Check out the trailer for Prime Video’s new original ‘Riches’ featuring an all-Black cast deeply rooted in the culture of style and grace. Senior Editor James R. Sanders reports
‘Riches’ is going to change the way people look at beauty — and not from a place of inclusion, but more from a place of foundation.
There’s an empire up for grabs and hundreds of millions of dollars are a stake. ‘Riches’ follows the exploits of the stylish, privileged, super-successful Richards family. When Stephen Richards (Hugh Quarshie) passes suddenly, the family’s world comes crashing down. As his business hangs in the balance, his different sets of children are about to collide as they vie for control.
The Black people are the heroes and the villains. There are jeans and gowns — tears and blush, headwraps and inches upon inches of hair.
It’s a couture story taking place in one of its capitals; London.
All six episodes of the Amazon Studios and ITV co-production will premiere on Prime Video in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Nordics, and Sub-Saharan Africaon December 2, 2022, following its UK premiere on ITVX.
The production is a dream team of visual confit — written and created by Abby Ajayi (How to Get Away With Murder, Inventing Anna) and starring Deborah Ayorinde (Them, Truth Be Told), Hugh Quarshie (Absentia), Sarah Niles (Ted Lasso, I May Destroy You), Adeyinka Akinrinade (Top Boy, Temple), Ola Orebiyi (Cherry, A Brixton Tale), Nneka Okoye (Grantchester, The A List), and Emmanuel Imani (Cobra, Black Earth Rising).