Exclusive: AMC Networks-owned streamer Umc has ordered a legal drama from Adam Starks (On My Block), Tracy Grant (Lincoln Heights) and Kemy Time Productions.
The subscription service, dedicated to Black film and TV and a rival of ViacomCBS’ BET+, has handed Lace a six-episode order for its first season.
The series will follow a prolific Los Angeles attorney who often blurs the lines between right and wrong to protect her rich and powerful clientele.
It is currently casting and the producers are in talks with Jamal Hill, who helmed Netflix feature Deuces, to direct. It was created by Katrina Y. Nelson, co-founder of Kemy Time Productions along with Michelle Ebony Hardy, Starks and Grant.
Nelson and Hardy will serve as co-showrunners and will executive produce alongside Starks and Grant. Brett Dismuke, Chief Content Officer of Umc, and VP of Development & Production, Nikki Love, will serve as executive producers for Umc.
The subscription service, dedicated to Black film and TV and a rival of ViacomCBS’ BET+, has handed Lace a six-episode order for its first season.
The series will follow a prolific Los Angeles attorney who often blurs the lines between right and wrong to protect her rich and powerful clientele.
It is currently casting and the producers are in talks with Jamal Hill, who helmed Netflix feature Deuces, to direct. It was created by Katrina Y. Nelson, co-founder of Kemy Time Productions along with Michelle Ebony Hardy, Starks and Grant.
Nelson and Hardy will serve as co-showrunners and will executive produce alongside Starks and Grant. Brett Dismuke, Chief Content Officer of Umc, and VP of Development & Production, Nikki Love, will serve as executive producers for Umc.
- 8/12/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Update: Sonmez tweeted out a statement Tuesday evening calling for Washington Post executive editor Marty Baron to address the issue directly. Her suspension and his email warning to her, she said, “have unfortunately sown confusion about the depth of management’s commitment” to its journalistic principles.
I believe that Washington Post readers and employees, including myself, deserve to hear directly from @PostBaron on the newspaper’s handling of this matter. My statement on The Post’s decision tonight: pic.twitter.com/t5ULzUQhYT
— Felicia Sonmez (@feliciasonmez) January 29, 2020
Following an uproar over the suspension of Washington Post reporter Felicia Sonmez regarding her Twitter posts in the wake of Kobe Bryant’s death, the outlet has now ruled that she did not violate its social media policy.
Not long after news circulated of Bryant’s death in a helicopter crash on Sunday, Sonmez posted on Twitter a link to a 2016 Daily Beast story along with its headline,...
I believe that Washington Post readers and employees, including myself, deserve to hear directly from @PostBaron on the newspaper’s handling of this matter. My statement on The Post’s decision tonight: pic.twitter.com/t5ULzUQhYT
— Felicia Sonmez (@feliciasonmez) January 29, 2020
Following an uproar over the suspension of Washington Post reporter Felicia Sonmez regarding her Twitter posts in the wake of Kobe Bryant’s death, the outlet has now ruled that she did not violate its social media policy.
Not long after news circulated of Bryant’s death in a helicopter crash on Sunday, Sonmez posted on Twitter a link to a 2016 Daily Beast story along with its headline,...
- 1/28/2020
- by Elaine Low
- Variety Film + TV
The Washington Post said it has reinstated political reporter Felicia Sonmez, who was suspended for a series of tweets about Kobe Bryant in the hours after news of his death in a helicopter crash.
On Sunday, as many on social media were expressing shock and grief over Bryant’s death, Sonmez tweeted out a link to a 2016 Daily Beast story about sexual assault allegations that were made against Bryant in 2003. Sonmez then tweeted about some of the social media backlash she faced for posting the story. The Post then suspended Sonmez as it conducted an investigation of whether she had violated the company’s social media policy.
But Sonmez’s suspension triggered a protest from the paper’s union, the Post Guild, as well as newsroom employees. Columnist Eric Wemple even wrote about his puzzlement at the Post’s action.
On Tuesday, Post managing editor Tracy Grant said in a...
On Sunday, as many on social media were expressing shock and grief over Bryant’s death, Sonmez tweeted out a link to a 2016 Daily Beast story about sexual assault allegations that were made against Bryant in 2003. Sonmez then tweeted about some of the social media backlash she faced for posting the story. The Post then suspended Sonmez as it conducted an investigation of whether she had violated the company’s social media policy.
But Sonmez’s suspension triggered a protest from the paper’s union, the Post Guild, as well as newsroom employees. Columnist Eric Wemple even wrote about his puzzlement at the Post’s action.
On Tuesday, Post managing editor Tracy Grant said in a...
- 1/28/2020
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
The Washington Post placed a political reporter on suspension after she sent out tweets that linked to a news story about sexual assault allegations against Kobe Bryant in the hours after news broke that he was killed in a helicopter crash.
The reporter, Felicia Sonmez, faced a backlash on Twitter soon after she sent out the tweet (see it below). Afterward, she tweeted that she had experienced a pushback that included “rage and threats toward me.” She later took the Bryant tweets down.
Washington Post reporter @feliciasonmez deleted her crass tweets about Kobe Bryant. But screen grabs are forever – and I took some before she deleted the tweets.
Bye, Felicia. pic.twitter.com/IvNZHkiBam
— Matthew Keys (@MatthewKeysLive) January 26, 2020
In a statement, Post managing editor Tracy Grant said, “National political reporter Felicia Sonmez was placed on administrative leave while The Post reviews whether tweets about the death of Kobe Bryant violated...
The reporter, Felicia Sonmez, faced a backlash on Twitter soon after she sent out the tweet (see it below). Afterward, she tweeted that she had experienced a pushback that included “rage and threats toward me.” She later took the Bryant tweets down.
Washington Post reporter @feliciasonmez deleted her crass tweets about Kobe Bryant. But screen grabs are forever – and I took some before she deleted the tweets.
Bye, Felicia. pic.twitter.com/IvNZHkiBam
— Matthew Keys (@MatthewKeysLive) January 26, 2020
In a statement, Post managing editor Tracy Grant said, “National political reporter Felicia Sonmez was placed on administrative leave while The Post reviews whether tweets about the death of Kobe Bryant violated...
- 1/27/2020
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
The loss of Kobe Bryant, 41, as well as that of eight other people in a helicopter crash on Sunday night, is horrifying beyond any conceivable definition of the word. Also lost in the crash was Bryant’s daughter Gianna, a promising basketball star who was only 13 years old, leaving his wife Vanessa — who had been with Bryant since she was 17 — to raise three children, including their infant daughter, alone. Orange County baseball coach John Altobelli and his wife and teenage daughter Alyssa, pilot Ara Zobayan, mother and daughter Sarah and Payton Chester,...
- 1/27/2020
- by EJ Dickson
- Rollingstone.com
The Washington Post has suspended national political news reporter Felicia Sonmez following her tweets around late NBA star Kobe Bryant’s rape allegation and the backlash she received online.
The outlet confirmed to Variety that it has taken action against Sonmez.
Tracy Grant, managing editor of The Washington Post, said: “National political reporter Felicia Sonmez was placed on administrative leave while The Post reviews whether tweets about the death of Kobe Bryant violated The Post newsroom’s social media policy. The tweets displayed poor judgment that undermined the work of her colleagues.“
Sonmez tweeted a link from The Daily Beast, published Apr. 11, 2016, with the headline “Kobe Bryant’s Disturbing Rape Case: The DNA Evidence, the Accuser’s Story, and the Half-Confession.”
However, it is believed that the tweet that prompted her suspension is a screenshot of her work inbox showing the extent of the backlash she received – a disclosure that...
The outlet confirmed to Variety that it has taken action against Sonmez.
Tracy Grant, managing editor of The Washington Post, said: “National political reporter Felicia Sonmez was placed on administrative leave while The Post reviews whether tweets about the death of Kobe Bryant violated The Post newsroom’s social media policy. The tweets displayed poor judgment that undermined the work of her colleagues.“
Sonmez tweeted a link from The Daily Beast, published Apr. 11, 2016, with the headline “Kobe Bryant’s Disturbing Rape Case: The DNA Evidence, the Accuser’s Story, and the Half-Confession.”
However, it is believed that the tweet that prompted her suspension is a screenshot of her work inbox showing the extent of the backlash she received – a disclosure that...
- 1/27/2020
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
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