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Higher Ground, President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama's media company, has made several new additions to its executive team. Joe Paulsen has been named Head of Business and Strategy. Dan Fierman will lead the company's podcast projects as Head of Audio and will be joined by Creative Director, Anna Holmes. The two…

Michelle Obama’s bringing her healthy eating initiatives to Jimmy Kimmel Live. In a clip promoting Obama’s upcoming late-night appearance, the former First Lady meets Jimmy Kimmel’s his daughter, Jane, who is reluctant to try vegetables. When Obama asks why she’s hesitant to try the veggies, Jane responds. “I don’t…

UPDATE: The former First Lady is also appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Tuesday March 16. Late-night talent wars, anyone? ORIGINAL: Michelle Obama is back on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon next week. She will appear on the NBC late-night show on Thursday March 18 to promote her upcoming Netflix kids' show Waff…

President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama's production company Higher Ground Productions has set its latest slate of film and TV projects for Netflix. The streamer is developing two TV series and four feature films as part of the slate. On the TV side, Reverie and Extant creator Mickey Fisher is adapting Firekeeper’s D…

Former first lady Michelle Obama issued a lengthy statement on the siege of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump, calling out right-wing media and Silicon Valley tech companies for enabling his behavior. “The day was a fulfillment of wishes of an infantile and unpatriotic president who can’t handle the truth…

Adam Conover, creator and host of truTV's Adam Ruins Everything, has teamed with Barack and Michelle Obama's Higher Ground Productions to pull back the curtain on government in a new sketch comedy series for Netflix. The streamer has ordered The G Word with Adam Conover, which will go inside the machine of government…

Molly Stern, the former Crown publisher whose successes include the Michelle Obama memoir Becoming, Gone Girl and others, has launched a new publishing imprint. Zando will be backed by Sister, the studio launched in 2019 by Elisabeth Murdoch, Stacey Snider and Jane Featherstone. Zando will collaborate with influential…

"See the whole board," a chess-instructing Martin Sheen's President Josiah Bartlet tells Rob Lowe's Sam Seaborn in HBO Max's A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote. Originally uttered in 2002's “Hartsfield's Landing” episode of the multiple Emmy winning political drama, the Aaron Sorkin penned words hang…

Former First Lady Michelle Obama tells voters in a 24-minute “closing argument” video for Joe Biden that “the events of the past few days are a bracing reminder of the tragedy that has been this administration's response to this crisis.” Referring to the outbreak of COVID-19 at the White House, Obama said “the fact is…

President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama's production company Higher Ground Productions is getting into the kids' TV business with an animated preschool series from Doc McStuffins creator Chris Nee and Netflix. The streamer has ordered 40, 12-minute episodes of Ada Twist, Scientist, which is based on the book series…

Michelle Obama and ATTN have lined up a star-studded roster for their VOMO: Vote Or Miss Out election comedy special. Larry David, Susie Essman, Chris Rock, Amy Schumer, JB Smoove, Wanda Sykes, Usher, LeBron James + More Than A Vote, and musical group Migos have added their voices and will participate in the special…

Michelle Obama and her When We All Vote organization will collaborate with ATTN: to bring some comedy to the lead up to the 2020 election. ABC announced Wednesday that Obama and ATTN: will team for its primetime comedy special VOMO: Vote or Miss Out, hosted by Kevin Hart. “We have a societal responsibility to…