Billy Porter Is Only One Letter Away from EGOT Status

Perry Fenwick is one of the longest serving actors on EastEnders, first joining the soap back in 1998 as Billy Mitchell, joint with Sid Owen as Ricky Butcher and behind Adam Woodyatt as Ian Beale. EastEnders was not the first soap Perry appeared in, as he'd already been cast on The Bill and Casualty, before arriving in Albert Square as a distant relative of Phil and Grant Mitchell.

National Geographic’s latest documentary, “The Last Ice” premiered this week with many A-listers in attendance.

Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has announced an album compiling his ‘No Fun Mondays’ cover versions.The musician launched the weekly series at the beginning of the coronavirus-enforced lockdown back in March, and shared its final instalment – a take on Billy Bragg‘s ‘A New England’ – in July.Today (October 6), Armstrong has revealed that his ‘No Fun Mondays’ album will be released on November 27, boasting all 12 songs from the project.The collection includes ‘Manic Monday’(originally by

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorThe ACLU SoCal’s annual Bill of Rights Gala usually includes the presentation of several awards to celebrities, politicians and others for their support and advocacy of social justice at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel.However, this year’s event skipped the awards ceremony.

“The Way I See It” director and producer Dawn Porter says the documentary about former Chief Official White House photographer Pete Souza is not subtle about criticizing Donald Trump’s administration.“In some years you want to be subtle and this is not a subtle year,” she told TheWrap’s Steve Pond during the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival.

Ellise Shafer editorIn making “John Lewis: Good Trouble,” director Dawn Porter naturally strove to highlight the congressman’s countless accomplishments, but also wanted to show a different side to him — the reserved joyousness that few people got to see.“I think people were always surprised that the Congressman was very quiet in person,” Porter tells Variety. “He was very funny and charming, but not a person who was seeking the limelight all the time.

Time magazine has released its annual TIME 100 list of the most influential people of the year, and it includes a number of LGBTQ people.Among those included in the list are producer and director Greg Berlanti, Taiwanese gay civil rights activist Chi Chia-wei, Black political activist Angela Davis, singer Halsey, actor Billy Porter, U.S.

Over the weekend, Zendaya became the youngest winner ever to win the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series at the 2020 Emmy Awards.

A PSA urging the television industry to do more to create an all-inclusive environment aired during Sunday night’s Primetime Emmy Awards. In the star-studded 60-second PSA titled "See All,"stars including Lin-Manuel Miranda,Billy Porter, Isis King, Daniel Dae Kim, Nicole Scherzinger andJamie Chung called on industry leaders to make a greater effort toward fair cultural representation in programming and advertising.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorJeffrey Katzenberg and the Motion Picture and Television Fund turned to Richard and Demi Weitz’s Quarantunes Zoom concert fundraising franchise to save this year’s edition of the Evening Before fundraiser tied to the annual Primetime Emmy Awards fete.“Succession’s” Jeremy Strong, George Clooney, “Schitt’s Creek’s” Dan Levy, “Pose’s” Billy Porter, Octavia Spencer, Sherry Lansing, Josh Groban and Deborah Cox were among the guests on the presentation which blended

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVIn 1978, the first installment of the Star Wars film saga earned John Williams a Music, Original Score Oscar. Forty two years later, the first season of the first live-action Star Wars TV series, Disney+’s The Mandalorian, landed Ludwig Göransson a Music Composition for a Series Emmy Award.Göransson warned his first ever Emmy nomination for The Mandalorian after winning an Oscar last year for Black Panther.

Billy Porter is looking back on creating one of the most historic fashion moments in history.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticThe upcoming season of Encores! at New York’s City Center will include an adaptation by Pose‘s Billy Porter of The Life, a musical last seen in New York on Broadway in 1997.Porter’s adaptation, which he’ll direct, is one of two upcoming Encores! productions reviving rarely staged Broadway musicals centering on Black lives; also in development is director Kenny Leon’s production of 1983’s The Tap Dance Kid.

Nine Inch Nails multihyphenates Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross won an Emmy on Thursday, making the pair one Tony away from EGOT status. On the strength of their work on Damon Lindelof's HBO limited seriesWatchmen, based on theDC Comics graphic novel,they won an Emmy for original dramatic score for a limited series, movie or special.

Natalie Oganesyan editorIn its sixth year and first-ever virtual format, the Television Humanitarian Awards, presented by The Creative Coalition, honored television industry figures and 2020 Emmy Award nominees who engage in advocacy work.

the Trotters following the club's relegation to the Championship.

Billie Holiday is one of the most iconic and influential singers of all time. However, she was also one of the most tragic, as her life was cut short due to years of being addicted to hard drugs.

Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, Julianne Hough, Billy Porter and Usher are among the stars participating in Global Citizen and voter registration organization HeadCount's newly launched Just Vote campaign to increase turnout among young people. The campaign to get young people to check their registration status, register and vote in November and elections beyond this year seeks to engage one million young voters and register 50,000 young people ahead of the 2020 elections.

Chris Willman Music WriterTwo high-profile nonprofit organizations, Global Citizen and HeadCount, are teaming up for a voter registration campaign that is bringing in pop stars like Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, Usher and DJ Khaled to urge fans to get on the rolls.