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When you filter out all the Star Trek posts and viewing guides, one of my most visited posts was about Javier Grillo-Marxuach’s “11 Laws of Showrunning.” Showrunners are invariably writer-producers, and while some of the laws definitely get into writing (e.g. #6: Write and Rewrite Quickly), it’s more into management. I mean, per my reading, a huge motivation for writing the “11 Laws” was Grillo-Marxuach wanting to give leadership principles he wished he’d been given when he was first being a showrunner – and one’s he refined over 20 years of being a television writer-producer (including being a showrunner).

The merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition

The government was moving to vacate a preliminary injunction preventing ICE from detaining and deporting him, while his legal team was trying to make the injunction permanent.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Monday morning that he is declaring a state of emergency ahead of what could be the strongest El Niño on record.   Newsom’s office issued a statement con…

Paramount Skydance Corp. agreed to sweeping terms to settle a lawsuit brought by 12 state attorneys general, who were opposed to the company’s $110 billion takeover of rival Warner Bros. Discovery Inc.

The network apparently pulled another controversial bit five minutes before the taping.

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One Republican involved in the Texas Senate contest called Musk’s in-your-face campaigning in Wisconsin last year “a mistake.”

The California governor has told people involved in the suit that blocking the $81 billion deal could harm Hollywood jobs.

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This week, many authors who are part of the Anthropic copyright class action settlement began receiving notices like this one: Upon accessing the portal (which doesn’t seem to have a formal name, so I...

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