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The BET Awards

Genres: Music, Award Shows, Specials
Broadcast on: SABC1, BET International, MTV Base, BET Africa, BET2

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Seasons

Season 10

Channel	Premiere	Finale	TX Time	Episodes
BET	27 Jun 2010	27 Jun 2010	Sunday	1
BET International	03 Jul 2010	03 Jul 2010	Saturdays, 21h00 - 00h00	1

Season 11

Channel	Premiere	Finale	TX Time	Episodes
BET	26 Jun 2011	26 Jun 2011	Sunday	1
BET International	30 Jun 2011	30 Jun 2011	Thursdays, 21h00 - 00h00	1
SABC1	31 Dec 2011	31 Dec 2011	Saturdays, 20h00 - 23h00	1

Season 12

Channel	Premiere	Finale	TX Time	Episodes
BET	01 Jul 2012	01 Jul 2012	Sunday	1
BET International	03 Jul 2012	03 Jul 2012	Tuesdays, 21h00 - 00h00	1
SABC1	30 Dec 2012	30 Dec 2012	Sundays, 20h00 - 23h00	1

Season 1

Channel	Premiere	Finale	TX Time	Episodes
BET	19 Jun 2001	19 Jun 2001	Tuesday	1

Season 2

Channel	Premiere	Finale	TX Time	Episodes
BET	29 Jun 2002	29 Jun 2002	Saturday	1

Season 3

Channel	Premiere	Finale	TX Time	Episodes
BET	24 Jun 2003	24 Jun 2003	Tuesday	1

Season 4

Channel	Premiere	Finale	TX Time	Episodes
BET	29 Jun 2004	29 Jun 2004	Tuesday	1

Season 5

Channel	Premiere	Finale	TX Time	Episodes
BET	28 Jun 2005	28 Jun 2005	Tuesday	1

Season 6

Channel	Premiere	Finale	TX Time	Episodes
BET	27 Jun 2006	27 Jun 2006	Tuesday	1

Season 7

Channel	Premiere	Finale	TX Time	Episodes
BET	26 Jun 2007	26 Jun 2007	Tuesday	1

Season 8

Channel	Premiere	Finale	TX Time	Episodes
BET	24 Jun 2008	24 Jun 2008	Tuesday	1

Season 9

Channel	Premiere	Finale	TX Time	Episodes
BET	28 Jun 2009	28 Jun 2009	Sunday	1

Season 13

Channel	Premiere	Finale	TX Time	Episodes
BET	30 Jun 2013	30 Jun 2013	Sunday	1
BET International	02 Jul 2013	02 Jul 2013	Tuesday, 21h00 - 00h00	1
MTV Base	26 Nov 2013	26 Nov 2013	Tuesday, 16h10 - 20h00	1

Season 14

Channel	Premiere	Finale	TX Time	Episodes
BET	29 Jun 2014	29 Jun 2014	Sunday	1
BET International	01 Jul 2014	01 Jul 2014	Tuesday, 22h00 - 01h00	1
MTV Base	12 Jul 2014	12 Jul 2014	Saturday, 20h00 - 00h00	1

Season 15

Channel	Premiere	Finale	TX Time	Episodes
BET	28 Jun 2015	28 Jun 2015	Sunday, 20h00 - 23h00	1
BET Africa	30 Jun 2015	30 Jun 2015	Tuesday, 20h10 - 23h25	1
BET2	30 Jun 2015	30 Jun 2015	Tuesday, 20h10 - 23h25	1

Season 16

Channel	Premiere	Finale	TX Time	Episodes
BET	26 Jun 2016	26 Jun 2016	Sunday, 20h00 - 23h00	1
BET Africa	28 Jun 2016	28 Jun 2016	Tuesday, 19h00 - 22h00	1

Starring Cast

Jada Pinkett Smith

Herself

Jada Pinkett Smith is an American actress and singer best known for her role as Niobe in the films The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions

8.3

Queen Latifah

Herself

Queen Latifah is a Grammy-winning American rapper/singer and Academy Award-nominated actress best known to television audiences for her lead role as Khadijah James in the sitcom Living Single, appearing in 115 episodes from 1993-1998

8.9

Will Smith

Himself

Will Smith is an Academy Award-nominated American actor and multiple Grammy-winning hip hop artist

8.7

Steve Harvey

Himself

Steve Harvey is an American actor, comedian, entertainer, television and radio personality and best-selling author best known as the star of the sitcom The Steve Harvey Show, and as one of the four comedians featured in the Spike Lee film The Original Kings of Comedy

6.5

Jamie Foxx

Himself

Jamie Foxx is an American R&B singer, pianist, comedian and actor who won the 2005 Academy Award for Best Actor for his eponymous performance in Ray, a biopic about the life of the late musician Ray Charles

7.2

Mo'Nique

Host - Herself

Mo'Nique is an American actress best known for her role as Nicole 'Nikki' Parker in the sitcom The Parkers (1999-2004) and for her role in the film Precious, which won her numerous awards including an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Golden Globe Award and the BAFTA Award

8.3

Tracee Ellis Ross

Host - Herself

Tracee Ellis Ross is an American actress best known for her starring role as Joan Clayton on the television sitcom Girlfriends, from 2000-2008

7.7

Kevin Hart

Host - Himself

Kevin Hart is an American actor and stand-up comedian best known for his roles in the feature films Scary Movie 3, Soul Plane and Scary Movie 4

5.7

Samuel L. Jackson

Host - Himself

Samuel L

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Cedric the Entertainer

Host - Himself

Cedric the Entertainer is an American actor and comedian best known as the co-star of the sitcom The Steve Harvey Show, as Eddie in the Barbershop films, and as one of the four comedians featured in the Spike Lee film The Original Kings of Comedy

9.0

Damon Wayans

Host - Himself

Damon Wayans is an American stand-up comedian, writer and actor best known to television audiences for his leading role as Michael Kyle in the sitcom My Wife and Kids, from 2001-2005.

6.5

D.L. Hughley

Host - Himself

D.L. Hughley is an American actor and stand-up comedian best known as the star and producer of his namesake television sitcom The Hughleys.

8.0

Chris Tucker

Host - Himself

Chris Tucker is an American actor and comedian best known for his role as wisecracking detective James Carter in the Rush Hour movie trilogy

9.3

Chris Rock

Host - Himself

Chris Rock is the Emmy Award-winning executive producer, co-creator and narrator of UPN's comedy Everybody Hates Chris

9.6

Anthony Anderson

Host - Himself

Anthony Anderson is an American comedian and actor best known for his roles in the feature films Romeo Must Die, Big Momma's House and Me, Myself & Irene, all of which debuted in 2000

7.3

Larenz Tate

Presenter - Himself

Larenz Tate is an American actor best known for his role as the automotively monikered Ford Lincoln Mercury in the 1997 Kevin Costner film The Postman; and for his role as Bart "Black Shawn" Johnson on the television drama series Rescue Me, from 2007-2011

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