The race to adapt recent history—this time the Chippendales empire—into prestige TV raises questions about intellectual property.
I must note here that Hulu and show creator Robert Siegel declined to comment for thetheir involvement “was limited to casting consultation, communication with the studio/network, marketing,crew felt something was off. One senior producer created a spreadsheet chronicling “more than a dozen similarities between the podcast and the Hulu show.” They contend that “at least two key characters” in the TV adaptation were only mentioned in the podcast and not in the show’s source book.
One of those is Candace Mayeron, who was a producer for Chippendales and seems to be the inspiration for Juliette Lewis’side: “There is no doubt that they relied on the podcast,” Mayeron told theThough this story is ultimately a lot of inside baseball, it’s interesting because it raises the point that no one has sole rights to an era of history.
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