Samantha Irby, Rachna Fruchbom, Keli Goff, Julie Rottenberg and Elisa Zuritsky have joined the writing team for HBO Max’s limited series reboot of Sex and the City.
The virtual writers’ room for And Just Like That… has begun with the five writers joining exec producer Michael Patrick King.
Irby, creator of the blog Bitches Gotta Eat, has written on Hulu’s Shrill, Showtime’s Work in Progress and Adult Swim’s Tuca & Bertie and is developing Meaty at Comedy Central with Abbi Jacobson and Jessi Klein. She is set as writer and co-producer.
Fruchbom has written on Parks and Recreation and most recently was a co-exec producer on Fresh Off The Boat. She also co-hosts Hall of Shame, a podcast for Crooked Media. She is a writer and co-exec producer.
Goff has written for series including Twenties, Black Lightning and Being Mary Jane and produced documentary Reversing Roe.
The virtual writers’ room for And Just Like That… has begun with the five writers joining exec producer Michael Patrick King.
Irby, creator of the blog Bitches Gotta Eat, has written on Hulu’s Shrill, Showtime’s Work in Progress and Adult Swim’s Tuca & Bertie and is developing Meaty at Comedy Central with Abbi Jacobson and Jessi Klein. She is set as writer and co-producer.
Fruchbom has written on Parks and Recreation and most recently was a co-exec producer on Fresh Off The Boat. She also co-hosts Hall of Shame, a podcast for Crooked Media. She is a writer and co-exec producer.
Goff has written for series including Twenties, Black Lightning and Being Mary Jane and produced documentary Reversing Roe.
- 2/5/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
And just like that, HBO Max’s “Sex and the City” revival has assembled a writing team.
The original series re-enters the lives and friendships of Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon) and Charlotte York (Kristin Davis), now in their 50s.
“And Just Like That…” features familiar “Sex and the City” writers as well as several new additions. Comedian and author Samantha Irby, “Fresh Off the Boat” writer Rachna Fruchbom and “Reversing Roe” producer Keli Goff have joined veteran “Sex and the City” writers and producers Julie Rottenberg and Elisa Zuritsky in the writers room.
Irby, billed as a co-producer, is known for penning the New York Times bestsellers “Meaty,” “We Are Never Meeting in Real Life,” and “Wow, No Thank You.” She is currently developing “Meaty” at Comedy Central with Abbi Jacobson and Jessi Klein, and previously worked on “Tuca & Bertie,” “Work in Progress” and “Shrill.
The original series re-enters the lives and friendships of Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon) and Charlotte York (Kristin Davis), now in their 50s.
“And Just Like That…” features familiar “Sex and the City” writers as well as several new additions. Comedian and author Samantha Irby, “Fresh Off the Boat” writer Rachna Fruchbom and “Reversing Roe” producer Keli Goff have joined veteran “Sex and the City” writers and producers Julie Rottenberg and Elisa Zuritsky in the writers room.
Irby, billed as a co-producer, is known for penning the New York Times bestsellers “Meaty,” “We Are Never Meeting in Real Life,” and “Wow, No Thank You.” She is currently developing “Meaty” at Comedy Central with Abbi Jacobson and Jessi Klein, and previously worked on “Tuca & Bertie,” “Work in Progress” and “Shrill.
- 2/5/2021
- by Elaine Low
- Variety Film + TV
Topic Studios is developing a scripted TV series based on Benito Cereno, the 1855 Herman Melville novella about the fictionalized revolt of a Spanish slave ship. The series, which will be adapted to take place in deep space, is created by The Knick scribe/co-executive producer Steven Katz, who will write and executive produced project.
Topic Studios will also executive produce alongside Manage-ment’s Dan Halsted and Corinne Hayoun.
Inspired by the novella — considered one of Melville’s finest works as a commentary on slavery, the nature of man and good versus evil — the series will be a science fiction thriller centered on an accidental encounter between a human commercial ship and an alien slave freighter, where the human captain navigates a world of inter-species slavery in a distant future with frightening parallels to our past.
“Benito Cereno is one of Melville’s most thought-provoking short stories, and Steven has been able to retain its essence,...
Topic Studios will also executive produce alongside Manage-ment’s Dan Halsted and Corinne Hayoun.
Inspired by the novella — considered one of Melville’s finest works as a commentary on slavery, the nature of man and good versus evil — the series will be a science fiction thriller centered on an accidental encounter between a human commercial ship and an alien slave freighter, where the human captain navigates a world of inter-species slavery in a distant future with frightening parallels to our past.
“Benito Cereno is one of Melville’s most thought-provoking short stories, and Steven has been able to retain its essence,...
- 11/28/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Manage-ment, Dan Halsted’s bicoastal management and production company that reps writers and directors like Taika Waititi, Catherine Hardwicke, Moonlight scribe Tarell Alvin McCraney, and Emmy-winning The Americans creator Joe Weisberg, has promoted managers Nathan Miller and Corinne Hayoun to partners.
Miller, who has a degree in screenwriting, has been with the company for nine years and boasts a roster of clients who have been staffed on shows including The Chi (Showtime), American Gods (Starz), Nightflyers (Syfy), and Seven Seconds (Netflix). During his time at Mange-ment, Miller has optioned IP to a number of major networks and studios including Legendary, CBS, Lionsgate, and Studio 8.
Former CAA theater agent Hayoun, who joined the company three years ago as head of the New York office, has clients with projects set up at places such as Disney, Warner Brothers, Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon, as well as recently staffed on shows such...
Miller, who has a degree in screenwriting, has been with the company for nine years and boasts a roster of clients who have been staffed on shows including The Chi (Showtime), American Gods (Starz), Nightflyers (Syfy), and Seven Seconds (Netflix). During his time at Mange-ment, Miller has optioned IP to a number of major networks and studios including Legendary, CBS, Lionsgate, and Studio 8.
Former CAA theater agent Hayoun, who joined the company three years ago as head of the New York office, has clients with projects set up at places such as Disney, Warner Brothers, Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon, as well as recently staffed on shows such...
- 9/18/2018
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Warner Bros has set a film about the life of Oliver Sipple, the former Marine and Vietnam vet who saved the life of President Gerald Ford when he deflected the weapon of a would-be assassin, but who found himself in the crosshairs of a media firestorm when news of his sexual orientation leaked to the press. The project will be scripted by Daniel Pearle, who adapted his play A Kid Like Jake into the Silas Howard-directed film that opens today with Claire Danes, Jim Parson playing parents of a child who likes princesses more than cars, leading to gender identity issues for the parents and everyone around the child. The film explores the complexities of parenting a child showing gender nonconformity. Octavia Spencer, Priyanka Chopra, Amy Landecker, and Ann Dowd also star and IFC releases.
This is the second movie to take root this week involving a thwarted attempt to murder a sitting president,...
This is the second movie to take root this week involving a thwarted attempt to murder a sitting president,...
- 6/1/2018
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
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