SAG Awards Producers Reveal Hour-Long Special Will Be Pre-Taped (EXCLUSIVE)

A scary moment happened during the latest episode of American Idol when a contestant collapsed, face first, while on stage.

The Producers Guild of America on Saturday unveiled winners in four categories for the 32nd annual PGA Awards, the news coming during the guild’s A Day With the PGA Awards Nominees virtual event. The remainder of the awards recognizing the year’s best in producing across film, TV and documentaries will be bestowed during a March 24 ceremony.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeMeghan Trainor is now all about the laughs. The singer has sealed a major overall deal with NBCUniversal Television and Streaming Entertainment that includes a comedy series in development.Trainor will star in and help develop the sitcom for NBC, but there is no concept or writers attached just yet.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeAs “The Simpsons” marks another milestone this Sunday with its 700th episode, fans can be rest assured that there are many more to come beyond that. Fox recently renewed the animated institution for another two seasons, bringing the show to Season 34 (and a grand total of 757 episodes) in 2023.

It looks like Justin Bieber‘s performance for tonight’s 2021 Kids’ Choice Awards isn’t going to be live.

(CNN)This year's SAG Awards will be very different from past shows.Speaking to Variety, Todd Milliner, Sean Hayes and Kathy Connell, the show's executive producers, said that the upcoming awards show will be pretaped and only an hour long."We're looking at trying to do a unique award ceremony in an hour and leave people saying, which they very rarely do (with an awards show), 'Man, I wish we had more,'" Milliner told the publication.The news comes on the heels of last Sunday's Golden Globe

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeIf you’ve watched CBS in the past several months, including during the Super Bowl, you’ve probably heard the network’s new five-note mnemonic.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeBack when NBC boasted a “Must-See TV” swagger, two of that era’s most rambunctious architects were marketing co-head Vince Manze and program planning and scheduling chief Preston Beckman.The duo, whose offices were next to each other, played a winning hand by strategically deploying and marketing the network’s wares, like “ER” and “Friends,” in all the right ways. And for a time, they were unstoppable.That was more than two decades ago.

Variety breaks down each category at the 27th annual SAG Awards ceremony, to be held on April 4.Cast in a Motion Picture There was a time when it seemed a film couldn’t win a best picture Oscar without a SAG ensemble nom, but in recent years, several films — such as “Green Book” and “The Shape of Water” — have done away with that theory.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeThe Directors Guild of America has revealed this year’s TV nominees for its 73rd annual DGA Awards, including achievement in drama, comedy, limited/TV movie, variety, reality, children’s and commercials. Also announced on Monday were the nominees for this year’s directorial achievement in documentaries.Last year, top TV prizes went to “Watchmen” for drama series and “Barry” for comedy series.

EXCLUSIVE: The TV and film arm of Quality Control, the record label behind hip hop artists including Lil Yachty and Migos, has struck a co-production deal with Trioscope Studios, the company behind Netflix’s animated hybrid drama The Liberator.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” will mark the one-year anniversary of the coronavirus pandemic — or as the show calls it, the “one-year anniversary of our national incarceration,” with a special episode next Thursday.“Jimmy Kimmel Live: Coronaversary Show” will take the place of a regular episode of the late-night talker on March 11 at 11:35 p.m. ET.

EXCLUSIVE: Four-time Oscar nominee Annette Bening (The Kids Are All Right) is set to star in Oscar-winning duo Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin’s (Free Solo) narrative directorial debut Nyad.

SAG Awards ceremony is going to be quite a bit different.

The upcoming 2021 Screen Actors Guild Awards are switching things up for this year’s ceremony.

Like many awards shows and industry guilds, the past 12 months have been rough for the SAG Awards. Much of the Screen Actors Guild’s membership was unable to find work for most of the year either in their chosen profession or in their daily gigs.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeThe 73rd Emmy Awards has an airdate: CBS and the Television Academy announced Tuesday that this year’s Emmys will air live on Sunday, Sept. 19 at 8 p.m.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeIt was the most unusual Golden Globes Awards since 2008, when the writers’ strike forced producers to scrap it in favor of a press conference.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterA number of writers and producers on the hit CW series “Supernatural” are reuniting on Amazon’s “The Boys,” Variety has learned exclusively.“The Boys” was developed for Amazon by “Supernatural” creator Eric Kripke, who also serves as showrunner. Joining him behind the scenes going into “The Boys'” third season are Meredith Glynn, David Reed, and Jim Michaels.Glynn was a co-executive producer and writer on “Supernatural” from 2016-2020.