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One of Hulu's Emmy hopefuls this year is the limited series adaptation of Celeste Ng's 2017 novel Little Fires Everywhere, which tells the story of a seemingly perfect white suburban family in the ’90s whose lives change dramatically when a mysterious African American mother and her teenage daughter come into the…

During a panel titled “Showrunner Superpanel: where do we go from here” at the virtual edition of the BANFF World Media Festival, a roster of some of the top shows on television talked about their journeys to Hollywood. Steven Canals (Pose), Tanya Saracho (Vida), Anna Winger (Unorthodox), Liz Tigelaar (Little Fires Eve…

“We’re a show that’s grieving right now on multiple levels,” said Liz Tigelaar during the Little Fires Everywhere writers panel on the final day of ATX TV…from the Couch!. She first paid tribute to fellow Little Fires executive producer and director Lynn Shelton, who passed away in May from complications of a…

You can find Liz Tigelaar’s name on a what’s what of popular television series since the turn of the century, when she got her first major writing credit for an episode of Dawson’s Creek in 2000. Her various credits since then have added a variety of producing, showrunning and creator titles and her work includes…

After adapting Little Fires Everywhere into a Hulu limited series, writer Liz Tigelaar is giving the same treatment to another bestselling novel with two female protagonists, also for Hulu. In a competitive situation involving multiple bidders, the Disney-controlled streamer has landed for development Summer Sisters,…

Writer/producer Liz Tigelaar (Little Fires Everywhere) has launched Best Day Ever, a new production company, which has entered a two-year overall pod deal with ABC Studios. Additionally, former Netflix executive Stacey Silverman will serve as Tigelaar’s producing partner at the new company. Tigelaar is currently…

In a competitive situation, Hulu has landed Little Fires Everywhere, a limited series based on Celeste Ng's bestselling book, toplined and executive produced by Reese Witherspoon and Scandal star Kerry Washington. The project, which recently hit the marketplace, has received a straight-to-series eight-episode…

Hulu has landed for development LA Woman, a single-camera comedy from Casual executive producer/showrunner Liz Tigelaar, director Lynn Shelton, and producers Amy Pascal and Elizabeth Cantillon. Sony TV’s TriStar Television  is the studio. Created, written and executive produced by Tigelaar, LA Woman is a coming-of-age…

A first-time showrunner when Casual bowed in 2015, Zander Lehmann was thrust into a new world with new responsibilities, alongside executive producers Jason Reitman, Helen Estabrook and Liz Tigelaar—the latter, the only TV veteran among the bunch. Quickly picking up the process, the Casual creator found an…

During a panel discussion at the ATX Television Festival entitled Television in a Trumped Up America, Queen Sugar producer Paul Garnes made a comment that made everyone cheer. In the midst of the discussion on how the election results have affected television, Garnes said, "One of my EPs on Queen Sugar thought maybe…

In a competitive situation, Hulu has landed The Way I Am, a half-hour single-camera comedy from singer-songwriter Ingrid Michaelson and Casual showrunner Liz Tigelaar, with Michaelson set to star. Created by Michaelson and Tigelaar and written by Tigelaar, The Way I Am, now in development, is based on loosely…

Showtime has put in development The Middlesteins, a half-hour comedy series based on the 2012 book by Jami Attenberg, from Nina Tassler, former chairman of Showtime sibling CBS Entertainment, and Casual showrunner Liz Tigelaar. The Middlesteins is about a suburban couple who splits up after 30 years, partly because of…