23 writers nationwide will serve as Poets Laureate Fellows

Glasgow pub will now be able to serve punters at two outdoor areas on Buchanan Street after getting the green light from council bosses. The city's licensing board has granted permission for Gordon Street boozer Bier Halle to open the areas under temporary licences.

Blindspotting creators Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal joined writers Priscila García-Jacquier, Alanna Brown, Nijla Mumin and actor Benjamin Earl Turner on Saturday to talk about the unique challenges adapting a film for television.

Haley Bosselman editorWhen Chaz Ebert decided to have Black Writers Week on RogerEbert.com, she chose mid-June dates to coincide with the same week as Juneteenth. Upon this decision, she had no idea Juneteenth was to become a federally recognized holiday.“I’m really filled with emotion today because of it being the first federally-recognized Juneteenth Independence Day.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorA group of more than 300 MSNBC employees are mounting a unionization drive with the Writers Guild of America East to represent writers, talent bookers, fact-checkers and others in editorial at NBCUniversal’s all-news cable network.On Thursday, a group dubbed @MSNBCUnion posted a letter on social media signed by more than 200 employees that called on NBCUniversal parent Comcast to voluntarily recognize the WGA East as the collective bargaining agent for about 315

MSNBC’s newsroom employees have unionized with the WGA East.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVYou can’t catch an episode of Kenya Barris’ comedies without hearing, “Ssh, daddy’s working” at the end, in the form of his Khalabo Ink Society production company that closes the show. Despite this common refrain, though, Barris says he doesn’t want complete quiet while working.“I actually like the white noise.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVWomen’s Weekend Film Challenge (WWFC) is launching a pilot accelerator program for writers to pitch female-centric content.The program, which will see emerging TV writers pitching beginning in October of this year, was designed to help such writers advance their careers, as well as to increase the representation of women non-binary people working in television.“So many members of our community have pilot scripts ready to go but no one to pitch to,”

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The WGA West’s LGBTQ+ Writers Committee sent an open letter to Hollywood on Friday urging the film and television industry to employ more LGBTQ+ writers, combat ongoing discrimination, and to more accurately reflect the lives and history of the gay community.

back in 2019 that they were writing and developing a series of films all inspired by the house and the history of its crazed owner, Madame Delphine LaLaurie. Bousman will direct the first film in the planned franchise.

Macdonald Hotels and Resorts has launched a full-scale recruitment drive to fill a wide range of vacancies at their four and five-star hotels and resorts across the UK.

CAA completed the sale of a majority stake in its own affiliate production outlet, Wiip, to the Korean studio JTBC to comply with the WGA franchise agreement,Endeavor, which became a publicly traded company in April, is the combination of sports, events, fashion and talent-management IMG and the agency WME. In its first earnings report last week, the company reported $2.4 million in net income for the quarter, besting the $51.4 million the company lost in the same period in 2020.

Jennifer Lopez's Nuyorican Productions has inked a multi-year deal with Netflix that includes the production of feature films, TV series, and unscripted content. As per Deadline, the deal will focus on supporting diverse female actors, writers, and filmmakers.

Kim Convenience‘s Jean Yoon, who stars as the family matriarch, said that a lack of Asian women in the comedy’s writers room made the her time on the series less than ideal.

Jean Yoon is revealing why working on “Kim’s Convenience” was a “difficult” experience. 

The production companies and executive producers behind Z Nation have been placed on the WGA’s Strike/Unfair List for allegedly failing to pay more than $5.1 million in residuals, pension and health contributions, and interest owed to the writers of the former series.

Nationwide Building Society has launched a new 0.99% mortgage rate for homeowners looking to remortgage. The two-year fixed-rate deal is available for borrowers with a hefty 40% deposit and also has a £1,499 fee.

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Television will link sixteen aspiring scribes with industry professionals and mentors for its six-week Diverse Writers Program.