The Real MVP: The Wanda Durant Story Premieres May 7 To Celebrate Mother's Day

Cassandra Freeman stars in The Real MVP: The Wanda Durant Story/Photo by Bettina Straus & Sergei Bachlakov

Basketball great Kevin Durant of The Oklahoma City Thunder captured the hearts of the nation when he accepted the 2014 NBA Most Valuable Player Award with his emotional speech crediting all of his success to his mother, Wanda, naming her “the real MVP." Durant's moving story of a mother’s love, tenacity and sacrifice unfolds on Saturday, May 7 at 8pm ET/PT in The Real MVP: The Wanda Durant Story, just in time for Mother’s Day.

Executive produced by Academy Award nominee, Golden Globe, Grammy, SAG and Emmy Award winner Queen Latifah and her Flavor Unit team, the inspiring true story of The Real MVP begins with Wanda, a single mom of two by the time she was 21, working tirelessly to make ends meet and put a roof over the heads of her young sons. With the support of her mother and her best friend, Wanda focused all her energy on keeping her boys out of trouble and on the basketball court, selflessly putting aside her own dreams and desires to make sure their goals could be achieved. Her hard work paid off as her son Tony earned basketball scholarships and graduated from college while Kevin pursued his dream of playing in the NBA.

Cassandra Freeman (Inside Man, Single Ladies) stars as Wanda, Tracie Thoms (Cold Case, Rent) as her best friend and confidante, and Pauletta Washington (Wilma) portrays her mother Barbara. Daniel Bellomy and Nic Few star as the adult Kevin and Tony respectively.

The Real MVP: The Wanda Durant Story is produced by A+E Studios. Executive producers from Flavor Unit are Queen Latifah, Shakim Compere and Shelby Stone. Wanda Pratt also executive produces with Gina Ford and Brynee Baylor as co-executive producers. The film is directed by Nelson George (Life Support, A Ballerina’s Tale) and written by Yolonda Lawrence (Witches of East End) and Ligiah Villalobos (Ed).

Web Series of the Week Results (February 27-March 4, 2016)

Send Me was voted favorite web series of the week.

The results are in from the Indie Series Network and Serial Scoop "Web Series of the Week" (#WSOTW) poll for February 27-March 4, 2016.

Send Me was voted favorite web series for the week. The premiere of Graves came in second, followed by new episodes of Bachelorette with a Knife, The Hand I Was Dealt and TBH.

The acting favorites were Send Me's Steve Harper and Tracie Thoms, and the favorite couple/duo was Peter & Gwen from Send Me.

Check out the complete results from this week's below:

RANK	SHOW	LAST WEEK	TOP 3
1	Send Me	-	1
2	Graves	-	1
3	Bachelorette with a Knife	-	1
4	The Hand I Was Dealt	-	0
5	TBH	-	0
6	Jezebel	6	0
7	La Fleur de Mai	-	0
8	Coming Home	-	0
9	The Jolly Rogers Case Files	-	0
10	Genesis	-	0
11	Tax	-	0
12	Rally	-	0
13	Laced and Loaded	-	0
14	A Relationship Is...	-	0
15	Let's Pretend	8	0
16	Crawling	-	0
17	Unbound	-	0
18	Tenants	-	0
19	Becoming Mrs. Ellison	9	0
20	Jill & Jack	16	0
21	The Clan	-	0

Watch the Top 3 series and see the rest of the poll results below:

'He's With Me' Adds Tracie Thoms, Jessica Kirson to Season 2 Cast

Tracie Thoms, Jessica Kirson

Indie Series Award-nominated Broadway, film and TV veteran Tracie Thoms and comedian Jessica Kirson will guest star during Season 2 of Monday Morning Productions' hit web series He's With Me.

Tracie Thoms, who is currently starring with Oscar nominee John Hawkes in the world premiere of David Auburn's "Lost Lake," directed by the renowned Daniel Sullivan, will have a recurring role as Naomi throughout the season. Comedian Jessica Kirson will star in the first episode of the second season as network censor Jessie. Her appearance will help to resolve the cliffhanger that was set up in He's With Me's first season finale.

Tracie Thoms starred as Joanne in the final weeks of the historic 12 year run of the Broadway musical, "Rent," and played the same key role in Sony's film of Rent opposite Rosario Dawson, Taye Diggs and Jesse Martin. Tracie was recently seen opposite David Morse in McCanick, with Zoe Bell and Dawson in Raze, opposite Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Christopher Nolan's Looper, and with Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds in Safe House. She also starred with Kurt Russell in Quentin Tarantino's Grindhouse: Death Proof and opposite Anne Hathaway in David Frankel's The Devil Wears Prada. She'll next be seen in the Columbia Pictures remake of Annie opposite Jamie Foxx and Quvenzhane Wallis.