Amazon Studios Sets New and Expanded TV Development Team TheWrap 2/10/2021
Amazon Studios has restructured its television development team under studio chief Jennifer Salke.
Amazon is reforming its TV development to focus on three areas: development, series and IP/talent management.
Marc Resteghini, who led drama development, will now be in charge of all series development globally, adding comedy, genre, animation and unscripted under his purview. Laura Lancaster has also joined the studio from Alcon and will serve as head of series; she ll be in charge of guiding returning series through their life cycle. Kara Smith will take over Resteghini s old role as head of drama. Resteghini and Lancaster will both report to Albert Cheng and Vernon Sanders, Amazon s co-heads of television.
Laura Lancaster Joins Amazon Studios as Head of Series, Marc Resteghini to Lead Development
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Amazon Studios is expanding and restructuring its executive leadership team, bringing on board Laura Lancaster as head of series and upping Marc Resteghini to head of development in both the U.S. and globally. They will report to co-heads of television Vernon Sanders and Albert Cheng.
The move comes as the studio organizes its leadership team to focus on three areas: development, series, and IP and talent management. Resteghini, most recently head of drama, will now oversee those leading the studio’s drama, genre, comedy, animation and unscripted projects from concept through end of Season 1.
A new local program is set to air on 97.9 WHAV beginning this Sunday morning.
“Pulse on Health” features health professionals from Greater Lawrence Family Health Center, which operates centers in Lawrence, Methuen and Haverhill. Hosted by Marc Lemay, the show is expected cover a range of issues every week. The first episode features GLFHC President and CEO John Silva, who retires in June. He reflected on 2020 his last full year in health care.
“It’s the worst year. It’s the most unbelievable, nightmarish year. It’s a year where every day seems the same. It’s the year with incredible strain on a health care on everybody’s health care system as well as everybody’s mental health,” Silva says.
Updated: 12:27 PM MST December 29, 2020
ARIZONA, USA It’s a tradition that at the end of each year we take a look back and reflect on what happened: the good, the bad and the ugly. In order to learn from the bad and appreciate the good, this tradition may be especially important in a year that, for many, seems to be made up mostly of the ugly.
The coronavirus pandemic has undoubtedly dominated people’s lives and the news cycle this year. Add to that the civil unrest over the summer that many big cities and small towns across the U.S. experienced and combine it with a contentious presidential election and 2020 could be considered exceptionally ugly.
2020: The best in visual arts | The Daily Gazette
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It seems strange to be writing a “best of” list in 2020, during a year when it’s been difficult to focus on anything besides the seemingly never-ending deluge of bad news.
Yet, to not make a list would be to ignore the artists, curators, educators and others who marched on despite the dismal circumstances; who kept creating throughout the pandemic and a stressful election cycle. To highlight their work, we’ve put together a list of some of our favorite exhibitions of the year.
At the Hyde Collection
This Glens Falls institution started the year off strong with “Francisco Goya: The Caprichos Etchings and Aquatints” and “Dox Thrash, Black Life, and the Carborundum Mezzotint.” Both exhibitions focused on truth-telling in one way or another, through comedic scenes and works with fantastical creatures or through vivid portraits. Both captured societal changes and tried to depict the world around them as they s