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EXCLUSIVE: The Chicago-based artist incubator OTV Studio has rebranded as Breaking Light Studio.  This new iteration of the company established in 2019 is launching with the support of The Matrix franchise’s Lilly Wachowski, who will serve as a creative advisor and strategic partner, as well as…

Updated with statements from Showtime: Comedies Black Monday and Work in Progress will not be moving forward at Showtime, becoming the latest titles to get the chop from the premium cable network. On Thursday, Work in Progress showrunner Lilly Wachowski revealed on Twitter that the series from co-creator and star Abby…

Showtime’s Work In Progress, like its main character, has experienced its own growth since Season 1. During Showtime’s TCA panel on Wednesday, Work In Progress star and co-creator Abby Mcenany chatted about the differences between the comedy’s first season and its newly-launched second. “I had a trailer, you guys. It…

The Covid-19 pandemic affected the season 2 production of Showtime’s Work In Progress, but co-creator/executive producer/writer and star Abby McEnany said the defining crisis of 2020 will also be featured on-screen. “Our show is based in reality,” she said. “I think of the way we did it, I’m really proud of the way…

EXCLUSIVE: Lilly Wachowski, who is best known for the original groundbreaking Matrix franchise, is teaming with IP incubator OTV Studio as a key partner in their work to create career paths for intersectional film and television creatives. Every artist under the OTV Studio umbrella is intersectional, meaning they hold…

The Matrix co-director Lilly Wachowski is giving fans the red pill on what the film trilogy is really about – transformation and being transgender. “That was the original intention. But the world wasn’t quite ready,” says Lilly Wachowski, who revealed her status as transgender along with her sister and Matrix…

The Wachowskis’ sci-fi franchise The Matrix has been used as a pop culture reference by many, but when it was used in a tweet by Elon Musk and then co-signed by Ivanka Trump, it didn’t take Lilly Wachowski long to respond. A nod to the game-changing film, Musk tweeted “Take the red pill”, referring to a point in the…

Christmas is still weeks away, but there are a few presents under the small screen tree that you really should open this week. Yes, there's the return of Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel for its lush third season tomorrow, the CW's December 8 premiering supersized annual Crisis on Infinite Earths team-up and Fox's…

“I’ve laid out 180 almonds,” Abby says. “Every day I’m just gonna throw one away. And if there’s one almond left and I don’t feel any better, I’m done — I’m out.” Sounds pretty heavy, right? Well, unfortunately those words were the last that Abby’s analyst would hear. “You did not kill your therapist,” a friend…

Showtime has handed a series order to Work in Progress, an eight episode comedy series starring Abby McEnany, who co-created the show with pilot director Tim Mason. Lilly Wachowski will co-write and executive produce the first season. Expected to premiere this year, Work in Progress follows a 45-year-old…

EXCLUSIVE: The Matrix franchise and Sense8 co-creator Lilly Wachowski has come on board to produce, co-write, and co-direct a series to be based on Abby McEnany and Tim Mason’s pilot, Work in Progress, which is making its premiere in the Indie Episodic Section at the Sundance Film Festival on Tuesday, Jan. 29. In Work…

Clocking in at more than two and a half hours, it would be unfair to compare the epic Sense8 finale on Netflix to other series enders. However, as I say in my video review, it is absolutely fair to say that the June 8-launching Lana Wachowski-directed feature finale of sorts is a delicious conclusion to an ambitious…