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FROM Joy Press
The rise of podcast-inspired TV shows This month, Amazon released “Homecoming,” a TV adaption of a popular Gimlet podcast. The TV version of “Dirty John” is also about to come out. It’s part of the flood of TV projects based on podcasts.
Why TV writers' rooms are shrinking The writers’ room is changing in fundamental ways. With the arrival of the gig economy, there are shorter jobs, so-called “mini writers’ rooms,” two or three weeks of work, and no guarantees. Some people are happy with that change, while some are frustrated.
In TV, women have been 'stealing the show' for the past 30 years From “Roseanne” to “Gilmore Girls” and “Grey’s Anatomy,” women showrunners like Roseanne Barr, Amy Sherman-Palladino and Shonda Rhimes have changed the TV industry over the past three decades. A new book looks at how they’ve fought for creative control, struggled with being “liked,” and introduced more nuanced characters and stories. Author Joy Press. Credit: Kieran Press-Reynolds.
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The United States is far behind Russia when it comes to military dominance in the Arctic The ice melting in the Arctic has reached a record low this year. That means that there are parts of the Arctic Ocean that are now accessible to navigation for the first time. That also means a lot of untapped resources are surfacing like fossil fuels, diamonds and metals, and the U.S. is far behind Russia and China in the race to exploit those resources.
Bridget Riley and Lee Mullican and the ‘60s A catchy name gives traction to an art movement: Abstraction Expressionism (AbX), Pop Art, or Op Art, short for “optical art One of the artists most associated with the latter was the English painter Bridget Riley, born in 1931, who was catapulted to success in the early 1960s.