Netflix Is A Joke Fest Canceled For 2020 Amid Coronavirus Concerns

No surprise, but the 2020 Emmys are going virtual. Shortly after the nominations were announced yesterday, this year’s Emmy executive producers — including host Jimmy Kimmel — sent a letter to key acting nominees informing them that this year’s ceremony will be virtual, and asking them to prepare to participate from home, or wherever they want to be.

This week, Nick Cannon went to the Simon Wiesenthal Center and Museum of Tolerance in LA due to the comments he made while speaking with Professor Griff during an episode of his YouTube podcast, Cannon’s Class, and the subsequent backlash. Page Six obtained a press release from the organization in which the television personality spoke with senior officials and heard stories about the Holocaust from some of the survivors.

Geena Davis' Bentonville Film Festival has unveiled plans for a hybrid online-physical model for its 6th edition, with 80 percent of its 68 competition selections— including narrative features, documentaries and episodic projects— coming from women directors. The seven-day Arkansas event, backed by Walmart and Coca Cola, will also take place from August 10 to 16 after being delayed from its original April 29 to May 2 date by the coronavirus pandemic.

We’re about halfway through 2020 already, Netflix has cancelled several fan favorite television shows.

Metallica‘s Lars Ulrich has discussed the band’s efforts to fight hunger in wake of the coronavirus pandemic.In April, Metallica’s nonprofit organisation All Within My Hands Foundation pledged $350,000 to a series of charities that are providing aid and care during COVID-19.The foundation set up by the metal legends announced on April 2 that it was donating funds to the Bartender Emergency Assistance Program, Feeding America, Direct Relief and Crew Nation.

Jake Paul is once again facing backlash. The 23-year-old YouTuber has come under fire for throwing a party in his Calabasas, California, mansion amid a rising number of coronavirus cases in the state.

Update: The series has been canceled as of July 15 due to uncertainties over local lockdowns, the BBC reports."We're very sorry to announce the Live From The Drive-In concerts have been cancelled by the organisers due to latest developments regarding local lockdowns," Kaiser Chiefs also said in a statement.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorThe famed Rose Parade in Pasadena held each New Year’s Day has been canceled for 2021, with organizers the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association saying Wednesday that restrictions in California’s now-paused phased reopening because of the coronavirus pandemic made it impossible to host the event, which would have been its 132nd edition.It will mark only the fourth time the parade along the famed five-mile stretch of Colorado Boulevard will not take place

Jamie Lang After a number of attempts to delay this year’s Jerusalem Film Festival, organizers have now scrapped plans for a summer edition following a recent spike in COVID-19 cases in Israel, which has resulted in new restrictions from the Ministry of Health on gatherings of large groups, expected to last several months.Instead, a winter edition is now in the works for Dec. 10-20.

We’re about halfway through 2020 already, Netflix has cancelled several fan favorite television shows.

Just a while back, news broke out that Glee star Naya Rivera is missing and presumed dead after her son, Josey Hollis Dorsey, 4, was found alone on a boat in Lake Piru, California. The Ventura County Sheriff's Department tweeted how they were on the lookout for her.

Depeche Mode, The Doobie Brothers, Whitney Houston, Nine Inch Nails, The Notorious B.I.G. and T-Rex, as well as journalist-turned-manager Jon Landau and manager-turned-mogul Irving Azoff, who were named as Ahmet Ertegun Award honorees.The 35th annual Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony was originally scheduled for May 2, but on March 24, as the pandemic spread, was pushed back to Nov.

The CW has nearly made a decision about every single television show’s fate for the 2020-2021 television season.

Love Island fans were left gutted when it was announced the show will not go ahead this year, amid the coronavirus pandemic. Although ITV has tried to fill the villa-shaped hole in our hearts by running an Australian version of the show, it has been reported bosses have a another plan to help us get our fix.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterKarlovy Vary, one of the major Euro film festivals in the summer calendar, has set a special four-day event for the fall, ‘Karlovy Vary IFF 54 ½’.The Czech Republic spa town is not classifying the one-off fest, which will run November 18-21, as an official edition, with its 55th incarnation instead taking place on its regular dates in summer 2021.54 ½ will feature 30 movies, each screening twice, alongside several events traditionally held during the regular

The 2020 Guinness Cork Jazz Festival has been cancelled.