Amazon Hires Apple’s Oliver Jones For UK Scripted Role

It’s tempting to argue on principle that “Schmigadoon!” is everything that’s wrong with Broadway: a double-baked potato of familiar IP that relies on affection for a TV series, which itself relies on affection for golden age musicals. But the effervescent stage show, from creator Cinco Paul and director-choreographer Christoper Gattelli, is all but irresistible — […]

Titaníque is more outlandish (and funnier), Something Rotten! was sharper (and funnier) and Smash, well, Smash was none of those. Taking a comfortable, crowd-satisfying spot somewhere in the middle of recent (or recentish) stage musicals that mock stage musicals (and Titaníque qualifies for its ad-lib Just In Time or Two Strangers excursions), Schmigadoon!, based on […]

Oliver Jones is departing Apple TV after six years to join Amazon MGM Studios as senior commissioner for U.K. scripted, according to an internal email sent by Nicole Clemens, the studio’s VP and head of international originals, to her teams. Jones will work closely with Clemens on the commissioning of new U.K. scripted series and […]

The multi-year pact with The Seven, a subsidiary of TBS Holdings best known for producing Netflix's 'Alice in Borderland,' marks Disney's first long-term content development collaboration with a Japanese production company.