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The Studio Behind “Midsommar” Is Adapting Ursula K. Le Guin’s “Earthsea” Books into a TV Series

As first reported by Deadline.com, the late, widely revered Portland sci-fi novelist’s Earthsea book series is being adapted for TV by producer Jennifer Fox and A24, the studio behind Midsommar, Lady Bird and 2017 Best Picture winner Moonlight.

Watch: Former U.S. Olympian Says Technology Is Changing the Way We Root For Sports

Technology is changing sports fans. Angela Ruggiero, a former U.S. Olympic hockey player and co-founder of the Sports Innovation Lab, said during a talk at TechfestNW in April that we are entering a new age of sports viewing.

With the Downfall of Broadcast Television, Can My View of the Western Sky Finally be Liberated From Broadcast Towers?

I should probably begin by saying that when I hear someone start complaining about their view, I tend to reach for my revolver.

A Gritty, Portland-Based Comic Series Is Being Adapted into a Television Pilot for ABC

The pilot will star Cobie Smulders—best known to TV audiences for playing Robin “Sparkles” Scherbatsky on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother—as a private eye named Dex Parios.

“Wild Wild Country,” the Netflix Documentary Series About Oregon’s Infamous Rajneesh Cult, Won an Emmy Last Night

Wild Wild Country, the six-part Netflix documentary series that chronicles the rise and fall of Oregon’s Rajneesh cult via interviews with former Rajneeshees, just won an Emmy for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series.

Teen Drama Set to Film in Portland Casting “College-Aged Looking Twenty-Somethings”

The Perfectionists, a spinoff of the now-ended teen drama mystery series Pretty Little Liars just put out a call for extras. The show’s fictional town of Beacon Heights will use Portland and Forest Grove as its backdrop.

Carrie Brownstein’s Memoir Is Being Adapted Into a Show for Hulu

The pilot focuses on “a young woman, a band and a community learning how to be unafraid of their own noise.”

Netflix’s “American Vandal” is Set to Film in Portland, and There’s an Open Casting Call this Weekend

The Netflix series American Vandal has chosen Portland as the place to shoot its second season.

The Best Places to Visit in St. Helens, Which Celebrates Its Moment of Small-Screen Fame by Turning Into Halloweentown in October

Nineteen years after first airing on the Disney Channel, Halloweentown, a made-for-TV movie about a young girl who learns she comes from a long line of witches, has maintained a loyal following. The small Oregon city where the original movie was filmed, St. Helens, transforms into Halloweentown every October.

A "Twin Peaks" Art Installation Is Coming to Portland

Two artists have brought the Red Room from Twin Peaks to life, in a new art installation which debuted in New York City yesterday, and will come to Portland next week.

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