Acclaimed filmmaker Robert Townsend stars, directs, produces and co-wrote the script with Michelle Amor and Cheryl L. West for the UP premiere movie Playin for Love, a romantic comedy about life on and off the basketball court. The film also stars Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Jenifer Lewis, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs and Esai Morales and premieres exclusively on UP on Sunday, July 12, 2015, at 7:00 p.m. eastern.

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Award-winning actor Tony Denison joined the cast of TNT’s The Closer as Detective Andy Flynn in 2005. Transitioning his role onto the spinoff series, Major Crimes, Flynn is a consistent fan favorite known for his antics opposite G. W. Bailey’s Lt. Provenza and for his character’s rumored romance with Mary McDonnell’s Capt. Sharon Raydor. A fourth season of Major Crimes premiered on June 8, 2015.

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Raymond Cruz portrayed Detective Julio Sanchez for seven seasons on TNT’s police drama The Closer (2005-2012) and continued in that role in its spinoff, Major Crimes, which began its fourth season on June 8, 2015. He is also known for his recurring role as drug lord Tuco Salamanca in the crime drama Breaking Bad and its spinoff Better Call Saul.

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Jennifer Beals is known for playing the role of Alexandra “Alex” Owens in the 1983 romantic drama film Flashdance in which she won an NAACP Image Award and Bette Porter on the Showtime series The L Word (2004-2009). She is bi-racial; her father was African American, and her mother is Irish American.

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