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First Lady Jill Biden headlined a fundraiser at the home of Friends co-creator Marta Kauffman on Friday, when she called out the “extremists” among Republican lawmakers who refuse to support broadly popular issues. According to a pool report, Biden said that even though Americans say that they want corporations to pay…

EXCLUSIVE: First Lady Jill Biden will visit Los Angeles on Friday with an itinerary that includes a fundraiser hosted by writer-producer and Friends co-creator Marta Kauffman. Per an invite, the Hancock Park lunch reception is for the Democratic Grassroots Victory Fund, which is raising money for the Democratic…

Earlier this month Friends co-creator Marta Kauffman made a generous donation to Brandeis University, her alma mater. She pledged $4 million to establish an endowed professorship in the African and African American Studies Department there. In making the pledge Kauffman said, “It took me a long time to begin to…

Marta Kauffman is giving back to alma mater: The Grace and Frankie co-creator has pledged $4 million to establish an endowed professorship in the African and African American Studies Department at Brandeis University. The Marta F. Kauffman '78 Professorship in African and African American Studies will support a…

When Grace and Frankie drops for its seventh and final season April 29, fans will have to bid farewell to more than just good laughs about yam lubricant and hydraulic-assisted toilet seats. The comedy from Marta Kauffman and Howard J. Morris is one of the last remaining series that features golden agers who actually…

Just call them the goodbye girls: Grace and Frankie are about to return for their final episodes on Netflix. Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin will be back April 29 to reprise their roles as a pair of divorcées whose husbands (played by Martin Sheen and Sam Waterston as Robert and Sol) left them to marry each other. The…

Grace and Frankie’s time is coming to a close as the Netflix series wrapped filming last night for the remaining episodes of its upcoming seventh and final season. Crew members of the Netflix comedy shared behind-the-scenes photos of the series’ final moments on-set at Hollywood’s Sunset Gower Studios on late on…

When Friends went off the air in 2004 there was a definite feeling that, somehow, this would not be the end of it, an itch that was finally scratched some 17 years later when the HBO Max special Friends: The Reunion appeared in May. Directed by British documentary filmmaker Ben Winston, the Fullwell 73 and Warner Bros…

Jewish Story Partners, a new film foundation with initial funding from Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw's Righteous Persons Foundation, launches today aiming to “tell stories about a diverse spectrum of Jewish experiences, histories, and cultures.” Backers also include the Maimonides Fund, which matched the Spielberg…

EXCLUSIVE: Friends co-creator Marta Kauffman is returning to broadcast television with The Dreamers, a drama based on Karen Thompson Walker’s novel, which has landed at ABC for development. The project hails from Grace & Frankie co–creator Kauffman and Okay Goodnight, her company with Robbie Rowe Tollin and Hannah…

While taping of the Friends reunion special for HBO Max has been delayed once again by the COVID-19 pandemic, Jennifer Aniston remains resolutely optimistic. Speaking to Deadline via phone after the news broke, she said, “It’s going to be super. You know what? This has also given us more time to make it even more…

A Black Lady Sketch Show creator and showrunner Robin Thede has challenged the TV industry to greenlight more modern black stories and opened up about how comedy can help change culture. In a conversation as part of the virtual ATX Television Festival, Thede and panellists Liz Feldman, Julie Plec and Marta Kauffman…