What's Happening Now!! and Later Career
After a six year hiatus from TV and film acting, Ernest resumed his role as Roger Thomas in the sequel to What's Happening!!, titled What's Happening Now!!. The revived show aired from 1985 to 1988.
Ernest Thomas is also one of the stars of rocker/horror movie director Rob Zombie's upcoming 2012 film The Lords of Salem in which he plays a local town's radio DJ.
Since the show's cancellation Thomas has guest starred on a number of popular TV dramas and sitcoms including In the Heat of the Night, (which co-starred his TV wife Anne-Marie Johnson, from What's Happening Now!!), The Parent 'Hood, Martin, Soul Food, The Steve Harvey Show, All About the Andersons and more recently Just Jordan. He has also appeared in a number of films including his most prominent film appearances in a supporting role in Malcolm X and a cameo in Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star. He later had a recurring role as funeral director, Mr. Omar, on the TV sitcom Everybody Hates Chris. He has an eye condition called amblyopia.
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