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Apple has added yet another scripted series to its lineup: Little America , a half-hour anthology series based on true stories about immigrants in the US featured in Epic Magazine . The company has tapped Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon, writers of the Oscar-nominated indie hit The Big Sick , as well as SMILF executive producer Lee Eisenberg and Master of None co-creator Alan Yang to make the series for Apple. Eisenberg will serve as showrunner of Little America and write for it alongside Gordon and Nanjiani, while Yang will executive produce. Per its description, the series will be "a funny, romantic, heartfelt and inspiring look beyond the headlines at the lives of immigrants in America at a time when their stories are more relevant than ever," according to The Hollywood Reporter. Little America is the latest series announced by Apple, which has picked up plenty of original programming in the last year. The company has signed on three shows from Reese Witherspo...

Phil Harrison followed up almost two decades as an executive for both Sony and Microsoft as an investor in computer and video game companies. But he's moving back to the tech world with a new role as Vice President and GM of Google, Harrison announced on Twitter. Excited to be able to share that today I've started a new role as Vice President and GM of Google - and relocating (back) to California. — Phil Harrison (@MrPhilHarrison) January 22, 2018 Most of his career has been involved with production or oversight of gaming platforms. Starting in 1992, Harrison spent 15 years working for Sony, some of it heavily involved with the PlayStation family in regional and global executive positions. His assurance that the PS3's holistic platform would make the PC obsolete didn't pan out, but he stayed in gaming after leaving Sony, heading Atari for a year before stepping down and joining Microsoft in 2012 to become lead for Xbox in Europe. It's unclear what area H...