Gugu Mbatha-Raw on 'Summerland,' 'The Morning Show' and Telling Female-Driven Stories (Exclusive)

Antonia Blyth Deputy Editor, AwardsLineIn The Morning Show, Jennifer Aniston plays a kind of angel to Billy Crudup’s devil. Aniston’s Alex Levy, an utterly dedicated and focused television news anchor, holds tight to a good-person identity, so she’s floored when co-anchor Mitch Kessler (Steve Carell) is outed for sexual misconduct, and she’s forced to question her own failure to see what was hidden in plain sight.

Heiress Diana Harris loves her bedtime stories! The four-year-old daughter of rapper T.I. and Xscape singer Tiny Harris, was totally engrossed in her dad’s Jack and the Beanstalk story, which her mom filmed and posted to Instagram. “End of Heiress’s bedtime story as promised‼️ Jack & The Beanstalk from Bankhead,” Tiny captioned the August 14 video.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVIn preparing to tell a story set in the world of a morning news show, executive producer and director Mimi Leder and production designer John Paino traveled to New York to visit some of the real-life counterparts to what would become the titular “The Morning Show” at Apple TV Plus.They learned of a crucial difference between such programs as “Today” and “Good Morning America,” and harder news channels including MSNBC: “We discovered it wasn’t like a

straight to your inboxHere are your Manchester City morning headlines for Thursday, 13 August.City lessons from Lyon defeatManchester City take on Lyon in the quarter-finals of the Champions League but they did fall to a home defeat by the Ligue 1 side in last season’s group stage.A report in the MEN outlines how City can learn their lessons from that match in order to avoid a slip-up this weekend.Pep Guardiola’s side are overwhelming favourites to book their place in the last four but they will

Matt Grobar Assistant Editor, AwardslineFor Apple TV+ drama The Morning Show, Angus Wall and Hazel Baird designed a main title sequence that was at once visually abstract and thematically rich, speaking to the various challenging facets of life in the high-pressure world of morning news.Created by Jay Carson and Kerry Ehrin, the series centers on a popular breakfast news program broadcast out of New York, which is rocked to its core when one of its longtime anchors is fired, due to accusations

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentBindu de Stoppani, the India-born but Switzerland-raised multi-hyphenate who directed Swiss films “Jump” and “Finding Camille,” is set to direct her third feature, a female-driven dramedy titled “40 & Climbing” set in an Alpine valley and featuring a strong Italian cast.Italy’ s Anna Ferzetti, tapped this year as Venice Film Festival MC – after scooping multiple local prizes for her role in dramedy “Domani è un altro giorno” – is set to star in “40”

In 1970 the Miss World pageant was full of controversy, so of course, eventually, there would be a film about it, and here we are talking about ‘Misbehaviour’.On one side, the Women’s Liberation activists were protesting not only the competition but the famed host Bob Hope (Greg Kinnear). Bob was known for being brash and awful towards the contestants, and it was time for that to change.

Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande were about to perform “Rain on Me” live for the first time – but they canceled their plans, and it has to do with The Chainsmokers.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw is stretching herself, even while social distancing. The actress co-stars in Summerland, a British dramatic film written and directed by Jessica Swale.

Jenelle Riley Deputy Awards, Features EditorOn the surface, Jessica Swale would seem to have a lot of beginner’s luck. The first play she ever wrote, “Blue Stockings,” was a massive success with audiences and critics, premiering at Shakespeare’s Globe in 2013.

Jennifer Aniston is reacting to the good news!

Season 1 of “The Morning Show” is currently being rewritten to include the COVID-19 pandemic according to series star Mark Duplass.

Antonia Blyth Deputy Editor, AwardsLineWhen Apple TV+ hit The Morning Show had its Season 2 production stopped by COVID-19, no one rested on their laurels.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorAfter their comedy Emmy nom record, Jennifer Aniston and Steve Carell landed their first lead Drama Primetime nominations today for their respective turns in AppleTV+’s The Morning Show as news anchors Alex Levy and Mitch Kessler.Aniston has been nominated 6x before in the comedy category –5x for Friends– winning lead actress for that series in 2002. She was also nominated for Guest Actress in a Comedy Series in 2009 for 30 Rock.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterBaby Yoda is now an Emmy contender.

Jennifer Aniston was already a six-time Emmy nominee, but her just-announced seventh nomination marks a first: Until now, Aniston had never been recognized by the Television Academy for her dramatic work.When the 2020 Emmy Award nominations were announced on Tuesday, Aniston was among the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series nominees for.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer“The Ellen DeGeneres Show” has become the subject of an internal investigation by WarnerMedia following numerous accounts of workplace problems on the long-running daytime series, Variety has learned.Executives from show producer Telepictures and distributor Warner Bros.

looks like a real object with the new game show “Eye Candy.”Based on the popular Japanese game show “Sokkuri Sweets” from Nippon TV, “Eye Candy” is “centered around teams of celebrities and civilians who will attempt to identify outrageous edible creations designed to look like everyday ordinary objects,” per Quibi’s description.