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Tim Cook Reportedly Killed an Apple TV Show About Gawker
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On paper, it sounds like a big get for any streaming service:
Scraper, a show that changed the name of its titular blog but was clearly based on Gawker Media with many former Gawker employees including Cord Jefferson, Max Read, Emma Carmichael and Leah Beckmann attached to the project. And as a
New York Times piece points out, Apple TV+ had picked up the series with several episodes already completed before Apple CEO Tim Cook caught wind and squashed it.
“Mr. Cook, according to two people briefed on the email, was surprised to learn that his company was making a show about Gawker, which had humiliated the company at various times and famously outed him, back in 2008, as gay,” the publication writes. “He expressed a distinctly negative view toward Gawker, the people said. Apple proceeded to kill the project.”
Tim Cook Reportedly Killed a TV Show About the Site That Outed Him
Two episodes were already complete before he stepped in.
According to a new report by the
New York Times, Apple CEO Tim Cook allegedly canned a show already in the works by Apple TV+ that was loosely based on Gawker, the controversial site that outed him as gay in 2008.
The show was called
Gawker veterans, Cord Jefferson and former editor in chief, Max Read. Two other former
Gawker editors, Emma Carmichael and Leah Beckmann, were also hired by Apple TV+ as writers on the show.
Apple TV+ had several episodes in the can before Cook got wind about the project. According to the
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Apple has canceled plans to make a TV series about Gawker Media after its CEO Tim Cook expressed a negative view about the media company, The New York Times reported Sunday.
After finding out about Scraper, Cook emailed an Apple executive, the Times reported, citing two people briefed on the email. Cook was surprised to hear about the Apple TV Plus series, they said.
Apple then canceled plans to make the show, which it had acquired in January 2020, per the Times.
A Gawker Media site outed Cook as gay when he was appointed Apple s CEO in 2008.