Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is an American actor and producer. He has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and the AFI Life Achievement Award.
The elder son of Kirk Douglas and Diana Dill, Douglas received his Bachelor of Arts in Drama from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His early acting roles included film, stage, and television productions. Douglas first achieved prominence for his performance in the ABC police procedural television series The Streets of San Francisco, for which he received three consecutive Emmy Award nominations.
HBO’s Ben Wasserstein Inks First-Look Deal With Richard Plepler’s Eden Productions
deadline.comBen Wasserstein, who most recently served as SVP, original programing at HBO, is reuniting with his former HBO boss Richard Plepler.
Wasserstein has signed an exclusive first-look deal with Plepler’s film and television production company Eden Productions. Based on the West Coast, he will develop new comedy and drama series, limited series and films for Eden’s exclusive multi-year deal with Apple TV+, working in conjunction with Heather Karpas who joined the company from ICM Partners in 2020. “Ben is one of the most talented creative executives of his generation,” Plepler said. “I’m thrilled he’ll be bringing his superb eye for talent and material to Eden.” Wasserstein joined HBO in 2016 as VP original programming and was subsequently promoted to SVP.
During his tenure, he helped oversee the development and production of comedy series, such as Barry, The Rehearsal, Somebody Somewhere, Los Espookys, Avenue 5, Veep, Divorce, Sally4Ever and Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Prior to that, he was VP, development, at Fair Harbor Productions, where he worked on series, including HBO’s Looking and Bored To Death and SundanceTV’s The Red Road.
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