Bow down, witches cause Demetria McKinney is on the show! You Might Know Her From Tyler Perry’s House of Payne, Saints & Sinners, Real Housewives of Atlanta, Bobbi Kristina, and Motherland: Fort Salem. We saddled up with Demetria when we were down in Atlanta and got all the scoop on her forthcoming Freeform witch series Motherland, getting a gig in Dreamgirls with a co-sign from Jennifer Holliday, and the struggles from portraying her number one: Whitney Houston.

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Discussed this week:

Ann Curry gmorning

Matt Lauer making Ann Curry cry as she’s kicked off Today

The great Al Roker reading Matt Lauer for throwing Ann Curry “under the bus”

Natalie Morales’ quiet departure from Today

Natalie’s Florence Henderson special

Kit Hoover of Road Rules fame

Talk show guests we’d have on: Meredith Viera, Katie Couric, Sally Jesse Raphael. Leeza Gibbons, Tempest Bledsoe, Ricki Lake

Damian thought The Monster Season 2 of The Masked Singer was Nikki Blonsky. It was Chaka Khan

Bobbi Kristina biopic

Demetria McKinney’s IMDB

Janine on House of Payne

Playing Anacostia in Motherland: Fort Salem

Dragonball Z Kameha

Tyler Perry Studios

Demetria being classy on the Real Housewives of Atlanta

Real Housewives of Atlanta (Nene; Porsha & Kenya)

Demetria and Kandi Burruss’ song “Unnecessary Trouble”

“...and I’m sensitive about my stuff (shit)”

The Muny (Dreamgirls & The Wiz)

Jennifer Holliday asked Demetria to be her Deena

Deborah Cox is doing The Bodyguard musical but Demetria would fight her for itTamara in Saints and Sinners

Stage play of Set it Off starring Demetria, Letoya Luckett, Kyla Pratt, and Da Brat

Playing June Pointer in BET’s American Soul

BJ Armstrong vs Scottie Pippen + BJ’s shot

Steve Kerr vs John Paxson

Horace Grant vs Dennis Rodman

Grant Hill married Tamia

The Paynes on TBS, BET, OWN (Oprah has the shrimp)

Top 5 voices: Whitney, Celine, Aaliyah, Pink, Aretha

Survivor back for its 40th season

The Jerry Springer Show

The Steve Wilkos Show (who was a little Magoo)

Kewl TV colleges: A Different World, Fresh Prince, The Quad, Felicity

Directed by Jasmine Guy twice (I Dream, The Mountaintop)

Hypercolor

Science store full of goos (Anne loves silicone) Rhen’s Nest Toy Shop in Atlanta