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The writers behind ABC’s Black-ish, Apple TV+’s Pachinko, Disney’s Oscar-winning Encanto and Adam McKay’s satire Don’t Look Up are among the winners of the 46th annual Humanitas Prizes. The honors were bestowed Friday afternoon in a ceremony at the Beverly Hilton. Humanitas Prizes have been handed out since 1973 to…

Apple TV+’s Pachinko and Netflix’s Sex Education are among the big winners at the Edinburgh TV Awards. Jodie Comer, Mo Gilligan and Sharon Horgan’s indie also scooped goings at the event, held this evening in Scotland’s capital as the Edinburgh TV Festival’s second day comes to an end. Soo Hugh’s South Korean series Pa…

Welcome to Deadline's International Disruptors, a feature where we'll shine a spotlight on key executives and companies outside of the U.S. who are shaking up the offshore marketplace. This week, we’re speaking with Korean super-agent Soyoung Lee, who represents some of the nation’s biggest stars and…

Squid Game has made history again, this time by becoming the first non-English-language show to secure an Emmy nomination in the main drama category. The Korean mega-hit, which is the most-watched Netflix series of all time, picked up noms in the Outstanding Drama Series category and also for star Lee Jung-jae…

Apple TV+ will be diving back into the multi-generational world of Sunja, Solomon and more with Pachinko Season 2 already in the works. In its first season, Pachinko focused on the early life of Sunja as she moves from Korea to Japan, and her grandson Solomon's unrelenting efforts to close a critical finance deal and…

The journey from page to screen for Pachinko began in 2017, on a plane ride from London to New York. The transatlantic flight was a typical commute for Soo Hugh, who at the time served as executive producer and co-showrunner on the first season of AMC's The Terror. Nearly seven hours in the air provided an opportunity…

Only a year after Min Jin Lee’s original novel was published in 2017 and became a New York Times bestseller, Apple acquired rights to Pachinko to turn it into series. The bet paid off, as the eight-episode drama, with Soo Hugh as writer, showrunner and executive producer, became a worldwide hit, scoring big enough…

When production designer Mara LePere-Schloop first met with Soo Hugh in L.A. for Pachinko, she hadn’t yet read Min Jin Lee’s New York Times bestselling novel on which the series would be based. Her initial draw to the project, then, was the “magnetism” of the show’s creator, writer and EP, and her profound “passion&#8221…

When it came to setting the soundtrack for Pachinko, composer Nico Muhly realized he had some heavy lifting to do in helping to tell the multi-generational story about a Korean immigrant family. “It occurred to me the music couldn’t work too thematically,” Muhly said during a panel for the Apple TV+ series at Deadline…

The multigenerational saga of Pachinko will continue at Apple TV+, which said Friday that it has renewed the family drama for a second season. The series comes from creator-showrunner Soo Hugh and executive producers Theresa Kang-Lowe and Michael Ellenberg. The renewal comes before the Season 1 finale, titled “Chapter…

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details about the season one finale of Pachinko, titled “Chapter Eight.” The Pachinko season ender offers optimism and growth from heartbreaking losses for nearly all generations of the Baek family. The episode begins in 1938, years after Noa’s birth. Now seven years old, Noa prepares…

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