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Gail Berman On Starting Anew With SideCar & How “Content Accelerator” Company Operates Alongside Fox

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'Buffy' at 20: 13 Key Players on How It Changed TV &  Why There Shouldn't be a Revival | @THR

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Maaaaan, f Gail Berman

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GAIL BERMAN // PRODUCER

“She is an American producer and television executive. She is co-owner and founding partner of The Jackal Group, a production entity formed in partnership with Fox Networks Group. The Jackal Group develops and produces scripted, unscripted and factual entertainment programming for FNG's channels, including Fox Broadcasting Company, FX/FXX, the National Geographic Channels, and Fox International Channels. The partnership also provides for opportunities in digital and film, as well as for non-21st Century Fox distribution entities.”

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Fox to Develop Music Anthology Series, First Season to Focus on Naomi and Wynonna Judd

Fox to Develop Music Anthology Series, First Season to Focus on Naomi and Wynonna Judd

Fox is developing a one-hour music anthology series, Variety has confirmed.

The series is currently titled “Icon.” Each season would focus on the true stories of the music legends we think we know. These icons are the voices who have made a significant mark in music’s history and created a sound and response that people around the world have come to love and identify with.

The potential first…

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“I think the inclusion rider could go a little further than it does,” said Feig while participating in the “Producing in an Inclusive Industry” panel.

Since Frances McDormand's onstage shout-out at the Oscars, the inclusion rider has been widely discussed and, in some instances, adopted by Hollywood.

During a Produced By panel on Sunday titled "Producing in an Inclusive Industry: Where Do We Go From Here?," industry execs and producers including Paul Feig and Gail Berman discussed the practical and legal implication of the contract requirement that hopes to promote gender and racial diversity on set, especially in below-the-line positions.

"The main thrust is making sure you are interviewing people beyond white dudes," explained Feig, an early adopter of the rider.

He continued: "I think the inclusion rider could go a little further than it does, because it doesn't demand that you hire, but it makes sure that you are interviewing. I want to push it more so it is actually a guarantee.

Women and minorities still make up a fraction of the work force on studio films and recent efforts have focused on creating more inclusive sets, but the language and legal implications of contract requirements like inclusion riders are still being developed.

"It gets a little tricky when you tell a production company you have to hire people," said attorney Nancy Solomon. "Getting people in the door and soliciting them is a good first step. Normally when you interview people, you don't ask any question based on a protected category. You never ask people in job interviews, 'How many children do you have?' or 'How do you identify your nation of origin?' I would be horrified.

"We at the PGA have not had a chance to study this issue, so we have no opinion yet on this particular inclusivity rider," noted Berman, the newly elected co-president of the Producers Guild of America, who was moderating the panel discussion that also included Funny or Die CEO Mike Farah, UnREAL showrunner Stacy Rukeyser, MWM Studios' Nancy Solomon and TriStar's Nicole Brown.

Along with Feig's Feigco Entertainment, Michael B. Jordan's Outlier Society banner and Matt Damon and Ben Affleck's Pearl Street production company have adopted the rider for all of their future projects.

Stacy Smith, director of USC Annenberg’s Media, Diversity & Social Change Initiative, first introduced the idea of the inclusion rider in 2014 in a Hollywood Reporter column. Its focus is on improving diversity in select below-the-line jobs.

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When we decided to do [Buffy the Vampire Slayer], there was no programming on television for young women. There was not a young woman who was an empowered woman on television. There are several now, but there was nothing like that then.

Gail Berman, in a The Record article (January 19, 1998)

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Animated Addams Family movie in the works Conrad Vernon (Sausage Party) has been named as director for MGM’s upcoming animated “The Addams Family” movie, sources confirm to Variety. Vernon, will also produce the movie with Gail Berman and Alex Schwartz - principals of production house the Jackal Group.