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Liz Meriwether

  1. good one podcast
    Liz Meriwether Needed to Write New Girl to Make Sense of Elizabeth Holmes“I never wanted the jokes to allow the audience to distance themselves from Elizabeth.”
    By Jesse David Fox
  2. exit interview
    Elizabeth Meriwether Wants to Complicate Your Diagnosis of Elizabeth HolmesThe Dropout showrunner on identifying with the disgraced Theranos founder, making Holmes dance to “How to Love,” and keeping the green juice flowing.
    By Jackson McHenry
  3. chat room
    Lake Bell on the Rural Fantasy of Her New Farm-Com Bless This Mess“There’s this fantasy, a desire or romance of just unplugging and leaving it all.”
    By Bethy Squires
  4. in development
    Zoe Lister-Jones, Liz Meriwether, Jason Winer Woman Up Pilot Ordered by ABCThe show follows two former teen moms trying to make up for their lost youth.
    By Megh Wright
  5. pilot season 2018
    Leighton Meester to Star in Single Parents, a New Liz Meriwether Comedy for ABCMeester will play opposite Taran Killam.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  6. Taran Killam, Leighton Meester, and Brad Garrett to Star in ABC Comedy […]Taran Killam, Leighton Meester, and Brad Garrett have joined the cast of a comedy pilot in the works at ABC. According to Variety, the three […]
    By Megh Wright
  7. the industry
    We’re Getting a New Liz Meriwether Show, Starring Lake BellThe writer and producer gets her third pilot order of the season.
    By Jordan Crucchiola
  8. Fox Orders ‘Bless This Mess’ Pilot from Liz Meriwether and Lake BellLiz Meriwether is keeping super busy these days. According to The Wrap, Fox has ordered a pilot produced by the New Girl creator and Lake Bell […]
    By Megh Wright
  9. ABC Orders ‘Single Parents’ and ‘Steps’ Comedy PilotsTwo new comedy pilots are in the works at ABC. According to Deadline, the network has given pilot orders to single-cam comedies called Single […]
    By Megh Wright
  10. Fox Orders ‘Daddy Issues’ Comedy Pilot Produced by Liz MeriwetherNew Girl’s Liz Meriwether has a new pilot in the works at Fox. According to Deadline, the network has given a pilot order to a comedy produced […]
    By Megh Wright
  11. Lake Bell and Liz Meriwether Developing ‘Bless This Mess’ Comedy at FoxLake Bell and New Girl creator Liz Meriwether have teamed up for a new comedy series at Fox. According to Deadline, the network has given a […]
    By Megh Wright
  12. NBC and Fox Are Developing Nearly Identical Comedies Set in AntarcticaNew Girl creator Liz Meriwether has a new comedy in the works at Fox that sounds an awful lot like a show that’s been in development at NBC for […]
    By Megh Wright
  13. happy halloween
    New Girl Cast Wins Best Group Halloween CostumeAmerican Crime Story has never been so adorkable.
    By Tolly Wright
  14. Eric Trump’s Really at Wit’s End With His Workplace Harassment SituationEric screams for a long, long time. It’s primal and scary and sounds like a dying animal.
    By Liz Meriwether
  15. now streaming
    What to Watch on Netflix During Election SeasonI don’t need my entertainment to have high stakes; I already have too much at stake in this election. Stolen figurines are what I can handle.
    By Liz Meriwether
  16. Trying to Understand All the Silence and Noise of the RNC and DNCDuring my time at the conventions, I ended my days exhausted. My body actually hurt from too much listening. But I felt less angry.
    By Liz Meriwether
  17. Hey, It Was Hard Not to Cry at This Historic DNCI was typing the words “Thank you” and crying when I suddenly remembered where I was sitting.
    By Liz Meriwether
  18. Getting a Feel for Philadelphia During the DNCComing to the DNC to protest was part of what one visitor described as a “12-step process to get over Bernie.”
    By Liz Meriwether
  19. Vladimir Putin Is Having a Rough Day Working the Phone for Donald Trump But Roger Ailes has his own stuff going on.
    By Liz Meriwether
  20. huh? in cleveland
    All Samantha Bee Needs to Conquer the Political Conventions Is a Cozy AirbnbVulture’s correspondent Liz Meriwether caught up with the Full Frontal host in Cleveland.
    By Liz Meriwether
  21. huh? in cleveland
    Which Game of Thrones Characters Are Republican?“It’s kind of hard to cast all the Lannisters as one political ideology. The father is obviously quite fascist. And the daughter’s just kind of bat-shit crazy.”
    By Liz Meriwether
  22. huh? in cleveland
    You Did Good, Ted CruzIf anyone has ever said those five words before, it wasn’t me. But here we are.
    By Liz Meriwether
  23. huh? in cleveland
    Third Eye Blind’s Stephan Jenkins Talks Politics“I’m up there talking about how people like my gay cousin are still not considered to be enfranchised fully into the American fabric, and a guy is booing me.”
    By Liz Meriwether
  24. huh? in cleveland
    Giuliani’s RNC Encore? Singing Children’s SongsHe reportedly recorded a children’s album of lullabies earlier this year called AMERICA! GREATNESS! GO TO SLEEP NOW!
    By Liz Meriwether
  25. huh? in cleveland
    What Do the Women of Cleveland Want From Melania Trump? Praying for the debut of a new Jackie O.
    By Liz Meriwether
  26. huh? in cleveland
    Cleveland Shows Some Love in the Prelude to Republican National Convention Week“Clevelanders are all laid-back people,” one person said. “We are a classy city.” A cop agreed: “If anything happens, it will be outsiders.”
    By Liz Meriwether
  27. huh? in cleveland
    Ok, Republican National Convention, Here We GoWhen Vulture asked me to go to Cleveland to cover the RNC, I should have remembered that I look like Hillary Clinton.
    By Liz Meriwether
  28. ny la comedy
    Liz Meriwether: Why Hating L.A. Is Good for My ComedyIt’s an old comedy idea: The character is forced to live in a place where she doesn’t belong.
    By Liz Meriwether
  29. chat room
    How New Girl Is Changing While Zooey Is on Leave“It doesn’t feel that different.”
    By Jenny Jaffe
  30. the ratings game
    What It’s Like to Live and Die by TV RatingsNielsen ratings! The numbers go out, and then almost all creative decisions about network television in America are made based on them.
    By Liz Meriwether
  31. party chat
    New Girl Will Get a Little Lighter In the wake of the big breakup.
    By Noah Hurowitz
  32. interview
    New Girl’s Liz Meriwether on Season 3You can probably count on more True American, too.
    By Denise Martin
  33. ‘New Girl’s Season Two Was Great, No Thanks to the ParentsNew Girl concluded their excellent second season by making one of the world’s most awful songs briefly profound. “Where do we come from? Where […]
    By Roger Cormier
  34. emmys 2012
    Showrunner Survey: New Girl’s Liz MeriwetherShe’s pitching a collaboration soon.
    By Josef Adalian and Denise Martin
  35. Top Comedy Showrunners Just Doing Some Roundtabling The Hollywood Reporter brought together showrunners Carter Bays (How I Met Your Mother), Bill Prady (The Big Bang Theory), Liz Meriwether (New […]
    By Jesse David Fox
  36. the vulture transcript
    Six Female Showrunners Talk Ratings, Their Comedy Icons, and Internet Hate“I think there is a microscope on [women-led shows] which … can lead to backlash.”
    By Josef Adalian
  37. ‘Funny people are flawed people’On the one hand, this TV season has had more sitcoms staring women than any in recent memory, which is good! On the other hand, all those funny […]
    By Adam Frucci
  38. Ode To Funny Ladies Of L.A.Because they’re all friends in real life and experiencing real career success and make your friends look like drifters you picked up in the […]
    By Halle Kiefer
  39. Zooey Deschanel to Star in Liz Meriwether’s Chicks and Dicks on Fox?Zooey Deschanel is in talks to star in Fox’s pilot for Chicks and Dicks (title tentative for obvious reasons), a new show written by Liz […]
    By Adam Frucci
  40. the industry
    Natalie Portman to Dance With GhostsPlus: “Steven Spielberg is pursuing Noah Wyle.”
    By Amos Barshad
  41. the industry
    Scott Rudin to Make Movie Out of BookUp-and-coming playwright Liz Meriwether will write the screenplay for Rudolph Delson’s ‘Maynard & Jennica’.