How Networks, Cable TV Handled New Year's Eve Coverage Amid COVID-19

BBC Studios’ Americas unit has hired Paramount Pictures Worldwide executive Dina Vangelisti to the newly-created role of executive vice president of content sales.

NEW YORK -- At age 22, poet Amanda Gorman, chosen to read at the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, already has a history of writing for official occasions."I have kind of stumbled upon this genre. It's been something I find a lot of emotional reward in, writing something I can make people feel touched by, even if it's just for a night," says Gorman.

Amazon's New Year, New You Deals event is still here and chock-full of deep discounts and markdowns on our favorite brands! Wanting pretty baubles doesn't mean you have to spend a fortune. Jewelry deals are happening at the Amazon New Year, New You Sale. Enjoy up to 62% off jewelry and accessories from Kate Spade New York, Lucky Brand, Kendra Scott and other luxury brands.Right now, shop markdowns on various styles of bracelets, necklaces and earrings that'll elevate any jewelry collection.

Betsy McGaughey, New York’s former lieutenant governor, is slamming the state’s current governor Andrew Cuomo’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. "Andrew Cuomo is showing a callous disregard for human life," McGaughey, who is also a New York Post columnist, told Bill Hemmer on "America’s Newsroom" Tuesday.

Jennifer Lopez took over New York’s Times Square station ahead of her New Year’s Eve performance.The Jenny From The Block hitmaker, who is due to appear on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest to ring in 2021 on Thursday night (December 31, 2020), posed inside a subway train and on the platform in a voluminous baby blue Balmain gown that featured an overflowing tulle skirt, a pair of knee-high glossy black stiletto boots, and a bedazzled cropped black blazer to film a segment

"We will make mistakes in life. We try not to, but we do.The key is to be strong and secure enough to admit your mistakes and admit your shortcomings." – New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in November 2020 speaking at Riverside Church in Manhattan after releasing his book about leadership in the middle of a pandemic.

Cyndi Lauper spoke about her optimism for 2021, as well as performing two songs, at a New Year’s Eve show in New York.Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, broadcast live from Times Square, initially saw the ‘Time After Time’ singer team up with Billy Porter – alongside whom Lauper had previously collaborated on the 2013 Broadway musical version of Kinky Boots – to perform an acoustic rendition of her 1986 Number One hit ‘True Colors’.“This has been a year of great loss,” Lauper said, introducing

Ryan Seacrest is hosting the annual Dick Clark’s New Years Rockin’ Eve tonight and he can’t wait to say goodbye to 2020. There may not be a million people in times square but Seacrest and his co-hosts Lucy Hale and Billy Porter are ready to bring enough energy for the missing crowd.

Although this year's live event is closed to the public, audiences everywhere will still be able to ring in the new year via live stream to witness the annual New Year's Eve ball drop in New York's Times Square. Actor and TV personalityJonathan Bennett will return to serve as the host of the Times Square New Year’s Eve Celebration after hosting in 2019 and 2016.

New Year's Eve was a little different last night, and crowds were banned from attending the annual celebration in New York's Times Square. However, that didn't stop performers from dressing to the nines, and putting on an unforgettable show.

The New York Times Magazine, “movies, ordinarily vehicles to transport us out of our quotidian existence, became in 2020 the means to escape from our new science-fiction reality.”I, like countless others, spent this year diving into many fictitious worlds, indulging both in new releases and nostalgic favorites.

Times Square in New York will be closed to the public Thursday night for New Year’s Eve celebrations, the first time there won’t be a crowd at the iconic locale on December 31 since the first ball drop in 1907 (the first celebration at One Times Square in Manhattan was in 1904). But in a year in which the entertainment industry has had to adjust to a virtual stage, the show will go on and the ball will still drop at midnight.

NEW YORK -- Workers installed 192 glittering Waterford crystal triangles on Times Square’s New Year’s Eve ball Sunday in preparation for a pandemic-limited celebration that will lack the usual tightly packed crowds of revelers.The ball is a 12-foot geodesic sphere covered with 2,688 crystal triangles of various sizes. Some new crystals are swapped in every year.

NEW YORK -- Ryan Seacrest will have a special pair of guests alongside the music stars at this year's New Year's Eve celebration on ABC — the president-elect and the future first lady.President-elect Joe Biden and Dr.

Gavin and Stacey Christmas special set to air on Christmas Eve has been re-edited to omit an offensive slur from the Christmas hit Fairytale of New York following backlash.The BBC will show the 2019 festive special of the much-loved comedy sitcom tonight - but the offensive lyric from the Christmas karaoke scene will be cut out, The Mirror reports.The show stirred up controversy last year when characters Bryn and Nessa – played by Rob Brydon and Ruth Jones - sang the word “f***ot”  and amassed a