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Kathryn Bigelow and Amy Sherman-Palladino Both Have Pilots in the Works

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Two new shows are in the works from a couple of our favorite women in the industry.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, HBO has ordered a pilot from “The Hurt Locker” director Kathryn Bigelow. “Mogadishu, Minnesota” is described as “a family drama that grapples with what it means to be American among the Somalis of Minneapolis,” set to “draw open an iron curtain behind which viewers will see the highly impenetrable world of Jihadi recruitment.”

Bigelow, who was the first and remains the only woman to win the Best Director Oscar, will executive produce the drama along with Somali Canadian rapper-singer-songwriter-poet K’naan Warsame, who will write the script and direct the pilot.

Over at Amazon, Mashable reports, “Gilmore Girls” creator Amy Sherman-Palladino will write and executive produce a dramedy called “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” which follows “a 1950s housewife who decides to be one of the first female stand-up comics.” The four Netflix “Gilmore Girls” movies are now in post-production.


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