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Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVPBS’ 50th anniversary wasn’t supposed to be quite so interesting.What the public broadcaster had expected was a forward-looking celebration of a half-century of service. But as with any other organization, PBS was forced to change plans in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVUniversal Content Productions is launching a comics shingle, UCP Graphic. The new initiative will focus on the publication of graphic novels from up-and-coming talent.The first effort from UCP Graphic will be an original comic-book series, “Proctor Valley Road,” from Alex Child and veteran comics and TV writer Grant Morrison (pictured), who will co-write the first five issues.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVGrant Morrison has been riding out the coronavirus pandemic at a safe distance from Hollywood.“As a writer, you’re self-isolating your entire life anyway,” Morrison says from his home in his native Scotland. “So it hasn’t been that difficult.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVWhen “The Simpsons” premiered in 1989, it was an outlier. Animated shows in primetime were by no means unprecedented — “The Flintstones” broke that barrier in the ’60s — but never before had an animated series aimed at adults resonated so powerfully or had as significant an impact on a network as “The Simpsons” did for Fox.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TV“Wizards,” the final series in Guillermo del Toro’s animated “Tales of Arcadia” saga, will premiere Aug. 7 on Netflix.The DreamWorks Animation series tells the the story of wizard-in-training Douxie (Colin O’Donoghue) and other heroes of Arcadia on time travel adventure that takes them to the medieval realm of Camelot.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TV“Days of Our Lives” producers plan to resume production later this summer.In a memo sent Friday to cast and crew, producer Corday Productions announced plans to begin work on new episodes of the long-running NBC daytime drama Sept. 1.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVRarely in recent memory has a TV show been so propitiously timed as “The Last Dance.” The 10-episode documentary series about the Michael Jordan-era Chicago Bulls premiered in May, weeks after the coronavirus pandemic caused the shutdown of all major live sports events, leaving fans bereft.Into that void slipped “The Last Dance,” turning five straight Sunday nights into must-see events for large swathes of audiences quarantined at home.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVPaul Kerger entered 2020 planning to spend much of it celebrating PBS’ 50th anniversary. But plans change.“It certainly is not the way we thought we would be celebrating our 50th anniversary,” the PBS CEO said during a Q&A Wednesday for Variety’s Virtual TV Fest.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVMany of the best-known science-fiction comedies are parodies. Such films as “Spaceballs,” “Galaxy Quest” and “Mars Attacks!” work by skewering the genre.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVWhen the prospect of working on a reimagined “Perry Mason” was first floated to veteran TV writer Rolin Jones, he asked himself the question that many might ask themselves in that particular situation.“Everybody has the same reaction,” says Jones. “They go ‘Why? What the f–k for? No one is asking for that show.’”Fair enough.

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