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The first crop of announced candidates seeking election to the Writers Guild of America West’s board of directors includes former showrunners of Big Mouth and The Blacklist as well as the screenwriter of this year’s Send Help. Writers Andrew Goldberg (Big Mouth, Mating Season), John Eisendrath (The Blacklist, Alias) and Mark Swift (Send Help, Baywatch)…
You know it was a special night when Jerry Bruckheimer walked to the valet and described what he’d just witnessed in the backyard of Sherry Lansing’s Bel-Air home as “the greatest speech” he’s ever heard. One legendary producer complimenting another after Lawrence Gordon — best known in Hollywood as Larry, and as a guiding force…
Chalk this one up to odd timing and the lag in reporting for Nielsen’s streaming ratings: A day after news broke that Netflix had canceled its series The Boroughs, the Nielsen numbers show it had a strong premiere week. The Boroughs, executive produced by Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer, had 1.2 billion minutes…
Taylor Swift celebrated the release of Toy Story 5 with a post on X on Thursday, where she seemed to suggest that it took just a day to write and produce “I Knew It, I Knew You.” “Been kind of a hectic day,” Swift said in the video, smiling and practically jittery. “At 11 a.m.,…
Netflix‘s I Will Find You is the very model of a modern distracted-viewing show.Back in January, promoting The Rip, Matt Damon told a podcast host that Netflix was accounting for multi-tasking, multi-screen viewership by asking creators to “reiterate the plot three or four times in the dialogue.”It became the subject of a joke at the…
The pirate dream just won’t die. Buzz around a sixth installment of Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean is relentless. This year, 1.6 billion watched the premiere of the second series of Netflix’s One Piece, about the search for the Pirate King’s treasure. And last week, Ridley Scott announced that he would be directing a new…
Lil Nas X shared an extensive video on social media Wednesday morning, giving his most extensive update about his mental health and since his infamous arrest last year, opening up about being diagnosed with bipolar disorder, going through rehab and therapy and confirming that he has new music in the works. “I’ve been in rehab…
The sign blocking access is clear: “The pool is closed for a private event.” Look past the sign and you, a curious civilian — that is, someone who is not part of the adult industry — trying to get a peek inside the well-guarded Miami Beach hotel, would see some of the most desired bodies…
Abbott Elementary star Janelle James is lining up her next TV project — as a writer. James and Happy Endings creator David Caspe are teaming for a Hulu comedy, Rock City, set in the Virgin Islands. They’ll write and executive produce the project, which comes from Universal Television and is in development at Hulu. For…
COMEDY Best Series ANGIE HAN I can’t imagine Hacks not finding a spot here, but my heart is with the inventive newcomers — shows like David E. Kelley’s bighearted Margo’s Got Money Troubles, Rebecca Cutter’s deliciously soapy The Hunting Wives, Katie Dippold’s genre-bending Widow’s Bay, Tim Robinson’s The Chair Company and, maybe most of all,…
