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EXCLUSIVE: Fox has given a series order to drama Our Kind Of People, from writer/executive producer Karin Gist (Star, Mixed-ish) and executive producer Lee Daniels (Empire, Star). This marks the first new Fox drama series ordered for the 2021-22 season and the first series to come out of the network’s script-to-series…

Hulu is putting its gloves on after handing a straight-to-series order to Mike Tyson limited series Iron Mike. The streamer has ordered the eight-episode series from I, Tonya screenwriter Steven Rogers and director Craig Gillespie. Margot Robbie, the star of the Tonya Harding feature film, will exec produce, via her…

Fox Entertainment is set to open a writers room for drama Our Kind of People from Karin Gist and Lee Daniels with the hope that it turns into a straight-to-series order for the 2021-22 season. The drama, which is inspired by Lawrence Otis Graham's book Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class, is the…

Mixed-ish showrunner Karin Gist has re-upped her overall deal with 20th Century Fox TV. As part of the new pact, she has launched a production banner, The Gist Of It, with Claire Brown as her EVP of Production and Development, and will create and supervise/develop new projects with the studio, part of Disney…

Freeform has put in development East Nasty, a country music drama from writer Jamie Rosengard (Dare Me, Empire), Mixed-ish showrunner Karin Gist and 20th Century Fox TV, where Gist is under a deal. Written by Rosengard, East Nasty takes its name from the real-life community of East Nashville, where a vibrant…

Fox has teamed with Karin Gist (mixed-ish) and Lee Daniels’ Lee Daniels Entertainment to develop Our Kind Of People, a drama inspired by Lawrence Otis Graham’s book Our Kind Of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class. 20th Century Fox TV is the studio. Fox and 20th TV first took a stab at adapting the book as a TV…

"For me, it’s about opening the door for people, giving access to writers who might not be heard right now," says Mixed-ish showrunner Karin Gist about utilizing her perch on shows like ABC’s upcoming Black-ish prequel and the now-canceled Star to broaden the horizons of the small screen. "So, for me, I just read as…

Karin Gist, who served as executive producer on Fox’s musical drama Star for the past two seasons, is joining the newly picked-up ABC comedy series mixed-Ish, a spinoff from ABC’s popular comedy black-ish. The project, from ABC Studios, is a black-ish prequel centered on Tracee Ellis Ross’s character Rainbow…