Lionsgate’s Debmar-Mercury today announced Central Ave, the multicultural Atlanta-based entertainment magazine debuting today on eight Fox Television Stations, has tapped five experts and correspondents to cover wide-reaching topics.
The new team joins television personality Julissa Bermudez (106 & Park) and former Olympic track star Sanya Richards-Ross (a five-time gold medalist), who co-host the day-and-date series from Debmar-Mercury and producer Will Packer (Night School, Girls Trip).
Debmar-Mercury says Bermudez and Richards-Ross are the first women of color to co-host an entertainment magazine series. Together they will tackle the celebrity worlds of relationships, red carpets, money and the law, as well as trends emerging in Hollywood, social media and apps.
Named today as Los Angeles- and New York-based correspondents are:
Shannon Boodram, a certified sex educator, dating coach, relationship expert and media influencer with more than 40 million YouTube views.
Melissa McCarty, a legal, celebrity crime and justice specialist who has served as a television host, national correspondent and author covering every facet of news and entertainment.
Sloane Glass, the QVC social correspondent who earlier created content as a digital reporter and producer at WAGA Atlanta, hosted and created videos for Time, USA Today, People, AOL and MSN, and reported for New York’s News12
Dylan Landon, known for his work over the past decade on programs including MTV’s international music game show Crash Karaoke and livestream hosting top talent appearing at the global electronic music Ultra Music Festival.
Sequoia Blodgett, the former Fortune reporter went on to found Commas, a virtual entrepreneurship resource center providing soup-to-nuts knowledge about product development, marketing, publicity and fundraising.