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Elaine Low Senior TV Writer“Kim’s Convenience” star Simu Liu asks himself “every day” whether he should’ve spoken out last month on social media about his experience on the set of the hit CBC series, when he noted in a Facebook post the “overwhelmingly white” producers and lack of Korean voices in the writers’ room after creator Ins Choi departed.

Elaine Low Senior TV Writer“Cursed,” the fantasy series that reimagined King Arthur through the eyes of Nimue, the young woman who winds up becoming the tragic Lady of the Lake, has been canceled at Netflix after one season on the streaming service.Starring Katherine Langford as Nimue, Devon Terrell as Arthur and Gustaf Skarsgård as Merlin, the series was based on the best-selling novel of the same title by Tom Wheeler and Frank Miller.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterNetflix and Shonda Rhimes are extending their creative relationship, inked in 2017, beyond television to feature films and gaming.Under the terms of the expanded deal, which encompasses Rhimes’ Shondaland Media and her longtime producing partner Betsy Beers, Netflix and Shondaland will exclusively produce, stream and distribute feature films in addition to potential gaming and virtual reality content.“When Ted and I decided to break the traditional network TV business

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterFox Corp. has brought on a new head of communications.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterFrom TV writers’ rooms to executive offices to on-site productions, there are certain Los Angeles eateries that seem to have a ubiquitous presence at group work lunches across Hollywood: Joan’s on Third, Tender Greens, Sweetgreen.For group-order staple Mendocino Farms, over 50% of its Los Angeles business revolves around the entertainment industry. But once COVID-19 hit the U.S.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterUnite Here Local 11, the union backing laid-off Chateau Marmont workers, filed an unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board on Wednesday, alleging that management at the Andre Balazs-owned hotel was unlawfully “engaging in surveillance or creating impression of surveillance of employees’ union activities.”The charge is the latest move in the ongoing conflict between Chateau Marmont, known for its frequent Hollywood guests, and the

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched the series finale of “The Bold Type,” which aired June 30 on Freeform.Endings are hard. The penultimate season of “The Bold Type” — cut short by the pandemic — left Sutton Brady (Meghann Fahy) and Richard Hunter (Sam Page) in a difficult spot, disagreeing fundamentally on whether each wanted children following Sutton’s miscarriage.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterMask mandates are no more in California and New York, where COVID-19 cases have plummeted — and so much of the entertainment industry is based.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterTwo decades after the wonderfully zippy, goofy “Monsters, Inc.” was released in theaters, Pixar is bringing back Mike Wazowski and James P. “Sulley” Sullivan for another adventure.

Elaine Low Senior TV Writer“Made for Love,” the original HBO Max dark comedy starring Cristin Milioti and based on the novel by Alissa Nutting, is getting a Season 2.“’Made for Love’ is funny, dark, and entirely unique,” said Suzanna Makkos, exec VP of original comedy and adult animation at HBO Max.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterCBS’ executive vice president Julie Pernworth is departing the network after nearly 21 years. Calling the last year and a half of the pandemic “a time of reflection for many of us,” she shared that she is “exploring new possibilities” and will be leaving after her contract at the network runs up next week.Pernworth first joined CBS in 2000 as VP of comedy development and stepped into her most recent role in 2015.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterPerhaps best known for his comedic work on “Veep” and “Arrested Development,” Tony Hale has also been prolific in programs for younger eyeballs over the years, from “Toy Story 4″ and “Forky Asks a Question” to the adaptation of his 2014 book, “Archibald’s Next Big Thing.” Although he continues to work in adult fare (“Eat Wheaties!” and the upcoming “Being the Ricardos”), his recent slate is populated with family-friendly fare: “I Heart Arlo,” the “Rugrats” revival,

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterBlumhouse Television and ITV America have struck an exclusive, multiyear deal for unscripted television, through which Blumhouse will create a new slate of projects in its signature style.A dedicated Blumhouse team will work with ITV America to “bring the loudest, most intense and unexpected genre, paranormal reality and suspense-driven creative to unscripted,” according to the company.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterColman Domingo, known for “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” “Fear the Walking Dead” and “Zola,” is adapting his award-winning play “Dot” as a dramedy entitled “West Philly, Baby.” The series, a co-production between AMC Studios and the AMC Networks-owned streamer ALLBLK, is one of the first projects from Domingo’s Edith Productions to be developed under its first-look deal with AMC Studios.Domingo will write, direct and executive produce the series, which follows “a

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterEntertainment One is expanding its leadership team, bringing on board Gabriel Marano as an executive vice president of scripted television, where he will oversee the development of all of the company’s Hasbro IP.Concurrently, Jacqueline Sacerio, eOne’s current exec VP of scripted TV, will expand her responsibilities and shepherd the company’s first-look ad pod deals.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterThe pandemic brought TV and film production to a screeching halt last spring, and even when it restarted, it put the kibosh on live audiences for a while. For stand-up comedians from Kevin Hart to Chelsea Handler, figuring out how to make people laugh — safely — in the middle of one of the toughest years in modern history was a feat unto itself.British comedian London Hughes moved to the U.S.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterFox Entertainment and its animation studio Bento Box Entertainment are getting into NFTs — non-fungible tokens — and launching a $100 million creator fund through its newly created business unit, Blockchain Creative Labs.Blockchain Creative Labs will be based in Los Angeles and operate under the Fox Entertainment banner, with Bento Box CEO Scott Greenbreg serving as chief executive of the lab.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterAhead of its Season 1 finale, psychological thriller “Cruel Summer” is getting a second season at Freeform after becoming the network’s most-watched series ever.“Renewing Cruel Summer for a season 2 was an easy decision,” said Freeform president Tara Duncan. “It’s the biggest series debut in Freeform’s history and the audience response has been overwhelmingly positive.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterGeorge Lopez and his real-life daughter Mayan Lopez are slated to star in a comedy from Universal Television about a “working-class family comedy about dysfunction, reconnection and all the pain and joy in between.”“Lopez vs.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterDisneyland will no longer require fully vaccinated visitors to wear masks indoors or outdoors starting on Tuesday, said the Anaheim, Calif.-based theme park and resort, which has been engaged with a phased reopening since April 30.The move comes in conjunction with the State of California’s eased COVID-19 regulations on June 15, in which all capacity limitations and physical distancing restrictions will be dropped for fully vaccinated individuals as the state reopens

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched Part 2 of “Lupin,” streaming now on Netflix.Much of the fun of watching Netflix’s original series “Lupin,” inspired by the Maurice Leblanc books, is in anticipating what cleverness and charm Assane Diop (played by Omar Sy) will deploy to meet his goals.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterApple TV Plus has renewed the Jason Momoa post-apocalyptic drama “See” for Season 3, the filming of which is already underway in Toronto.The show’s early renewal comes ahead of its Season 2 premiere, which the streamer has slated for Aug. 27, with new episodes premiering on a weekly basis every Friday.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterThe past year has been “terrible” for Emily Tatum, a New Orleans makeup artist who works on television, film and commercials. Both she and her husband, a construction foreman on film sets, lost their jobs “completely out of the blue” last March when the COVID-19 pandemic struck the U.S.“It was just a complete nightmare for us,” she says.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterEven more of the band is getting back together.

Elaine Low Senior TV Writer“Bar Rescue,” the bar makeover show born just a handful of years after the Great Recession, is now entering its eighth season — and hitting a milestone 200th episode — as a battered hospitality business once again attempts to emerge from another economic downturn, this time caused by the devastating COVID-19 pandemic.Host and executive producer Jon Taffer says to expect the upcoming season on Paramount Network to be an emotional one — “more emotional than any other

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterMatthew Goode has been cast to play film producer and studio exec Robert Evans in Paramount Plus limited event series “The Offer,” about the making of “The Godfather.”“The Offer” is based on the experience of Oscar-winning producer Albert S. Ruddy.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterIn a television landscape riddled with reboots, sequels and revivals, audiences are primed for stories that pick up where another tale has left off.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterHeadspace and Sesame Street are joining forces to help kids and parents make bed time a little easier with a new podcast and book series titled “Goodnight, World!”The “sleepcast,” as Headspace’s sleep-focused podcasts are called, is designed to “create the right conditions for healthy, restful sleep.” The 12-episode, 20-minute long “Goodnight, World!” episodes are hosted by Alan, the owner of Hooper’s Store, alongside other Sesame Street characters, including Big

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterParamount Television head Nicole Clemens is seen as the likeliest candidate to oversee Paramount Plus’ content and programming strategy, according to sources familiar with the matter.The move comes after Paramount Plus head of programming Julie McNamara, a 15-year-veteran of ViacomCBS, announced her departure Thursday.Paramount declined to comment.More to come…

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterKyle Chandler is joining the cast of Showtime’s anthology series “Super Pumped,” the television adaptation of Mike Isaac’s book, “Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber.”The “Friday Night Lights” and “Bloodline” actor will star as Bill Gurley, described as “the plainspoken, brilliant Texan venture capitalist who bets his sterling reputation on Uber’s success – and then has to live with the consequences.”The news comes days after Showtime announced that Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterAfter 15 years at CBS and now ViacomCBS, Paramount Plus head of programming Julie McNamara is departing the company.ViacomCBS President and CEO of streaming Tom Ryan shared the news with staff Thursday, and with a note from McNamara, who called it a “bittersweet moment.”“Working closely with my friend David Stapf, CBS Studios went from being a small boutique studio, to one of the most successful content suppliers in the world,” she wrote.

Elaine Low Senior TV Writer“The Bold Type,” which airs its fifth and final season premiere Wednesday night, might not have ever happened if it weren’t for Katy Perry.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterWill Mr. Big return for HBO Max’s “And Just Like That…”? Abso-fucking-lutely.Despite early reports to the contrary, Chris Noth will indeed be reprising his role as Carrie Bradshaw’s beau in the 10-episode “Sex and the City” revival, which is scheduled to begin production in New York this summer.“I’m thrilled to be working with Chris again on ‘And Just Like That…’ How could we ever do a new chapter of the ‘Sex And The City’ story without our Mr.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterAn investigative three-part docuseries centered on British socialist Ghislaine Maxwell, known for her association with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, is coming to NBCUniversal-owned streaming service Peacock on June 24.The original documentary, produced by Blue Ant Studios, is described as investigating the “powerful, connected, and mysterious Ghislaine Maxwell, who was once the heiress to the Maxwell fortune but whose life takes a sordid downturn when she

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterThe CW’s pilot of “Powerpuff,” the live-action series based on the popular Cartoon Network animated show “The Powerpuff Girls,” is being overhauled and re-shot because the initial pilot was “too campy” and not as rooted in reality as network execs would have liked.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterWhen Netflix launched its streaming platform in Japan nearly six years ago and began curating collections of television series and films, there were some moods that just didn’t translate to English.