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Years of adulterers, paternity tests and baby daddies is funding this new Penn program
If you recall, Penn took this big step earlier this year for aspiring journalists, and now a famous alum of ours is making a sizable donation to further support this endeavor. More about this alum and details about what it will support after the jump! Penn alum Maury Povich (C’62) is making a gift of $1 […]
His beautiful story appears in “Chicken Soup for the Soul”
Over the past few years on DT, many of the great edited videos (including THIS and THESE) were thanks to my good editor friend from high school and Penn, David Chalfin (C’96). Recently, Dave’s touching story about the strength and resiliency his mother showed in the wake of his father’s death when he was 16 […]
3 Penn alumni work together on tonight’s “Royal Pains” season finale
(l to r: Michael Sluchan, C’91, Michael Rauch, C’90) There is no question that Penn alumni are working together all over the entertainment business (and there have been plenty of DT stories about this). Here’s another goodie sent to me by USA network executive Michael Sluchan (C’93). Not only did Michael Sluchan help develop and […]
This Penn Alum is pitching her reality show to Project Runway Producers
A few months ago we introduced you to Jess Garvey (C’09), DT’s “Starter Reality Star”. In the last episode, Jess brought us to her manager’s office as they planned for pilot season. Well since that meeting, Jess has been keeping quite busy!: She’s booked a national commercial, will be starring in a Funny or Die […]
These Penn alumni got their TV Pilots picked up
Over the past couple of months I wrote a few posts about some alumni who had TV pilots in development with the networks. Recently, all the networks have been announcing which pilots they’ve picked up and so far, it looks like 3 separate Penn alumni have TV shows with the big networks. After the jump, […]
Like this: Penn Alum sets up Social Network-inspired comedy at NBC
A couple years back I did a post on Sonny Lee (C’03, Penn Six, Full Measure, Penn Admissions) on how his entertainment job sucked and how he then took matters into his own hands which jump started his Hollywood writing career. (a very inspirational read) Well it’s certainly been getting sunnier for Sonny. More about […]
