Zane's Sex Chronicles was an American

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 television program

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 feature series

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. Based on the urban erotica novels written by Zane, the series follows the friendships and relationship of five female friends who enjoy the steamy stories of erotic writer Zane

Zane (erotica author)

Zane is an African American author of erotic fiction who has written over two dozen novels. She is best known for her novel Addicted. In 1997, Zane began writing erotic stories to pass the time after her children went to bed. She was living in North Carolina and working as a sales representative....

. The series premiered on Cinemax

Cinemax

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 on October 11, 2008.

As the first urban adult series on television, the show was renewed for a second season, which premiered on March 5, 2010. It also gained a huge fan base.

Plot

The series follows heroine Patience James and her girlfriends, Eboni, Maricruz, Lyric, and Ana Marie as they take on their lives in the big city, look for love and empower themselves -- both in and out of the bedroom.

Main characters

• Patrice Fisher
  Patrice Fisher
  Patrice Fisher is an American actress best known for her lead role as Patience James in the Cinemax TV series Zane's Sex Chronicles.Originally from Del Rio, Texas, Patrice Fisher was raised in a military family. At a young age she decided she wanted to be an entertainer...
  
  as Patience James, a V.P. of Marketing for Flava Cosmetics. She also lives an anonymous double life as writer Zane, a secret she keeps from her friends. Confident and strong-willed, Patience begins a relationship with Hunter.
• Maya Gilbert as Dr. Lyric Stansfield-Cruz, an obstetrician
  Obstetrics and gynaecology
  Obstetrics and gynaecology are the two surgical–medical specialties dealing with the female reproductive organs in their pregnant and non-pregnant state, respectively, and as such are often combined to form a single medical specialty and postgraduate training programme...
  
  . Lyric is happily married to Dr. Estaban Cruz but sexually frustrated within their relationship.
• Johanna Quintero as Maricruz Aguilar, a designer for Flava Cosmetics and colleague of Patience James. Maricruz is married and a mother of two children. She divorces her husband in season two but can not seem to break away from him.
• Laila Odom as Ana Marie Hawkings, a comedian and Patience James's best friend since high school. Ana Marie is involved in an on-again-off-again relationship with her boyfriend, Taariq.
• Christina DeRosa
  Christina DeRosa
  Christina DeRosa is an American actress.-Early life:DeRosa is the daughter from the second-generation of Italian parents Thomas and Antoinette DeRosa.-Movie career:...
  
  as Hannah "Eboni" Bendenhall (Season 1), the free-spirited owner of spa STEAM.
• Amin Joseph
  Amin Joseph
  Amin Joseph is an American stage, television, film actor. He was featured in The Expendables , a Lionsgate action epic released August 13, 2010, written and directed by Sylvester Stallone, and G.I...
  
  as Taariq, the hip-hop artist boyfriend of Ana Marie.
• Megan McCord Kim as Jade (in the Season 2).
• Liana Mendoza as Trinity (in the Season 2).
• Steve West as Grayson (in the Season 2).

Recurring characters

• Gichi Gamba as Stephen Kerrigan
• Ezra "Buddha" Masters as Hunter

Cancellation

Zane posted an update on September 13, 2010 on facebook about the future of the show:

"Many of you have asked about the return of “Zane’s Sex Chronicles” on Cinemax for a third season and I realize that a lot of you ordered the channel just for me. Again, I appreciate you. I wanted to let you know that there will not be a third season. Also, the second season is not scheduled to be released on DVD at this time. But, you can still purchase the first season on Amazon.com or rent it from Blockbuster or NetFlix. For those of you who got really caught up in the characters, there is a tie-in book for the series that digs deeper into their backgrounds and relationships. It is entitled “Zane’s Sex Chronicles,” exactly like the show."

External links

• Official site
• Director Shawn Foster
  Shawn Foster
  Shawn M. Foster is an American music video, film, and television director.-Career:His short film, White Pony, was a major contribution to the worldwide success of theDeftones record of the same name...