10 Things to Be Thankful for in This Weird, Messy Awards Season (Including Netflix)

Bob Verini Let’s admit it: Awards season hasn’t always been easy, but it’s been a lot of fun.There’s the checking in with friends, long-unseen, the hobnobbing with celebs at luncheons. And then there are the panels — those candid get-togethers where contenders recount to their peers how film and TV’s most lauded projects got made.Sure, we gripe about awards season sometimes.

A Baby Reindeer’s First Christmas – Channel 4, 6:40pm Any reindeer you see at a festive event has probably come not from Lapland but from the Cairngorm mountains in Scotland. This documentary follows a community of herders as they train the adorable animals in skills such as pulling a sleigh - and prepare them for Christmas in a year like no other.

Fort Worth police were investigating the apparent shooting death of an employee at a car dealership, according to a report Tuesday. It happened at Bill’s Auto Sales on Monday and the shooting may have been the result of a burglary, according to Fox 4 Dallas.

announced the 32 women who will be fighting for Matt James' heart — but according to Chris Harrison, they're only some of the contestants who will appear on his season. «There are 32 women… that's how many arrive on Night One. That's not how many we'll end up with,» he tells ET's Lauren Zima. «Beyond, [it was] the biggest response we've had, and we wanted to give as many women as possible the chance to find love,» Chris explains.

After months of trying to communicate the devastating impact of Covid-19 to pandemic-weary Angelenos, County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer’s moment of televised emotion might have emphasized the urgency of the crisis more powerfully than the all the numbers, charts and data visualizations put together.

Dawn Ward and Danielle Lloyd are reportedly the latest stars to be named in Rebekah Vardy’s legal case against Coleen Rooney, it has been claimed. Real Housewives of Cheshire star Dawn, 47, and 36 year old Danielle are said to have been identified as being privy to information on Coleen’s private Instagram account, The Sun Online reports.Though there is no suggestion that either Dawn or Danielle leaked any stories about Coleen.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentVertical Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Nate Parker’s police brutality drama “American Skin,” which world premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2019 and won the Sconfini section’s best film award.Vertical is planning a theatrical and digital release for January 2021, which would make the movie eligible for the Oscars.

Will Thorne Staff WriterMae Martin must be feelin’ good about this piece of news.The comedian’s Netflix series “Feel Good” has been renewed for a second and final season at the streamer. Season 2, currently in production in London, is slated to premiere in 2021.Whereas the first season was a co-production between Netflix and Channel 4 in the U.K., season 2 will be exclusively on Netflix.

Netflix has renewed Feel Good, its critically praised, semi-autobiographical dramedy from Canadian comic Mae Martin and Joe Hampson, for a second and final season. Production is underway in London on the series that stars Martin, Charlotte Ritchie and Lisa Kudrow. Joining the season 2 cast are Jordan Stephens (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story), John Ross Bowie (Speechless), Eve (The Talk), and The Walking Dead‘s Eleanor Matsuura. Season 2 is slated to premiere in 2021.

Welcome to yet another episode of The Playlist Podcast. This week, you’re graced with TWO new episodes.

The Asia Pacific Screen Academy honoured regional filmmakers at a special presentation on Australia’s Gold Coast last night (November 26).

Oscars, the Golden Globes, and the BAFTAs have all pushed their dates back well into 2021.But - providing a slight glimmer of hope - not one but three events are going ahead in the next ten days, albeit digitally. Tonight is the first ever virtual GQ Men Of The Year Awards 2020 in association with Hugo Boss (MOTY) - which usually takes place in early September - with the Virgin Atlantic Attitude Awards powered by Jaguar running on December 1 to mark World Aids Day.Then, two days later, will be

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThai producer Soros Sukhum (“By The Time It Gets Dark,” “Concrete Clouds”) was Thursday honored with the FIAPF Award for outstanding achievement in film in the Asia Pacific region.

Netflix is sharing the legacy of August Wilson.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterAfter spending more then a decade calling 20th Century Fox home, Shawn Levy and his 21 Laps production banner have found a new home.

Dave McNary Film ReporterNetflix has signed “Stranger Things” producer Shawn Levy and his 21 Laps Entertainment to a first-look deal for features and extended his current television overall deal.Levy signed his overall TV deal with Netflix in 2017, a year after “Stranger Things” became a hit for Netflix. The series has been renewed for an upcoming fourth season and has made stars out of its cast members, including Millie Bobby Brown, David Harbour, Finn Wolfhard and others.

Borat 2 from awards season consideration due to its “racist” portrayals of the country.The Virginia-based nonprofit organisation have shared an open letter written to the President and the CEO of the Motion Picture Academy (Oscars).“The Kazakh American community, alongside the worldwide Kazakh community, request that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences publicly bar Borat Subsequent Moviefilm from Oscar consideration due to the film’s promotion of whitewashing, ethnic stereotyping,