CAA Launches Initiative to Improve Representation in Entertainment (EXCLUSIVE)

(CNN)Welcome to the mind of Michael Che.That's the concept of the "Saturday Night Live" cast member's new comedy series, "That Damn Michael Che."The trailer for the show on HBO Max (which is owned by CNN's parent company) features the "Weekend Update" co-host sharing his thoughts and showing off his chops in some skits."From the simple mind of Michael Che ("Saturday Night Live," "Michael Che Matters") comes a groundbreaking new comedy series where each episode illustrates what it feels like to

Michael Che isn’t known as a true actor. He’s a stand-up comedian that is a current writer-cast member on “Saturday Night Live” and is an anchor on the show’s “Weekend Update” segments.

EXCLUSIVE: Jon Meacham, the Pultizer Prize-winning historian, is expanding his relationship with Cadence13 with the launch of his own podcast studio.

Good Trouble wraps up the first half of season 3 on Wednesday, and only ET exclusively premieres a sneak peek from the midseason premiere.

The Paley Center for Media will assemble a number of notable Asian American personalities in various industries from entertainment to sports to discuss how media can help stop the spread of anti-Asian and anti-Asian American hate.

Casey Wasserman today unveiled Wasserman Music, an amalgamation of his existing business that has been bolstered by the acquisition of Paradigm Talent Agency’s North American live music representation business. The deal has been in the works for a while.

Michael Che is giving fans a more intimate look at what’s on his mind.

Plex, a 12-year-old streaming provider with a unique combination of third-party access and management tools for users’ media assets, has raised $50 million in growth equity.

While Hannah Marks might be best known for her acting roles, appearing in projects such as “Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency,” “Daniel Isn’t Real,” and “I Used to Go Here,” the actress has become a strong up-and-coming filmmaking talent, writing the hilarious comedy, “Banana Split” and directing the recent drama, “After Everything.” And it appears she’s continuing her filmmaking evolution with an exciting new dramedy, “Don’t Make Me Go.” READ MORE: ‘Banana Split’ Is A Sweet, Hilarious

Also Read: Arclight and Pacific Theaters Close Permanently“After shutting our doors more than a year ago, today we must share the difficult and sad news that Pacific will not be reopening its ArcLight Cinemas and Pacific Theatres locations,” Pacific Theaters, parent company of Arclight and Pacific Theatres, said in a statement.

Bizparentz Foundation, the nonprofit organization that’d been advocating for child actors and their parents since 2004, has relaunched its website, featuring more than 100 articles – and over 1,000 links to support them – on a variety of issues affecting child performers, including taxes, tips on avoiding talent scams, navigating union contracts and money held in trust for child actors in Coogan accounts.

Hawaii Five-O alum Chi McBride is set as a lead opposite Pete Holmes in CBS’ untitled Tom Smallwood multi-camera comedy pilot, from CBS Studios.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaBound Entertainment is collaborating with Stacey Lee to develop a series adaptation of the young adult author’s coming-of-age novel, “The Downstairs Girl.”The book, a best-seller, is set in 1890 Atlanta. It will follow a seventeen-year-old named Jo Kuan who lives with her guardian, Old Gin, secretly inside a basement.

Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jon M. Chu are gearing up to release the movie of the summer, “In The Heights”.

In the Heights” nearly two decades ago, Broadway heavyweights stumbled over what he was selling. They wanted the young female protagonist Nina, who drops out of Stanford, to have a more dramatic reason for leaving school than the pressures of being the first in her family to go to college.“I would get pitches from producers who only had ‘West Side Story’ in their cultural memory,” Miranda recalls.

Hulu and American High's has rounded out the cast for its next high school comedy, Sex Appeal. Margaret Cho,Fortune Feimster and Paris Jackson have joined the feature, which is currently filming in Syracuse, along withSkai Jackson and Russian Doll actress Rebecca Henderson.