My favorite @deadline for 2023 🙏🏾
Thank you @peacock@nbc 🙏🏾
‘I’m extremely proud and excited that Handle With Care is airing in the US. It feels natural and meant to be that my documentary has found a home on Peacock, given the parallels between my own personal story and that of Bel-Air. When art imitates life, the result can be an inspiring, educational and revelatory story for the ages’.
Bel-Air star Jimmy Akingbola’s heartwrenching Handle with Care doc has been picked up by Peacock in the U.S.
Handle with Care, which debuted on ITV in the UK and is produced by TriForce Productions (@thetcn ) sees Akingbola tell the story of his upbringing after he was adopted by parents of a different ethnicity to his own. He also meets others who have experienced the British care system, including the likes of Save Me star Lennie James and athlete Kriss Akabusi, in order to build up a picture.
The doc tells a “positive story” of growing up in care, Akingbola recently told Deadline.
He will be familiar to Peacock subscribers, having played Geoffrey the butler in the first two seasons of the NBCUniversal streamer’s The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air reboot (@belairpeacock ) which was recently renewed for a third series.
Akingbola said Peacock is the “natural home” due to the “parallels between my own personal story and that of Bel-Air.”
Akingbola’s other credits include Kate & Koji, In the Long Run and Ted Lasso. He is a founder of TriForce, which is run by Fraser Ayres and Minnie Ayres.
#gratitude #dreamstoreality #fostercare #adoption #belair #peacock #nbc #deadline #documentary #itv #triforceproductions
Jimmy Akingbola talks about his experience working with Idris Elba on In the Long Run.
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#JimmyAkingbola #IdrisElba #InTheLongRun #TVComedy #ActorJourney
Jimmy Akingbola talks about the full-circle moment he had when cast as Geoffrey in Bel-Air.
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#JimmyAkingbola #BelAir #Geoffrey #ActorJourney #FullCircleMoment
A groundbreaking project. A missing biologist. A mystery that reaches across the stars 🚀
Ben Miles, Christian Ochoa Lavernia, Kathryn Gallagher, Jimmy Akingbola, Shazad Latif, and Fra Fee join the search for answers in First Woman.
#FirstWoman #NewDrama
Some places restore you. @jazeliteaurora did exactly that. Thank you for the unforgettable Zanzibar escape. See you again soon. 🌴🇹🇿
#zanzibar #travel #rest #relax #love
Pinch punch… it’s my birthday month. 🥊
New age.
New levels.
Same obsession with the work.
No days off. No shortcuts.
Just rounds.
What are you locking in this month? 👇🏾
#birthdaymonth #stayready #discipline #boxinglife #newlevels
Fit: @activelyblack
Trainer: @tellavisionstunts
