As someone who is obsessed with both the worlds of musical theatre and the art form of drag, it goes without saying that the musical episodes of Ru Paul’s Drag Race are always something I eagerly anticipate every season! This season’s musical challenge had the queens performing in the original production “Wig Loose” where the art form of drag was banned. Not only was this a clever interpretation of Footloose (where dancing is banned) but it also came at the perfect time as Tennessee have recently passed a bill that criminalises drag. I think for us in the UK, it is so easy for us to forget how political the art form of drag can be, so seeing a TV show tackle this devastating and real-world legislation is so powerful! Not only was this challenge cleverly political but the producers behind the episode pulled out all the stops...
- 3/31/2023
- by Rhys Payne
- Nerdly
Leadership at Warner Bros. Entertainment have started packing designer luggage for the first corporate huddle with their sister brands under At&T.
The interim leadership at the studio — film head Toby Emmerich, TV chief Peter Roth and CFO Kim Williams — are headed to New York next week for the “first corporate offsite of WarnerMedia,” Emmerich said Saturday in conversation at Produced By 2019, the annual conference of the Produces Guild of America held on the WB Burbank lot.
“We are on the precipice of a lot of change coming, [and] a lot of intracompany collaboration,” Roth said.
Emmerich and Roth kicked off the conference with a keynote conversation, where they discussed life under new ownership and how it might shape the future of the historic studio.
“Look at your phones. We used to have three [reception] bars, now we have five,” Emmerich joked.
Synergy has been a long time coming, given this month marks...
The interim leadership at the studio — film head Toby Emmerich, TV chief Peter Roth and CFO Kim Williams — are headed to New York next week for the “first corporate offsite of WarnerMedia,” Emmerich said Saturday in conversation at Produced By 2019, the annual conference of the Produces Guild of America held on the WB Burbank lot.
“We are on the precipice of a lot of change coming, [and] a lot of intracompany collaboration,” Roth said.
Emmerich and Roth kicked off the conference with a keynote conversation, where they discussed life under new ownership and how it might shape the future of the historic studio.
“Look at your phones. We used to have three [reception] bars, now we have five,” Emmerich joked.
Synergy has been a long time coming, given this month marks...
- 6/8/2019
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
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