Michaela Coel Explains Why She Turned Down $1 Million from Netflix

conservatorship came to end, the pop singer is ready to make a lot of changes in her life — and that includes giving up her longtime California abode. Spears, who turned 40 in December, took to Instagram to announce she is leaving her Thousand Oaks home she spent more than six years in and is shopping around for a new place.

according to Deadline. Manheim returned in guest roles for seasons three and four.

Tom Brady has engineered his first post-football career move, and, perhaps unsurprisingly, football's still very much in play.ET can confirm the recently retired NFL quarterback will produce and star in a football comedy dubbed. The seven-time Super Bowl champion will star opposite Jane Fonda, Rita Moreno, Sally Field and Lily Tomlin. Brady will produce through his company, 199 Productions (a nod to being the 199th overall pick in the 2000 NFL draft).The film is inspired by the true story of four best friends and New England Patriots fanatics who take a life-changing trip to Super Bowl LI to see their hero, Brady, play, and the chaos that ensues as they navigate the wilds of the biggest sporting event in the country.Brady will produce alongside Academy Award winner Donna Gigliotti () and Endeavor Content.

If you have not watched the first nine episodes of Love Is Blind season 2, bookmark this for later or proceed with caution. Love might be blind, but the stars of season 2 were also unaware of some of the drama that played out both on and off camera. Much of the early drama portrayed on the Netflix dating show centered around Shaina Hurley and Natalie Lee's shared affection for Shayne Jansen. ET's Will Marfuggi spoke with both Natalie and Shaina separately after the first nine episodes aired, and each had different stories to tell about their take on Shaina's actions in the pods and beyond. «No, I had no idea that they had a connection in the pods,» Natalie tells ET of Shayne and Shaina. «I just thought he was talking to other women, it was still early on, but after that, I didn't know they had a connection, no.» Now having seen these episodes, Natalie admits that some of Shaina and even Shayne's actions make much more sense to her. Shaina on 'Love Is Blind'«She called me after Mexico just to check in and she asked how Shayne and I were doing.

And so it continues. Kanye West’s threats to Pete Davidson aren’t stopping anytime soon, it seems. When debuting his 2022 album, DONDA 2, Kanye made sure to include some not-so-subtle attacks to the Saturday Night Live comedian on his tracklist.

Bob Beckel was a TV news pundit best known as the former co-host and liberal voice of the Fox News panel talk show “The Five.”Bob Beckel was a TV news pundit and liberal political analyst who hosted the Fox News talk show “The Five” from 2011 until 2015 and briefly again in 2017. He was a co-host of the show with Greg Gutfeld and Dana Perino until he was fired for making an insensitive remark to an African American employee. He previously left the show in 2015 after having back surgery.

EXCLUSIVE: Charlotte Colbert, the filmmaker and multimedia artist whose feature directorial debut She Will won the Locarno Film Festival’s Golden Leopard for Best First Feature, has signed with Gersh for representation, Co-President David Gersh announced today.

Love Is Blind, which has contestants get to know each other from “pods” without seeing each other or meeting in person. Couples get engaged, meet IRL, and then try to make it working the city they live in together. The hope is that, by the end, they'll get married.

Pete Davidson has driven fans wild once again. The comedian has finally broken his silence on Instagram amid the ongoing drama between Kim Kardashian, his new girlfriend, and Kanye West, the star's estranged ex-husband.MORE: The big way Kim Kardashian is moving on following Kanye West splitFans have been anxiously waiting for Pete to make his first post on Instagram since returning to the platform last week, and he just gave in, even if only for a few minutes.The 28-year-old has been notoriously silent on social media for years, having previously made an account only to shortly delete it. WATCH: Pete roasts Justin BieberMORE: Kim Kardashian breaks silence after 'hurtful' comments from Kanye West about daughter NorthThe SNL star broke the internet last week when he finally came back to social media, with the username "pmd."Since his return, he has amassed a whooping nearly two million followers, even as his page was lacking any posts.

Zendaya has no problem poking fun at herself. The 25-year-old actress took to her Instagram Story on Monday to react to a paparazzi video and pics that caught her falling down.The stumble happened when Zendaya was in Rome, heading into Eitch Borromini for lunch, per Page Six. The actress was wearing a black dress, cardigan and heels when she tripped, after which a few men around helped to right her.«I can't stop laughing… did they really have to take a video of me tripping,» Zendaya wrote alongside a pic of the incident, adding the crying laughing and the crying emojis.In a second post, Zendaya hysterically laughed over the incident with a pal, admitting, «They got me.

Girlpool are in album mode, preparing to rellease their fourth studio LP, Forgiveness, on April 29 via ANTI-. They dropped its first single — the breezy, dream-folk "Faultline" — in December, and a follow-up — the club-adjacent, dance-pop "Lie Love Lullaby" — last month. Now they've shared a third offering, "Dragging My Life Into a Dream," along with a music video.

Last month, Death Grips synth wizard Andy Morin announced the founding of his label, A2B2 Records. The imprint is part of Morin's larger A2B2 empire, which also has footholds in print media, radio, and event promotion.

Misdemeanor battery charges against Aquil Brown (Slim Jxmmi) were dropped after his girlfriend — the mother of his young son — recanted testimony alleging that the Rae Sremmurd rapper had assaulted her. The case was closed on Tuesday, TMZ reports and court documents reviewed by The FADER confirm. Brown was arrested in late January when police were called to a domestic disturbance at his Miami home.

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BAFTA award-winning actress Michaela Coel has created, written and executed produced a new HBO series about a writer searching for lost pieces to her own story in I May Destroy You. 

Michaela Coel isn’t about to give away the rights to her creation.

Netflix for I May Destroy You.The actress, who wrote and starred in all 12 episodes of the BBC/HBO drama – as well as co-directing nine – told Vulture that the show was initially offered $1million from Netflix. She explained that she refused the offer when the streaming giant wouldn’t allow her to keep any percentage of the copyright.She went on to explain how she fired her creative agency CAA after they “tried to push her to take the deal”, and would be “making an undisclosed amount on the back end”.Coel said she had conversations with “a senior-level development executive at Netflix in order to negotiate “at least 5 percent of the copyright”, and explained: “There was just silence on the phone.

I May Destroy You star Michaela Coel has discussed channelling her experience as a victim sexual assault into a television series.

HBO's I May Destroy You is one of this summer's most critically-acclaimed shows, though star/creator/writer/director Michaela Coel reveals how she turned down a lucrative $1 million deal to bring the show to Netflix.The 32-year-old London native first made waves with her U.K. series Chewing Gum, which was picked up by Netflix and gave her a bigger following in the U.S.When she started pitching I May Destroy You, Netflix offered $1 million, in the spring of 2017, but she revealed to Vulturethat she turned it down because they wouldn't let her retain any ownership rights to the series she created.