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The Morning Show executive producer and director Mimi Leder is sticking around Apple TV+. The Emmy-winning filmmaker (On The Basis of Sex, ER) has signed a multi-year, overall deal with the streamer.

EXCLUSIVE: NBC is developing Something Wicked, a multi-camera comedy starring June Diane Raphael and written and executive produced by Raphael and Dickinson creator Alena Smith.

EXCLUSIVE: U.S. and UK management and production firm 42 has hired Anonymous Content partner Alex Goldstone as a manager.

EXCLUSIVE: Television literary agent Christopher Licata has left CAA — and agenting. He has joined Los Angeles and London-based management and production company 42 (The Silent Twins, The Flatshare) as a manager. Based in 42’s Los Angeles office, Licata will continue to specialize in literary talent representation, working with creators and writers across television and film.

Following her work on “The Morning Show,” Apple TV+ is locking up Emmy Award-winning director and filmmaker Mimi Leder to a multi-year overall deal. Under the pact, the growing streaming service will have a first-look on streaming features, as well as an exclusive deal for series developed by Leder, who currently serves as executive producer and director on the star-studded “The Morning Show.” The deal comes shortly after Apple TV+ renewed “The Morning Show” for a third season.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVWhen Alena Smith sat down to tell the untold tale of famed poet Emily Dickinson, she imagined a three-year television series. She sold the show straight to series to Apple TV Plus in May 2018, more than a year before that streamer would even launch.

third and final season of kicked off with three episodes on Friday, Nov. 5, which included the introduction of Ziwe guest-starring as abolitionist Sojourner Truth.

For a minute there, Hailee Steinfeld suggested she was not getting the role of Marvel’s Kate Bishop on the “Hawkeye” limited series show, and beyond in the MCU, and there was talk that Apple’s “Dickinson” had an exclusive hold on her that would not let her do both.

The Apple TV+ original series Dickinson won a Peabody Award for its first season, sparking to creator/writer/executive producer/showrunner Alena Smith’s contemporary take on the coming of age of American poet Emily Dickinson, played by Oscar nominee Hailee Steinfeld.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TV“Dickinson” creator and showrunner Alena Smith has always worked from home, but during the COVID-19 pandemic she spent more time in that space than ever before, even going so far as to turn it into a part-time yoga studio.In order for it to be a place where she can both unwind and work, she keeps it “obsessively neat,” she says. “I’m an anti-hoarder.

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The second season of Alena Smith’s “Dickinson” begins with a warning and provocation. “The records of Emily Dickinson’s life, up to and including Sue and Austin’s marriage, are full and factual compared with what lies ahead,” says narrator, star, and executive producer Hailee Steinfeld, an admission that yes, the first season took liberties with history, but this one will make those liberties look factual by contrast.

Hailee Steinfeld) is at the center of creator Alena Smith’s Apple TV+ comedy,, she’s surrounded by several pivotal characters who also see their world expand and are challenged in season 2.

Hailee Steinfeld’s has announced its return in a big way.

Matt Grobar Assistant Editor, AwardslineWith Apple TV+ comedy Dickinson and Amazon’s Hunters, costume designer John Dunn seized the opportunity to examine weighty historical figures and momentous periods in time through a playful lens, striving in each case to contribute to a nuanced tonal space.Created by Alena Smith, the former title unfurls the coming-of-age story of Emily Dickinson (Hailee Steinfeld), an iconic American poet who boldly explored the constraints of society, gender and family,

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticEmily Dickinson has long been lauded as one of the deities of American literature, but now thanks to the Hailee Steinfeld-starring Apple TV+ series based on her life, the 19th century poet is a Peabody Award winner too.

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