{"id":42322,"date":"2015-08-20T14:53:01","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T14:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42322"},"modified":"2015-08-20T14:53:01","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T14:53:01","slug":"showtime-adapting-mat-johnsons-novel-loving-day-as-comedy-about-racial-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42322","title":{"rendered":"Showtime Adapting Mat Johnson\u2019s Novel \u2018Loving Day\u2019 As Comedy About Racial Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/deadline.com\/2015\/08\/mat-johnson-loving-day-showtime-comedy-racial-identity-1201500174\/\" target=\"_blank\">Showtime Adapting Mat Johnson\u2019s Novel \u2018Loving Day\u2019 As Comedy About Racial Identity<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/deadline.com\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline Hollywood<\/a><br \/>\n2015-08-17<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeadlineNellie\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Nellie Andreeva<\/strong><\/a>, TV Editor<\/p>\n<p>In a competitive situation, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Showtime_(TV_network)\" target=\"_blank\">Showtime<\/a> has acquired the rights to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matjohnson.info\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mat Johnson\u2019s<\/a> recently published semi-autobiographical novel <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41167\" target=\"_blank\">Loving Day<\/a><\/em> as a potential comedy series. Talks are underway with high-end writers to collaborate with the author on penning the adaptation.<\/p>\n<p><em>Loving Day<\/em> offers a satirical look at a biracial man\u2019s experiences with race, identity and fatherhood. It tells the story of Warren Duffy, an Irish\/African-American living in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wales\" target=\"_blank\">Wales<\/a> who returns to America after his comic book store closes, his marriage falls apart and his father dies. Now in possession of his late father\u2019s deteriorated <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Philadelphia\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia<\/a> mansion \u2013 which might be haunted \u2013 a new surprise emerges: Duffy learns he has a teenage daughter who thinks she\u2019s white. Spinning from these upheavals and revelations, Duffy sets off to remake his life with a reluctant daughter in tow and a litany of absurdly funny moments together as they bond over their newfound relationship and discoveries of their individual cultural identities&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/deadline.com\/2015\/08\/mat-johnson-loving-day-showtime-comedy-racial-identity-1201500174\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Showtime Adapting Mat Johnson\u2019s Novel \u2018Loving Day\u2019 As Comedy About Racial Identity Deadline Hollywood 2015-08-17 Nellie Andreeva, TV Editor In a competitive situation, Showtime has acquired the rights to Mat Johnson\u2019s recently published semi-autobiographical novel Loving Day as a potential comedy series. Talks are underway with high-end writers to collaborate with the author on penning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,395,8,6462,20],"tags":[18369,2355,20774,20773],"class_list":["post-42322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-deadline-hollywood","tag-mat-johnson","tag-nellie-andreeva","tag-showtime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42323,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42322\/revisions\/42323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}