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
Comedy Central is developing three new scripted projects — How to be a Couple, an interracial couple comedy from former Broad City writer Naomi Ekperigin, who also stars, and Andy Beckermam; The Chameleon created by and starring The Comedy Jam‘s Matteo Lane, and an untitled comedy from Samantha Irby, based on her successful book of essays, Meaty, along with Inside Amy Schumer head writer Jessi Klein and former Broad City co-creator/star Abbi Jacobson. The projects were announced today as part of Comedy Central’s presentation at TCA.
Co-created and executive produced by Ekperigin and Beckerman, based on their real lives, How To Be A Couple follows an interracial couple in a wild polyamorous affair with their careers. Ekperigin stars, in addition to writing the pilot with Beckerman. Annie Mebane is showrunner and an executive producer. The project was originally developed by CBS TV Studios.
The Chameleon, co-created and written by Lane and Jared Lapidus,...
Co-created and executive produced by Ekperigin and Beckerman, based on their real lives, How To Be A Couple follows an interracial couple in a wild polyamorous affair with their careers. Ekperigin stars, in addition to writing the pilot with Beckerman. Annie Mebane is showrunner and an executive producer. The project was originally developed by CBS TV Studios.
The Chameleon, co-created and written by Lane and Jared Lapidus,...
- 2/12/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
The recent deaths of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain from apparent suicide have brought up old emotions for Jada Pinkett Smith — but she wants to remind others that mental health is a “daily practice.”
The actress, 46, has been candid about her troubled past before, and she further opened up in a Instagram post dedicated to the late designer and chef.
“With the suicides of Kate and Anthony it brought up feelings of when I was in such despair and had considered the same demise…often,” she wrote. “In the years I spent towards my healing, many moons ago, I realized...
The actress, 46, has been candid about her troubled past before, and she further opened up in a Instagram post dedicated to the late designer and chef.
“With the suicides of Kate and Anthony it brought up feelings of when I was in such despair and had considered the same demise…often,” she wrote. “In the years I spent towards my healing, many moons ago, I realized...
- 6/12/2018
- by Stephanie Petit
- PEOPLE.com
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