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Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large The Creative Coalition’s annual Humanitarian Awards takes place the week of the Primetime Emmys — but even though the big show was pushed to January, the benefit luncheon still took place on Thursday, Sept. 14 at the La Peer Hotel rooftop in West Hollywood, attracting a wide range of honorees and presenters. The Humanitarian Awards recognizes talent who donate their time, resources and their celebrity to promote worthy social causes.

EXCLUSIVE: The roller coaster ride of the Writers Guild and the Hollywood studios trying to seal a deal to end the writers’ nearly 5-month-long strike isn’t over yet.

Billy Ray, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director and producer who has used his downtime during the Hollywood labor strife between shifts on the picket lines to turn Strike Talk into a tour de force that has demystified the issues and explained the inflection point that made this standoff unavoidable, this week strikes his most hopeful tone in the 21 podcasts he has done so far.

YouTube is amping up its efforts in generative artificial intelligence, adding a “Dream Screen” and other AI tools for creators.

Seth MacFarlane is donating an additional $5 million to The Entertainment Community Fund just shy of two months after an initial gift of $1 million to assist industry workers impacted by the ongoing SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes.

“Strong leaders and managers” are required to call out bad behavior in the UK TV industry, ITV CEO Carolyn McCall said today as she addressed the Russell Brand allegations and slammed the government for its economic policies.

McKinley Franklin editor Rich Paul, DJ Drama, restauranteur Pinky Cole and YouTuber Samir Chaudry are among the confirmed guests to speak at UTA and Crown + Conquer’s UNLOQ404 inaugural creators’ summit. This year’s conference will make its debut in Atlanta at Overtime Elite Arena on Oct. 14 for the one-day special event which is sponsored by Chase, Instagram and Pinterest, with Lyft as a rideshare partner.

Naman Ramachandran Google-owned YouTube has suspended advertisements on videos by comedian and actor Russell Brand after allegations of rape and sexual assault. YouTube said it had suspended the monetization of Brand’s channel for “violating our Creator Responsibility policy,” adding that the action was in order to “protect” its users.

Amid the onslaught of criminal sexual assault and abuse accusations against Russell Brand, a past interview from his ex-wife, Katy Perry, is now making rounds on social media.

Wilko's future has been hanging in the balance after the homeware retailer fell into administration in August.

Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Chabon and Tony-winning playwright David Henry Hwang are among a group of writers that filed a class action lawsuit against Meta in San Francisco federal court for having “copied and ingested” their works to train its LLaMA AI platform.

Naman Ramachandran After a record-breaking first season, “The Real Housewives of Lagos” is returning for Season 2. Season 1 of the reality TV series saw the first episode break the first-day streaming record on Showmax Nigeria and become the only African title to crack the top 10 most-watched shows on the streaming service in 2022 across Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and South Africa.

Stacey Solomon has clapped back at a cruel troll who sent her a message calling her 'annoying'.The 33-year-old Loose Women star took to her Instagram stories to call out the troll after they sent her a mean DM in response to an earlier video she had shared. Stacey had previously uploaded a clip updating her followers about her ‘manic’ life before wishing them all a ‘happy Saturday.’ In the candid video, her husband Joe Swash launched a dirty nappy over at her as Stacey confessed, she needed to “sort the house out.” But the candid moment rubbed one follower up the wrong way as they decided to message Stacey, saying: “You are so annoying.” After the mum-of-five screenshotted the rude remark, she then responded with an epic comeback.

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Oprah and Dwayne Johnson are teaming up for a good cause.

Oprah Winfrey and Dwayne Johnson have established the People’s Fund of Maui, which will distribute cash directly to those who were impacted by the wildfires that devastated Lahaina and other parts of the island.

Jimmy Kimmel just revealed he was about to retire from his late-night show until it was paused due to the WGA strike.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Jimmy Kimmel claims he was ready to hang up his spurs as ABC’s late-night talk show host earlier this year — but the WGA writers strike changed his perspective. Kimmel made the revelation on the first episode of Spotify’s “Strike Force Five” podcast, which went live Wednesday (Aug.