BET has just renewed the Atlanta filmed hit TV series Being Mary Jane for another season.
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Being Mary Jane season 4 is coming soon. After filming in Atlanta, Georgia for the past three years, it looks like Atlanta has another major TV show heading back to the ATL.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, BET has renewed Gabrielle Union’s hit TV series for a fourth season. In addition, BET’s Being Mary Jane will film in Atlanta later on this year.
The series was extremely popular on BET since it first debuted in2 013. For it’s entire three year run, Being Mary Jane was ranked as the number one scripted series among African American audiences. In fact, the most recent season averaged 2.54 million viewers, which makes it one of the top 5 cable TV shows in the key demographic.
However, the show’s creator, showrunner, and director, Salim Akil and Mara Brock Akil signed a major deal with Warner Bros. Television in May which delayed the renewal of Being Mary Jane. Consequently, it is unclear who is going to step in and take over Being Mary Jane.
Being Mary Jane will join Zoe Ever After and Real Husbands of Hollywood as the third scripted series on BET.
Gabrielle Union has been lately. Union has worked on the highly anticipated new movie A Meyers Christmas, an Untitled Jamie Foxx movie, and The Birth of a Nation. That is good news for an actress whose private photos were , which left her “mortified”.