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Fresh off the premiere of its new Fox drama “Murder in a Small Town,” Jeff Wachtel’s Future Shack Entertainment shingle is ramping up its development slate — next via a first-look pact with Daily Beast chief content officer Joanna Coles. Future Shack and Coles have multiple projects in development, including a take on MSNBC anchor Katy Tur’s memoir “Rough Draft.”

Wachtel and Coles are also shopping the drama “Base Camp,” which looks at the crowded — and dangerous — queue to get to the top of Mt. Everest. Playwright and screenwriter Anchuli Felicia King is the scribe behind that project.

Additionally, Future Shack and Coles have two more scripts in the works at 20th Television. Coles, who was previously chief content officer at Hearst, was the inspiration for the Freeform drama “The Bold Type,” which she also executive produced. “She’s a phenomenal producer, but primarily a magazine editor and tastemaker,...

John Mulaney is heading back to Netflix with an all-new six-part special titled John Mulaney Presents: Everybody’s in LA. Part of the streamer’s Netflix is a Joke Fest, the unconventional show will feature special guests as is teased in the vague trailer, above, featuring Mulaney and an array of Los Angelinos. Set to debut on May 3, additional episodes will stream nightly from May 6 to May 10 with all-new installments debuting at 7 pm Pt on Netflix. Described as six live installments, Everybody’s in LA is a show where Mulaney explores the city of Los Angeles during a week when every funny person is in it. Among the guests set to appear in the special are Jerry Seinfeld, David Letterman, Nate Bargatze, Dr. Lucy Jones, Weezer, Tony Tucci, Jon Stewart, Kerry Gaynor, Flea, Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias, Marcia Clark, Ray J, Mae Martin, Los Lobos, John Carpenter, Warren G, Earthquake, Patton Oswalt,...

You know John Mulaney’s six-part comedy special is gonna be really star-studded when Netflix’s PR team writes, “There will be more guests as well but we are tired of listing them. We have given you enough information already,” in their pitch email.

On Tuesday, the streaming service announced a new cohort of celebrity guests — including musical ones such as Weezer, Los Lobos, St. Vincent, Flea, and Beck — that will join Mulaney during his Everyody’s in L.A. run of live shows early next month. Also making appearances...

Updated: Richard Kind will serve as announcer for “John Mulaney Presents: Everybody’s in L.A.” The guest lineup includes David Letterman, Nate Bargatze, seismologist Dr. Lucy Jones, Weezer, Jerry Seinfeld, Citizens for L.A. Wildlife Representative Tony Tucci, Jon Stewart, hypnotherapist Kerry Gaynor, Flea, Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias, Marcia Clark, Ray J, Mae Martin, Los Lobos, John Carpenter, Warren G., Earthquake, Patton Oswalt, Stavros Halkias, helicopter journalist Zoey Tur, Sarah Silverman, Joyce Manor, Ronny Chieng, Tom Segura, Bill Hader, St. Vincent, Cassandra Peterson, Luenell, Hannah Gadsby, Cedric The Entertainer, Dr. Emily Lindsey of the La Brea Tar Pits and Beck.

Previously: Netflix has set “John Mulaney Presents: Everybody’s in L.A.,” a six-episode show featuring field pieces and special guests that will stream live during the Netflix Is a Joke comedy festival.

Per the logline, the show follows Mulaney as he “explores the city of Los Angeles during a week when every funny person is in it.

O. J.Marika Gerrard, Zoey Tur, Katy Tur, Jamie Tur, Lawrence Welk III. Simpson’s Bronco chase. Madonna flipping off paparazzi on her wedding day to Sean Penn. Michael Jackson’s sequined glove wanly waving as the pop star was wheeled to a burn unit. Whenever a big breaking news story overtook the Los Angeles TV airwaves in the ’80s and ’90s, viewers expected to hear a sign-off from married helicopter reporters Bob Tur and Marika Gerrard who spent the best — and worst — years of their relationship high in the sky. Tur was a literal news junkie, an adrenaline addict who’d emotionally crash at the end of each pursuit. “There was never a movie date with Bob,” Gerrard reflects. “It was a car crash or an air crash or a fire tape.”

“Whirlybird,” by director Matt Yoka, is the compelling story of the thrill-seeking couple’s rise and descent...

Exclusive: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired U.S. rights to Whirlybird from A&e IndieFilms. The doc, which premiered at last year’s Sundance, is the feature debut of Matt Yoka. It follows a husband-and-wife news helicopter team who covered some of Los Angeles’ most historic events.

Encompassing high-profile stories of the 1980s and 90s such as the L.A. riots and the infamous O.J Simpson Bronco chase, the film shows how the pair captured the city’s recent history, and also shines a light on the adrenaline-fuelled culture of live news.

Pic was produced by Yoka and Diane Becker with executive producers Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato, and Josh Braun. Elaine Frontain Bryant, Rob Sharenow, and Molly Thompson are executive producers for A&e IndieFilms.

Greenwich’s Andy Bohn negotiated the deal with Submarine’s Josh Braun and Matt Burke on behalf of the filmmakers.

“It’s an honor for Whirlybird...

It is extremely rare for a man to take an honest accounting of their own toxic masculinity, especially those who have actively participated in harassment and abuse. Fortunately for the makers of “Whirlybird,” a gripping documentary about an unconventional family business that captured some of the first helicopter news footage, Zoey Tur is not a man.

Tur came out publicly as transgender in 2013, making her a far more sympathetic and candid interviewee than her aggressively ambitious shadow self, Bob Tur, might have been. That’s a crucial piece of this fascinating historical snapshot, because the archival news footage with which filmmaker Matt Yoka weaves his yarn includes dozens of instances of Tur’s verbal and sometimes physical abuse towards her camera operator and former partner, Marika Gerrard. It’s uncomfortable to witness, but in Tur’s emotional final interview, she most certainly does not let herself off the hook. Her...

Katy Tur, who rose to prominence during the 2016 presidential race for her reporting on then-candidate Donald Trump, is now dealing with some backlash… from her own parent. In a Facebook post Tuesday, Zoey Tur, who became known as Chopper Bob for filming a mob beating driver Reginald Denny during the L.A. Riots and also the O.J. Simpson car chase, said her own daughter is “terrified” to meet her, noting that “it’s been 1,500 days since she last saw me and told me I was a terrible father after having just come out. I was crushed.” This isn’t the...

There’s no question that Rodney King was brutally beaten by Los Angeles Police Department officers – video taken of the savage act proves it. Yet the four men seen clubbing King were acquitted by a Simi Valley jury in 1992, lighting a match for one of the deadliest and costliest civil unrests in U.S. history.

Read More: How Spike Lee, John Singleton and John Ridley Left Their Marks on the 25th Anniversary of the Los Angeles Riots

It’s 25 years later, and Los Angeles – and the Lapd – have changed. But has the rest of the country? Regular reports of police brutality, now well-documented in an age of phone cameras, makes it clear that we haven’t come all that far. Several new documentaries explore the L.A. riots, including the underlying reasons, the actual events, what happened next, and how it relates to today. Among the filmmakers putting their own...

If there is a single breakout star to emerge from O.J.: Made in America, Espn's riveting five-part documentary about sports star-turned-murder suspect O.J. Simpson, it has to be Zoey Tur. The witty and wise interview subject was the helicopter pilot responsible for two of the most iconic pieces of footage in U.S. history: the vicious beating of a white trucker by a group of gang members that fueled the 1992 Los Angeles riots and, two years later, the slow-moving white Ford Bronco chase that ended in the driveway of Simpson's Brentwood estate.

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Prize is worth $45,000 (€40,000) in post-production services and distribution support.

Colombian, New York-based director Margarita Jimeno’s hybrid fiction feature Otto – My Life is a Soundtrack, about a renowned artist who undergoes a spiritual awakening after a failed show, has won the fifth edition of Us in Progress in Paris.

The prize includes a post-production and distribution package worth $45,000 (€40,000).

The Us in Progress event showcased six independent Us works looking for final post-production services and a sales agent.

It took place June 7-10 as part of the Industry Days programme of the French-us focused Champs-Elysées Film Festival, running June 7-14 and...

The TV event of 2016 so far was surely FX's marvelous miniseries The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, which turned the Trial of the (last) Century into 10 fascinating, funny, tragic hours of drama that shed new light on a case that most of its viewers thought they already knew by heart. Given the phenomenon of The People v. O.J., you would think a five-part, 7.5-hour (10 with commercials) documentary on the same subject would be redundant. Who needs to spend even more time watching a retelling of Simpson's trial for murdering ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman? Instead, Espn's newest 30 for 30 film O.J. Simpson: Made in America(*) proves to not only be better than The People v. O.J. — and among the best things Espn has aired in its history — but a perfect complement to the FX show. Where People v. O.J. was...

When she first came out to Diane Sawyer in April 2015, Caitlyn Jenner became the toast of Lgbt Hollywood. Close to 17 million people tuned in to watch her ABC exclusive, seen as a turning point for the transgender community. But, within less than a year, Jenner has gone from transgender poster girl to a thorn on the backside of the Lgbt community. “Someone needs to tell Ms. Jenner she’s transgender,” activist Zoey Tur told TheWrap. “There’s great disappointment among people in the community.” While some activists, including Tur, expressed concerns about Jenner’s ability to become a positive spokesperson for the community early on,...

Do you love the '90s? Andy Cohen does, and Bravo loves that he loves them. The network today announced a new Cohen-hosted limited series called Then and Now that will dive into the biggest moments of three momentous years: the pivotal year of 1994, as well as the '90s-adjacent years of 1989 and 2000. Despite its title, Then and Now will not feature Christina Ricci, Thora Birch, or Gaby Hoffmann; instead, guests will include "former White House Social Secretary Jeremy Bernard; Major Jeff Mueller; Director Justin Simien, and Lgbt journalist Zoey Tur," and just like on VH1's I Love the ... series, a variety of talking heads will crack wise about the events of the day. Mildly funny pop-culture bloggers: Start shelling out for head shots.

Caitlyn Jenner has had a spectacular, and spectacularly orchestrated, introduction as arguably the most high-profile transgender person in the world. But now that her eight-part E! reality series, “I Am Cait,” is presenting a less scripted, more candid view of her early days in her new identity, Jenner is raising concerns among many in the trans community who worry that she may be out of touch with the everyday struggles of those she’s purporting to help. “Caitlyn Jenner will never understand the real cost of being transgender because she will never have to bear the cost,” Zoey Tur, trans activist and.

The premiere post-tiff destination (September 20-25th) in the film community and a major leg up for narrative and non-fiction films in development, the Independent Filmmaker Project (Ifp) announced a whopping 140 projects selected for the Project Forum at the upcoming Ifp Independent Film Week. Made up of several sections (Rbc’s Emerging Storytellers program, No Borders International Co-Production Market and Spotlight on Documentaries), we find latest updates from the likes of docu-helmers Doug Block (112 Weddings) and Lana Wilson (After Tiller), and among the narrative items we find headliners in Andrew Haigh (coming off the well received 45 Years), Sophie Barthes (Cold Souls and Madame Bovary), Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty), Lawrence Michael Levine (Wild Canaries), Jorge Michel Grau (We Are What We Are), Eleanor Burke and Ron Eyal (Stranger Things) and new faces in Sundance’s large family in Charles Poekel (Christmas, Again) and Olivia Newman (First Match). Here...

Going to battle over Caitlyn Jenner could get transgender reporter Zoey Tur arrested -- a guest on Dr. Drew's show has filed a police report against Tur for getting handsy during a debate. The heated convo went down Thursday on “Dr. Drew” ... Ben Shapiro is accusing Tur of threatening him on the show. If you missed it ... Tur said if Shaprio didn't get his pronouns in order he'd be taken home in an ambulance, while...

Breitbart senior editor Ben Shapiro has filed a police report claiming battery against transgender journalist Zoey Tur. The two engaged in a heated exchange on Hln last week over whether Caitlyn Jenner deserved to be awarded Espn’s Arthur Ashe award for courage. After Shapiro repeatedly called Tur, a transgender woman, “sir,” Tur threatened him: “You cut that out now, or you’ll go home in an ambulance.” Also Read: Transgender Journalist, Breitbart Editor Nearly Come to Blows During Caitlyn Jenner Debate (Video) Shapiro explained why he filed the police report to Breitbart. “Just because the left has designated someone...

A famous transgender calmly threatened a disrespectful critic with a ride home ... in an ambulance. It went down on Dr. Drew's Hln show Thursday, when lawyer and conservative journalist Ben Shapiro addressed transgender Zoey Tur as "Sir." Zoey -- who was once famed CBS chopper pilot Bob Tur -- put hands on Shapiro and delivered the threat. Of course, the topic was Caitlyn Jenner. Read more...

Caitlyn Jenner’s Espy Award for courage sparked a heated debate on Hln Thursday. Breitbart senior editor Ben Shapiro and transgender journalist Zoey Tur got into a debate about the merits of Jenner being awarded the Arthur Ashe Courage Award by Espn. Things got so heated, ambulances were on call. Also Read: Caitlyn Jenner's Espy Awards Speech Draws Cheers, Tears and Acceptance From Stars on Social Media “You cut that out now or you’ll go home in an ambulance,” Tur said to Shapiro after he referred to her as “sir.” Shapiro countered that that’s not an appropriate...

Caitlyn Jenner’s public transition earlier this month was, by most accounts, a success. Her newly-minted Twitter account, @Caitlyn_Jenner, quickly surpassed 1 million followers in under five hours, and the Espy Awards announced Jenner will receive the prestigious Arthur Ashe Courage Award for her bravery for publicly coming out as a transgender woman. But while Jenner’s reveal received mostly positive reaction from non-transgender people, some in the transgender community have had a much different and nuanced response. “Caitlyn Jenner is just Kardashian 2.0,” Zoey Tur, “Inside Edition” trans correspondent and host of Kfi radio talk show, “He Said, She Said” told TheWrap.

Goodbye Bruce, Hello Caitlyn! Subscribe now for exclusive details on her new life and the emotional decision to reveal her true self, only in People.

With all of the positive attention she has received in just a few short days following her physical transition from male to female as seen on the cover of Vanity Fair, Caitlyn Jenner is poised to become more of a financial success than Bruce ever was.

Jenner was hailed an American hero upon winning the gold medal in the men's decathlon at the 1976 Summer Olympics, going on to cash in on her celebrity with a...

When Zoey Tur landed a job as a special correspondent for Inside Edition, pundits wondered how audiences would react. Transgender reporters are a rarity on television, and they face unique challenges in such a public career. No one understands those challenges more than Eden Lane, a transgender reporter and TV host who has appeared on Kbdi/Colorado Public Television since 2008. She is considered the first transgender reporter on mainstream television - and has interviewed everyone from gubernatorial candidates to celebrities. Lane had always been attracted to journalism. "It was something that I knew I could do well," she tells People,...

When Zoey Tur landed a job as a special correspondent for Inside Edition, pundits wondered how audiences would react. Transgender reporters are a rarity on television, and they face unique challenges in such a public career. No one understands those challenges more than Eden Lane, a transgender reporter and TV host who has appeared on Kbdi/Colorado Public Television since 2008. She is considered the first transgender reporter on mainstream television - and has interviewed everyone from gubernatorial candidates to celebrities. Lane had always been attracted to journalism. "It was something that I knew I could do well," she tells People,...

Some members of the transgender community are up in arms over the way Bruce Jenner has chosen to come out ... but Bruce is saying this isn't one size fits all and he's not apologizing. Bruce's friends say he was adamant he would not make the big move until his daughters were old enough to understand his decision and withstand what he believes is the inevitable teasing. As for the interview and TV shows ... Bruce is...

People in the transgender community are angry at Bruce Jenner for packaging his announcement he's becoming a woman into a TV show, saying he's more interested in money than setting an example. Zoey Tur, a leader in the L.A. transgender community, tells TMZ Live there's a lot of anger because they have no real role models now and here is a world class athlete who could literally save lives by way of example but...