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Issa Rae’s “Mis-Adventures of Awkward Black Girl” Not Coming To HBO

Hold your horses. Despite what you may have heard, Issa Rae’s webseries “Mis-Adventures of Awkward Black Girl” is not coming to HBO. Issa took to Twitter to set the record straight.

https://twitter.com/IssaRae/status/407941184565149696

Several websites misreported that Issa’s popular series would be developed by HBO where she and Larry Wilmore would co-write a series about “the awkward experiences and racy tribulations of a modern-day African-American woman,” which is untrue. However, Issa will be working with HBO on a new pilot. “I’m writing a HBO pilot. We just turned that in, so we’re waiting on notes. And I’m always working on a web series,” she told the Huffington Post in November.

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