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EXCLUSIVE: Jenni Konner has boarded Hulu’s limited series Immigrant, starring and executive produced by Kumail Nanjiani, as executive producer and co-showrunner. Additionally, The White Tiger filmmaker Ramin Bahrani has been tapped to direct and executive produce the series about the origin story of stripper troupe…

EXCLUSIVE: FX is developing The Bobby Love Story, a one-hour drama starring and executive produced by Octavia Spencer, from writer Shalisha Francis-Feusner (Seven Seconds), Kerry Washington’s Simpson Street Productions and ABC Signature, where Spencer and her Orit Entertainment and Washington and Simpson Street are…

EXCLUSIVE: Writer, producer, and director Jenni Konner (Girls) has signed an overall deal with Fox 21 Television Studios, part of Disney TV Studios. Under the multi-year pact, Konner will create, develop, produce and oversee series for network, cable and streaming platforms. "From the moment that we sat down with…

The Lenny Letter, the feminist website and newsletter created by Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner in 2015, is, as was widely expected and reported this week, will shut down today, the co-creators confirm. The closure is addressed in an open letter posted on the site and credited to Dunham, Konner and editorial and…

Lena Dunham’s three-year-old newsletter-website The Lenny Letter could be shutting down as early as tomorrow, according to industry site Digiday, which reports that Lenny’s contributors have been notified of the closure. Dunham’s site began an ad partnership with Conde Nast last year. Deadline has reached out to both…

Watching Matthew Weiner's upcoming The Romanoffs and Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner's Camping, I couldn't get over the feeling I had seen these seriously flawed series before — and it was Steven Soderbergh's Full Frontal back in 2002. Coming off the Oscar success of Traffic and the box office hit Ocean's Eleven…

“It may not be fun. In fact, it may not be fun at all.” Those words of warning from Jennifer Garner as a weekend camping trip to celebrate her husband’s (David Tennant) 45th birthday, gets underway. We’re getting the first look at HBO’s new comedy series Camping, from Girls creator/executive producer Lena Dunham and…

A day after it was announced that Girls creators Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner were going their own ways with different production pacts at HBO, the latter showed up without the former at today’s TCA session for their next comedy series Camping.  “We feel super lucky to have had eight amazing years together, we just…

Longtime friends and producing partners Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner have decided to go their separate ways, work-wise. The two have decided to split as producing partners before their joint overall deal for their A Casual Romance Productions banner expires in December at HBO, Deadline has confirmed. Dunham and…

Camping star Jennifer Garner has posted the first cast photo from the set of the upcoming HBO comedy series. "Let us commence," she writes in the caption. "The cast of #HBOCamping before we're sunburned and covered in ticks." <a…

CAA has signed former Girls executive producers and current producing partners Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner, ending their long association with UTA. Dunham was at UTA when she burst onto the scene as a 24-year-old in 2010 with her second feature, the micro-budgeted Tiny Furniture. The same year, she teamed with fellow…

Jennifer Garner is returning to television in new half-hour comedy series Camping, which has been greenlighted by HBO with an eight-episode order. Based on the British series created by Julia Davis, the project hails from the Girls duo of creator/executive producer Lena Dunham and executive producer Jenni Konner…