Disney General Entertainment Content Selects Participants for 2021 Writing Progam, Names Eunetta T. Boone Comedy Writer’s Scholarship Recipient

EXCLUSIVE: Marissa Jo Cerar, creator, executive producer and showrunner of Women Of the Movement, has signed an overall deal with Kapital Entertainment, the studio behind the upcoming ABC limited series about Mamie Till Mobley, who devoted her life to seeking justice for her son Emmett Till following his brutal killing in the Jim Crow South.

The reorganization of NBCUniversal’s entertainment content team is complete with Susan Rovner setting the team and around 50 employees leaving as part of the changes.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterNBCUniversal has finalized its organizational structure under new television and streaming entertainment chief Susan Rovner, a move that includes 50 layoffs, mostly in the content division.Scripted content president Lisa Katz’s team now includes Cara Dellaverson and Alex Sepiol, who have been tapped to together lead drama development and current programming as executive VPs of drama series.

Clayton Davis D-Nice, Viola Davis, Regina King, Trevor Noah and Tyler Perry are nominated for entertainer of the year at the 2021 NAACP Image Awards.The nominations were virtually announced Tuesday on the NAACP Image Awards’ Instagram by Anika Noni-Rose (“Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey”), Chloe Bailey (“Grown-ish”), Erika Alexander (“John Lewis: Good Trouble”), Nicco Annan (“P-Valley”), and TC Carson (“Living Single”).This is King’s third consecutive nomination for the top award and Perry’s

Emmet Cohen, "Future Stride” (Mack Avenue Records)Stride provides a starting point on jazz pianist Emmet Cohen's new album. The opening cut, “Symphonic Raps,” is a New Orleans ragtime tune recorded by Louis Armstrong nearly a century ago, and Cohen plays it as though his piano is rolling downhill, accelerating until he leaves the rhythm section behind.That momentum sends Cohen on an exploration of other jazz stylings, with stride as an antecedent and recurring reference point.

EXCLUSIVE: Fox has put in development Cocky, an animated comedy from The Knick creators Jack Amiel and Michael Begler, Fox Entertainment and animation house Bento Box Entertainment (Bob’s Burgers).

EXCLUSIVE: Mira Sorvino is developing a series to help the survivors of human trafficking.

Joe Biden received a very special note from England’s Queen Elizabeth just days before his Presidential Inauguration.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorThe Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has named Fernando Garcia as its Executive Vice President, Member Relations and Awards.Garcia will lead engagement and outreach initiatives for the organization’s worldwide membership of over 10,000 artists, filmmakers and executives, and oversee Academy Awards processes for submissions, nominations, voting and balloting.

CAA is expanding its digital media partnerships and branded content with the acquisition of Tandem, a leader in the entertainment industry when it comes to sales and creative agencies.

President-elect Joe Biden has filled out his communications department with veterans of his presidential campaign and the Obama administration. TJ Ducklo, who had been press secretary for the campaign, will be the deputy press secretary in the White House; former Obama White House communications director Jen Psaki will be press secretary.

2020 was definitely not a great year for many people around the world, with the COVID-19 pandemic wreaking havoc. However, before the world seemingly shut down for most of the year, director Bong Joon Ho was riding high thanks to the record-breaking success of his film, “Parasite,” which had just come off of some incredible, surprising wins at the Oscars.

HBO‘s drama series Succession has added Sanaa Lathan, Linda Emond and Jihae Join to the cast of its upcoming third season.Lathan, known for starring in films such as Brown Sugar, Now You See Me 2 and Alien Vs.

Sanaa Lathan, Linda Emond and Jihae have been tapped for recurring roles on the upcoming third season of HBO’s Emmy-winning drama series Succession. Season 3 is currently in production.

The reshuffling of network TV correspondents continues. Following new White House correspondents at NBC News and CNN, Fox News Channel says that Peter Doocy will join its White House team as a correspondent, after covering Joe Biden's presidential campaign for much of the past year.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterShelley Zimmerman has departed Awesomeness and is joining Kerry Ehrin’s Bad Attitude Entertainment as president of television, where she will develop and produce new projects for the company.“Shelley brings a wealth of experience and knowledge and has great creative instincts, and is the perfect person to partner with as I look to expand my company and identify projects, both to write myself, and as an opportunity to foster other writers’ voices,” said Ehrin, the

John Reilly was an actor known for prominent roles in soap operas including “General Hospital” and “Passions.”Reilly had an early regular role on “As the World Turns,” playing Dr. Dan Stewart for two years beginning in 1974.

according to his IMDb profile.The handsome dimple-chinned actor landed a recurring role on the hit nighttime soap “Dallas’’ in the early 1980s before nabbing a spot on the top ABC daytime series “General Hospital’’ as retired spy Sean Donely.He was so popular at one point that unrelated star character actor John C. Reilly had to add his middle initial to his name to be separately identified, director Judd Apatow once tweeted.“The brightest light in the world has gone out.

The perfect plan. Pregnant Lala Kent opened up about her and Randall Emmett’s future family plans while pregnant with their first child together.