Liz Tigelaar: Last News

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterThe art of adapting a novel into a television series is a tricky business, one that involves speaking to the audience that has already read the book while also drawing in viewers who have not. Several limited series this season took the additional step of tweaking the endings of those stories, some to infuse an element of surprise and others to add layers of complexity.In bringing Celeste Ng’s “Little Fires Everywhere” to life at Hulu, showrunner Liz Tigelaar decided that the series, about two women in pursuit of vastly different familial ideals, needed a new arsonist at its climax.

Pete Hammond Awards Columnist/Chief Film CriticOne of Hulu’s Emmy hopefuls this year is the limited series adaptation of Celeste Ng’s 2017 novel Little Fires Everywhere, which tells the story of a seemingly perfect white suburban family in the ’90s whose lives change dramatically when a mysterious African American mother and her teenage daughter come into the picture.Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington have the two key mother roles and the series was produced by both of them along with their respective production partners Lauren Neustadter and Pilar Savone.The latter two joined showrunner/executive producer/writer Liz Tigelaar to discuss the show at Deadline’s Contenders Television virtual event, where they revealed that not only was

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterDuring a panel titled “Showrunner Superpanel: where do we go from here” at the virtual edition of the BANFF World Media Festival, a roster of some of the top shows on television talked about their journeys to Hollywood.

Amanda N'Duka pmc-editorial-manager“We’re a show that’s grieving right now on multiple levels,” said Liz Tigelaar during the Little Fires Everywhere writers panel on the final day of ATX TV…from the Couch!.She first paid tribute fellow Little Fires executive producer and director Lynn Shelton, who passed away in May from complications of a previously unidentified blood disorder. “We’re grieving for Lynn Shelton, our executive producer, who directed four of the eight episodes who we tragically lost very suddenly.

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