NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment Inc. (Nasdaq: CSSE), a supplier of premium content material to value-conscious customers, and Publicis Media’s APX Content Ventures, a worldwide providing devoted to investing in high quality and mission-driven programming, at the moment introduced a second season of the award-winning collection Inside The Black Box will premiere December 1 completely on the Crackle streaming app. The collection shall be accessible to stream at no cost on all kinds of gadgets, together with Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Samsung TVs, and plenty of others.

Inside the Black Box’s 10-episode second season is hosted by Emmy® Award winner and NAACP Image Awards recipient Joe Morton (Scandal, Terminator 2: Judgment Day) and movie star appearing coach, director, producer, and casting director, Tracey Moore. The hosts work together with movie star company facilitating discussions concerning the position race performs within the leisure trade. Talent featured within the second season consists of Debbie Allen (Grey’s Anatomy, Fame), Keith David (Nope, Armageddon), Jeffrey Wright (The Batman, Westworld), Malik Yoba (First Wives Club, Designated Survivor), Wendell Pierce (Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, The Wire), Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Billions, Castle), Rob Morgan (Stranger Things), and Naturi Naughton (Power, Queens).

“Inside the Black Box is a special series for so many reasons,” mentioned co-host Joe Morton. “Black performers are often forced to speak words that are not in line with their experience. Our goal is to create a safe space where artists of color can speak their minds and tell their stories.”

Publicis Media’s APX Content Ventures is a next-generation unit inside Publicis Media that seeks to seek out, fund, and elevate companions and properties that amplify numerous voices, empower girls and construct neighborhood, connection, and belief. APX and Publicis shoppers have the unique alternative to be featured prominently within the collection by way of deep model integrations, customized content material, sponsorships, and different show-adjacent segments.

“We are excited to continue our partnership with Crackle and The General on this entertaining and engaging program. The success of Inside the Black Box shows what can happen when quality programming finds the right partner or brand to add value for the audience,” mentioned Kerry Bianchi, Global CEO of APX Exchange. “The fact that The General’s brand purpose is so aligned with the ethos of this series makes its involvement a valuable and seamless part of this great content.”

“Our team is proud to work with such a respected brand as The General to create important, socially-uplifting content like Inside the Black Box,” mentioned Michele Fino, head of branded leisure for Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment. “This series is providing a unique outlet for black artists to voice their experiences in Hollywood in a way that reflects the principles of our brand and our client simultaneously.”

Inside the Black Box is sponsored by The General® for the second season. The General will proceed to have distinctive model placement throughout numerous layers of the programming – each out and in of the present. This consists of pre-roll advertisements, QR code placements, model integration throughout the content material and “The General Audience” branded theater part featured within the present, permitting VIP attendees to get a greater view of the motion.

The collection is produced by Landmark Studio Group, a division of Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, and Strong Studios, with Morton and Moore serving as Executive Producers, together with David Ozer, Rachel Weintraub and Dr. Dave Kolin. Andrew Lombardi and Scott Weinstock produced. Season one featured movie star company similar to Phylicia Rashad and Raven-Symoné and not too long ago obtained a Faxie Award from Cablefax within the Sponsored Content class. Inside the Black Box is distributed in North America by Screen Media, a Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment firm and the provider of unique and authentic content material to Crackle.

Crackle’s latest releases embody the nuptials celebration collection Wedding Talk, the second season of Crackle Original The Wall, the pet-centric life-style collection Pet Caves, the award-winning BBC collection Sherlock, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman in addition to season three of the award-winning collection Going From Broke.

The Crackle, Redbox, and Chicken Soup for the Soul streaming providers are at present distributed by way of over 140 contact factors within the U.S. on platforms together with Amazon Fire TV, Roku, Apple TV, Smart TVs (Samsung, LG, Vizio), gaming consoles (PlayStation and Xbox ), Plex, iOS and Android cell gadgets and on desktops at Crackle.com and Redbox.com.

Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, Alternate Side Production and APX Content Ventures not too long ago introduced their collaboration on a brand new actuality collection starring comic J.B. Smoove known as Dirty Pool with J.B. Smoove, which can premiere on Crackle streaming platforms in late 2023. This is the most recent program to obtain funding by way of APX Content Ventures’ $25 million Inclusion Investment Fund, which is a part of Publicis Media’s Once & For All Coalition initiative. It has funded over 20 content material concepts with greater than 10 numerous owned, operated, and focused firms.

About Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment

Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment (Nasdaq: CSSE) gives premium content material to value-conscious customers. The firm is among the largest advertising-supported video-on-demand (AVOD) firms within the US, with three flagship AVOD streaming providers: Redbox, Crackle and Chicken Soup for the Soul. In addition, the corporate operates Redbox Free Live TV, a free ad-supported streaming tv service (FAST), with over 150 channels in addition to a transaction video on demand (TVOD) service, and a community of roughly 36,000 kiosks throughout the US for DVD leases. To present authentic and unique content material to its viewers, the corporate creates, acquires and distributes movies and TV collection by way of its Screen Media and Chicken Soup for the Soul TV Group subsidiaries. Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment is a subsidiary of Chicken Soup for the Soul, LLC, which publishes the well-known books collection and produces super-premium pet meals underneath the Chicken Soup for the Soul model title.

About The General® Insurance

The General Automobile Insurance Services, Inc. (The General®) is a licensed insurance coverage company and subsidiary of PGC Holdings Corp. (PGC), which is wholly owned by American Family Mutual Insurance Company. Through its insurance coverage firm subsidiaries and their predecessors, PGC has been writing vehicle insurance coverage since 1963, serving clients who might discover it troublesome to acquire insurance coverage from different carriers at an inexpensive price. Visit www.thegeneral.com or comply with The General on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

About APX Content Ventures

APX Content Ventures is a worldwide unit devoted to investing in high quality, and mission-driven programming. Part of Publicis Media, its objective is to seek out, fund and elevate companions and properties that amplify numerous voices, empower girls and construct neighborhood, connection and belief. Live within the UK, US, Germany and Italy, it has generated a whole bunch of packages throughout all genres, from ground-breaking documentaries to world leisure codecs and world-class scripted collection.