EXCLUSIVE: Stranger Things actor Gaten Matarazzo will return to Broadway this summer in the Tony-winning musical Dear Evan Hansen. Beginning July 19, Matarazzo will play the role of Jared Kleinman in the long-running musical.
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EXCLUSIVE: The Gotham Film & Media Institute today named Ahya Simone, Bré Rivera and Paige Wood (Femme Queen Chronicles), Ariel Zucker and Daryl Paris Bright (GYNO), Chy Chi (Hot Dish), Stacie E. Hawkins (Night Watchers), Connor Austin Jones (On The Line), Maia Nikiphoroff (The Rise of Elisa Lynch), Lauren Ciaravalli (S.L.U.T.), Lori Webster Fore (Soul City), David Barker, Jerónimo Rodriguez and Jay van Hoy (Wiring Utopia), and Edith Rodriguez (Youth) as the fellows and projects for its 2022 Gotham TV Series Lab, taking place today through May 13th.
The Gotham TV Series Lab provides teams of up-and-coming creators, writers and producers with the knowledge, resources and mentor support necessary for writing strong pitches and creating solid development strategies. The five-day program is composed of workshops, panels and case studies, with a particular focus on the inner workings of the writers’ room and new trends in the marketplace.
This year, for the first time, two of the 10 projects included are from the Expanding Communities program, by way of recommendations from partner organizations, Gyno and Night Watchers. Expanding Communities is dedicated to providing resources, a community space, and industry access to individuals with disabilities, as well as Black, Indigenous, PoC, and LGBTQIA+ creators across the film, TV and audio industries.
“We are proud to announce the newest cohort for our fourth annual Gotham TV Series Lab which provides writers and creators new to the TV field with first-hand mentorship opportunities with industry experts,” said The Gotham’s Executive Director, Jeff Sharp. “This year’s selections feature ambitious projects with exciting world-building concepts and powerful self-possessed characters
EXCLUSIVE: Stranger Things actor Gaten Matarazzo will return to Broadway this summer in the Tony-winning musical Dear Evan Hansen. Beginning July 19, Matarazzo will play the role of Jared Kleinman in the long-running musical.
New photos of the Love Island villa show that final preparations are almost complete ahead of the 2022 series starting on ITV. Love Island will return to screens on Monday 6 June, and it's expected to be the longest season to date with contestants spending a whopping 10 weeks in the villa.
Love Island's 2022 official fashion partners have been announced, which will see the contestants champion sustainability with eBay in a huge change for the series.The ITV show's new brand partner has been a hit with shoppers for many years now and are set to take over from fast fashion brand ISAWITFIRST to push a more ethical message to viewers after Oxfam reported 13 million items of clothing goes into UK landfill every week. Love Island was previously sponsored by ISAWITFIRST since 2019 and had taken to supplying endless amounts of clothes to the Islander's as they partake on the journeys in the iconic villa.
Britain’s Got Talent star Jonathan Goodwin called his fianceé Amanda Abbington his “ride or die” in a sweet snap of the happy couple shared to Instagram on Tuesday. The 42 year old shared a picture of the pair smiling together as they sat in a car ready to head off on their next journey together. The former stuntman, who is engaged to Sherlock actress Amanda, 48, was tragically paralysed for life when a stunt performance went wrong on the set of America’s Got Talent last October.
In preparation for a summer return to in-person artist development labs, the Sundance Institute today named those selected as fellows for its 2022 Directors, Screenwriters and Native Labs.
"America’s Got Talent: Extreme" contestant Jonathan Goodwin revealed in a recent television interview that he told his fiancée Amanda Abbington that she could end their relationship after his near-fatal accident. In October 2021, the contestant lost a kidney, severed his spinal cord, broke both his shoulder blades, shattered both his legs and suffered third degree burn, which left him paralyzed. Goodwin explained in the couple’s first interview since the accident that he left the fate of their relationship up to the "Sherlock" actress.
becoming paralyzed from the waist down following a stunt gone wrong during a taping of . In his first TV interview since the accident six months ago, Goodwin opens up about adjusting to being wheelchair bound. «I don't really have a great memory ...I know that there was a moment where I knew it was going wrong,» he told of the near-fatal incident.In October, a spokesperson for told ET that during a rehearsal for , «an accident occurred in which escape artist Jonathan Goodwin was injured while performing his act.» According to , Goodwin was suspended 70 feet in the air in a straitjacket hanging by his feet from a wire, with two cars on either side of him swinging back and forth. He was attempting a stunt where he would free himself from the straitjacket and land on an air mattress before the cars crushed him. After the accident, Goodwin was in critical condition, and had broken legs and shoulders, a damaged kidney, a punctured lung, fractured ribs and a complete spinal fracture.«The spinal surgeon said that my injury was the worst that he'd ever seen and also told me that there was a really good chance I wouldn't make it through the surgery,» the 42-year-old stuntman told .A post shared by T H E D A R E D E V I L (@jonathangoodwinofficial)Goodwin said following the accident, he told his fiancée of one month, Amanda Abbington, that she had «a get out of jail free card» — but she stuck by him.«Amanda has been there for me every day since and has been and was really my motivation to get through it,» he shared.The stuntman goes on to describe what it's like being paralyzed.
Amanda Abbington never had a second thought about sticking by her man.
Amanda Abbington and her fiancé Jonathan Goodwin have opened up about the shocking accident that left the Britain’s Got Talent star paralysed in their first TV interview together. Sherlock star Amanda, 48, and escapologist Jonathan, 42, joined Lorraine Kelly on her ITV show on Friday to talk about how the accident had impacted their relationship. Jonathan fell 30 feet between two burning cars when a stunt on America’s Got Talent: Extreme went wrong, and spent four months in hospital as a result.The stuntman, who found fame as a finalist on BGT, told Lorraine: “I’m doing as well as I can be.
"America's Got Talent: Extreme" star Jonathan Goodwin shared he is now paralyzed and requires the use of a wheelchair following a failed, on-set stunt on the popular NBC competition show in October 2021. The 42-year-old Welsh daredevil shared a few details of his recovery efforts with fans in an Instagram post on Tuesday. "6 months ago I went to rehearse something and left this little hairy monkey waiting patiently for me…he didn’t see his dad again until just a couple of weeks ago and when he finally did, dad had new cool wheels," Goodwin wrote. "A lot has changed in the last 6 months, but love is a constant and I’m very very loved.
Jonathan Goodwin has shared the first photo of himself in a wheelchair after his stunt on Britain's Got Talent left him paralysed.The 42 year old suffered a horrific accident in October 2021 when a stunt on America's Got Talent: Extreme went wrong. While trying to escape from a straight jacket as he was suspended in the air between two burning cars, the Welshman was crushed between the vehicles and fell 30 feet to the ground.The stuntman was left with a severed spinal cord, third degree burns, a broken spine and had shattered his legs as a result of the horrific event.