Directors Guild of Canada Names First Female Head

Emmy Award-winning journalist Katie Couric chats with Ellen DeGeneres about guest-hosting “Jeopardy!”, her love of hummingbirds, and more on Thursday’s show.

Megan Thee Stallion won best new artist at the 2021 Grammy Awards, beating out fellow nominees Ingrid Andress, Phoebe Bridgers, Chika, Noah Cyrus, D Smoke, Doja Cat and Kaytranada. The Houston rapper becomes the first female rapper to win best new artist since Lauryn Hill in 1999.

CAA is formalizing the creation of a department dedicated to the fast-growing podcast space and has put one of its veteran audio agents in charge of the group. Josh Lindgren has been named head of the agency's podcast department.

At the 25th annual Art Directors Guild Awards, production designer Stuart Wurtzel will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award, the guild announced today.

The Roku Channel, which entered the original programming realm this year with its acquisition of shows from failed streaming startup Quibi, has slated its first licensed original.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorRoku is gearing up to stuff a bunch of exclusive and original programming into the Roku Channel — and the company has set the premiere date for its first licensed content on this front for the free, ad-supported streaming service.“Cypher,” an FBI-set crime drama series, will premiere exclusively on the Roku Channel on March 19 in the U.S. and Canada.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorAfter a more than three-month search, Meredith announced that Mary Margaret is the new editor in chief of Entertainment Weekly, the 31-year-old consumer publication devoted to Hollywood and pop culture.Her appointment comes after the sudden exit last November of EW’s previous EIC, J.D.

Cardi B has become the first female rapper to achieve a diamond single award after her 2017 track ‘Bodak Yellow’ sold over 10 million units in the US.The song was the Bronx rapper’s major label debut single and later featured on her April 2018 debut album ‘Invasion of Privacy’.The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has confirmed that ‘Bodak Yellow’ is now a diamond-certified single after selling over 10 million units in the US, with the track passing the required threshold on

Cardi B has made history by becoming the first female rapper to receive a diamond-certified single in America with Bodak Yellow. Bodak Yellow, Cardi's first No.

Also Read: 'Nomadland,' 'The Crown' Dominate Critics Choice Awards: Complete Winners ListWhile this is a risky year to take anything for granted, history suggests that four out of the five DGA nominees will go on to be nominated for the Best Director Oscar.

Melissa Benoist is back in action!

SPOILER ALERT: For anyone who hasn’t watched Thursday night’s eviction episode of “Big Brother Canada”, be forewarned that spoilers are coming.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentIranian multihyphenate Maryam Moghaddam was last seen on screen in Berlin in Jafar Panahi and Kambuzia Partovi’s “Closed Curtain,” which in 2013 won the Silver Bear for best script. She’s back as protagonist of “Ballad of a White Cow,” which Moghaddam also co-directed and co-wrote with her partner Behtash Sanaeeha.

LiveXLive Media, owner of PodcastOne, Slacker Radio, React Presents and Custom Personalization Solutions, has tabbed Andy Vick as head of programming and EVP of StudioOne, LiveXLive’s’s newly-formed content division.

Naman Ramachandran BBC Studios and producer, distributor and channel operator Blue Ant Media have partnered to launch the BBC First channel in Canada from March 16.The channel will feature premium scripted and factual programming, including BBC original series “Top Gear,” “The Office,” “Death in Paradise” and “The Graham Norton Show,” which will be available at launch.The ad-supported channel will broadcast in Canada in HD and will replace Blue Ant Media’s existing HIFI channel.The BBC First

Ben Croll When directors Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige uncovered a trove of photographs, journals and audio recordings they had made while growing up in Beirut of the 1980s, they knew these personal archives would fuel their next film.

Rhea Hurrle Allison Woltman was a pilot who was one of the Mercury 13, the women who were tested as potential astronaut candidates in the early 1960s.Woltman became a pilot at a young age, and in 1959, she was among 21 women who were recruited to take the same tests that were being undergone by male astronaut candidates at NASA. Woltman was among the 13 women who passed preliminary tests and became known as the Mercury 13.

Tonight Gillian Anderson took home her second Golden Globe for playing late Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in The Crown. Anderson’s first win was for The X- Files in 1997. However the likelihood of the actress reprising Thatcher in the near future is higher than returning as Dana Scully; the paranormal investigator she’s built a career on playing