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Matt Berry Goes to Hollywood With BBC s Toast of Tinseltown, the Fourth Season of BAFTA-Winning Series
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Actor and writer Matt Berry is going to Hollywood, and moving to the BBC, with “Toast of Tinseltown,” the fourth season of the sitcom that won him a BAFTA for best male comedy performance.
“Toast of London,” written by Arthur Mathews and Berry, played for three seasons from 2013 through 2015 on U.K. broadcaster Channel 4 and IFC in the U.S. The new, six-part season will air on BBC One and iPlayer. It will see Berry reprising the role of Steven Toast, an eccentric and arrogant actor determined to win the recognition he mistakenly believes he deserves, as he moves to Hollywood and attempts to become a movie star.
To All the Boys Author Jenny Han Sets The Summer I Turned Pretty Series at Amazon
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Amazon has given the show an eight-episode order. Han wrote the pilot for the series and will also serve as executive producer and co-showrunner. Gabrielle Stanton will also executive produce and co-showrun. Karen Rosenfelt will also serve as executive producer along with Paul Lee, Nne Ebong, and Hope Hartman for wiip. The series is a co-production between Amazon Studios and wiip.
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“The Summer I Turned Pretty is many years in the making, and I’m so excited to tell Belly’s story in 2021,” said Han. “For the longtime book fans, I think it will have been worth the wait. For those newly discovering the Summer series, I hope you fall in love with these characters and this place that is so dear to my heart.”
WME Reaches Deal With WGA on Packaging and Endeavor Content Divestment
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WME and the WGA have finally come to terms on a settlement that will allow WME to resume representing writers after a nearly two-year standoff with the guild. WME was the last agency holdout in the WGA’s campaign to reform the rules governing how talent agents represent union writers.
The WGA told members that the deal is in line with previous agreements with CAA, UTA and ICM, which aim to end conflicts of interest in writer representation. The deals preclude the agencies from holding 20% or more of a production company. A side letter agreement requires that WME divest its interest in Endeavor Content to that threshold by a date certain, and appoints a retired judge to oversee the process. The deal also imposes a similar restriction on Silver Lake Partners, Endeavor’s majority owner.