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Mikey O'Connell

Reporter · US

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Sep 9, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 9, 2026 · Mikey O'Connell

    The 50 Most Powerful TV Producers of 2026 (opens the original)

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    Ignore that deep, existential AI dread for a moment — “It’s the devil’s tool,” cautions Damon Lindelof — and you’ll find that showrunners actually do have plenty to feel good about these days. Original concepts are selling again (Widow’s Bay! Pluribus!). Commercial success with the old model is still possible (see: High Potential or The Pitt). Young people are watching more than just MrBeast attempting not to die on camera: Just look at Prime Video’s YA triumvirate of The Summer I Turned Pretty,

  2. Article · Aug 24, 2026 · Mikey O'Connell

    Catching Up With Liz Meriwether on Serial Killers, That ‘New Girl’ Reunion Joke and Britney Biopic (opens the original)

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    Liz Meriwether may very well be good at everything. In her medium of choice, she’s gone from a famously quirky sitcom (New Girl) to an award-winning send-up of Silicon Valley hoaxer Elizabeth Holmes (The Dropout) to celebrated comedy about terminal cancer (Dying for Sex) to the current Furious, a thriller that’s about as dark as anything you’re likely to find on TV this summer. Oh, and she’s also writing the Britney Spears movie. One thing Meriwether has no immediate plans for, no matter what he

  3. Article · Aug 21, 2026 · Mikey O'Connell

    Producer Lauren Neustadter Is Redefining What a Hello Sunshine Show Can Be (opens the original)

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    Lauren Neustadter tends to keep pretty busy. But even by her standards, summer 2026 was aggressive. In July alone, the president of film and TV at Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine launched Legally Blonde prequel Elle on Prime Video, premiered Lucky on Apple TV and wrapped production on what we now know to be the final season of The Morning Show. “I feel like Reese and I just ran several marathons at the same time,” says Neustadter. “It’s been a really epic summer, and I feel very grateful for

  4. Article · Aug 16, 2026 · Mikey O'Connell

    ‘Love Story’ Producers Didn’t Expect Carolyn Bessette’s TikTok Fan Army to Come for Them (opens the original)

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    Catalog the ways in which Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette could have gone wrong, and the tally might rival a Thanksgiving grocery list. Pressure on capturing the tragic couple and their time period was high enough before early test photos sent devotees of Bessette’s style into a tizzy and a legion of paparazzi to the FX limited series’ Manhattan shoot. But Love Story ultimately prevailed, commandeering online discourse for its nine-episode run and fetching seven Emmy nominatio

  5. Article · Aug 13, 2026 · Mikey O'Connell

    Sally Field Recalls the Roles She Fought for the Hardest (opens the original)

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    Over the course of Sally Field‘s storied career, there have been opportunities to discover her character on set (like the ad-lib-heavy Mrs. Doubtfire) and those where it was all on the page (Tony Kushner’s Lincoln script). In Netflix’sRemarkably Bright Creatures, an adaptation of Shelby Van Pelt’s novel that’s sold more than 2 million copies, it was a little bit of both. “Lewis Pullman and I were improvising all the time,” Field says of her primary co-star … at least the one that’s not a CGI oct

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