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Dear Media, the multi-platform media company with a mission to amplify women’s voices and narratives, announced today a partnership with Bobbie, the mission-driven organic pediatric nutrition company that exists to build a parenting culture of confidence, not comparison. Together, they will be bringing back the hit parenting podcast, Milk Drunk, as an always-on show. The winner of a Shorty Award and two Signal Awards in 2023, season two of the podcast is set to launch today, July 23, 2024, with host Tabria Majors joined by Olympic figure skater and actress Tara Lipinski for an honest conversation on motherhood, infertility, and paying it forward. Created in 2023 by Bobbie and Full Picture Productions, Milk Drunk was born out of a desire to create a culture where parents feel confident and supported, instead of judged. During season two, anecdotes and advice will come from the likes of Esther Povitsky, Tara Lipinski, Iskra Lawrence, Dr. Sara Reardon,...

Dear Media, the multi-platform media company with a mission to amplify women’s voices and narratives, announced today that Ashley Hesseltine and Rayna Greenberg’s hit comedy podcast Girls Gotta Eat has joined the Dear Media podcast network. New episodes will premiere twice a week, Monday and Thursday, featuring the comedic duo and real-life best friends discussing everything from dating, sex, and relationships as well as celebrity and expert guests. The deal was brokered by WME on behalf of Girls Gotta Eat.

“We are thrilled to welcome Girls Gotta Eat to the Dear Media family,” said Paige Port, President of Dear Media. “We became aware of the show very early on and are excited to finally bring this partnership to life and continue to grow together. Ashley and Rayna have built an immensely popular podcast and have rapidly expanded their brand into an entrepreneurial empire. We believe their show, drive for brand expansion and loyal,...

Power publicist Alla Plotkin is teaming up with Jillian Roscoe, becoming a partner in Birch Public Relations.

Roscoe launched the firm in March 2023 after leaving ID PR. Plotkin also departed ID at about the same time but didn’t announce her next move until her new partnership with Roscoe.

Plotkin’s clients, including Sarah Paulson, Nicholas Braun, Bette Midler, Holland Taylor, Harvey Guillen, Amber Tamblyn, Chris Colfer, Titus Burgess and Rayna Greenberg and Ashley Hesseltine of Girls Gotta Eat, will join Birch’s roster, which includes Donald Glover, Jeremy Allen White, Sharon Horgan, John Cho, James Marsden, Kemp Powers, Gerard Butler, Judy Greer, Jesse Garcia, Mandy Moore, David Duchovny, Lake Bell, Jim Parsons, Fred Armisen, Jake Johnson, Ben Schwartz, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Melissa Rauch, Hannah Fidell, Ken Marino, Sarah Chalke, London Hughes, Lewis Howes, Zach Woods, Ty Burrell, Clay Tarver, Kevin Tancharoen, Julian Dennison, Jake Szymanski, Nicolette Robinson, Anna Drezen,...

At the end of the 47th season of "Saturday Night Live" this past spring, the late-night sketch comedy show lost a quartet of comedians who decided to leave the series. Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant, Kyle Mooney, and Pete Davidson all bid farewell to the series in the season finale, but the departures didn't end there. Just a couple weeks ago, leading up to the 48th season premiere of "SNL," it was announced that repertory cast members Alex Moffat and Melissa Villaseñor would also be departing the show after six years, along with featured player Aristotle Athari, who lasted just a single season on the series.

All those cast members moving on from "SNL" left plenty of gaps to fill, even in an ensemble that's still pretty sizeable, but executive producer Lorne Michaels has some new blood who will be joining the cast as the latest round of featured players. Who are they?...

Amy Schumer, James Acaster, Jimmy O. Yang and many other comedians have joined the lineup of Just for Laughs Montreal’s 40th anniversary festival. The news comes ahead of the launch for tickets of the event, which goes live Wednesday.

Schumer, Acaster, Yang, Jimmy Carr, Dara Ó Briain, Debra Digiovanni, Jacqueline Novak, Katherine Ryan, Maria Bamford, Fortune Feimster will all perform concert shows over the course of the almost three-week long Canadian comedy festival. In addition, Rick Mercer will host a special concert spotlighting Canadian comics. They join previously announced performers, who include John Mulaney and Hasan Minhaj.

Just for Laughs also announced a special gala celebrating the festival’s 40th anniversary, as well as several club shows, a podcast reading for Hesseltine and Rayna Greenberg’s comedy show “Girls Gotta Eat” and programming for the Off-jfl spin-off festival.

The festival also released the dates for its 26th annual New Faces series,...