APPLE SPECIAL EVENT
will co‑writeand executiveproducea new half‑hour
anthology series about immigrants called Little America.
They will share writing duties with Lee Eisenberg, who
will serve as showrunner. Alan Yang, known as the
co‑creator of Master of None, together with Aziz Ansari,
will also executive produce the show. It will be based
on the true stories of immigrants, many of which were
printed in Epic Magazine’s Little America series. It will
focus not on the huge famous immigrants that have
made worldwide impact, but the everyday lives and
struggles that we all share. “These are human stories
that feature immigrants,” explained Nanjiani.Helpsters
Big Bird took the stage at Apple’s 25 March event
along with a new muppet, Cody (‘a monster who
loves to help’), to introduce a new children’s series
called Helpsters.
It’s an educational entertainment series aimed at
preschoolers. The show is meant to help introduce
toddlers to the simplest core concepts of coding as a
means of helping people. The pitch is: coding helps
foster collaboration and critical thinking skill, and is
an “essential language that every child can learn”.
The show is one of several projects in the works in
collaboration with Children’s Television Workshop,
but is the only one that has been announced so far.Will Apple make movies
in addition to TV shows?
Yes. According to a June reportfrom theNew York Post,
Apple wants to make six ‘small‑budget’ movies every