Time’s Up Names Monifa Bandele Interim CEO After Tina Tchen’s Departure

Has the movie adaption of Wicked found its lead actresses?! Not so fast…

Arden Cho is leading in a big new role.

Netflix has given a formal 10-episode series order to Partner Track, an adaptation of Helen Wan’s 2013 novel. Arden Cho has been tapped as the lead of the series, created by Georgia Lee (The Expanse). Bradley Gibson (Powerbook III: Ghost), Alexandra Turshen (Ray Donovan), Dominic Sherwood (Penny Dreadful: The City of Angels), Rob Heaps (Good Girls) and Matthew Rauch (Terminal Lis) also star in the series, produced by Jax Media.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVNetflix has ordered an adaptation of Helen Wan’s “Partner Track” from Jax Media.The series will be created by Georgia Lee, starring Arden Cho, Bradley Gibson, Alexandra Turshen, Dominic Sherwood, Rob Heaps, Nolan Gerard Funk and Matthew Rauch.“Partner Track” centers on Ingrid Yun (Cho), an idealistic young lawyer, struggles with her moral compass and her passions as she fights to climb the partner track at an elite New York City law firm.

Samantha Mumba has previewed the upcoming music TV show Last Singer Standing in which she will be an expert panellist.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief“Shang-Chi And The Legend of The Ten Rings” held on the top place at the South Korean box office for the second weekend. But it failed to sustain overall cinemagoing in what used to be, pre-COVID, the world’s fourth largest theatrical market.“Shang-Chi” earned $2.63 million in its second weekend for a market share of 50%.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorMRC has tapped NBCUniversal alum Adam Stotsky as president of the newly created MRC Live & Alternative, which will absorb the operations of Dick Clark Productions.MRC has slowly been phasing out the Dick Clark Prods. moniker.

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Viewers of The Late Late Show were treated to a visit from Irish pop royalty as Samantha Mumba joined Ryan Tubridy in studio.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeA week after “Wheel of Fortune” lost its executive producer, as Mike Richards stepped down in a firestorm of controversy, the show has sealed a new deal to keep long-running hosts Pat Sajak and Vanna White in place.

Veteran Fox executive Mamie Coleman has been promoted to EVP Creative Music. In the newly created position, she will head Fox Entertainment’s music division, reporting to Fox Entertainment COO Amy Carney.

According to a report last week, ABC tried — and failed — to mediate with the two women earlier this summer. Corn denies the accusations.Per the Wall Street Journal, Godwin told staffers last month that she wants an independent investigation into the claims against Corn because, “We can’t have us investigating us.

pic.twitter.com/sRlUZfXnYZTime’s Up’s board of directors also announced Thursday that Monifa Bandele, formerly of MomsRising and most recently the group’s COO, would be the new interim CEO, effective August 31. The board, which is led by attorney Nina Shaw, also issued a statement on the heels of Tchen’s departure, praising her dedication to making workplaces more fair and equitable.

Just days after making it through a duo of pivot stakeholders meeting that put her besieged  leadership under a spotlight, Tina Tchen has quit as the head of Time’s Up

As one of the leads of Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building” alongside Steve Martin and Martin Short, Selena Gomez is starring in her first TV series since “Wizards of Waverly Place” ended in 2012. And it’s very much a departure from the Disney Channel fantasy sitcom.

Josh Sapan, a cable pioneer who has headed AMC Networks and its predecessors in the Dolan cable dynasty for more than 25 years, is seguing to the vice chairman role at AMC Networks.Matt Blank, a contemporary of Sapan’s who headed Showtime for 20 years, has been tapped as interim CEO while AMC Networks conducts a search for a new CEO.Sapan’s move was anticipated in the two-year contract he signed in December 2020 that gave him the option to shift from president and CEO to the vice chairman role

Meet Spike Spiegel (John Cho), Jet Black (Mustafa Shakir), and Faye Valentine (Daniella Pineda). Yep, the long-awaited and detailed “Cowboy Bebop” is finally done and premieres November 19 on Netflix.

EXCLUSIVE: The blast radius from the end of Andrew Cuomo’s reign in the Empire State this week could see another chief executive forced to exit, or at least face a reckoning.