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Billy Magnussen (Black Mirror) pops in to guest star as a playboy on CBS’s Elsbeth season two episode 19, “I’ve Got a Little List.” Episode 19, directed by Lily Mariye, will air on Thursday, May 1, 2025 at 9pm Et/Pt.

And speaking of Elsbeth episodes, how about #18? The episode marked the end of Michael Emerson’s guest-starring run on the series, led by his wife, Carrie Preston. In an interview with Variety, Preston spoke about the episode’s lasting impact on her character. “It is our most dramatic episode of the whole series so far, and I think it is an important episode because of that,” said Preston. “We are going to see how it is that she overcomes it, because it does knock her off her feet and it really sends her into a darker place that we haven’t seen before.”

“I’ve Got a Little List” Plot: While...

Lesli Linka Glatter has been re-elected president of the Directors Guild of America by acclamation of the delegates at the DGA’s Biennial National Convention in Los Angeles.

“I am thrilled to say we are as strong and united as ever before,” she said. “Together, we will continue our shared fight — along with SAG-AFTRA and the WGA — for an industry in which we are all fairly valued and celebrated for the work we do.”

“At this critical time for our industry, I am more committed than ever to our Guild’s mission of protecting the creative and economic rights of our members and working collaboratively both internally and externally on the issues affecting us all,” she said. “As we embark on the next chapter of our Guild, I’m elated to work alongside an incredibly talented, creative and diverse Board, all of whom generously volunteer their time to advocate for...

Shari Lynette Carpenter, Miko Lim and Oscar Rene Lozoya have been selected to participate in the 2023-2025 Paramount Directors Initiative, Paramount Global said Thursday.

The two-year program, now in its 19th year, matches the program’s directors with CBS Television Network, CBS Studios, Paramount Television Studios and Paramount Global drama and comedy series directors. The primary focus of the initiative is to provide access and opportunities to directors, with a focus on those from underrepresented groups.

Throughout the program, the directors will receive exposure to the Paramount Global network episodic directing process. In addition to getting a chance to observe the in-depth, technical aspects, participants develop relationships with showrunners, producers, network executives and other significant decision-makers.

The program also now guarantees participants an episode of television to direct on the CBS Television Network.

“At Paramount, we believe that diversity and inclusion are key to creating compelling and meaningful content for our audiences,...

The showrunner of AMC’s recently scrapped Invitation to a Bonfire is hopeful that her psychological thriller will land elsewhere.

Rachel Caris Love says she’s already in conversations about finding “a partner who’s capable of giving us the support that we need.” Her team already completed four of the first six episodes when she received word before Christmas that AMC was killing the Boston-based project that stars Tatiana Maslany, Ngozi Anyanwu and Pilou Asbæ.

The series was given a six-episode order and was scheduled to launch this year on AMC and AMC+. But then Bonfire, along with the second season of 61st Street, were just dropped by AMC Networks after the company revealed it would take around 400M of content write downs.

“Everyone on the cast and crew is really crushed,” Love tells Deadline. “When they called me, they said this had absolutely nothing to do with the...

Netflix has canceled two of its freshman drama series: “Partner Track” and “The Imperfects.”

“Partner Track” premiered in late August of this year, while “The Imperfects” came in early September. Both made appearances on the Netflix Top 10 and stayed there for three weeks, with the former peaking in the No. 4 position and the latter peaking at No. 3.

Based on Helen Wan’s 2013 novel of the same name, “Partner Track” was a legal drama starring Arden Cho as Ingrid Yun, a young lawyer caught between her moral compass and her passions as she climbs the partner track at an elite New York law firm.

Georgia Lee served as showrunner, and executive produced alongside Kristen Campo and writer Kim Shumway. Directors included Julie Anne Robinson, Tanya Wexler, Adam Brooks, Lily Mariye, Kevin Berlandi. Wan consulted.

“The Imperfects” followed Abbi Singh (Rhianna Jagpal), Juan Ruiz (Iñaki Godoy), and Tilda Weber (Morgan Taylor Campbell...

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In Netflix’s Partner Track, the rom-com is a bait and switch for a story less about finding your love and more about finding yourself.

The 10-episode first season, which dropped on the streamer on Aug. 26, follows Ingrid Yun (Arden Cho), a talented and determined first-generation Korean American and senior associate who is looking to secure a junior partnership at her high-profile law firm.

But as she finds — with the help of her friends, family and a few love interests — her persistence and ingenuity might not be enough to overcome the racism and sexism of her white male-dominated workplace.

Based on the book by Helen Wan, showrunner Georgia Lee drops viewers into a glossy world where on the surface, seemingly the biggest challenge for the beautiful, intelligent and fiercely good lawyer is only whether the men she dates are good enough to be her partner.

Netflix has ordered an adaptation of Helen Wan’s “Partner Track” from Jax Media.

The series will be created by Georgia Lee, starring Arden Cho, Bradley Gibson, Alexandra Turshen, Dominic Sherwood, Rob Heaps, Nolan Gerard Funk and Matthew Rauch.

“Partner Track” centers on Ingrid Yun (Cho), an idealistic young lawyer, struggles with her moral compass and her passions as she fights to climb the partner track at an elite New York City law firm. The season will consist of 10 episodes, which will be filmed in New York.

“We are so deeply excited to bring this story of an Asian American woman trying to break the glass ceiling at an elite law firm to life,” said Lee.

Added Jinny Howe, vice president, original series, Netflix: “We’re proud of the incredible team assembled to bring to life ‘Partner Track,’ an empowering story told through the eyes of our Asian-American lead character Ingrid Yun,...

Netflix has given a formal 10-episode series order to Partner Track, an adaptation of Helen Wan’s 2013 novel. Arden Cho has been tapped as the lead of the series, created by Georgia Lee (The Expanse). Bradley Gibson (Powerbook III: Ghost), Alexandra Turshen (Ray Donovan), Nolan Gerard Funk (The Flight Attendant), Dominic Sherwood (Penny Dreadful: The City of Angels), Rob Heaps (Good Girls) and Matthew Rauch (Terminal Lis) also star in the series, produced by Jax Media.

Julie Anne Robinson is set to direct the first two episodes of Partner Track in her followup to directing two episodes, including the pilot, of another Netflix drama series, global hit Bridgerton. It earned Robinson an Emmy and DGA Award nominations.

In Partner Track, Ingrid Yun (Cho), is an idealistic young lawyer, struggles with her moral compass and her passions as she fights to climb the partner track at an elite New York City law firm.

To celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander (Aapi) Heritage Month in May, Fox’s free streaming service Tubi has curated a container of titles that highlight Asian American voices from its catalog. The collection features Academy Award nominees, films from female and male Asian American directors, Sundance Film Festival selections, documentaries, and titles that prominently feature Aapi stories, actors, and actresses.

Films

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (2007) – Directed by Wayne Wang (Joy Luck Club)

Bitter Melon (2018) – Directed by Hp Mendoza

Children of Invention (2009) – Sundance Film Festival selection

Chu and Blossom (2015) – Featured in the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival

Go Back to China (2019) – Starring comedian Anna Akana, written/directed by Emily Ting

I Will Make You Mine (2020) – Directed/written/produced by Lynn Chen, produced by Emily Ting

Love Arcadia (2014) – Featured in the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival

Miss India America (2015) – Featured in the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film...

Hey, "NCIS: Los Angeles" fans. We hope you guys are having a fantastic weekend. We are indeed back with a brand new spoiler article for you. This one is for the next, new episode 5 that's due out next week. Thanks to the wonderful CBS folks, we were able to get our hands on a couple of teaser descriptions for episode 5 via their new, episode 5 press release. So, we will definitely be referencing it for this spoiler session. To get things started, episode 5 has been given an official title. The producers are calling it, "Provenance." It sounds like episode 5 will feature some action-filled, very scandalous and interesting scenes. In this new episode 5, a very valuable painting is going to get stolen. This particular painting is so friggin valuable that it's worth a whopping $40 million dollars! That's right, guys. This painting is no joke. What's worse is there will be some...

Exclusive: Director, writer and actor Lily Mariye has signed with with Verve Talent and Literary Agency for representation for directing.

Mariye has acted in TV series including ER, Teen Wolf, Criminal Minds, Shameless and others. In addition to acting, she has and continues to showcase her talent as a director. This year alone she will direct episodes of AMC’s The Terror: Infamy, ABC’s How to Get Away With Murder as well as ABC’s new series Stumptown. She also will helm episodes of NBC’s Council of Dads, CBS’ NCIS L.A. and more.

In 2018 she received a DGA Award nomination for Outstanding Directorial Achievement for Amazon’s Just Add Magic and received the East West Players Visionary Award. On the film side, she wrote and directed, Model Minority, which marked her feature directorial debut.

Mariye is repped by agents Manal Hammad, Amy Retzinger, Evan Pioch, Gina Reyes...

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The Terror: Infamy's look at Japanese-American incarceration during WWII has many disturbingly timely parallels.

The Terror Season 2, also known as The Terror: Infamy, begins tonight on AMC. It is the second installment in a historical horror anthology series. The first season, which premiered last year, followed (with a supernatural twist) the real-life story of British naval ships H.M.S. Terror and H.M.S. Erebus as they looked to find the Northwest Passage in the mid-19th century, only to perish in the effort.

The Terror: Infamy takes on a subject much closer—geographically, temporally, thematically—to home. Set in 1941 and in the years following, it centers the members of a close-knit Japanese-American community living on California's Terminal Island fishing community, and what happens to them post-Pearl Harbor after the issuing of Executive Order 9066, which incarcerated an estimated 120,000 Japanese-Americans and Japanese-Canadians in camps in California, Idaho,...

“The Terror: Infamy” didn’t need ghosts to be frightening. Alexander Woo and Max Borenstein’s new iteration of the “Terror” series, both thanks to its subject matter and supernatural apparitions lurking at the edges, is permeated by an ever-creeping sense of dread that proves undeniable. Tracing the needless devastation of Japanese-American internment during World War II, the second installment of AMC’s anthology series is straightforward about the human cost of racist paranoia. Even when “Infamy” is blunt, it’s understandable; it’s not exactly like the horrific reality that inspired it was subtle, either.

By largely following a single family, “Infamy” also finds a way to make a staggering historical event that can sometimes feel too big to comprehend feel as personal as it truly was. After immigrating to San Francisco from Japan, Henry (Shingo Usami) and Asako (Naoko Mori) have built a life for themselves and their...

An emotional Melissa McBride, who plays the strong and resourceful Carol on The Walking Dead, seemed to sum up the resonance of a pair of panels at an AMC Network event devoted to Hollywood’s new diversity. With the company’s second-annual summit working through an agenda covering the theme that “Story Matters,” discussions on “Who Gets To Tell Stories in Hollywood” and “How Stories are Told: Voices of Genre” offered a current snapshot of life in front of and behind the television cameras through the lens of #MeToo.

But a question about the evolution of McBride’s well-loved character from domestically abused wife to symbol of strength in a dystopian world brought a halting response from the star. McBride fought back tears, talking about knowing women who’d also faced abuse.

“I would love to see a day where this doesn’t happen,” she said. Then, citing the character...

Winners of the 70th Directors Guild of America Awards were announced Saturday, February 3 beginning at 7:30 p.m. Pt in a non-televised ceremony hosted by Judd Apatow. Prizes were handed out for both film and television by A-list presenters and former DGA winners at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California. These awards are voted on annually by members of the Directors Guild of America who work in film or television. Below, see the full list of 2018 DGA Awards winners, which are marked in gold.

As per tradition, all five of this year’s nominees for Best Film Director — Guillermo del Toro (“The Shape of Water”), Greta Gerwig (“Lady Bird”), Martin McDonagh (“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”), Christopher Nolan (“Dunkirk”) and Jordan Peele (“Get Out”) — received special medallions and gave speeches at the podium. Four of these five nominees also contend at the Oscars for Best Director, where McDonagh was...

CBS has announced the participants for its 2016-17 Directors and Writers Mentoring Program initiatives. The Directors Initiative provides a platform of opportunity for talented television directors to be introduced to the CBS family. This year’s participants are Michele Azenzer Bear, Lily Mariye, Tara Miele and Anne Renton. Bear served as a 1st Assistant Director on Mike & Molly and went on to direct an episode in the show's final season. Mariye recently completed her…...

Recently, CBS served up the new, official synopsis/spoilers for their upcoming "Criminal Minds" episode 1 of season 10. The episode is entitled, "X," and it sounds like things will get pretty interesting as the team introduces a new, female agent. More murders in Bakersfield,CA get investigated, and more. In the new,1st episode press release: As the Bau investigates a series of murders in Bakersfield,California, the team is going to welcome a new agent into the fold. Press release number 2: The Bau team will investigate a series of murders in Bakersfield, Calif., which have left the victims unidentifiable. Also, the team is going to welcome new agent ,Kate Callahan, into the Bau fold, who will assist them in their efforts in solving the cases. Actress, Jennifer Love Hewitt, joins the cast as Kate Callahan, who is a seasoned FBI undercover agent that becomes the newest Bau member. Kerr Smith...

A virus is sweeping through Beacon Hills in this week's stomach-churning Teen Wolf. Here's Ron's review of Weaponized...

This review contains spoilers.

4.7 Weaponized

Knowing a little bit about how television production works, Teen Wolf's latest episode seems like it could almost be a 'ripped from the headlines' sort of affair. While not intended to capitalize on the Ebola outbreak in western Africa and the fact that the United States is currently bringing two Ebola-infected people to Atlanta (Teen Wolf's old stomping grounds) in an effort to treat the insanely unpleasant and deadly disease, it could not have been timed more perfectly. The United States government is importing fatal diseases and Beacon Hills High School is ground zero for an entirely new disease that's spreading like the gross rashes on the bodies of its victims.

One of the interesting things about Teen Wolf this season is how they seem...

Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival Announces 188 Outstanding Films For 2012 Edition Presented By Visual Communications

Southern California.s Largest Asian Film Festival Runs May 10 . 20, 2012, Will Present 188 Films From

Over 20 Countries Featuring World Premieres, Sneak Previews; Showcasing Documentaries and Narratives

Focusing on the Voices of Asian Americans and Asian Peoples from Around the World.

The Launch of the C3: Project Market and the Vc Film Development Fund

Festival Opening Night Selection Shanghai Calling, Directed By Festival Alum Daniel Hsia, Starring: Daniel Henney, Eliza Coupe and Bill Paxton.

Centerpiece Presentations, SXSW favorite Sunset Stories, Directed by Ernesto Foronda and Silas Howard; Sundance Winner Valley Of Saints directed by Musa Syeed. Saturday Night Gala Yes, We.Re Open, directed by Festival Alum Richard Wong.

Joyful Reunion Directed by Tsao Jui Yuan, Selected as Closing Night Gala Presentation.

Visual Communications (Vc), the nation.s premier Asian Pacific American media arts center, announced its...

"The Mummy" star Brendan Fraser is to make his Broadway debut in the latest run of Ingvar Ambjornsen's "Elling". He'll hit the stage alongside "True Blood" star Denis O'Hare and Jennifer Coolidge in the quirky comedy about two odd recluses who share a state-funded flat together after being institutionalized.

Ambjornsen's Norwegian novels were adapted into a cult Peter Naess' film in 2001. Naess also adapted the story for the stage in Scandinavia. "Elling" was well received by critics in London when it hit the West End in 2007.

Previews of Fraser's "Elling" begin on November 2 this year.

Brendan Fraser's movie "Extraordinary Measures" hit theater in January. He co-stars Harrison Ford, Keri Russell, Courtney B. Vance, Jared Harris, Dee Wallace, Patrick Bauchau, Lily Mariye and P.J. Byrne.

There's more good news for fans of ER. While the network decided to end the medical drama after 15 seasons, the execs at ratings-starved NBC want to make sure they make the most out of the show's final run. That translates to a return visit by two of the series' most famous alum and a few more episodes.

ER tells the tale of Chicago's County General and a revolving door of doctors and nurses with plenty of personal and professional drama. Long-term castmembers have included Noah Wyle, Laura Innes, Laura Ceron, Maura Tierney, Deezer D, Goran Visnjic, Anthony Edwards, Yvette Freeman, Eriq La Salle, Emily Wagner, Alex Kingston, Lynn A. Henderson, Sherry Stringfield, Abraham Benrubi, Mekhi Phifer, Julianna Margulies, Paul McCrane, Lily Mariye, Troy Evans, Parminder Nagra, Ming-Na, Linda Cardellini, Conni Marie Brazelton, Montae Russell, Ellen Crawford, George Clooney, Gloria Reuben, and Scott Grimes.

It was believed that the medical drama would end last year but,...