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PEOPLE & ARTS Thursday 7 February 2019

Michelle Williams returns to TV as dancer Gwen Verdon

By LYNN ELBER Monday. The company
BETH HARRIS said in an earnings letter
Associated Press it counts a viewer if they
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — A “substantially complete at
roundup of news from the least one episode.”
Television Critics Associa- Landgraf, who dismissed
tion winter meeting, where that measure as meaning-
TV networks and stream- less, said a program like
ing services are presenting “Stranger Things” is rightly
details on upcoming pro- cited by Netflix as an au-
grams. dience “home run” but
WILLIAMS RETURNS called it an outlier.
Michelle Williams is return- FX is coming off a good
ing to television for the first year, with a wealth of Emmy
time in 16 years. She’s play- and other awards for shows
ing dancer and actress including “The Americans”
Gwen Verdon, whose ca- and “The Assassination of
reer aspirations were sup- Gianni Versace: American
planted by her marriage Crime Story.” Landgraf said
to choreographer-director he’s optimistic about FX’s
Bob Fosse. future as Walt Disney Co.
Oscar winner Sam Rockwell prepares to acquire 21st
plays Fosse in the eight-ep- Century Fox, parent com-
isode FX series “Fosse/Ver- Sam Rockwell, left, and Michelle Williams participate in the “Fosse/Verdon” panel during FX TCA pany of the channel.
don,” debuting April 9. Winter Press Tour on Monday, Feb. 4, 2019, in Pasadena, Calif. ___
Williams’ last TV work was Associated Press “ATLANTA” DELAY
the hit series “Dawson’s ing Monday that Netflix is other outlet. This year, Net- to release viewership num- Donald Glover’s comedy
Creek” that ended in 2003. deceiving the public about flix also realized its goal of bers, emphasizing the sub- “Atlanta” will be back. Just
She sees parallels with Ver- what is a hit and what isn’t. earning a best-picture Os- scriber growth it now pegs not as soon as expected.
don, who was a working John Landgraf, the FX Net- car nomination, for the film at more than 130 million FX Networks CEO John
mother like Williams. works chief executive who “Roma.” worldwide, with nearly 60 Landgraf said Monday the
Williams pointed out a long has frequently pointed out But success doesn’t neces- million of those in the Unit- series is behind schedule.
gap in Verdon’s career the glut of scripted TV, said sarily stem from an “endless ed States. The Georgia-based show
while she stayed home to Netflix is using cloudy mea- money cannon,” as Land- “By creating a myth that was renewed for a third
raise Nicole, her daughter surements to claim increas- graf described spending they have used data to find season in June and was
with Fosse. Nicole Fosse is a ing dominance among by what he called Silicon the magic bullet of guaran- supposed to return this
creative consultant on the viewers. It’s an approach Valley’s “monopolistic ti- teed commercial success year.
series. he said reflects a worrisome tans.” that has eluded everyone Landgraf said the show’s
Williams said Monday that Silicon Valley arrogance. Netflix’s claim that 40 mil- else since the creation of writers are working on new
such gaps are something Applying long-used indus- lion households globally television, they have given episodes. Network spokes-
all working mothers struggle try standards to Netflix, watched the series “You” the impression that the vast man John Solberg added
with and called it “a very “their true batting average is suspect, Landgraf said, majority of shows on their that the show won’t be
complicated dilemma.” would be viewed as unim- contending the U.S figure platform is working ... and back in time for Emmy
___ pressive,” Landgraf said. would be only 8 million that they have or will soon Awards consideration this
FX VS. GOLIATH The streaming service has viewers if the industry’s av- have many more hits than year.
Someone is standing up to upended the TV industry erage-viewership standard anyone else,” Landgraf “Atlanta” has won two Em-
television’s Goliath, with a with a gusher of program- was applied. The streaming said. mys and two Golden Globe
prominent competitor say- ming beyond that of any service generally refuses Netflix declined comment awards. q

Audio-only book features writer’s memories of Philip Roth

NEW YORK (AP) — An up- died last spring. Accord- and a genius for mimicry.”
coming audio-only book ing to Audible, Bellow and Their friendship was
will feature an author’s Roth would take walks strained by Atlas’ biog-
memories of his compli- together in Manhattan, raphy of one of Roth’s
cated friendship with the where the two had apart- literary heroes, Saul Bel-
late Philip Roth. James ments on the same block, low, a project that Atlas
Atlas’ “Remembering and read each other’s has written was suggest-
Roth” comes out March work. (Atlas was among ed by Roth. Published in
1, the audio publisher the few people Roth al- 2000, the book was con-
and distributor Audible lowed to see a pre-publi- demned by many as an
announced Tuesday. At- cation edition of his novel overly negative portrait.
las, whose books have “The Ghost Writer.”) In a Audible, which is owned
ranged from the mem- 1979 profile which ran in by Amazon.com, is de-
oir “My Life in the Middle In this Sept. 8, 2008, file photo, author Philip Roth poses for a The New York Times, At- scribing “Remembering
Ages” to an acclaimed photo in the offices of his publisher, Houghton Mifflin, in New las wrote that Roth was Roth” as “Atlas’s deeply
Delmore Schwartz biog- York. “Discordant, manic, ebul- personal tribute to Roth
raphy, will reflect on a Associated Press lient,” with “the verve of a delivered in his own
relationship which began in the late 1970s and con- tinued for decades. Roth Borscht-circuit comedian voice.”q