TVLine Items: Severance for Walken, Lucy Liu Comedy Adds 2 and More

Christopher Walken‘s next weapon project of choice is the upcoming Apple TV+ workplace thriller Severance, starring Adam Scott (Parks and Recreation) and executive-produced by Ben Stiller (Escape at Dannemora). Walken will play Burt, the head of Optics and Design at Lumen Industries, a company that offers a “severance procedure” which separates work and out-of-work memories. […]

A GitHub programmer turned down a severance check so she could speak out about her frustrating experience

Coraline Ada Ehmke A month ago, well-known programmer Coraline Ada Ehmke was fired from her job at GitHub. When it happened, she knew she was going to want to publicly speak out about her frustrating time at the company, so she did something that people rarely do: she turned down the company’s severance package. To […]