Jamie Foxx and Tom Kapinos’ ‘White Famous’ Series Coming to Showtime

Jamie Foxx at the Rio Premiere
Jamie Foxx (Photo © Richard Chavez)

Showtime’s ordered a pilot for White Famous from executive producers Jamie Foxx and Tom Kapinos. The half-hour comedy sprang from an idea of Foxx’s and will be written by Kapinos, with the pilot marking Kapinos’ return to Showtime after seven seasons of writing and executive producing Californication. Oscar winner Foxx (Ray) will guest star in a recurring role. According to Showtime, White Famous will “focus on a talented, young African-American comedian whose star is rising, forcing him to navigate the treacherous waters of maintaining his credibility as he begins to cross-over towards becoming ‘white famous.'”

“I came up from standup comedy, so to be able to share that aspect of my life on screen with a project like White Famous is incredibly exciting,” said Foxx. “We couldn’t have found better partners than SHOWTIME, Lionsgate and Tom Kapinos to tell this story in the best possible way.”


“They say you can’t go home again, but I’m thrilled to be back at SHOWTIME, where I’m equally jazzed to be working with the brilliant Jamie Foxx on the creation of another wickedly profane TV antihero,” said Kapinos.

Foxx’s credits include Collateral, Any Given Sunday, Django Unchained, Dreamgirls, The Soloist, Ali, Miami Vice, Annie, Jarhead, Horrible Bosses, White House Down, Due Date, Law Abiding Citizen, The Kingdom, and Stealth. Foxx recently wrapped up working on Sleepless with Michelle Monaghan and Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver co-starring Jon Hamm and Kevin Spacey.

Kapinos’ television career kicked off in 1998 with the teen series Dawson’s Creek. He followed that up with Showtime’s dark comedy Californication starring David Duchovny. Most recently he’s been keeping busy with Fox’s hit series Lucifer starring Tom Ellis and Lauren German.