Last month, members of the arts community banded together to pen an open letter calling for support of the industry in the wake of the growing health crisis.
The letter implored the incoming presidential administration to create a cabinet-level post to oversee the nation s arts industry.
In an interview with NPR arts advocate and head of the Ovation TV network, Charles Segars, discussed the need for the post.
He said, It centralizes, in the positive sense of the word, all of the leverage of the United States government. Remember, you have arts pockets throughout the Department of State, Department of Defense. Even Transportation and Agriculture has a taste of that, of arts programs that they help support.
HBO Max Reveals First Look at Gossip Girl Reboot
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HBO Max has quite a few buzzworthy titles in the pipeline for the next year, between Warner Bros. entire slate of 2021 movies and an ever-growing number of original series and movies. One of the titles that has already been the subject of debate - both good and bad - has been the streamer s new take on
Gossip Girl. The beloved The CW series is set to be reimagined for the modern era and now we have our first look at what that will entail. In a new trailer for HBO Max s 2021-2022 slate, fans can briefly spot a look at the
Remember a month ago when we all collectively freaked out over the new
Gossip Girl cast gathering at the Met for the first time? Now, we finally have an idea of what that moment will look like on-screen. In a new sizzle reel previewing its 2021 lineup, HBO Max treats us to brief clips of footage from the upcoming series and we re eating up every last second of it.
As we ve seen in the paparazzi photos, the shots show the new Upper East Side crew lounging on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, each flaunting their own unique spin on preppy-chic style. Though members of the original cast won t appear in the new spin-off, the series will likely give rise to a crop of up-and-comers including Emily Alyn Lind, Whitney Peak, Eli Brown, Johnathan Fernandez, Jason Gotay, Thomas Doherty, Zión Moreno, Adam Chanler-Berat, Tavi Gevinson, Jordan Alexander, Evan Mock, and Savannah Smith.
Everything the OG Gossip Girl Cast Has Said About the HBO Max Reboot
By Sarah Hearon of US Weekly |
Attention Upper East Siders: Serena, Blair, Chuck, Nate, Dan and Little J still exist in the upcoming HBO Max reboot … but will fans ever see S, B and friends onscreen again? Time will tell.
“We’ve reached out to all of them to let them know it was happening, and we would love for them to be involved if they want to be involved,” executive producer
Josh Schwartz told reporters at the Television Critics Association summer press tour in July 2019. “But [we] certainly didn’t want to make it contingent upon their [participation]. They played those characters for six years, and if they felt like they were good with that, we wanted to respect that. But obviously, it would be great to see them again.”