![]() Its assets were purchased by the owner of the website Bustle two years later for around $1.5 million. Gawker Media suspended its operations in August 2016 after being sued out of existence following the publication of a sex tape involving a celebrity wrestler. Was that it speculated, correctly, that Peter Theil was gay - while he was denying it in public. It is not immediately clear if anyone has decided to pick up the series. Scraper is now back on the market, looking for another buyer who is willing to pick up where Apple left off, the Times said. ![]() He sent an email to an unnamed executive expressing surprise that the tech firm was developing a show about or based on Gawker, the Times said, and the company effectively killed the project. The development of the show was not entirely a secret - those who cover the media and entertainment industries have known about it for a while - and it appeared to signal a willingness between Apple and Gawker to put the past behind them: During its existence, Gawker and its subsidiary blogs antagonized Apple by leaking its products (most infamously, a prototype Apple iPhone 4) and publicly outing Cook as a gay man.Īt least, things appeared to be forgiven until Cook learned that Apple was developing the show. The show was based on the rise and exploits of Gawker Media, a gossip blog that rankled establishment figures and the companies where they worked, though it wasn’t clear from the Times’ story if the show was scripted or a documentary series. The New York Times said Apple had initially signed on to the project, known as “Scraper,” when it entered into an agreement to produce the show for Apple TV Plus. (Photo courtesy Austin Community College)Īpple’s top executive Tim Cook intervened in a television show project that was based in part on the rise of Gawker Media, effectively killing the show’s prospect of being distributed on Apple’s fledgling streaming service Apple TV Plus, according to a report published on Sunday. Meanwhile, rival Netflix has no other business units to please - something that filmmakers shopping interesting projects may take into account.Apple’s chief executive Tim Cook appears at an event hosted by Austin Community College in August 2017. In other words, Apple TV+ is beholden to the main brand, reducing executives’ freedom to pursue projects. ![]() Senior VP Eddy Cue also told partners that “the two things we will never do are hard-core nudity and China,” according to the NYT report. If accurate, the report brings into question Apple’s corporate oversight over its video streaming service. In another ironic twist, that project is based on an article by disgraced New Yorker editor and frequent Gawker subject Jeffrey Toobin. The show was called Scraper, but it was clearly about Gawker Media, the network of aggressive, transgressive blogs that created mischief and headaches for America’s powerful until its. ![]() Scraper isn’t the only potential Gawker project in the works, as there’s another version being shopped by Anonymous Content, a production company partly owned by Laurene Powell Jobs. Eventually, it was brought down over a sex tape lawsuit filed by wrestler Hulk Hogan, with financial help from Silicon Valley financier and frequent Gawker foil Peter Thiel. However, it also drew criticism for publishing personal information about minor celebrities and other scurrilous stories of questionable public interest. The site was among the first to publish important stories about sexual predators like Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby long before others did. ![]() It certainly has the makings of an interesting series, given Gawker’s colorful history. Scraper is now being shopped to other distributors, according to the report. ![]()
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