As part of the ongoing WarnerMedia restructuring, Warner Bros. Television Group Chairman Peter Roth consolidates the studio’s scripted and unwritten television production business. On the script side, Warner Bros. Television and cable / streaming unit Warner Horizon Scripted TV merged into a new scripting division led by Warner Bros. Television …
Read More »New peacock comedies by Tina Fey, Mike Schur announced – / Film
Peacock knocks out his fires and builds his lay originals with new comedies 30 Rock‘s Tina Fey en The right place creator Mike Schur. The new comedies, next to the new ones MacGruber series with Will Forte and two shows “late-night” with headlines throughout Amber Ruffin en Larry Wilmore, are …
Read More »Hulu will shoot Black-ish episode streaming Disney in 2018 controversially
In November 2017, Black-ish creator Kenya Barris wrote an episode of his Emmy-winning ABC comedy titled ‘Please, Baby, Please’ that tackles racism in America, ranging from the Charlottesville protests to kneeling in the NFL. Just a week before it aired in 2018, Disney sealed it. Now, the episode will finally …
Read More »HBO teams up with Judd Apatow to make documentary about George Carlin – Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: HBO is collaborating Knocked Up creator Judd Apatow to make a two-part documentary about legendary American cabaret artist George Carlin, with UK outfit Rise Films producing alongside Apatow Productions. HBO Documentary Films has commissioned Apatow and his longtime collaborator Michael Bonfiglio to direct the films, which will include interviews …
Read More »Jessie is so excited (again) in Reboot – / Film
Saved By the Bell, the teen sitcom of the 1980s and 1990s, is getting a fresh start at Peacock – and the new streaming service seems to be taking a side out of the Brady Bunch Movie playbook and turning this into a self-confident, meta-show that explicitly comments on its …
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