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EXCLUSIVE: Apple TV+ has given a straight-to-series order to a half-hour comedy series starring Emmy winner Maya Rudolph and created by Emmy winners Alan Yang and Matt Hubbard. The untitled series reunites the trio who worked together on the 2018 Amazon comedy series Forever, also created by Yang and Hubbard and…

Netflix’s two top film and TV executives said the streaming service still has plenty of room for progress with diversity, but predicted results in 2020 will likely show improvement over 2019 when all of the numbers are tallied. “I think we are definitely going to improve,” TV chief Bela Bajaria said. “If you think…

USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative released a study today examining the diversity of Netflix’s original content. If anything the study could be summarized by Dr. Stacy L. Smith who said in a video: “Inclusion happens when women are given the keys to the kingdom.” “I rarely have anything positive to say,” said Dr…

Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, there has been a surge in racism against Asians and Pacific Islanders (API) which has been bolstered by Donald Trump and his administration’s consistent use of the terms “Chinese virus” and “Kung Flu” to describe COVID-19. To combat the wave of harassment and discrimination…

Alan Yang is known for working on comedy-driven TV series such as Parks and Recreation, Master of None and Forever. More recently, he was part of the team that brought the immigrant anthology series Little America to Apple TV+. That being said, he dived deeper into immigrant narratives, telling a personal story with…

When director and writer Alan Yang tweeted out the first trailer for his Netflix multi-generational drama Tigertail this morning, he wrote, “Please share it with anyone who needs an escape for two minutes today, especially Asian-Americans, who are facing an unprecedented time in our history. This film is a love letter…

Apple TV+'s new anthology series focusing on the immigrant experience, Little America, which premiered Friday, has already been renewed for a second season. On today's TCA panel on the show, executive producer Alan Yang teased that the second season will go beyond the first season in scope and perhaps go "farther back…

Amazon and Forever co-creators Alan Yang and Matt Hubbard have placed so many restrictions on what can be revealed about their September 14-launching dramedy that it is a straitjacket squeeze to say why you should or shouldn't watch it. So, in a clear exercise in anti-marketing marketing, as I say in my video review…

What if your average workaday existence suddenly was changed by a single decision? Here’s one idea. Amazon is out with the first trailer for Forever, its comedy series starring Saturday Night Live veterans Maya Rudolph and Fred Armisen in which a little recreation turns in a life-changing event. The logline: Married…

When it comes to diverse voices across film, TV and streaming, “it’s not enough to make one thing,” said Emmy winning Master of None EP Alan Yang at this morning’s CAA Amplify conference, “you’ve got to make that show better than all the other shows out there, it has to be the best.” “When you get that freshness…

ABC Entertainment president Channing Dungey, filmmakers Lee Daniels (The Butler) and Jon M. Chu (Crazy Rich Asians), California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and chairman of NBCUniversal International Group and NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises Cesar Conde are among those who will take part in CAA Amplify’s…

EXCLUSIVE: Apple is developing Little America, a half-hour anthology series from Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon, the Oscar-nominated writers of indie hit The Big Sick, SMILF executive producer Lee Eisenberg, Master of None co-creator/executive producer Alan Yang and Universal Television. Written by Eisenberg, who…