“The Pitt” recently finished a topnotch second season, after an Emmy-winning debut that served one of television’s oldest wines, the medical drama, in a new (and streaming) bottle. Given what’s happening in the industry, as Hollywood grapples with declining work, consolidating studios, and the ramifications of a stressed-out healthcare system, the show’s acclaim among its peers perhaps shouldn’t be a surprise.
On Friday, the Writers Guild of America’s membership resoundingly ratified a new contract, making a major concession to the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, representing studios and streamers, in exchange for millions in contributions to shore up the guild’s ailing health plan.
While there was virtually no appetite for another strike after work stoppages by writers and actors hobbled the industry three years ago, veteran writers told Status…
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Jaafar Jackson in “Michael.” (Photo by Glen Wilson/Lionsgate)
‘Michael’s’ Wart-Free Nostalgia: Michael Jackson’s legacy as a transcendent musical talent is clouded, in the most charitable possible reading from his ardent defenders, by his eccentricity, fueled by having been deprived an ordinary childhood due to early stardom and a domineering father. Enter “Michael,” a wart-free look at the King of Pop’s rise, which conveniently ends before thorny charges of child sexual abuse became public, thus conveying the feeling of a slickly produced licensed product.
That paper-thin formula comes as no surprise, since the Jackson family’s fingerprints are all over this film, after they lashed out…
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