The WGA West on Monday revealed the 13 honorees of its 2022 TV Writer Access Project, a program designed to increase diversity and promote inclusiveness within the entertainment industry. Created in 2009, the project recognizes outstanding and diverse writing talent from within the guild’s ranks and provides access to their work to showrunners, producers, network and studio executives, agents and managers.
“This program is what the guild does best: writers helping writers to take stock, reinvent themselves, then move on to the next stage of their career,” said Glen Mazzara, co-chair of the guild’s Inclusion and Equity Group. “That peer to peer mentorship is invaluable.”
This year’s honorees for drama are:
• Erinne Dobson – The More Gone She’ll Be
• Skander Halim – Nathan X
• Anne-Marie Hess – Disturbed
• Allyssa Lee – Model Minority
• Kerri Brady Long – Blood Sport
• Laurie Parres – Life and Death and High School
• Barbara Soares – Username
• Tom Towler – Borderlands
The...
“This program is what the guild does best: writers helping writers to take stock, reinvent themselves, then move on to the next stage of their career,” said Glen Mazzara, co-chair of the guild’s Inclusion and Equity Group. “That peer to peer mentorship is invaluable.”
This year’s honorees for drama are:
• Erinne Dobson – The More Gone She’ll Be
• Skander Halim – Nathan X
• Anne-Marie Hess – Disturbed
• Allyssa Lee – Model Minority
• Kerri Brady Long – Blood Sport
• Laurie Parres – Life and Death and High School
• Barbara Soares – Username
• Tom Towler – Borderlands
The...
- 2/28/2022
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Frolic Media, an entertainment media company co-founded by former E! President Lisa Berger and former AwesomenessTV executive Sarah Penna, has struck a podcast deal with iHeartMedia and has set a daily romance show as its first series.
The two companies are launching LoveStruck Daily, a 20-minute series hosted by romance experts that will share one real-life love story per episode.
The series, which launches February 7 (you can listen to the trailer below), comes as part of an arrangement between Frolic Media and iHeartMedia to launch additional shows.
LoveStruck Daily will be hosted by Sarah Wendell, author and co-founder of Smart Bitches Trashy Books, and author Alisha Rai. It will also feature interviews from guests sharing their own love stories and expertise.
Guests include Logan Ury, a behavioral scientist turned dating coach who heads the research team for the dating app Hinge and Lamorne Morris, star of New Girl and...
The two companies are launching LoveStruck Daily, a 20-minute series hosted by romance experts that will share one real-life love story per episode.
The series, which launches February 7 (you can listen to the trailer below), comes as part of an arrangement between Frolic Media and iHeartMedia to launch additional shows.
LoveStruck Daily will be hosted by Sarah Wendell, author and co-founder of Smart Bitches Trashy Books, and author Alisha Rai. It will also feature interviews from guests sharing their own love stories and expertise.
Guests include Logan Ury, a behavioral scientist turned dating coach who heads the research team for the dating app Hinge and Lamorne Morris, star of New Girl and...
- 2/1/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
The CW has taken in for development Clubhouse (working title) a murder mystery drama from iZombie writer Christina de Leon, Lisa Berger and Sarah Penna’s Frolic Media, and CBS Studios, where Frolic is under a deal.
Written by de Leon, in Clubhouse (wt), when a popular podcast features the grisly unsolved murder that took place in their childhood clubhouse, four young women are pulled back into each other’s lives just in time for the killer to strike again.
Berger and Penna executive produce for Frolic Media. De Leon is co-executive producer. CBS Studios is the studio.
Writer, director and producer de Leon most recently staffed on the CW’s iZombie. She previously wrote for MGM’s The Baxters. Additionally, she wrote and produced the award-winning short form series, Nasty Habits. De Leon is repped by Gersh and Aesthetic Legal.
Formed in 2018, Los Angeles-based Frolic caters to the $1 billion dollar Romance industry,...
Written by de Leon, in Clubhouse (wt), when a popular podcast features the grisly unsolved murder that took place in their childhood clubhouse, four young women are pulled back into each other’s lives just in time for the killer to strike again.
Berger and Penna executive produce for Frolic Media. De Leon is co-executive producer. CBS Studios is the studio.
Writer, director and producer de Leon most recently staffed on the CW’s iZombie. She previously wrote for MGM’s The Baxters. Additionally, she wrote and produced the award-winning short form series, Nasty Habits. De Leon is repped by Gersh and Aesthetic Legal.
Formed in 2018, Los Angeles-based Frolic caters to the $1 billion dollar Romance industry,...
- 12/16/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.