keenan Ivory Wayans were the New Jacks, and I love them! But it’s 2009 and I say…we say, it’s ladies choice. We love the New Jack’s but it’s time for the New Jills.

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