HBO announced that its adaption of Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks will premiere at 8 p.m. on Saturday, April 22, Deadline reported. The project stars Oprah Winfrey, Rose Byrne, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Rocky Carroll, Kyanna Simone Simpson, Courtney B. Vance, Leslie Uggams, Reg E. Cathey, Reed Birney, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, John Douglas Thompson, Adriane Lenox, Roger Robinson and Melvin Van Peebles. George C. Wolfe directed from his screenplay. Winfrey, Alan Ball, Peter Macdissi, Carla Gardini and Lydia Dean Pilcher executive produce.
