Dule Hill debuts a new series on PBS

Dule Hill has a new series on PBS

As Psychos await news about Psych 4, we can check out Dule Hill ("The West Wing,” "The Wonder Years," “Suits,” “Psych”) in his new series, The Express Way with Dule Hill, which airs on PBS from 9:00 p.m. until 10:00 p.m. on Tuesday nights from April 23 to May 14.

In addition to acting, Hill is also a dancer and singer. Psych fans saw some of his fancy footwork and heard his crooning during the show's eight-year run.

The new series captures diverse artists’ stories from across America, celebrating community, humanity, and the transformative potential of creative expression. On the series premiere, California, he connects with three brave artists: a deaf dancer, a gay mariachi, and a senior citizen cabaret troupe. They are each using their art to reclaim their narratives and change the perceptions of their communities.

Dule travels across America

The Express Way with Dule Hill is a four-episode nonfiction series where Hill travels to California, Appalachia, Texas, and Chicago to meet artists heavily involved in their communities.

Hill talks with his subjects about what art means to them. One is a man in Appalachia who teaches former addicts how to make stringed instruments. In San Francisco’s Chinatown, the Grant Avenue Follies, a troupe of older females vamp about while reading poetry and rapping. There is also a gay mariachi band and a deaf dancer.

“You realize the power of the human spirit,” Hill says. “You realize that you don’t need to be George Clooney. You don’t need to be Dwayne Johnson. You don’t need to be Angelina Jolie to have a profound impact on your world and the world around you, in the world beyond you.”

Dule began dancing as a child

Hill, 48, began his journey in East Orange, New Jersey, at Marie Wildey’s School of Dance, where his mother taught ballet and his brothers and cousins took classes. Darlyn Blaney, owner and director of the school, said the following:

“Dulé started at our school and at a very young age and he did a combination class,” Blaney says. “He showed an interest in tap, and he did an audition for The Tap Dance Kid and has been going ever since.

Hill dances in the new series

Each episode of The Express Way opens with Dule tap dancing. Hill carries a small wooden tap board around a trick he learned from Gregory Hines who he says "always had a piece of wood in his trailer.”

Hill started his career on Broadway as an understudy in “The Tap Dance Kid” the day after his 10th birthday. He has worked with renowned artists like Hinton Battle and Harold Nicholas and has been in five other Broadway shows, including “Stick Fly” and “After Midnight.” For some fans of Psych the talented entertainer will always be Burton "Gus" Guster because that's the role that endeared him to viewers on the USA network.

Psych 4 is awaiting the green light

The latest update on Psych 4 came from Timothy Edmondson who portrays Carlton "Lassie" Lassiter. He says the cast is ready and waiting and shared the following with Screenrant:

The script for the fourth movie is not only complete, but is currently with the executives at Peacock, and that the cast consistently talk to each other in a group chat and are eagerly awaiting the greenlight from the streamer.

Be on the lookout for additional news related to the release date for Psych 4 and don't forget to check out The Express Way with Dule Hill on Tuesday nights beginning April 23 on your local PBS station.