On Jan. 5, a top talent agent cut their stay at a post-Golden Globe party short, rushing home to get a jump on all the work that had piled up during the holiday break. Two days later, that home would burn down in the wildfires that decimated the Pacific Palisades and Altadena areas of Los Angeles in addition to part of Malibu. The work that felt so pressing just hours before didn’t matter nearly as much in the face of unimaginable personal loss. That’s a sentiment felt across the entertainment industry, which was hit hard by the disaster, with people left homeless by the fires at every media company, talent and PR agency, sometimes at the highest level. >>> Sense Of Camaraderie Related: L.A.-Based Series Return To Production After Wildfire-Related Shutdowns |
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Succession Plan - We finally have the answer to one of the biggest questions in television: What will Jesse Armstrong do as a followup to Succession? Armstrong is writing an untitled movie for HBO Films based on an original idea. He is executive producing it with Frank Rich, with whom he executive produced Succession. The film is said to revolve around four friends who meet up during the turmoil of an ongoing international financial crisis. >>> Being Fast Tracked
Global Breakouts: '30,000,000 Yen' - In Japan a landmark writers room development program has led to the creation of 30,000,000 Yen. Airing late last year, the scripted series starts by posing an age-old question: What would you do if you suddenly came across a life-changing windfall of cash? What follows is a thriller that could be ripe for the international market. >>>2,000 Scripts Submitted
Larry Clark Likes 'Them' - Larry Clark, the filmmaker behind the Harmony Korine-scripted Kids and Brad Renfro starrer Bully, has come aboard the music documentary It Was Them, from filmmakers Edgar Morais and Luke Eberl, as an executive producer. >>>Indigenous-Latino Story |
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Dallas Raines wasn’t born in the City of Angels, but few Angelenos exemplify Southern California like the Georgia-bred ABC 7 News chief meteorologist. That is especially true in times of extreme weather like the hurricane force winds and raging wildfires that have cut an unprecedented destructive swath through the region this past week. “This is one of the most beautiful places in the world, but these winds and fires are things that we are going to have to deal with forever,” the 40-year resident of L.A. said bluntly Monday, as he prepared to go on the air for the West Coast flagship of Disney-owned ABC. Raines spoke to Deadline about what the past week has wrought, where to get your information, and what could be done to help cut down SoCal’s never-ending cycle of fires. >>> Read The Interview |
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Oscar winner F. Murray Abraham (The White Lotus), Caroline Aaron (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), Noam Ash (The Other Two) and Charlie Barnett (The Acolyte) are set for 5x Media‘s Bookends from filmmaker Mike Doyle.
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Sophia Anne Caruso (Beetlejuice), Mark Penwill (Catch Me a Killer) and Anton David Jeftha (Legacy) have joined the Season 2 cast of Netflix's One Piece in recurring roles.
Gracie Lawrence of The Sex Lives of College Girls and the band Lawrence will make her Broadway debut this spring opposite Jonathan Groff in the Bobby Darin musical Just In Time. She’ll play singer Connie Francis to Groff’s Darin.
Will Cain, the co-host of Fox & Friends Weekend, will take over the 4 p.m. ET weekday timeslot on Fox News Channel following the departure of Neil Cavuto last month. Cain will start his show, The Will Cain Show, on January 21. |
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More News 📺 MSNBC is undergoing a leadership change as it prepares to be spun off from Comcast later this year along with other cable networks. Rashida Jones is stepping down as president, with Rebecca Kutler, SVP of content strategy, replacing her on an interim basis. The network also confirmed it is keeping its name after the spinoff. ⚖️ Donald Trump would have been convicted of illegally trying to overturn the result of the 2020 U.S. election had he not become President again, according to Special Counsel Jack Smith‘s partially released report. The evidence against Trump was “sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial,” Smith wrote. Trump hit back on his Truth Social platform to say the findings were “fake."
📺 MSNBC announced that Lawrence O’Donnell has secured what will likely be the final TV interview with President Joe Biden before he leaves office. It will air Thursday on O’Donnell's primetime show The Last Word. 🖥️ In a broader announcement about finalizing a plan to spin off a stake in home services platform Angi to IAC shareholders, the company said Joey Levin, who had been IAC's CEO, will become executive chairman of Angi. Technically, no new CEO will be named. IAC founder Barry has already been serving as chairman.
🎙️ Rachel Maddow will return to a five-night-a-week schedule for the first 100 days of Donald Trump‘s administration, bolstering the MSNBC lineup at a crucial period. |
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Wed - BAFTA Film Award nominations; Jennifer Lopez on Fallon
Thu - Joe Biden on MSNBC
Sat - Dave Chappelle hosts SNL
Mon - Martin Luther King Jr. Day; Inauguration Day; College Football Championship |
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"Together" - Ahead of the start of the Los Angeles Rams-Minnesota Vikings NFC Wild Card playoff game Monday in Arizona, former Rams Super Bowl champion Andrew Whitworth – and current NFL analyst for Prime Video – took the mic at State Farm Stadium to send a message of hope and love back to L.A. amid the devastating wildfires that have gripped the city for almost a week.
"We will not be defined by this devastation, we will rebuild hand in hand together for as long as it takes and whatever it takes, we will build it together," Whitworth said, echoing the mantra emblazoned around the stadium in Rams colors. |
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