Season 1 – Number One on the Call Sheet

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Mar 2025

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Some of Hollywood's stars reveal their journeys to game-changing leading roles; in candid interviews, they shine a light on the highs and lows of their craft, breakthrough moments, blueprints for success and the next generation's potential.

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Brimming with memorable anecdotes and keen insights into the breaking of glass ceilings, Number One of the Call Sheet is an entertaining victory lap that still recognizes how much road ahead is left.

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Christian Blauvelt

IndieWire

03/28/2025

The best state of the industry keynotes recognize achievements accomplished, sure, but also show how a foundation can be created so that they may happen again. “Number One on the Call Sheet” achieves that.

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Lapacazo Magrira Sandoval

New York Amsterdam News

04/25/2025

The archival footage is rich. The interviews are candid. And the reverence is well-earned.

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Steve Murray

ArtsATL

04/04/2025

The [first] film pays the expected (always welcome) homage to singular path blazer Sidney Poitier, but a lot of the running time just lets the stars revel in their career experiences.

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Shawn Edwards

Fox 4 Kansas City

04/03/2025

4/5

Smart, informative and entertaining.

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Sebastian Zavala Kahn

Loud and Clear Reviews

03/28/2025

4.5/5

Number One of the Call Sheet works because, through its two episodes, it makes us realise everything these awesome artists have had to go through. [...] But it also shows how things have gotten much better and how there’s still a lot of work to be done.

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Christopher Campbell

Nonfics (Substack)

03/28/2025

While the first installment is full of essential discourse, its tone is rather light and fun, with a lot of laughter from the interviewees and audience. The second part hits much differently...it’s a more affecting piece.

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Jacob S

@RT79419806 04/20/2025

A literal stunning attribution to the heroic faces of color in cinema sharing authentic stories of reaching for the stars, reaching them, and sharing pearls of wisdom with those on similar journeys. The profound moments for me were Halle Berry’s concluding words of creating space for wholeness, rather than contending for space that was never meant for us, and the poem of about a face at the bottom of the well stretching out from the clay intent on star shine. I literally feel inspired in this moment, I feel apart of a special needling of the tapestry of humanity, as an engaging, compelling, and reconciling expression of beauty, grace, and heart.

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Director: Shola Lynch, Reginald Hudlin
Executive Producer: Reginald Hudlin, Bryan Smiley, Halle Berry, Viola Davis, Whoopi Goldberg, Angela Bassett
Network: Apple TV+
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date: Mar 28, 2025

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