More from Mikey O'Connell
Netflix Made Me Watch WWE — And It’s Betting $5 Billion You’ll Watch Too
A first-time wrestling watcher bears witness to the formal Hollywoodification of one of America's most absurd and strangely appealing spectacles.
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Reintroducing Bozoma Saint John
The flamboyant marketing exec (Apple, Uber, Endeavor, Netflix) attempts to rebrand ‘The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’ with some much-needed diplomacy — if only her castmates would listen: “Sometimes people aren’t looking for the solution. They just want to yell.”
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How Jessica Williams Found Herself By Not Being Jessica Williams
After a prominent turn on ‘The Daily Show’ and a buzzy podcast, the comedian says she got a lot of offers just to play herself. But that’s not the career the Emmy-nominated ‘Shrinking’ star envisioned.
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‘Hot Ones’ Maker Goes Independent in BuzzFeed Exit
Sean Evans and company cut an eight-figure deal, with backing from a consortium including Crooked Media and Soros Fund Management, as First We Feast becomes a self-run multi-platform media company and content studio.
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‘Y2K’ Filmmaker Kyle Mooney Gives the ’90s the Ending It Deserved
The 'SNL' alum talks about recapturing the era of teen movies... in a teen movie, with everything but an actual iMac: "I don't think Apple wanted their machines strangling people."
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Nicole Avant Wants You to Stop Whining
The producer, author and top Democratic booster has a new film — Tyler Perry historical drama 'The Six Triple Eight,’ coming to her husband Ted Sarandos’ Netflix — and some constructive criticism for her party: “People need a reality check.”
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The No-Longer-Quite-So-Simple Life of Nicole Richie
Twenty years after breaking out in the nepo baby reality show that launched a culture-defining genre, the wryly hilarious 43-year-old is juggling screen roles, a lifestyle empire, two teenagers, needy honeybees and now an operatic reunion with lifelong bestie Paris Hilton.
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Netflix, WWE Execs Preview ‘RAW’ Streaming Move, Address Tyson-Paul Fight Glitches
Buffering or not, streaming seems to be the future for wrestling: "The WWE was on UPN and then Nashville Network, which became TNN, which became Spike, which is now Paramount, which is now wholly irrelevant."
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Next Gen 2024: 35 Rising Hollywood Executives Under 35
THR's 31st annual tally of the most ambitious up-and-comers in the industry.
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Ronny Chieng, “No. 8” on the Asian-Guy Casting Wish List, Is Suddenly Everywhere
The comic, longtime ‘Daily Show’ correspondent and star of Hulu’s “Interior Chinatown” vows success won’t keep him from “shitting on” Donald Trump.
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HBO Boss Turns Eye to 2025: Talks ‘Euphoria,’ Curbing ‘Thrones’ Output (and Its BTS Drama)
Casey Bloys delivered a state of the union, saying TV is out of the shadow of the strikes, 'Harry Potter' won't likely come until 2027 and any programming response to Trump 2.0 will be artist-generated.
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‘Monsters’ and ‘Grotesquerie’ Director Max Winkler Just Wants to Be Part of the Conversation
The filmmaker on his run of Ryan Murphy hits, what they're doing with 'Monster' season three and his indie feature frustrations: "I've made enough movies that nobody's seen to tell you how good it feels to get to a reaction in real time."
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