Carl Weber’s The Family Business (BET 2018, Ernie Hudson, Armand Assante)

Based on The New York Times best-selling author’s hugely popular family crime drama novel and starring acclaimed-actor and Executive Produccer Ernie Hudson.

Meet the Duncans, a prominent family from Jamaica, Queens living fast and luxurious. By day, they’re an upstanding family; by night, they live a dangerous secret life. The patriarch of the family, L.C. Duncan (Hudson), is at the age when he’s starting to think about retirement and has to decide which of his children should take over his thriving exotic car dealership. The Duncans quickly come under siege from some of the top politicians, mafia and drug cartels in the city. The Duncans will have to stick together or die separately.

production details
USA | BET – Tri Destined Studios – Urban Books Media | 8×40 minutes | Broadcast from 13 November 2018

Carl Weber as Original Author/Creator/Executive Producer
Connie Orlando as Executive Producer (BET)
Ernie Hudson as Executive Producer
Maureen Guthman as Executive Producer (BET)
Nikaya D. Brown Jones as Executive Producer
Trey Haley as Co-Executive Producer/Director

cast
Ernie Hudson as L.C. Duncan
Amani E. Boyd as Mariah Duncan
Armand Assante as Sal Dash
Arrington Foster as Rio Duncan
Christian Keyes as Niles Monroe
Clifton Powell as Uncle Lou
Darrin Henson as Orlando Duncan
Dylan Weber as Nevada Duncan
Emilio Rivera as Alejandro Zuniga
Frankie G as Juan Rodriguez
Gary Dourdan as Trent Duncan
Javicia Leslie as Paris Duncan
KJ Smith as Sasha Duncan
Lisa Ray as Donna Duncan
Malik Yoba as Randy Moss
Miguel A. Nunez Jr. as Harris Grant
Nick Turturro as Ronald Sims
Sean Ringgold as Junior Duncan
Tami Roman as London Duncan
Valarie Pettiford as Charlotte Duncan