Netflix’s Reed Hastings Receives Engineering Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award

Co-CEO Reed Hastings and his Netflix management colleagues didn’t let the current controversy over Dave Chappelle slow their roll during the company’s third-quarter earnings interview.

Netflix was taking a Squid Game-themed victory lap during its third quarter financial earnings call after it emerged that a “mind-boggling” 142M households watched it during its first 28 days.

A philanthropic boasting Reed Hastings may not want to talk today about Dave Chappelle and controversy around remarks centered on the trans and LGBTQ+ communities in his special The Closer, but the Netflix staffer who called out the streamer on the “attacks” in the October 5 launched show certainly does – in-depth and at length.

“All philanthropy today,” Netflix’s Reed Hastings said Monday at the Milken Conference after moderator and CNBC correspondent Julia Boorstin lamented that she wasn’t able to ask the co-CEO about the Dave Chappelle backlash, earnings or anything else related to the streamer.

Killing Eve star Jodie Comer is to be handed an Outstanding Achievement Award at next week’s Edinburgh Television Festival Awards.

William Earl “The Last Duel” star Jodie Comer is set to receive the Variety Outstanding Achievement Award, distributed in association with the Edinburgh TV Festival as part of the organization’s annual TV Awards.The honor celebrates Comer’s extensive body of work, which ranges from BBC America’s “Killing Eve” to international blockbusters such as “Free Guy” and more recently, Ridley Scott’s “The Last Duel.” The actor’s award will be paired with a wide-ranging conversation with Variety.“Jodie

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeSPOILER ALERT: Do not read ahead if you have not watched “The Masked Singer” Season 6, Episode 5, “Date Night,” which aired October 13 on Fox.Ruth Pointer was so excited to be on “The Masked Singer,” but a victory wasn’t automatic — and in the end, she had to jump off the stage, as the Pointer Sisters member was unmasked at the end of the fifth episode of Season 6, “Date Night.”Nicole Scherzinger got it right with Ruth Pointer.

Stockholm Film Festival has signed up a trio of big names to receive its Lifetime Achievement Awards – Bronzes Horses – during this year’s event.

NEW YORK -- Poet, educator and activist Sonia Sanchez is this year's winner of the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, a $250,000 lifetime achievement honor previously given to Chinua Achebe, Bob Dylan and Maya Lin among others.Established in 1994 through the estate of Lillian Gish, the silent film star and sister of fellow actor Dorothy Gish, the prize is awarded to “a highly accomplished artist from any discipline who has pushed the boundaries of an art form, contributed to social change, and

The Television Academy on Thursday unveiled winners of the 73rd Engineering Emmy Awards, which honor the best in broadcast tech. Along with eight recipients of Emmy statues this year, the organization said Reed Hastings will receive the Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award and Dolby Laboratories the Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Award.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeCould “Squid Game” beat the most challenging TV contest of them all? The Korean-language survival drama, which has quickly become one of the most-watched Netflix series of all time, is indeed eligible for Primetime Emmy consideration, the Television Academy confirmed to Variety.According to an Academy spokesperson, because “Squid Game” was produced under guidance from Netflix, which is an American company, and it was always intended to be distributed in

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, whose MetroMorphosis organization works to engage volunteers to change urban communities; Alan Miller of Bethesda, Maryland, whose News Literacy Project works with people to help them identify credible news sources; Ify Nwabukwu of Lanham, Maryland, whose African Women’s Cancer Awareness Association works to provide cancer screening and treatment access; and Rita Zimmer of New York, whose HousingPlus provides services to women and children to help them overcome

Seinfeld fans in the US are upset that Netflix’s aspect ratio is cutting out some crucial jokes from the show.All 180 episodes of the show arrived on Netflix for US viewers recently and fans have taken to Twitter to point out a number of key gags have now been ruined thanks to the 16:9 remastering of the originals.One example was the season eight episode “The Pothole” when the actual pothole which forms a key joke with character George Costanza, is cut out entirely.One fan called the crop

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargePBS dominated the documentary portion of this year’s News and Documentary Emmys, landing ten awards overall — including three for “POV” and two for “Frontline,” which are two of the public broadcaster’s long-running, signature series.Netflix followed with four wins, then Showtime with three.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeCNN was the major winner on night one of the 42nd annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards, winning seven awards, while CNN exec VP Ken Jautz was named one of this year’s charman’s awards honorees. PBS’ “Frontline” was the most-honored program, with three Emmys.The winners of the news categories were announced Tuesday night by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS).

He may look and sound exactly as he did when he first stepped off the plane three years ago in Manchester, but by his own admission, there is not much about Jackson Hastings which remains the same today.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeOzy Media CEO Carlos Watson has informed the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences that he will no longer host the documentary portion of the 42nd News & Documentary Emmy Awards on Wednesday night.Watson’s decision to step down comes following a New York Times report on Monday questioning the validity of Ozy’s various traffic claims, and revealing that Ozy co-founder Samir Rao had posed as a YouTube executive, touting Ozy’s success, during a

The Conjuring franchise has gone up for sale in Rhode Island.The farmhouse property is listed for $1.2million (£878,000) and is described as “one of the most well-known haunted houses in the United States” by real estate agents Mott & Chace Sotheby’s.“Legend has it, the home is haunted by the presence of Bathsheba Sherman, who lived in the house in the 1800’s,” the description adds.“To this day, countless happenings have been reported.

2021 Billboard Latin Music Awards.The 74-year-old Mexican icon, whose real name is Francisca Viveros Barradas, was honored with the Billboard Lifetime Achievement Award during Thursday's awards show in Miami. She became the first woman to receive the honor.Celebrating her musical career that spans 50 years, a montage of her life and career aired before she took the stage.

just-listed three-bedroom home in northern Rhode Island may get a scream out of its charming rustic details, such as wood-beamed ceilings, a number of fireplaces and wide-plank wooden floors.