In today’s TV news roundup, Tinder offers a first look at “Swipe Night” and the Television Academy announces the recipients of the 71st Engineering Emmy Awards.
First Looks
Tinder released the trailer for its upcoming interactive series entitled “Swipe Night.“ The show follows four characters (including the audience) on their journey to the end of the world after discovering they have three hours left to live. As the four-episode story unfolds, members will be faced with moral dilemmas and choices as viewers decide what happens next. The series is written by Nicole Delaney (“Big Mouth”) and Brandon Zuck (“Five Points”) and directed by Karena Evans, who helmed the “God’s Plan” and “In My Feelings” music videos for Drake. Angela Wong Carbone (“Chinatown Horror Story”), Jordan Christian Hearn (“Inherent Vice”) and Shea Vaughan-Gabor will star in the series airing Oct. 6.
Award Shows
The Television Academy announced Boris FX Sapphire,...
First Looks
Tinder released the trailer for its upcoming interactive series entitled “Swipe Night.“ The show follows four characters (including the audience) on their journey to the end of the world after discovering they have three hours left to live. As the four-episode story unfolds, members will be faced with moral dilemmas and choices as viewers decide what happens next. The series is written by Nicole Delaney (“Big Mouth”) and Brandon Zuck (“Five Points”) and directed by Karena Evans, who helmed the “God’s Plan” and “In My Feelings” music videos for Drake. Angela Wong Carbone (“Chinatown Horror Story”), Jordan Christian Hearn (“Inherent Vice”) and Shea Vaughan-Gabor will star in the series airing Oct. 6.
Award Shows
The Television Academy announced Boris FX Sapphire,...
- 10/1/2019
- by BreAnna Bell
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: The Black List and Women In Film Los Angeles (Wif La) has unveiled the participants for their episodic lab, which is in its fourth year.
The program is an effort between The Black List and Wif La that provides mentorship and career opportunities to six rising women television writers. Beginning October 1, the Lab will run twice weekly for four weeks for an entire year and will consist of script development, peer workshopping sessions, and Master Classes with established writers and industry executives.
The writers’ final pilots will be read by agencies and networks. This year’s advisors and Master Class teachers include Monica Beletsky (Parenthood), Carly Wray (Westworld), Sono Patel (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), Glen Mazzara (The Dark Tower) and others.
Read the participants’ bios and their projects for this year’s Lab.
Kim Garland
“The Resurrected” – When a dead body comes back to life and then escapes from a Manhattan funeral home,...
The program is an effort between The Black List and Wif La that provides mentorship and career opportunities to six rising women television writers. Beginning October 1, the Lab will run twice weekly for four weeks for an entire year and will consist of script development, peer workshopping sessions, and Master Classes with established writers and industry executives.
The writers’ final pilots will be read by agencies and networks. This year’s advisors and Master Class teachers include Monica Beletsky (Parenthood), Carly Wray (Westworld), Sono Patel (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), Glen Mazzara (The Dark Tower) and others.
Read the participants’ bios and their projects for this year’s Lab.
Kim Garland
“The Resurrected” – When a dead body comes back to life and then escapes from a Manhattan funeral home,...
- 10/1/2019
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Hollywood manager Michael Einfeld apologized for a “tasteless, humorless and completely inexcusable” email in which he called an assistant an “uppity selfish c—” because she asked for a day off on “A Day Without Women.” The assistant, Rosette Laursen, might never have seen Einfeld’s remarks if he hadn’t accidentally hit “reply all” in a message intended for her two male colleagues. She shared them Tuesday on a Facebook post that quickly went viral. “A Day Without Women,” on March 8, encouraged women to take the day off to raise awareness of gender inequality in the workplace. When Laursen asked to take.
- 8/11/2017
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
When the female staffers at The A.V. Club participated in “A Day Without A Woman” earlier this year, we did so with full recognition of the fact that not every woman could do so without negative repercussions. We also took this action with the support of our male colleagues, who promoted female-led interviews and articles in solidarity with women across the world in our absence. We did this from our “liberal echo chamber“ here in a historically pro-union city, but being surrounded by pop culture obsessives and progressives doesn’t always ensure that your beliefs won’t be mocked by people who completely miss the fucking point.
That was the case for Rosette Laursen, a former assistant at a Hollywood talent agency. As Jezebel reports, Laursen emailed her boss back in March to let him know she would participate in ”A Day Without A Woman,” the unofficial national day...
That was the case for Rosette Laursen, a former assistant at a Hollywood talent agency. As Jezebel reports, Laursen emailed her boss back in March to let him know she would participate in ”A Day Without A Woman,” the unofficial national day...
- 8/10/2017
- by Danette Chavez
- avclub.com
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