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Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVWith British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell currently awaiting a November 2021 trial, facing charges that range from enticement of minors to sex trafficking of children in connection, the producers behind “Epstein’s Shadow: Ghislaine Maxwell” feel the timing of that docuseries’ release could not be more perfect.This is because they did not set out to capture the definitive story of her legal battles, but rather “to be the definitive documentary on who

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVAlmost a year after “Lovecraft Country” first premiered on HBO, series star Jurnee Smollett still isn’t sure if a second season may be coming.“I will accept and surrender to whatever destiny is in store for these characters.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVCall it another COVID-19 pandemic casualty, but for the first time in a decade, the number of scripted series that aired in the calendar year of 2020 decreased from the previous year (493, down from 532).

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TV“The Good Lord Bird” and “Unorthodox” are two of the latest Peabody Award winners, announced Tuesday.This year the 81st annual Peabody Awards are being virtually presented over the course of four days.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVThe journey to get “The Chi” showrunner Justin Hillian a proper at-home office has been as long as the COVID-19 pandemic itself. When lockdown first started in March 2020, his wife was pregnant and working from home as well.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVAmber Ruffin and Robin Thede go way back.The writers, producers and performers entered late-night TV around the same time (Ruffin in 2014 on “Late Night With Seth Meyers” and Thede the following year on “The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore”).

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVCulinary producer Kim Seeley was working in a restaurant in Los Angeles when her executive chef brought her onto the “Hell’s Kitchen” for Fox.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVIn the sixth episode of new NBC sitcom “Young Rock,” based on the real life of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, his father, Rocky Johnson (Joseph Lee Anderson), prepares for and then wrestles in a Battle Royal. The way the match was written, there were 18 performers who would take each other out one, or a few, at a time, leaving Rocky to become the Polynesian Pacific champion.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVGrammy-winner Sara Bareilles is honest about the “so many” experiences in the music industry where someone may be really having a moment and then they disappear from the zeitgeist.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVThe effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have been felt far and wide, with the latest being on the nominations-round ballots for the 73rd annual Primetime Emmy Awards.The total number of submissions are down significantly across most categories. The drama series race sees 133 contenders, while the comedy series race sees 68 titles on the ballot and the limited series/anthology category has 37 programs on the ballot.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVDocumentarians Cecilia Peck and Inbal B.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVAs the overall director of photography on National Geographic’s “Race to the Center of the Earth,” Joshua Gitersonke was responsible for not only for the visual storytelling of the adventure race competition series, but also maintaining consistency across four crews as each team started in a different corner of the world.

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,”

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched the Season 4 finale of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” streaming now on Hulu.Two episodes before the end of the fourth season of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” June (Elisabeth Moss) stood in front of her Gilead abusers and testified about their crimes.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched the Season 4 finale of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” streaming now on Hulu.Writer, producer and director Liz Garbus is adamantly opposed to the death penalty, something she has explored in such documentaries as “The Execution of Wanda Jean” dating back to 2002.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVHow does a doctor who graduated from one of the top medical schools get accused of killing two of his patients but get to continue on to perform more surgeries? That is what Peacock’s upcoming limited series “Dr. Death” will explore when all eight episodes hit the streamer on July 15.Joshua Jackson stars as the titular “Dr.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVFor their first outings as television creators, Ethan Hawke and Little Marvin held nothing back.Hawke acquired the rights to James McBride’s novel “The Good Lord Bird” for the Showtime adaptation. He also wrote scripts, executive produced and starred as abolitionist John Brown, approaching history with a witty bent.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVAs Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) played out a family fantasy across multiple decades of sitcom television in Disney Plus’ “WandaVision,” veteran costume designer Mayes C. Rubeo had to dress her for the part.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TV“Fargo” showrunner Noah Hawley lives and works in Austin, Texas, so even before the COVID-19 pandemic pushed people to work from home, he was already doing that.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVThe penultimate episode of “The Stand” finally paid off what Stephen King fans knew was coming ever since the project was greenlit: the destruction of Randall Flagg aka the Dark Man’s (Alexander Skarsgård) debaucherous Las Vegas community.As Randall screams about the traitors in their midst and has Larry (Jovan Adepo) and Ray (Irene Bedard) chained inside a pool that is slowly being filled with water, ominous clouds drift into the Inferno through the

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVThree years ago Jasmine Cephas Jones originated the character of Ashley in the feature “Blindspotting,” written by Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs. It was a breakout screen role after she already took the stage by storm as Peggy Schuyler and Maria Reynolds in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Hamilton.” Now, after equally memorable work in everything from “Mrs.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TV“Made for Love” showrunner Christina Lee usually prefers to write at coffee shops in her Los Angeles neighborhood because at home “there’s always some laundry to fold or toys to put away or a bed to lie down on,” she says with a laugh. So, adjusting to working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic meant making big changes to her space to help her focus.“I Marie Kondo-ed my office,” she says.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVChristina Choe and Susanna Fogel have served as writers and directors of film projects including “Nancy” (Choe) and “The Spy Who Dumped Me” (Fogel).

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVCasting director Linda Lamontagne got her start in sitcoms including “Roseanne” and “Cybill” in the early 1990s but less than a decade later she made a full-time pivot to voiceover for animated comedies and films.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVWhen viewers of Starz drama series “P-Valley” first meet protagonist Mercedes, she has been a central figure at the Pynk strip club for years and is considering retirement.To tackle the role, Brandee Evans needed to embody not only a talented, strong and commanding performer, but she also had to have the attitude of the “O.G.,” says choreographer Jamaica Craft.“You dance with floss and you’re throwing yourself around the pole, doing incredibly

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVAustin Winsberg got used to traveling from his California based writers’ room for “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist” to its Canadian set during the first sea – son of the NBC musical comedy.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVIn the two versions of “The Mosquito Coast” that came before the Apple TV Plus drama (the 1981 novel and the 1986 film adaptation), the character of Allie Fox’s wife and mother to his children was just that and that alone: a wife and mother.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVProduction designer Ruth Ammon has worked on iconic films and television shows from “Drop Dead Gorgeous” to “Heroes” and “Smash,” but the one area she has long wanted to play in was space. Working on Amazon Prime Video’s anthology series “Solos” finally gave her that chance.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVIn March 1971, Aretha Franklin took the stage at the Fillmore West in San Francisco to deliver a concert that was then turned into the Queen of Soul’s third live album. Video footage from that concert is in black and white and grainy at best, due to the technology available at the time.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVWhen Liz Meriwether launched “New Girl” on Fox in 2011, she didn’t think anyone would still be talking about the show a decade later. But 10 years after “New Girl” premiered and only three years after it concluded its run, it is seeing a lucrative second life thanks to streaming deals.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVHaving her nonfiction book of essays, “Shrill: Notes From a Loud Woman,” turned into a streaming scripted comedy in 2019 checked many boxes for Lindy West.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVThirty years ago, watching a character visit a therapist on television was often played for laughs. At least, that’s how Yvette Lee Bowser, then-executive producer on “A Different World,” recalls it.

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.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVActor-director Phill Lewis has decades of experience in the sitcom space, primarily focused on live-action comedy. This television season alone he has directed episodes of Netflix’s “Mr.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVIt’s time to salute Soldier Boy! Amazon Prime Video has released a first look at Jensen Ackles in his superhero suit ahead of Season 3 of “The Boys.”Designed by Laura Jean “L.J.” Shannon and concept artist Greg Hopwood, the suit embodies military green worthy of, as Shannon puts it, “the original bad-ass.”“Our goal was to highlight a bygone era of overt masculinity and grit.