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16-695: The channel was co-created by Jon Avnet , producer of Black Swan and Risky Business , and Rodrigo Garcia , who directed Albert Nobbs and In Treatment . Jon Avnet and Rodrigo Garcia developed and wrote a handful of series and recruited writers and directors such as Lesli Linka Glatter , Rose Troche , Amy Lippman , Marta Kauffman , and Julia Stiles , to direct projects for the channel. They have recruited actors such as Jennifer Beals , Jena Malone , Troian Bellisario , and Julia Stiles . WIGS officially launched on May 14, 2012. The channel's first season includes 100 episodes of short films, series and documentaries. "Jan," written and directed by Jon Avnet,

32-708: A corporate executive with Avnet (a Global distributor of IT & electronics) founded by his grandfather, Charles Avnet . He has two siblings, Carole Avnet Rocherolle and Rosalind Avnet Lazarus. He attended Great Neck North High School in Great Neck, New York . He earned a B.A. degree in film and theater arts from Sarah Lawrence College in 1971. He is Jewish . Jon Avnet partnered with Steve Tisch on his production company before teaming up with McNeil/Allyn Films on motion pictures and television movies. Avnet directed his first movie, Fried Green Tomatoes , in 1991, followed by The War in 1994, with Elijah Wood in

48-564: A journalist in New York City for Time magazine. He credited the political essayist Noel Parmentel as a mentor in many ways. In the late 1950s, he met Joan Didion in New York City, where she was an editor at Vogue . In a 2005 interview, Didion recalled, "We amused each other and I thought he was smart. He knew a lot of stuff that I didn't know, like politics and history. I had managed to go through school without learning much except

64-451: A lot of poems." He invited her to travel to Connecticut one weekend in 1963 to visit his family, New England Irish Catholic , with six children. Didion said she "liked the set-up, liked being there, and liked him." After they married in 1964, the couple moved to a remote house on the California coast; Didion worked on a novel to follow her debut Run, River , and Dunne on a book about

80-668: A multiyear partnership with WIGS. The multiyear programming, marketing and distribution pact with WIGS was intended to serve as an incubator for original content that can be programmed on Fox or other networks. WIGS will fall under Fox's Shana C. Waterman 's purview. In May 2013, WIGS celebrated its first anniversary and combined viewing figures of over 33 million. The channel was at that point YouTube's number one channel for scripted drama. Beginning in June 2013, WIGS released seven of its series ("Blue," "Lauren," "Jan," "Christine," "Ruth & Erica," "Audrey," and "Vanessa & Jan") on Hulu under

96-652: A series of screenplays, including The Panic in Needle Park (1971), A Star Is Born (1976), and True Confessions (1981), an adaptation of Dunne's novel of the same name. He wrote a nonfiction book about Hollywood, Monster: Living Off the Big Screen . As a literary critic and essayist, Dunne was a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books . His essays were collected in two books, Quintana & Friends (1980) and Crooning (1990). He wrote several novels, among them True Confessions , based loosely on

112-504: A series of speed dates. Many of them follow a woman's professional life, romance, war, or family structures. A new mother must rely on her investment-banker sister to look after her and her baby after developing postpartum depression Jon Avnet Jonathan Michael Avnet (born November 17, 1949) is an American director, writer and producer. Avnet was born in Brooklyn , the son of Joan Bertha (née Grossman) and Lester Francis Avnet,

128-458: The Black Dahlia murder, and Dutch Shea, Jr. He was the writer and narrator of the 1990 PBS documentary L.A. is It with John Gregory Dunne , in which he guided viewers through Los Angeles's cultural landscape. Dunne and Didion later moved to Manhattan . He died there of a heart attack on December 30, 2003. His final novel, Nothing Lost , which was in galleys at the time of his death,

144-803: The Dalai Lama , they could not film in China, and the settings had to be recreated in Southern California . Avnet, however, did film a few scenes in Beijing and also put in some footage of actual Chinese executions. Avnet was also the executive producer of the 2010 movie Black Swan . His production company is Brooklyn Films. Avnet has been married to the artist Barbara Brody since 1975. They have three children, Alexandra Avnet Costantino, Jacob Avnet, and Lily Avnet. Film Television John Gregory Dunne John Gregory Dunne (May 25, 1932 – December 30, 2003)

160-681: The California grape pickers' strike. They wrote a jointly bylined column for the Saturday Evening Post magazine for years. Dunne and Didion gradually picked up writing work from book publishers and magazines, traveled together on journalism assignments, and established a working pattern that served for the next 40 years. They had a constant advising, consulting, and editing collaboration. Critically acclaimed bestselling books followed for each, including Dunne's The Studio , his nonfiction account of 20th Century Fox . They also collaborated on

176-451: The FOX banner. The series were recut into fewer, longer episodes for the new medium. In September 2013, WIGS announced that "Blue" would return for a 3rd season, adding Eric Stoltz and Alexz Johnson to the cast. The channel features series that follow the lives of different women. The stories include a poker player on a losing streak, a mother with a secret life and one that follows a woman on

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192-598: The lead and Kevin Costner in a supporting role as his father. He directed Up Close & Personal in 1996, which was loosely based on the life of Jessica Savitch . It was written by Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne and starred Robert Redford and Michelle Pfeiffer . Avnet addressed political issues with his fourth film Red Corner in 1997, a movie about the Chinese legal system, starring Richard Gere and Bai Ling . Because of Gere's presence and support for Tibet and

208-542: Was an American writer. He began his career as a journalist for Time magazine before expanding into writing criticism, essays, novels, and screenplays. He often collaborated with his wife, Joan Didion . Dunne was born in Hartford, Connecticut and was a younger brother of author Dominick Dunne . He was the son of Dorothy Frances (née Burns) and Richard Edwin Dunne (1894–1946), a hospital chief of staff and heart surgeon. John

224-457: Was published in 2004. Dunne married Didion on January 30, 1964, at Mission San Juan Bautista in California. He was 31 and she 29. They contemplated filing for divorce in 1969, as Didion famously wrote in one of her essays. Unable to have children, in 1966 they adopted a baby at birth and named her Quintana Roo, after the Mexican state . Quintana died in 2005 after a series of illnesses. Dunne

240-577: Was the fifth of six children in the family. John's maternal grandfather, Dominick Francis Burns (1857–1940), founded the Park Street Trust Company. John Dunne developed a severe stutter as a child and took up writing to express himself. He learned to manage it by observing others. He attended the Portsmouth Abbey School and graduated from Princeton University in 1954, where he was a member of Tiger Inn . Dunne started working as

256-453: Was the first series released by WIGS. While the channel's tagline "Where it gets interesting" does not fully match the acronym WIGS; on their website, the words "Where It Gets . . ." are used to begin to describe each series, and the last word is changed. For example, for the first series, "Jan," the tagline is, "Where It Gets Spicy." On February 19, 2013, Fox announced the launch of an event series and multiplatform programming department and

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