Norman Beaton in London's West End. In 1970 he played the role of Ariel in Shakespeare's "The Tempest", which he described in his autobiography as "the most important role of my acting career", and also played a small role in the Frankie Howerd comedy film "Up the Chastity Belt" the following year. In 1975, he helped to establish the Black Theatre of Brixton. In 1975 Beaton played Nanki-Poo in "The Black Mikado", a modern version of Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Mikado". In 1976, Beaton broke into television in the series "The Fosters", which also featured a young Lenny Henry, and the following
Black sitcom August 10, 2012, "Tyler Perry's House of Payne" surpassed "The Jeffersons" and became the longest-running sitcom with a predominantly African American cast in the history of American television in terms of number of episodes. On August 23 and 24, 2012, Debbie Allen, the former chief creative force of "A Different World" from 1988 to 1993, wrote on Twitter that she wants to reboot "A Different World". Over a million people on Facebook, Twitter, and blogs reacted to the tweet and approved the potential reboot. On September 24, 2014, the ABC sitcom "black-ish" premiered with over 11 million people watching the