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HBO Max, “Minx” is a period-piece comedy set in the early 1970s. It follows Joyce (Ophelia Lovibond), an earnest Vassar-educated feminist who’s trying to launch a women’s magazine called “The Matriarchy Awakens,” which has more substance than the typical beauty and housekeeping tips.

fandom was starting to peak, there was growing criticism around sexualized, female nudity often seen on the HBO series, especially compared to the lack of any stripping down seen by its male cast members. Now, seven years later, in the year of the penis, there’s far more male full frontal onscreen than ever before, with outdoing with its own montage of male genitalia in the premiere episode. Ahead of its revealing debut, the cast, including Jake Johnson and Ophelia Lovibond, and creator Ellen Rapoport of the HBO Max workplace comedy open up to ET about the inspiration for the series, embracing all the nudity and ’s unexpected connection to, another series that bared all onscreen. Inspired by the magazines, like, and, tells the story about an unlikely duo – a young feminist named Joyce (Lovibond) and a low-rent publisher named Doug (Johnson) – who come together to launch the first erotic publication marketed to straight women. “It just felt like a way to tell a period story that was set in a specific moment in time that we were able to look at through our modern lens,” Rapoport tells ET’s Rachel Smith about diving into these real-life workplaces populated by feminist and pornographers working together to publish what was considered at the time an erotic feminist magazine, that mixed naked photos of men with articles about abortion, rape and sexual harassment.

Minx, which will air on HBO Max and stars Jake Johnson in his best role since New Girl. Set in the ‘70s, it's about one woman’s attempt to start her own magazine that's different from anything else on the market. You will be talking about this one for weeks to come.

Emilio Delgado, known as Luis on “Sesame Street”, has died at 81.

Minx,” starring Ophelia Lovibond and Jake Johnson.Set in 1970s Los Angeles, “Minx” follows Joyce (Lovibond) — a young feminist activist looking to launch a women’s magazine. When she can’t find anyone to publish her idea as is, she ends up teaming with a low-rent pornographic magazine publisher Doug (Johnson) to create the first erotic magazine for women. When their creation “The Minx” launches, it becomes an instant success, but also proves a lightning rod of controversy as protestors aim to shut it down.The trailer shows Lovibond and Johnson’s characters launching the magazine and auditioning models, while teasing the tense dynamic between the two.

A radical starts a different kind of revolution in the ’70s.

EXCLUSIVE: James D’Arcy (The Hot Zone: Anthrax) and Michael Angarano (This Is Us) have signed on for roles in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer.

The “New Girl” cast is mourning the death of a memorable actor. Ralph Ahn — who played Nick Miller’s silent pal, Tran, on the hit comedy — died last week. He was 95.

cast is mourning the death of a memorable actor. Ralph Ahn — who played Nick Miller's silent pal, Tran, on the hit comedy — died last week.

cast is mourning the death of a memorable guest star. Ralph Ahn, who played Nick Miller's silent pal Tran on the hit comedy, died at the age of 95 last week. Korean news outlet reported that Ahn died in Los Angeles after having recently been admitted to the hospital due to an illness.

New Girl star Ralph Ahn has died aged 95. The actor, who played the fan-favourite role of Tran opposite Jake Johnson’s Nick on the popular American sitcom, died on 26 February, the Korean American Federation of Los Angeles (Kafla) said. Johnson was among those to pay tribute after news of Ahn’s death emerged.

Ethan Shanfeld Ralph Ahn, who played the fan-favorite “New Girl” character Tran, died on Feb. 26, the Korean American Federation of Los Angeles reported. He was 95.Ahn appeared in seven episodes of the sitcom alongside Jake Johnson, who played Nick Miller.

Lamorne Morris and Hannah Simone are reliving their time on “New Girl” alongside Zooey Deschanel as hosts of the iHeartRadio podcast “Welcome to Our Show”. The stars catch up with ET Canada, touching on everything from on-set gags and take-home props, to the Cece-Winston friendship and the episode Morris wrote amid police violence against Black citizens in the U.S.

Zooey Deschanel is spilling one of the biggest secrets from .  During episode 2 of the podcast, hosted by Deschanel and her co-stars, Lamorne Morris and Hannah Simone, the actress revealed what the show’s writers thought about her and Jake Johnson — who played her on-screen love interest, Nick Miller -- at the start of the series. When asked by Morris (who played Winston Bishop), if it was true that the writers felt that she and Johnson had too much chemistry at the start of show and wanted to keep them apart, Deschanel confirmed, sharing, «I remember them saying that.

Zooey Deschanel is opening up about one behind the scenes secret from New Girl.

Showrunners and writers want the actors to have chemistry but Zooey Deschanel and Jake Johnson’s on-screen chemistry was a bit too much.

The airwaves are flooded with pharmaceutical spots, often going for the hard sell for the most personal of health conditions via a mixture of serene sounding actors, clinical phrasing and rapid fire revelations of side effects.

No longer her cooler! Jake Johnson got his wish when Nick Miller and Jessica Day got together on New Girl, but he didn’t want them to be a couple for all seven seasons.

Jake Johnson co-starred with Tom Cruise in 2017′s The Mummy and he was just asked about the leaked audio that went viral last year.

Jake Johnson is sharing his thoughts on that leaked Tom Cruise recording.

Serious business. Jake Johnson weighed in on former costar Tom Cruise’s behavior on set after the Oscar nominee’s rant over COVID-19 protocols during filming for Mission: Impossible 7 made headlines.

EXCLUSIVE: UK distributor Lightbulb Film Distribution has made its highest-profile acquisitions to date out of the recent Cannes virtual market, including comedy Ride The Eagle, starring Jake Johnson, D’Arcy Carden, J.K. Simmons and Susan Sarandon.

D’Arcy Carden and Jake Johnson had to have phone sex while filming their newest indie flick, “Ride the Eagle”, and it was surprisingly… not awkward.

Jake Johnson missed being around others amid the global pandemic — so he wrote Ride the Eagle, with the hope that audiences won’t miss out on their own experiences.

Jake Johnson’s burning desire to safely return to a movie set in the midst of a global pandemic inspired the actor to write his newest indie comedy, “Ride the Eagle”.

Jake Johnson is back to work with “New Girl” director Trent O’Donnell on their indie comedy, “Ride the Eagle”, so that begs the question… Is it too early to start dreaming up a reboot of the hit show?