Steve Stark, MGM TV Executive Who Championed 'Handmaid's Tale,' Exits for Producing Deal (EXCLUSIVE)
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Longtime MGM Television executive Steve Stark, who championed the studio’s Emmy-winning drama “The Handmaid’s Tale,” is leaving his executive post and transitioning to a producing deal with the studio.
Just over a year ago, Stark was named president of the newly formed MGM/UA Television label and extended his deal with the studio. He had previously served as MGM’s head of scripted television production and development, overseeing all scripted content from concept to production and leading development of new projects. Stark’s segue to a producing role at a time of massive transition for the content business — and persistent sale rumors around MGM — is no surprise. It’s said to have been under discussion for some time.
'The Handmaid's Tale' Team on Social Relevance in a Post-Trump World
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After a year and a half, dystopian drama “The Handmaid’s Tale” is returning to Hulu amid a notably different social and political climate than the one it left. But in doing so, it will inevitably reflect on where we’ve been, as well as offer a fictional take on where we may be going.
“I am more focused right now [on] how the show relates to the post-Trump era,” said showrunner Bruce Miller during a virtual Television Critics Assn. press tour panel for the show on Thursday. “A lot of the show this season is about waiting for things to snap back to normal, and expecting things to snap back to normal and why aren’t they snapping back to normal and when am I going to feel normal and they were supposed to be normal?! So, I think that as much as we are addressing the things that came up during the Trump era, we’re addressing the things that come up in the post-Trump era, but I think that’s because the three people on this call and all the people in the writers’ room and all our people on the cast are living in that world.”