ABC’s The Bachelor and CBS’ FBI were the standouts for Tuesday primetime, which also featured season finales and a series premiere for NBC.
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NEW YORK -- The founder of Audible Inc., a leading force in the booming audiobook industry, will be honored in May at PEN America's annual gala.Don Katz has been named the literary and human rights organization's Business Visionary Honoree for “his transformative contributions to the world of literature and audio storytelling.”Katz founded Audible in 1995 and guided it through a time of extraordinary growth and change, with digital technology helping audiobooks become one of publishing's most profitable and imaginative formats. Audible, purchased by Amazon.com in 2008, is both a top distributor and producer of audio works, including audio-only releases by Robert Caro, Yo-Yo Ma and James Taylor.The 70-year-old Katz is also an award-winning author and journalist whose “Home Fires: An Intimate Portrait of One Middle-Class Family in Postwar America” was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award in 1992.“Don Katz’s unwavering devotion to the written and spoken word has revolutionized the form that merges them," PEN America CEO Suzanne Nossel said in a statement Friday.
"The breadth of voices to which Audible has provided a platform, and the ease and immediacy with which its inventions have allowed listeners to access works both canonical and obscure, unite Don’s vision with PEN America and our tireless protection of expression from powers that seek to hide it away from view and out of earshot.”The PEN gala is scheduled to be held in person on May 23 at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Audible helps sponsor another PEN prize — the PEN/Audible Literary Service Award, given last year to Henry Louis Gates Jr.
.ABC’s The Bachelor and CBS’ FBI were the standouts for Tuesday primetime, which also featured season finales and a series premiere for NBC.
Fans of the Kardashian-Jenner family knew Kourtney Kardashian was over filming Keeping Up With the Kardashians in the final seasons, but the oldest sibling is shedding new light on why she struggled toward the end of the show’s run.
Explaining her decision. Renée Zellweger addressed her choice to wear a fat suit in her upcoming TV series, The Thing About Pam.
Tova Borgnine was the founder of Beauty by Tova cosmetics and the widow of actor Ernest Borgnine (1917–2012).Born Tove Træsnæs in Oslo, Norway, Borgnine came to the U.S. as a child and initially planned to be an actress.
Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorMembers of the union representing about 100 editorial staffers at G/O Media publications — including Jezebel, The Root, Lifehacker, Kotaku, Jalopnik and Gizmodo — have gone on strike after its contract with the company expired Monday at midnight.Gizmodo Media Group Union, organized with the Writers Guild of America, East, unanimously approved the strike (with 93% of members voting) after the union’s second contract expired Feb. 28.
NEW YORK -- Daisy Hernández's “The Kissing Bug,” a memoir about a lethal illness that killed her aunt, has received a $75,000 prize from PEN America.The literary and free expression organization announced Monday that Hernández had won the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award for a work of any genre demonstrating “originality, merit and impact, with Joy Williams' “Harrow” and Percival Everett's “The Trees” among the finalists.Other winners included Yoon Choi’s “Skinship,” which received the $25,000 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for best debut story collection, and Margaret Renkl’s “Graceland, at Last,” presented the $15,000 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay.
Naman Ramachandran The annual BAFTA film awards will stream exclusively on BritBox, the British programming focused subscription streaming service from BBC Studios and ITV, in the U.S., Canada and South Africa. The 75th EE British Academy Film Awards will stream at the same time as it is broadcast on the BBC in the U.K.
The Producers Guild of America today revealed the nominees for its 2022 PGA Innovation Award, which recognizes the production of a noteworthy, impactful new-media program that significantly elevates the audience’s viewing experience.
A star is born! Emilie Kouatchou is making history as the first Black actress to play Phantom of the Opera’s Christine Daaé — and she doesn’t take the moment lightly.
Ed Sheeran has shared a heartfelt tribute to the late music entrepreneur and SBTV founder Jamal Edwards, following his death aged 31. Edwards died on 20 February following a “sudden illness”.
America Chavez is about to break into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Marvel’s number one lesbian superhero, America Chavez has long been a fan favorite in the comics, and it’s about time we get to know her on the big screen. Soon we’ll get that chance as she appears in the upcoming film “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” coming out May 6.
Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterDisney Junior exec Joe D’Ambrosia has been hired as executive vice president and general manager of Sony Pictures Television’s Silvergate Media. D’Ambrosia will be taking over for Silvergate founder Waheed Alli, who is stepping down from his post as CEO this summer.In his new role at the Sony-owned children’s programming producer, D’Ambrosia will serve as Silvergate’s creative and strategic business leader, overseeing day-to-day operations of the company.
In the pink! Celeb cult-favorite brand LoveShackFancy put a unique spin on a traditional fashion show and threw an over-the-top glamorous party at The Plaza Hotel on Saturday, February 12, during New York Fashion Week.
Kerry Chater, the bassist and co-founder of ’60s hitmakers Gary Puckett & the Union Gap who went on to score multiple country hits as a songwriter, has died. He was 77.
Ian McDonald, a multi-instrumentalist and co-founder of rock bands King Crimson and Foreigner, has died. He was 75. According to McDonald’s spokesperson, McDonald passed away peacefully surrounded by his family at his home in New York City. Cause of death has not been provided.
King Crimson along with hard rock titans Foreigner, has died at the age of 75.According to a representative, McDonald “passed away peacefully on February 9, 2022 in his home in New York City, surrounded by his family”. No cause of death has been officially provided.McDonald was recruited into King Crimson by Robert Fripp, along with Michael and Peter Giles, in 1968.