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Starz’s Kathryn Busby On Expanding Diverse Storytelling, Re-Teaming With Sean Penn & “Special” ‘Party Down’ Revival

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It’s been nine months since then-head of TriStar Television Kathryn Busby was named President Of Original Programming for Starz.

In her first nine months on the job, Busby has embraced and expanded the network’s existing programming commitment to narratives by, about and for women and underrepresented audiences as well as its #TakeTheLead Initiative to amplify diverse voices.“One of the things that excited me most about joining Starz is they have really shown that deep commitment to delivering programming for, by, and about women and underrepresented voices,” Busby said in an interview with Deadline. “That’s what I was trying to do and working to do at TriStar, so it really felt like an opportunity to join a company that wasn’t just talking the talk but was walking the walk.”Hit shows targeting female and Black audiences that Busby inherited include the flagship Power franchise, whose Raising Kanan series is returning for a second season this weekend; the long-running Outlander, which also is on track to become a franchise with the introduction of a prequel, Blood of My Blood, now in development; P-Valley, as well as a string of historical limited series about female royals kicked off by the 2013 The White Queen, with the latest installments, Becoming Elizabeth and The Serpent Queen, airing this year.The projects Busby has put in development since coming to Starz include an Ava DuVernay romantic drama starring and executive produced by Lauren Ridloff and Joshua Jackson as two very different people — one person is ambitious, the other is restless, one is ready to commit, the other not, one is Black and one is white, one is deaf and one is not — who fall in love.“Ava DuVernay is creating this wonderful romance between

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