The Grammy award-winning hip-hop group, who serve as Jimmy Fallon’s house band on “The Tonight Show,” is teaming up with Amazon to develop an animated children’s series and a live-action children’s series, according to Deadline. Both shows will be executive produced by The Roots’ Tarik “Black Thought” Trotter and Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, their manager Shawn Gee and Brian Sher. Questlove told Deadline that they’re pleased to have Amazon as a partner as the entire group makes its first foray into film and TV production. Black Thought added that they’re excited to share their love of music with children. In 2014, the drummer and MC produced the VH1 music series Soundclash.

Source: Huffington Post April 17, 2017 17:15 UTC