Hello Tomorrow

The way Blake Griffin sees it, he and Ryan Kalil have a simple mission when it comes to Mortal Media, the production house they founded in 2016: to make stuff they’d actually want to watch. “With streaming and the landscape of entertainment today, there’s so many mandates, there’s so many algorithms,” Griffin said during a panel with Fast Company at CES this week. “And we always go back to that first model that we once had: Would we want to watch this?”In Mortal Media’s case, that mandate has translated into a diverse…

Image: Apple TV+Step into the future by way of the past on Apple TV+’s new series Hello Tomorrow!, which stars Billy Crudup as a chipper salesman for Brightside, a company hawking condos on the moon. The show’s take on a sci-fi retro-future version of the 1950s is one of its most striking elements, so io9 was excited to speak with the show’s production designer, Maya Sigel.What follows is a slightly edited and condensed version of our interview, which was conducted over video chat.Cheryl Eddy, io9: Hello Tomorrow! takes…