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Picture: Nobody Wants This, starring Adam Brody and Kristen Bell, is now streaming on Netflix – 3 Arts Entertainment

In late 2024, Nobody Wants This debuted on Netflix, and it’s safe to say the series has been a massive hit. It was quickly renewed, and fans will be thrilled to know that filming for Season 2 is set to begin in early March 2025. The series will have two new showrunners and is confirmed to be arriving on Netflix in 2025.

Nobody Wants This is a Netflix Original romantic-comedy series created by Erin Foster and produced by 3 Arts Entertainment. The ten-episode series stars Kristen Bell (The Good Place) as Joanne, an agnostic sex podcaster who unexpectedly falls for Noah, a charming and devout rabbi played by Adam Brody (Shazam).

Has Nobody Wants This been renewed for a second season?

Official Renewal Status: Renewed (Last Updated: 27/09/2024)

That didn’t take long! Two weeks after its release,...

Just a couple weeks after premiering on Netflix, Nobody Wants This has been renewed for a second season.

Erin Foster’s rom-com series — which follows the unlikely pairing of a rabbi (Adam Brody) and a podcaster (Kristen Bell) — will return in 2025. The streaming service also announced that Jenni Konner and Bruce Eric Kaplan, who both worked with Lena Dunham on Girls, have signed on as executive producers and showrunners.

“It’s a dream to be working on Nobody Wants This,” Konner said in a statement. “Erin is the rare creator...

Netflix wants this.

On Thursday, the streaming service revealed it has renewed breakout comedy series “Nobody Wants This” for a second season. The comedy, created by Erin Foster and based on her life, will also have new showrunners for Season 2 in Jenni Konner and Bruce Eric Kaplan, who worked together on the HBO hit “Girls.”

“Creating ‘Nobody Wants This’ will forever be a career highlight for me. The incredible cast, crew, producers, and executives all made this into the show it is today, and to experience viewers’ reactions to this series now that it’s out in the world has been more than anything I could have dreamed,” Foster said in a statement. “I’m so lucky to be able to continue this story, and to do it alongside Jenni Konner and Bruce Eric Kaplan, who I’ve been such a fan of since ‘Girls’… Justice for healthy relationships being the most romantic!

Well, it turns out everybody wants more “Nobody Wants This.”

The hit rom-com Netflix series has been renewed for a second season, along with a showrunner shake-up. “Girls” alums Jenni Konner and Bruce Eric Kaplan will be the new co-showrunners for Season 2; the series marks Konner and Kaplan’s first collaboration since their iconic HBO show, created by Lena Dunham.

“Nobody Wants This” was created and executive produced by Erin Foster, who drew inspiration from her own life to write the love story between a gentile podcaster (Kristen Bell) and a rabbi (Adam Brody). The series was released September 26 on Netflix, with Foster and executive producer Craig Digregorio as the co-showrunners.

“Creating ‘Nobody Wants This’ will forever be a career highlight for me,” Foster said. “The incredible cast, crew, producers and executives all made this into the show it is today, and to experience viewers’ reactions to this series now...

Netflix announced today that the breakout hit comedy series Nobody Wants This has been renewed for a second season, slated to premiere in 2025. The news was shared on Thursday by Netflix Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria on stage at the Bloomberg Screentime Conference in Los Angeles.

Jenni Konner and Bruce Eric Kaplan join Season 2 as executive producers and showrunners. Nora Silver also joins as executive producer.

“Creating Nobody Wants This will forever be a career highlight for me. The incredible cast, crew, producers, and executives all made this into the show it is today, and to experience viewers’ reactions to this series now that it’s out in the world has been more than anything I could have dreamed,” said creator and executive producer Erin Foster.

“I’m so lucky to be able to continue this story and to do it alongside Jenni Konner and Bruce Eric Kaplan, who I...

Netflix has renewed its rom-com series Nobody Wants This for a second season, after the streamer’s viewers put the lie to the show’s title.

Netflix chief content officer Bela Bajaria announced the renewal at Bloomberg’s Screentime conference Thursday. Season two of Nobody Wants This will also have new showrunners, with Jenni Konner and Bruce Eric Kaplan (Girls) taking over from Jack Burditt. Series creator Erin Foster remains an executive producer and writer on the show.

The renewal for Nobody Wants This comes two weeks after its premiere on Netflix. The series, which stars Kristen Bell and Adam Brody, debuted in second place on the streamer’s global rankings of English-language series and ascended to the top spot for the week of Sept. 30-Oct. 6. Over its first 11 days of release, it racked up almost 90 million hours of viewing worldwide, the equivalent of 26.2 million complete views of the season.

“Nobody Wants This” has been renewed for Season 2 at Netflix.

The news comes around two weeks after the show’s premiere at the streamer, with the first season dropping on Sept. 26. Season 2 will see new showrunners at the helm of the comedy series. “Girls” alums Jenni Konner and Bruce Eric Kaplan are joining the series as showrunners and executive producers. They have been working at the head of a writers room for Season 2 for the past few weeks.

The renewal news was announced by Netflix chief content officer Bela Bajaria at the Bloomberg Screentime conference in Los Angeles.

Erin Foster, who created the series, remains onboard as an executive producer. Along with Konner and Kaplan, Steven Levitan and Oly Obst are also executive producers on the series, with Bell executive producing in addition to starring. Sara Foster, Danielle Stokdyk, and Jeff Morton executive produce as well, with Nora Silver of...

Exclusive: Nobody Wants This is not living up to its title because Netflix definitely wants more, renewing the hit romantic comedy starring Kristen Bell and Adam Brody for a second season. The pickup, which will be revealed this morning by Netflix Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria, comes with a showrunner change on the breakout series, created and executive produced by Erin Foster who remains its creative voice.

Girls alums Jenni Konner and Bruce Eric Kaplan have come on board as executive producers and showrunners for Season 2, leading a writers room which has been open for a couple of weeks. They are joined by Nora Silver, President at Jenni Konner Productions, who will executive produce alongside the duo as well as returning executive producers Erin Foster, Sara Foster, Bell, Steven Levitan, Oly Obst, Danielle Stokdyk and Jeff Morton. 20th Television is the studio.

The deals with Konner, Kaplan and Silver were...

Romance author Emily Henry now has five of her most recent novels set to be adapted for the big and small screens. Henry went on a rom-com writing spree that began with Beach Read, which came out in the summer of 2020. She has published a book a year since then, with People We Meet on Vacation coming out in 2021, Book Lovers arriving in 2022, Happy Place released in 2023 and Funny Story hitting shelves this year.

Three of Henry’s books received adaptation optioning deals for films, with two of them attaching directors. Starting in 2022, multiple studios made the decision to adapt various Emily Henry books into movies. The Writers’ and Actors’ strikes likely delayed any moves in casting, but a fourth novel has just been optioned by Jennifer Lopez’s production company for a television series adaptation at Netflix.

Read on to learn more about those behind the adaptations of Emily Henry books to movies.

Funny Story has become the latest Emily Henry novel to get a feature film adaptation deal, and the author herself will adapt the book for the big screen.

Henry will write the script of her latest novel, which was published April 23 by Public Random House. Funny Story marks Henry’s fifth romantic comedy book in four years.

The story follows children’s librarian Daphne, who has just been broken up with by her fiancé Peter, who quickly moved on to his childhood best friend, Petra. Forced out of their living situation, Daphne takes up residence with Miles, Petra’s ex-boyfriend. The pair hatch a fake dating scheme to make their exes jealous at the wedding, but as with the popular trope, the pair’s shared desire for revenge could spark a whole new flame.

Lyrical Media’s Alexander Black and Natalie Sellers as well as Ryder Picture Company’s Aaron Ryder...

Warning! Major spoilers ahead for The Boys season 4, episode 6.

Eric Kripke clarifies that Butcher's hallucinations in The Boys season 4 are purely a result of his brain tumor and not the Compound-v he took in an attempt to cure himself. Kessler represents the darker parts of Butcher, while Becca represents his capacity for compassion. Homelander's dark plan to assassinate the president could result in Butcher leaning more towards his inner darkness as a means of stopping him.

The Boys creator Eric Kripke clarifies the cause of Butcher's (Karl Urban) hallucinations in season 4. After three popular seasons, the hit Prime Video series returned for a fourth outing last month, continuing Butcher's violent quest for vengeance against Homelander (Antony Starr) and Vought. A major plot point in The Boys season 4 is Butcher's hallucinations following his brain tumor diagnosis, and episode 6 features the big reveal that Joe Kessler (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) has...

Emily Henry fans had a field day last week when the author shared a St. Patrick’s day selfie of “The Bear” star Ayo Edebiri and “Normal People’s” Paul Mescal.

While Edebiri posted the original image to her Instagram, it was reposts from Henry and screenwriter Yulin Kuang that made fans start to assume that the actors may have been cast in one of the films being adapted from Henry’s romance books: “People We Meet on Vacation,” for which Kuang is writing the screenplay; “Beach Read,” with Kuang writing and directing; or “Book Lovers,” being developed by the company that produced Mescal’s “Aftersun.”

The posts came just months after Mescal said in an interview that he hoped to star in a rom-com with Edebiri sometime in the next five years.

“I can’t confirm or deny anything with casting for any movie. I will say that those...

20th Century Studios is adapting Emily Henry’s “Beach Read” with Yulin Kuang adapting and directing, according to an insider with knowledge of the project.

Original Film is producing the adaptation of the romantic comedy novel, which tells the story of authors January Andrews and Augustus Everett, who have college history and who find themselves at the same lake for the summer trying to write their next novels. The two make a deal to swap genres in a competitive bet that sparks chemistry.

“Yulin is not only one of the top 5 ‘Beach Read’ stans, but she’s also, I would argue, the world’s foremost ‘Beach Read’ expert. She’s been preparing for this for a long time,” Henry wrote in her substack newsletter “Emily’s Grocery List. “She’s been picking my brain. She’s visited all of the real-life places that inspired ‘Beach Read’ and also just admitted...

Tango, the film and television development financier and producer founded by Lia Buman and Tim Headington, announced Tuesday that it will adapte Emily Henry’s best-seller “Book Lovers” into a feature film.

Sarah Heyward, writer and producer on HBO’s Emmy-winning “Girls” will write the script, produced by Tango.

“Emily is a dominant force in the world of romantic comedy and we feel so lucky to bring to the screen a story that has already delighted so many on the page,” Buman said The irreverent and whip smart writing delivers on classic romcom tropes while avoiding cliches, making it perfect for a cozy and refreshing adaptation.”

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Henry’s novel tells the story of Nora and Charlie. Nora demands the best for her clients as a go-getter literary agent, and...

Book Lovers — the New York Times bestseller from Emily Henry — is getting the movie treatment.

Tango — the production-finance outfit behind Aftersun and Weird: The Weird Al Yankovic Story — will develop and produce the rom-com as a feature film. Girls and Modern Love writer Sarah Heyward is attached to adapt.

The book, which was published by Penguin Random House imprint Berkley, follows a literary agent, Nora, and a brooding book editor Charlie who run into each other during a summer holiday in North Carolina. The synopsis reads: “It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that they’ve met many times and it’s never been cute. If Nora knows she’s not an ideal heroine, Charlie knows he’s nobody’s hero, but as they are thrown together again and again — in a series of coincidences no editor worth their salt would allow — what they discover might just...

Tango, the producer of the Sundance pic Shortcomings, is continuing to set up its future slate as it has come on to adapt the subversive rom com novel Book Lovers, into a feature film based on the #1 New York Times Bestseller from Emily Henry, the hit author behind three other New York Times Bestsellers over the last three years. Sarah Heyward is attached to write the script, which will be produced by Tango.

Book Lovers tells the story of Nora, a cutthroat literary agent who, convinced by her sister to spend one August holiday in Sunshine Falls, North Carolina, keeps running into Charlie, a bookish, brooding editor from back in the city. It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that they’ve met many times and it’s never been cute. If Nora knows she’s not an ideal heroine, Charlie knows he’s nobody’s hero,...

Tyler Mitchell’s philosophy has always been “run to love”.

So when Film Victoria called him in early 2019 expressing admiration for the inaugural Impact accelerator program he ran with Ron Howard and Brian Grazer in the US, it was enough to plant the seed for an Australian version of the initiative.

“If someone loves what you are doing, you should embrace that,” he told If.

“We started talking and between Film Victoria, Screen Australia, and the states, there was tremendous support and a real partnership, not just financially, but with the mission we have.”

It’s a collaboration that will continue this year when Impact Australia returns in person following an inaugural virtual program in 2020.

Delivered in conjunction with Gentle Giant Media Group, Impact Australia 2 will pair local creators with leading screenwriters, or ‘shapers’, who over eight weeks will help them craft their project and prepare them for pitch day in front of buyers.

Impact Australia is inviting applications for the second iteration of its screenwriter accelerator program, which will take place in-person in Melbourne after being held virtually last year.

Delivered in conjunction with Gentle Giant Media Group, Impact Australia 2 will pair local creators with leading screenwriters, or ‘shapers’, who over eight weeks will help them craft their project and prepare them for pitch day in front of buyers.

This year’s iteration will be held on the Victorian College of the Arts’ (Vca) Southbank campus at the University of Melbourne.

Impact CEO Tyler Mitchell, who founded the concept with Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, said the inaugural Impact Australia had exceeded their expectations in terms of the number and quality of applications.

“It confirmed what we have long suspected and are excited to continue fostering – that Australia is full of talented screenwriters with stories that resonate with audiences everywhere,” he said.

“The...

Stuart Beattie.

Screenwriter/producer Stuart Beattie’s illustrious career is in overdrive, with multiple projects bubbling in the US, Australia and Germany.

Some 28 years after the Aussie moved to LA, he is cashing in on his hard-earned reputation and extensive network of creative contacts.

One Australian-based project is a biopic about speed skater Steven Bradbury, who overcame seemingly insurmountable odds to win Australia’s first ever Olympic Winter Games Gold Medal.

The other is Interceptor, an action thriller to be directed by LA-based Australian novelist Matthew Reilly.

His US-based slate includes Rain, a 10-part drama based on a series of books by Barry Eisler about the exploits of a Japanese-American contract killer named John Rain.

Beattie is writing the bible and pilot and executive producing for Bedrock Entertainment, a new production banner founded by director Daniel Sackheim and producer Tony To in partnership with ITV Studios America.

Sackheim will direct the pilot,...

Milla Bell-Hart and Phil Tarl Denson in Impact 2.

Shaun Grant, Jason Smilovic, Kai Wu, Stuart Beattie and Sarah Heyward are mentoring 14 emerging creators in Impact Australia, the offshoot of Us Imagine Impact founded by Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Tyler Mitchell.

Supported by Gentle Giant Media Group and Screen Australia, the inaugural eight-week accelerator program for creative storytellers from across Australia was originally slated to be held in Melbourne.

Due to Covid-19 it is now being held as a virtual program, with a twice-weekly speaker series. It will culminate in Pitch Day, hoped to take place in Melbourne in late 2020, with the ultimate goal of the creators selling their projects.

The 14 creators from across Australia are working on 10 projects:

Carrie Anderson (Nsw) – Bound (TV hour)

Luke Goodall (Vic) and Marc Gallagher (Vic) – Robots Inc. (TV half hour)

Sukhjit Khalsa (Wa) and Perun Bonser (Wa) – One of the Good Ones (TV...

Exclusive: Impact Australia, the entertainment accelerator launched down under by Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Tyler Mitchell’s Imagine Impact back in February, has named 10 projects that will take part in its debut talent program.

The eight-week initiative, run in collaboration with Gentle Giant Media Group and Screen Australia, was originally slated to take place in Melbourne but will now pivot to a virtual form due to ongoing coronavirus disruption.

A total of 14 creators will receive online mentorship ahead of a pitch day, which is aiming to take place physically in the fall, with the ultimate goal of taking the projects, which are primarily TV but include two features, to market.

Mentors will include: True History Of The Kelly Gang writer Shaun Grant, Carnival Row executive producer Kai Wu, Lucky Number Slevin writer Jason Smilovic, Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl director Stuart Beattie, and Girls writer Sarah Heyward.

In today’s TV News Roundup, Netflix announced that Jonathan Banks has joined the cast of “F Is for Family,” and HBO announced the premiere date for Yvonne Orji’s upcoming stand-up special.

Casting

Netflix has announced that Jonathan Banks has joined the cast of its animated series “F Is for Family” for the show’s upcoming fourth season. Banks will voice the father of Bill Burr’s Frank Murphy. The announcement was accompanied by a short video offering some glimpses at Banks’ character. Though no premiere date has been announced yet, Netflix has said Season 4 will be coming soon. Watch the clip below.

Dates

HBO has announced that Yvonne Orji’s hour-long stand-up comedy special will premiere on June 6 at 10 p.m. The special, titled “Yvonne Orji: Momma, I Made It!”, will also be available on HBO Now, HBO Go, HBO On Demand and the partners’ other streaming platforms.

Exclusive: Deadline has learned that Mwm Studios is in development on a new untitled series based on Emma Straub’s novel All Adults Here from Riverhead Books.

Straub and Girls writer-producer Sarah Heyward are set to co-executive produce and co-write the series.

All Adults Here follows the beautiful messiness of being a family—aging parents, adult siblings, high school boyfriends, middle school mean girls—and all the things that follow us into adulthood, whether we like it or not. Set in a Hudson Valley community populated with a quirky cast of characters spanning three generations, Straub’s novel takes her signature wit upstate, exploring the complexities of small-town life and what it’s like to live as an adult in the same place where you grew up. The novel tackles serious questions around parenting, mortality and regret as well as what it means to be in a family—gloriously flawed,...

Amazon has given out a pilot order to the comedy “Half-Empty.”

The series was co-written by Cazzie David and Elisa Kalani, with David also set to star in the series. it follows a sardonic college student whose overactive imagination leads to catastrophic thinking and an endless chain of social disasters.

David and Kalani will also executive produce. Sarah Heyward will executive produce and serve as showrunner. Augustine Frizzell will direct and executive produce the pilot. Frizzell most recently directed the pilot for “Euphoria” at HBO. She is also attached to direct the feature “Stoned Alone” at Fox with Ryan Reynolds producing. Annapurna TV’s Sue Naegle and Ali Krug will produce “Half-Empty.” Annapurna and Endeavor Content will produce.

“It’s been a delightful collaboration,” said David. “Although I have nothing to base that on, having never collaborated.”

This marks the first formal TV project for both David, the daughter of Larry David,...

Amazon Prime Video has given a pilot green light to Half-Empty, a single-camera comedy co-written by and starring Cazzie David, the 24-year-old daughter of Larry David, a social media star who has been hailed as the new Lena Dunham.

Written and executive produced by David and Elisa Kalani, the project landed at Amazon for development a year ago. Augustine Frizzell is set to direct the pilot and will executive produce. Girls alumna Sarah Heyward will serve as executive producer and showrunner.

Annapurna TV and Endeavor Content are the studios, with Annapurna TV’s Sue Naegle and Ali Krug producing

Half-Empty follows a sardonic college student (David) whose overactive imagination leads to catastrophic thinking and an endless chain of social disasters.

Said David in a tone reminiscent of her dad’s persona on Curb Your Enthusiasm, “It’s been a delightful collaboration. Although I have nothing to base that on, having never collaborated.

Amazon has given a pilot order to “Half-Empty,” the comedy from co-writer and star Cazzie David, the streamer announced on Monday.

David stars as a sardonic college student whose overactive imagination leads to catastrophic thinking and an endless chain of social disasters. David, daughter of comedian Larry David, penned the script for the pilot alongside Elisa Kalani, with whom she previously collaborated on the web series “Eighty-Sixed.”

“Girls” alum Sarah Heyward will serve as showrunner and executive produce alongside David and Kalani. Augustine Frizzell will direct and serve as executive producer on the pilot.

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“It’s been a delightful collaboration. Although I have nothing to base that on, having never collaborated,” David said in a statement.

“Half-Empty” hails from Annapurna TV and Endeavor Content, with Annapurna’s Sue Naegle and Ali Krug to produce.

Cazzie David's Half-Empty is moving forward at Amazon.

The retailer/streamer has handed out a formal pilot order to the comedy written by and starring David, the social media star and daughter of Larry David. Augustine Frizzell (Sweetbitter, Euphoria) will direct the pilot.

Originally put in development in March, Half-Empty follows a sardonic college student whose overactive imagination leads to catastrophic thinking and an endless chain of social disasters.

David will star and wrote the script alongside Elisa Kalani. The duo previously teamed on original web series Eighty-Sixed, alongside Frizzell and showrunner Sarah Heyward. The latter is set to serve as ...

Facebook used its executive session at the TCA Summer Press tour to announce it has renewed the teen drama Skam Austin for a second season on Facebook Watch.

The show, a remake of the beloved Norwegian series Skam, offers an unfiltered look at the lives of American teenagers. The series follows four “loser” girls who form their own dance team, and it tackles the topical issues including popularity, slut-shaming, Islamophobia and relationships.

Skam Austin unfolds in real time and across Facebook’s platforms, with daily episodes airing at the time when events occur within the story line — say, a lunch scene that drops at noon — with follow-up posts on the characters’ Instagram profiles. Bonus material can be found on the show’s official Facebook page, such as text exchanges between characters.

The series is an example of how Facebook seeks to differentiate its Watch platform from other video streaming services...

“Skam Austin,” the realistic teen drama following the lives of several Texas teenagers, has been renewed for a second season on Facebook Watch, the company announced at the TCA Summer Press Tour on Wednesday in Los Angeles.

The series, which takes its name from the lauded Norwegian series “Skam” (or “shame” in English) follows four unpopular girls from an Austin, Texas dance team as they deal with a myriad of issues: school cliques, having sex for the first time, racism, and balancing high school friendships. The first episode of the series, launched in April, attracted 14 million views.

Fidji Simo, Facebook’s VP of product, and Ricky Van Veen, Facebook’s head of global creative strategy, made the announcement on Wednesday.

The second season will continue the show’s experimental sharing of content, with “Skam Austin” characters posting Instagram pictures in...

Facebook Watch has renewed “Skam Austin” for a second season, Variety has learned exclusively.

The scripted series is based on the Norwegian show “Skam.” The transmedia teen drama tells stories about the lives of American teenagers, offering an unfiltered look at what teens are dealing with today head on with relationships that unfold across multiple social media platforms. Like the first season, the content will roll out in real time, from the scenes on Facebook Watch to the posts on the characters’ Instagram profiles.

“’Skam’ is a shining example of what social video can be when there is a seamless integration of technology and content on Facebook,” said Ricky Van Veen, head of global creative strategy for Facebook. “We’re thrilled to bring back this special show and continue to break new ground with ‘Skam’s’ incomparable format.”

Simon Fuller and Per Blankens executive produce via Xix Entertainment, along with...

Back in December, Simon Fuller’s Xix Entertainment said it was making an English-language version of hit Scandi teen drama Shame (Skam). Today at Mipcom, Facebook’s Head of Global Creative Strategy, Ricky Van Veen, said the company is teaming with Fuller to bring the series to its newly-launched Facebook Watch.

The show, which debuted on Nrk platforms in 2015, uses narratives in real time with unknown actors and scripts that are geared to a 16 year-old audience with a focus on teen issues. The show scored huge ratings among young and adult audiences in Scandinavia, growing its weekly audience from 24K to 1.262M (Norway has a total population of 5M) and outperformed many TV and streaming primetime hits in the territory. Episode length varies from 17-50 minutes.

Van Veen today said the teen drama is “built for social.” The U.S. production is being run from Fuller’s Xix in LA.

When Girls began its fifth season, I feared it was struggling at least as much as its characters in the transition from carefree youth to mature adulthood. The early episodes had their moments, particularly our first glimpse of Shoshanna's new life in Japan, but the spark of the series' first few seasons wasn't quite there as Hannah and her friends fumbled around with new jobs, new relationships, and new responsibilities. (Season spoilers coming up just as soon as there's a pretty picture of me in the Financial Times round-up of books of the year...) But sometime around either the fifth episode (split between Hannah going on a spa retreat with her mom and another Shoshanna Tokyo interlude) or the sixth (which somehow made a spotlight on the usually loathsome Marnie into one of the show's best episodes ever), that newfound maturity turned out to be a feature, not a bug.

Tina Fey’s Little Stranger banner production banner has been staked to a two-year first-look deal with Universal Pictures. That’s where she most recently starred with Amy Poehler in Sisters, and where she recently set Do Nothing Bitches with Sisters scribe Paula Pell, with Fey to star alongside Ufc champ Ronda Rousey. They are also developing at Universal You Bet!, which Girls writer Sarah Heyward will write as a star vehicle for Fey to play one of three women who, when…...

Several of Glee‘s original cast members will bid adieu to the series at PaleyFest in March.

The Paley Center for Media has unveiled the talent list for its annual celebration of TV, and it features big names such as the Fox musical comedy’s Lea Michele and Chris Colfer, Homeland‘s Claire Danes, The Good Wife‘s Julianna Margulies and the breakout stars of freshman newbies The Flash, Outlander and Jane the Virgin.

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The current list of panelists for each night of the event (taking place at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood) follows:

Friday,...

While Girls could have easily turned any college campus into the University of Iowa for their fourth season, the show was hoping for authenticity by getting the real deal on film. Sadly it was not to be, even though Girls writer Sarah Heyward is herself a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. "While we are pleased that the Iowa Writers’ Workshop is receiving national attention and that our graduate is doing well in her career, our general practice is to not allow filming, due to potential disruption to campus,” university spokesman Tom Moore confirmed. On the bright side, the request indicates that Hannah will likely attend the University of Iowa rather than talking herself out of enrollment in favor of, say, getting back together with Adam. Plus, it will make the second episode where he runs barefoot and shirtless to see her even more epic than the first.

The article below contains spoilers for "Incidentals," the February 23rd, 2014 episode of "Girls." Adam (Adam Driver) is headed to Broadway, and Hannah (Lena Dunham), who just a few weeks ago was gentle pointing out to her semi-feral boyfriend that his life was lacking professional direction, is thrown into a tailspin of self-doubt. Blame Patti LuPone. "Incidentals," which is directed by Richard Shepard ("Dom Hemingway") and written by Dunham and Sarah Heyward, highlights an underlying truth in the pair's relationship and the nature of fame. It's one thing for them to be unconventional and broke together, but artistic success is going to put him in a different light than it would her. "He is so funny-looking," she said to LuPone after being told Adam was likely "going to start fucking everybody in the building," and was in turn reassured that even the Elephant Man got laid thanks to his star status.

Girls Season 3, Episode 8: “Incidentals”

Written by Lena Dunham and Sarah Heyward

Directed by Richard Shepard

Airs Sundays at 10 Pm on HBO

With the exception of the storyline involving his sister, Adam (Adam Driver) has been on the margins of Girls Season Three. Much of the focus has been on Hannah’s (Lena Dunham) writing career and Marnie’s (Allison Williams) complete breakdown, which means that characters, like him, Shoshanna (Zosia Mamet), and Jessa (Jemima Kirke) have been relegated to the sidelines. Lena Dunham and Sarah Heyward make him and Jessa part of contrasting stories featuring a pair of very different guest stars. They also do another good job of bringing the main and guest cast together for hilarious and insightful interactions. The announcement of Adam’s casting in a Broadway play puts a lot of pressure on Hannah, and she actually weathers it quite well. Maybe she is growing as a character.

Lena Dunham's parents are helping their daughter become "the voice of a generation."

According to Capital New York's article about the "Girls" writers room, Laurie Simmons and Carroll Dunham sometimes help pen the Emmy-winning HBO series.

"Our writers this year include Judd Apatow, Jenni Konner, Lena Dunham, Bruce Eric Kaplan, Murray Miller, Paul Simms, Sarah Heyward and, occasionally, Lena’s parents," an HBO spokesperson said. "We are very excited to get started on Season 3."

This isn't the first time Dunham's parents have been involved in the series. In a Season 2 episode, Dunham's mother (Simmons) played a woman working at an art gallery who interviewed Marnie (Allison Williams).

"She kind of uses a shorthand with me that’s like, 'Mom, that sucks. Mom, be quiet. Mom, scream.' You know, she just kind of shouts commands at me that she really wouldn’t dare to do with any other actor,...

And here we are, the last big hurrah before the granddaddy of the awards season, the Academy Awards. As expected, "Zero Dark Thirty" won Original Screenplay but the most surprising winner was "Argo," beating the writing frontrunner, "Lincoln" by Tony Kushner. So more "Argo" power! It's definitely the film to beat this Oscars, and I'm happy that it's my No. 1 film of 2012!

Here's the complete list of WGA winners; for other winners/nominees this awards season, click here:

Film

Original Screenplay

"Zero Dark Thirty" - Written by Mark Boal; Columbia Pictures

Adapted Screenplay

"Argo" - Screenplay by Chris Terrio; based on a selection from "The Master of Disguise" by Antonio J. Mendez and the Wired magazine article "The Great Escape" by Joshuah Bearman; Warner Bros. Pictures

Documentary Screenplay

"Searching for Sugar Man" - Written by Malik Bendejelloul; Sony Pictures Classics

Television

Drama Series

"Breaking Bad" - Written by Sam Catlin,...

Los Angeles — The CIA thrillers "Argo" and "Zero Dark Thirty" have won top screenplay honors from the Writers Guild of America.

The guild's adapted screenplay award Sunday went to Chris Terrio for "Argo," director Ben Affleck's tale of the CIA's daring masquerade of six U.S. diplomats as a Hollywood film crew to rescue them from Iran during the hostage crisis there.

Mark Boal won the prize for original screenplay for "Zero Dark Thirty," director Kathryn Bigelow's chronicle of the CIA's manhunt for al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

Director Malik Bendjelloul won the documentary award for "Searching for Sugar Man," his portrait of acclaimed but largely forgotten 1970s musician Rodriguez.

The guild was the last of Hollywood's major trade unions to weigh in on the year's top films before next Sunday's Academy Awards.

"Argo" has emerged as the best-picture favorite for the Oscars after sweeping top prizes at earlier film honors,...

The Writers Guild of America gathered last night and handed out hardware to those in the world of film, radio and television. Read on for a list of winners from the latter industry...

Drama Series

Breaking Bad, Written by Sam Catlin, Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould, Gennifer Hutchison, George Mastras, Thomas Schnauz, Moira Walley-Beckett

Comedy Series

Louie, Written by Pamela Adlon, Vernon Chatman, Louis C.K.

New Series

Girls, Written by Judd Apatow, Lesley Arfin, Lena Dunham, Sarah Heyward, Bruce Eric Kaplan, Jenni Konner, Deborah Schoeneman, Dan Sterling

Episodic Drama

“The Other Woman” (Mad Men), Written by Semi Chellas and Matthew Weiner

Episodic Comedy

“Virgin Territory” (Modern Family), Written by Elaine Ko

Long Form – Original

Hatfields & McCoys, Nights Two and Three, Teleplay by Ted Mann and Ronald Parker, Story by Bill Kerby and Ted Mann

Long Form – Adapted

Game Change, Written by Danny Strong, Based on the book by Mark Halperin and...

Argo continued its domination of award season by claiming one of the last of the pre-Oscar prizes — the Writers Guild Award, where screenwriter Chris Terrio won the honor for adapted screenplay.

Terrio’s competition included Tony Kushner’s Lincoln, David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook, David Magee’s Life of Pi and Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower. All but Chbosky are also up for the Oscar next weekend, with Beasts of the Southern Wild’s Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin taking that slot.

Best original screenplay went to Mark Boal for Zero Dark Thirty, who bested John Gatins’ Flight,...

As we enter the home stretch to the Academy Awards, writers were celebrated Sunday. The 2012 Writers Guild Awards honored the best writing in film, television, radio, new media, and video games. "Zero Dark Thirty" and "Argo" took home the original and adapted screenplay awards, respectively. While "Breaking Bad," and "Louie" took home awards for best drama and comedy series.

Here is the full winners list:

Television

Drama SERIESBreaking Bad (AMC), Written by Sam Catlin, Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould, Gennifer Hutchison, George Mastras, Thomas Schnauz, Moira Walley-Beckett

Comedy SERIESLouie (FX), Written by Pamela Adlon, Vernon Chatman, Louis C.K.

New SERIESGirls (HBO), Written by Judd Apatow, Lesley Arfin, Lena Dunham, Sarah Heyward, Bruce Eric Kaplan, Jenni Konner, Deborah Schoeneman, Dan Sterling

Episodic DRAMAMad Men (AMC) - "The Other Woman" - Written by Semi Chellas and Matthew Weiner 

Episodic COMEDYModern Family (ABC) - "Virgin Territory" - Written by Elaine Ko

Long Form -...

Girls, Season 2, Episode 3: “Bad Friend”

Written by Lena Dunham and Sarah Heyward

Directed by Jesse Peretz

Airs Sundays at 9pm Et on HBO

Filling in for Justine Smith, who shall return post-haste.

“What does cocaine make you feel like? It makes you feel like having more cocaine.” – George Carlin

Coke is the ideal drug of Girls. When Hannah excitedly enters a pretentious internet publication’s spartan offices after hearing they’ll pay for contributions, she takes with her an eagerness to write about any and all new experiences. (Well, except maybe having a threesome.) So when she’s asked to write about doing cocaine, she sees it as yet another opportunity to transgress and excavate. Why not?

One of Girls’s most persistent themes is that of the avoidance, or utter denial, of consequence. For Hannah, coke is just an unexplored country, as well as a potential launchpad for thousands of (paid!

We’re barely into Season 2, but I think it’s safe to say HBO’s Girls does sex and drugs and friendship about as brilliantly/awkwardly (brawkwardly? nah…) as any show in the history of television.

This week’s episode, “Bad Friend,” featured a doll standing watch over a comically traumatic sex-scene-as-art-piece; cocaine being clichédly/grossly snorted off a nightclub toilet seat; and several chemically induced, dubiously advised confessions that may alter the fabic of connections in the lives of Hannah, Marnie and their circle of pals. (Or who knows? Once everyone comes down from their highs, perhaps not.)

Let...

What do Walter White and Phil Dunphy have in common? They’re both at the center of the TV shows most honored by the Writers Guild of America today. The group just announced the nominees for its annual awards, which will be handed out Feb. 17 at simultaneous ceremonies in Los Angeles and New York. Breaking Bad garnered five nods; Modern Family drew four. Here’s a list of all the primetime and late night series in contention for the event’s biggest prizes:

Drama Series

Boardwalk Empire, Written by Dave Flebotte, Diane Frolov, Chris Haddock, Rolin Jones, Howard Korder, Steve Kornacki,...