Brian Kite, interim dean of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, announced today that Academy Award-winning actor Troy Kotsur (CODA, Spring Awakening) will deliver the keynote address at the school’s 75th annual commencement ceremony. Writer-director-producer Amy Aniobi will receive the Distinguished Alumni Award. Dean Kite will preside over the event to be held on Friday, June 10, 2022 from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at UCLA’s Royce Hall.
Former assistant Ryan Walker-Hartshorn will serve as a consultant.
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Bon Appétit’s problematic behind the scenes unraveling is the subject of a new HBO Max comedy series.
According to the
Enjoy Your Meal will satirically examine the toxic culture of the food media industry. The half-hour program will draw inspiration from the multiple media scandals of summer 2020 and today, focusing on a cohort of young assistants of color who rise up to tear their cookie cutter corporate culture apart.
Ryan Walker-Hartshorn, the former assistant to the publication’s editor-in-chief
Adam Rapoport and only Black woman on staff, will serve as a consultant for the series. Amy Aniobi, an Insecure writer and executive producer will write the script. She will also executive produce along with
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Adam Rapoport s former assistant Ryan Walker-Hartshorn will serve as a consultant on the half-hour development Enjoy Your Meal.
Bon Appétit s unraveling is getting the scripted treatment.
HBO Max is developing a new comedy series,
Enjoy Your Meal, that satirically examines the toxic culture of the food media industry. Per the logline, the half-hour show will draw inspiration from the multiple media scandals of summer 2020 and today, focusing on a cohort of young assistants of color who rise up to tear their cookie cutter corporate culture apart.
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THR reporting that the streaming service has started development on a new comedy series titled
Enjoy Your Meal, focused on satirizing the hypocrisy of the food media world, and featuring contributions/consultations from Ryan Walker-Hartshorn, Rapoport’s former assistant, and the only Black woman on the company’s staff at the time this all went down. Walker-Hartshorn was one of several voices that spoke up about issues at the company after the photos of Rapoport surfaced, highlighting a workplace in which people of color were frequently discriminated against, and where Rapoport fostered cultural inequalities from the EIC’s office on down. All of which will, presumably, get a slightly less institutionally depressing spin with the show, which is being written and executive produced by