Storytelling has never been more important,” Illumination founder and boss Chris Meledandri said Saturday night in receiving ...

With her new Prime Video series "Clean Slate," actress Laverne Cox delivers laughs while tackling social issues in the trans ...

Clean Slate” has Cox as Desiree Slate, who returns to her Alabama birthplace after a decades-long absence to confront her ...

The Amazon show's star and co-creator also tells TheWrap about finding the humor in an authentic trans story The post Laverne ...

But when the duo pitched the idea to the NBC comedy’s uncredited executive producer Norman Lear, he passed unless ... “And then on Norman’s birthday in 2022 — I think on his 100th birthday ...

He will in his way, and things will get messy. While keeping the buoyancy of the sitcom tone — not falling into "very special episode" seriousness of the '90s — Clean Slate offers an ...

Norman Lear is credited as an executive producer on the single-cam series about a trans woman reuniting with her father in their Alabama hometown. By Daniel Fienberg Chief Television Critic Amazon ...

Norman Lear was a force of nature in television. His progressive, boundary-breaking comedies—like All in the Family, Sanford and Son, Maude, and One Day at a Time—were never afraid to embrace ...

The late Norman Lear‘s career was defined by centering underrepresented stories rarely seen on television, and “Clean Slate,” one of Lear’s final projects, continues that tradition.

At no point is Desiree’s identity presented in a way that clunks with “very special episode” messaging ... (Just solid ratings.) The late Norman Lear, who has a posthumous executive producer ...