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Published on March 1st, 2016 | by Dr. Jerry Doby

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Vanessa Bell Calloway, Clifton Powell ‘Saints + Sinners’ premieres on Bounce TV March 6

If you love twists and turns in the plot, sub-plots to sub-plots and flat out shockers…this is going to be the series for you. I watched the screener for the pilot episode and I’m pleased to say I happy that I did. Too many times, we can predict the path a story will take, we just don’t know the lines…that means no real surprises. No shade on TV writers, but action sequences and effects, have devalued their contributions to real story telling. Not that writing for TV isn’t a very difficult career and it’s not that the writers are unskilled…the suits get in their way. Not so with Saints & Sinners the story had me leaning forward from the opening to closing bell…the writers got to do what they should, create a cohesive back story, and develop the characters, etc. THIS will be my series to watch this season.

Bounce TV (a “multicast” network airing on the broadcast signals of local television stations with corresponding cable carriage) world premieres the first-ever original dramatic series on a multicast network Saints & Sinners March 6th at 9pm/ET.

In Saints & Sinners, Greater Hope Baptist Church is the heartbeat of Cypress, GA, a large southern town outside Atlanta. As times changed and Cypress grew, so did Greater Hope’s influence. With the return of a prodigal son and a shocking crime that rattles the core of the community, long-kept secrets, corruption, deceit, jealousy and compromising sexual affairs threaten to demolish the heart of the church and shatter the lives of those within it. For it seems at Greater Hope, only God and the Devil can tell the difference between a saint and a sinner.

Saints & Sinners cast includes:

· Vanessa Bell Calloway (Shameless, Coming to America) as Lady Ella, a beauty queen with a business mind and the power behind the throne as Pastor Evan Johnson’s wife.

· Christian Keyes (Mistresses, Let’s Stay Together) as Levi, the prodigal son who returns to his hometown after a successful run on Wall Street.

· Keith Robinson (Dreamgirls, This Christmas) portrays Miles Calloway, a former R&B star, one hit wonder, now serving as the minister of music at Greater Hope.

· Clifton Powell (Ray, Murder in the First) plays Rex Fisher, a ruthless local loan shark with his hand in many of the dealings in town.

· Gloria Reuben (Mr. Robot, ER) as the Mayor of Cypress Pamela Clayborne, a hard-nosed former prosecutor whose secrets are catching up to her.

· JD Williams (The Wire, The Good Wife) portrays Jabari, Levi’s cousin who also works for Rex and is torn between family and business.

· Jasmine Burke (The Vampire Diaries, Army Wives) as Dr. Christie Johnson, the daughter and only living child of Pastor and Mrs. Johnson, who tends to local patients but has her own private issues.

· Afemo Omilami (Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Forrest Gump) as Detective St. Charles.

· Richard Lawson (Numbers, Wag the Dog) plays the beloved Pastor Evan Johnson who is harboring many dark doings from his faithful believers.


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