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Can we talk? Turns out: Nope.
A Joan Rivers limited bio-series is no longer in development at Showtime, our sister site Variety reports. The project, titled The Comeback Girl, was to star and be executive-produced by Kathryn Hahn (WandaVision).
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News about the potential limited series broke in September. However, the project’s producers had not secured the rights to Rivers’ life,...
A Joan Rivers limited bio-series is no longer in development at Showtime, our sister site Variety reports. The project, titled The Comeback Girl, was to star and be executive-produced by Kathryn Hahn (WandaVision).
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News about the potential limited series broke in September. However, the project’s producers had not secured the rights to Rivers’ life,...
- 10/26/2021
- by Kimberly Roots
- TVLine.com
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Because of issues around the life rights of Joan Rivers, a limited series in which Kathryn Hahn would have played the legendary comedian isn’t moving forward.
The project, called “The Comeback Girl,” was announced last month in Variety. It had been in development at Showtime, and was to be produced by Warner Bros. Television, Atlas Entertainment and Berlanti Productions. Hahn was attached as its star and executive producer, and Greg Berlanti was going to direct and executive produce the series, which was based on a spec script by Cosmo Carlson.
Yet Rivers’ life rights, which are held by her daughter, Melissa Rivers, hadn’t been secured by producers. The project could have proceeded as an unauthorized venture, but “The Comeback Girl” wouldn’t have been able to use any of Rivers’ jokes or catchphrases, and, of course, risked running afoul of Melissa Rivers and the estate.
The limited series...
The project, called “The Comeback Girl,” was announced last month in Variety. It had been in development at Showtime, and was to be produced by Warner Bros. Television, Atlas Entertainment and Berlanti Productions. Hahn was attached as its star and executive producer, and Greg Berlanti was going to direct and executive produce the series, which was based on a spec script by Cosmo Carlson.
Yet Rivers’ life rights, which are held by her daughter, Melissa Rivers, hadn’t been secured by producers. The project could have proceeded as an unauthorized venture, but “The Comeback Girl” wouldn’t have been able to use any of Rivers’ jokes or catchphrases, and, of course, risked running afoul of Melissa Rivers and the estate.
The limited series...
- 10/26/2021
- by Kate Aurthur
- Variety Film + TV
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Kathryn Hahn is set to step into some big comedy shoes as the WandaVision star will portray iconic comedian Joan Rivers in an upcoming Showtime limited series. According to Variety, Hahn will lead and executive produce The Comeback Girl, which focuses on Rivers around the time of the cancellation of her talk show The Late Show and her husband (and Late Show producer) Edgar Rosenberg’s suicide. The series is produced by Warner Bros. Television, Atlas Entertainment and Berlanti Productions, with Greg Berlanti serving as director and Cosmo Carlson as writer. “Trailblazer. Adored. Cruel. Diva. Joan Rivers had a life like no other. At age 54, she was a superstar comedienne…and then it all fell apart,” reads the official logline for the series. “The Comeback Girl is the awe-inspiring untold story of how Joan Rivers persevered through near suicide and professional abyss to rebuild herself and her career to become a global icon.
- 9/22/2021
- TV Insider
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Kathryn Hahn is about to play one of the late, great comedians. Fresh off her Emmy-nominated role as Agatha in WandaVision, Hahn will portray Joan Rivers in a new limited series from Showtime, her rep confirmed to E! News. Her rep explains that Hahn will star as Rivers, who died in 2014, in The Comeback Girl, which she will also executive produce. Showtime confirmed it is developing the limited series. Greg Berlanti will direct and executive produce, with up-and-coming screenwriter Cosmo Carlson writing and executive producing the show, per Variety. Hahn has...
- 9/21/2021
- E! Online
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Joan Rivers will be the topic of a limited series in the works at Showtime, and WandaVision‘s Kathryn Hahn will fill the comedic icon’s outrageous shoes.
Hahn will headline and executive-produce The Comeback Girl, our sister site Variety reports. The project, which is in development at the premium cabler, will chronicle Rivers’ life in the mid-1980s, after her Fox late-night talk show was cancelled and her husband, Edgar Roseberg, died by suicide.
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Hahn will headline and executive-produce The Comeback Girl, our sister site Variety reports. The project, which is in development at the premium cabler, will chronicle Rivers’ life in the mid-1980s, after her Fox late-night talk show was cancelled and her husband, Edgar Roseberg, died by suicide.
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- 9/21/2021
- by Kimberly Roots
- TVLine.com
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Can we talk about Kathryn Hahn? The “WandaVision” alum will play iconic female comedian Joan Rivers in an upcoming limited series that is in development at Showtime.
“The Comeback Girl” will be executive produced by Hahn and Greg Berlanti, who will also direct. Cosmo Carlson will write and executive produce. The project was shepherded by Atlas Entertainment President Richard Suckle, Vice President Robert Amidon and Carlson.
The series will chart Rivers’ rise following the cancelation of her short-lived late-night talk show on Fox, “The Late Show.” The show’s cancelation coincided with Rivers’ husband Edgar Rosenberg’s death by suicide. Rosenberg was a producer on “The Late Show.”
Here is the logline from Showtime:
“Trailblazer. Adored. Cruel. Diva. Joan Rivers had a life like no other. At age 54, she was a superstar comedienne…and then it all fell apart. ‘The Comeback Girl’ is the awe-inspiring untold story of how Joan...
“The Comeback Girl” will be executive produced by Hahn and Greg Berlanti, who will also direct. Cosmo Carlson will write and executive produce. The project was shepherded by Atlas Entertainment President Richard Suckle, Vice President Robert Amidon and Carlson.
The series will chart Rivers’ rise following the cancelation of her short-lived late-night talk show on Fox, “The Late Show.” The show’s cancelation coincided with Rivers’ husband Edgar Rosenberg’s death by suicide. Rosenberg was a producer on “The Late Show.”
Here is the logline from Showtime:
“Trailblazer. Adored. Cruel. Diva. Joan Rivers had a life like no other. At age 54, she was a superstar comedienne…and then it all fell apart. ‘The Comeback Girl’ is the awe-inspiring untold story of how Joan...
- 9/21/2021
- by Tim Baysinger
- The Wrap
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Can we talk? Because Variety has learned Kathryn Hahn is attached to play Joan Rivers in “The Comeback Girl,” a limited series in development at Showtime, produced by Warner Bros. Television, Atlas Entertainment and Berlanti Productions. In addition to starring as Rivers, Hahn will executive produce “The Comeback Girl,” Greg Berlanti will direct and executive produce and Cosmo Carlson will write and executive produce.
Carlson, a two-time Black List screenwriter wrote “The Comeback Girl” as a spec script. With Atlas Entertainment’s Richard Suckle and Robert Amidon behind the project, Suckle and Carlson brought it to Berlanti and Sarah Schechter of Berlanti Productions, who signed on.
Rivers died at age 81 on Sept. 4, 2014, several days after she’d stopped breathing during a routine endoscopy on her throat. She’d been a revolutionary figure in the world of stand-up comedy, especially as a woman — and particularly during the 1960s, when her star...
Carlson, a two-time Black List screenwriter wrote “The Comeback Girl” as a spec script. With Atlas Entertainment’s Richard Suckle and Robert Amidon behind the project, Suckle and Carlson brought it to Berlanti and Sarah Schechter of Berlanti Productions, who signed on.
Rivers died at age 81 on Sept. 4, 2014, several days after she’d stopped breathing during a routine endoscopy on her throat. She’d been a revolutionary figure in the world of stand-up comedy, especially as a woman — and particularly during the 1960s, when her star...
- 9/21/2021
- by Kate Aurthur
- Variety Film + TV
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Kathryn Hahn has lined up her next TV role.
The WandaVision Emmy nominee will play comedy legend Joan Rivers in The Comeback Girl, a limited series project in development at Showtime. Hahn will also be an executive producer along with writer Cosmo Carlson and Greg Berlanti, who will also direct.
The potential series would begin in the 1980s, after Rivers was fired from The Late Show, the first program on the fledgling Fox network and the show that made her the first woman to be the full-time host of a late night show. Her husband and producer on The Late Show, Edgar Rosenberg, committed suicide three months after ...
The WandaVision Emmy nominee will play comedy legend Joan Rivers in The Comeback Girl, a limited series project in development at Showtime. Hahn will also be an executive producer along with writer Cosmo Carlson and Greg Berlanti, who will also direct.
The potential series would begin in the 1980s, after Rivers was fired from The Late Show, the first program on the fledgling Fox network and the show that made her the first woman to be the full-time host of a late night show. Her husband and producer on The Late Show, Edgar Rosenberg, committed suicide three months after ...
- 9/21/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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Kathryn Hahn has lined up her next TV role.
The WandaVision Emmy nominee will play comedy legend Joan Rivers in The Comeback Girl, a limited series project in development at Showtime. Hahn will also be an executive producer along with writer Cosmo Carlson and Greg Berlanti, who will also direct.
The potential series would begin in the 1980s, after Rivers was fired from The Late Show, the first program on the fledgling Fox network and the show that made her the first woman to be the full-time host of a late night show. Her husband and producer on The Late Show, Edgar Rosenberg, committed suicide three months after ...
The WandaVision Emmy nominee will play comedy legend Joan Rivers in The Comeback Girl, a limited series project in development at Showtime. Hahn will also be an executive producer along with writer Cosmo Carlson and Greg Berlanti, who will also direct.
The potential series would begin in the 1980s, after Rivers was fired from The Late Show, the first program on the fledgling Fox network and the show that made her the first woman to be the full-time host of a late night show. Her husband and producer on The Late Show, Edgar Rosenberg, committed suicide three months after ...
- 9/21/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
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The 15th annual Black List survey was revealed Monday December 16, and it includes 66 un-produced screenplays from up-and-coming literary talent. Results were pooled from a survey of more than 250 film executives, each of whom contributed the names of up to 10 favorite scripts that were written in, or are somehow uniquely associated with, 2019 and will not have begun principal photography during this calendar year. This year, scripts had to receive at least six mentions to be included on the Black List.
Since 2005, more than a third of the screenplays included in the annual Black List surveys have become produced films, and often to notoriety — such as “Argo,” “American Hustle,” “Juno,” “The King’s Speech,” “Slumdog Millionaire,” “Spotlight,” “The Revenants,” “The Descendants,” and “Hell or High Water.” Melina Matsoukas’s 2019 film “Queen & Slim,” written by Lena Waithe with a story co-authored by James Frey, was featured on the 2018 Black List.
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Since 2005, more than a third of the screenplays included in the annual Black List surveys have become produced films, and often to notoriety — such as “Argo,” “American Hustle,” “Juno,” “The King’s Speech,” “Slumdog Millionaire,” “Spotlight,” “The Revenants,” “The Descendants,” and “Hell or High Water.” Melina Matsoukas’s 2019 film “Queen & Slim,” written by Lena Waithe with a story co-authored by James Frey, was featured on the 2018 Black List.
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- 12/16/2019
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
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