Apple is in the early stages of developing a series about Gawker, for its Apple TV+ streaming service, according to Vanity Fair.
Gawker was an American blog founded by Nick Denton and Elizabeth Spiers and based in New York City focusing on celebrities and the media industry. The blog promoted itself as “the source for daily Manhattan media news and gossip.” It ran for 13 years before shutting down on Aug. 22, 2016.
Vanity Fair says the Apple TV+ show was conceived and pitched by two former Gawker staffers, Max Read and Cord Jefferson, who have been working on scripts for the past couple of months with a writers room that apparently includes some other Gawker alumni.
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