The sky’s the limit for Tyler Perry! ET’s Nischelle Turner visited Perry at Tyler Perry Studios, on the set of his new movie, “Six Triple Eight”, where he revealed that there’s truth to the rumours about him buying a majority stake in BET — in fact, he’s very interested in purchasing the network. “Rumour?
No, it’s not a rumour,” Perry shared. “I’ve been there for four years now and had tremendous success. I wasn’t expecting this to happen, so, yes — if that is possible, I’m very, very interested in taking as much of it…” He continued, “If it’s possible, I’m gonna take as much of it as I can.” Perry isn’t the only one who wants a piece of the network, with both Byron Allen and Diddy vying to buy into BET. “Part of it is — and I’ve read about Byron Allen and Puffy and everybody wanting to bid and so on and so forth, and I think it’s really great,” the filmmaker began. “This is what I love about it — when Bob Johnson sold it in 2000, I think it was, there wasn’t one Black person who could buy it.
So now, to see all of these Black people, men and women, who are able to be in a position to buy it? Man, that makes me feel really, really excited.” Perry, who already has the No.
1 show on BET+ with “All the Queen’s Men”, is looking forward to the network being Black-owned again. “I think there was sadness when Bob sold it, and I think there’ll be happiness when it’s Black-owned again,” Perry said. “And even though Shari (Redstone) and what is it?
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