Writer/producer Liz Tigelaar (Little Fires Everywhere) has launched Best Day Ever, a new production company, which has entered a two-year overall pod deal with ABC Studios. Additionally, former Netflix executive Stacey Silverman will serve as Tigelaar’s producing partner at the new company.
Tigelaar is currently showrunner and executive producer of the upcoming limited series Little Fires Everywhere, produced by ABC Signature Studios. Starring and executive produced by Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington, the series is based on the bestselling novel by Celeste Ng, and debuts on Hulu on March 18.
“Liz is not only incredibly talented, but she’s exactly the kind of smart, collaborative, thoughtful showrunner that we want at ABC Studios,” said Jonnie Davis, President, ABC Studios. “Her work on Little Fires Everywhere has been extraordinary and her track record of creating emotional, dense, groundbreaking stories is the perfect fit with the direction our studio is taking.
Tigelaar is currently showrunner and executive producer of the upcoming limited series Little Fires Everywhere, produced by ABC Signature Studios. Starring and executive produced by Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington, the series is based on the bestselling novel by Celeste Ng, and debuts on Hulu on March 18.
“Liz is not only incredibly talented, but she’s exactly the kind of smart, collaborative, thoughtful showrunner that we want at ABC Studios,” said Jonnie Davis, President, ABC Studios. “Her work on Little Fires Everywhere has been extraordinary and her track record of creating emotional, dense, groundbreaking stories is the perfect fit with the direction our studio is taking.
- 1/15/2020
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
American TV writer and producer Padma Atluri has lost her battle with cancer, aged 39.
She passed away on Saturday night from leiomyosarcoma, a rare type of smooth muscle connective tissue tumour. She was diagnosed early last year.
Atluri began her writing career at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and eventually made her move to the entertainment industry in 1999, joining HBO network as manager of Awards & Festivals.
In 2006, she began TV writing, and landed gigs on series comedy Men in Trees and drama 90210 - the modern revamp of 1990s programme Beverly Hills, 90210.
90210 executive producer Rebecca Sinclair has led the tributes to Atluri, calling her "an extraordinary woman", adding, "She was a terrific writer whose scripts bristled with vitality. She was an excellent producer whose incredible charisma and good humour endeared her to every single member of our cast and crew. And as a friend, she was peerless. Generous, gregarious, brave and hilarious, Padma was a great writer and a truly good person. Padma was special. She was incandescent. We miss her terribly and will be inspired by her forever."
Atluri's final episode of 90210 is scheduled to broadcast in America on 21 February, and will be dedicated to her memory.
She is survived by her mother Hyma Atluri, a sister Jyothi, a brother Bob, and her niece, Shivani.
She passed away on Saturday night from leiomyosarcoma, a rare type of smooth muscle connective tissue tumour. She was diagnosed early last year.
Atluri began her writing career at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and eventually made her move to the entertainment industry in 1999, joining HBO network as manager of Awards & Festivals.
In 2006, she began TV writing, and landed gigs on series comedy Men in Trees and drama 90210 - the modern revamp of 1990s programme Beverly Hills, 90210.
90210 executive producer Rebecca Sinclair has led the tributes to Atluri, calling her "an extraordinary woman", adding, "She was a terrific writer whose scripts bristled with vitality. She was an excellent producer whose incredible charisma and good humour endeared her to every single member of our cast and crew. And as a friend, she was peerless. Generous, gregarious, brave and hilarious, Padma was a great writer and a truly good person. Padma was special. She was incandescent. We miss her terribly and will be inspired by her forever."
Atluri's final episode of 90210 is scheduled to broadcast in America on 21 February, and will be dedicated to her memory.
She is survived by her mother Hyma Atluri, a sister Jyothi, a brother Bob, and her niece, Shivani.
- 1/12/2011
- WENN
TV writer Padma Atluri (90210) died on Saturday night from leiomyosarcoma, a rare form of cancer. She was 39. Atluri, a 1995 Boston University communications graduate, began her writing career at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. A year later, she made a move to the entertainment industry, starting off as an assistant in the current department at Fox. In 1999, she joined HBO as manager of Awards & Festivals, position she held for 7 years. Then in 2006, Atluri, who grew up as a fan of I Love Lucy, Mary Tyler Moore, 60 Minutes, Family Ties and Growing Pains, made another career switch, to TV writing. She landed a gig on ABC's dramedy Men in Trees, followed by a writing job on 90210 on which she worked until her death. 90210 executive producer Rebecca Sinclair called Atluri "an extraordinary woman." "She was a terrific writer whose scripts bristled with vitality. She was an excellent producer whose incredible charisma and good humor...
- 1/10/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
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