Television Academy Foundation Redesigns Summer Internships and Fellowships; Applications Now Open

Bill Nye is reminding us all about the importance of wearing masks as the world continues to battle the coronavirus pandemic.

Last Week with John Oliver will be battling it out with Saturday Night Live for an Emmy after the Television Academy merged two key awards categories as part of a range of changes.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeThe Television Academy revealed several rules changes late Friday for next year’s 73rd Emmy Awards, including the surprising decision to merge variety talk and variety sketch back into one category.

The Hold Steady have announced their eighth album ‘Open Door Policy’ – listen to lead single ‘Family Farm’ below.Following on from last year’s ‘Thrashing Thru The Passion’, the 11-track record is due for release in February on the band’s Positive Jams label (via Thirty Tigers).It was recorded at The Clubhouse in Rhinebeck, New York alongside producer Josh Kaufman and engineer D. James Goodwin.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has inked a multi-million dollar deal for near-global rights to sci-fi survival thriller Stowaway, starring Anna Kendrick (Pitch Perfect), Toni Collette (Hereditary), Daniel Dae Kim (Hawaii Five-0) and Shamier Anderson (Wyonna Earp).

NJ Advance Media. “Is that her adopted kid? Who is gonna be all fucked up growing up watching 2 chicks kissing and calling them both mom,” said another.Dumont Mayor Andrew LaBruno condemned the disparaging comments, saying in a Facebook post that the comments were ‘disturbing and extremely appalling” and calling on Superintendent Emanuele Triggiano to investigate the matter.LaBruno said in the post that after speaking to Triggiano, the superintendent assured him that the incident “is being taken

UK Government’s Self-Employment Support Scheme grant (SEISS). The financial support is available to those whose businesses have been impacted as a result of Covid-19 and provided a subsidy, based on payment history and tax records, to help them through the pandemic.

On Thursday, Netflix debuted the full trailer for Ryan Murphy’s “The Prom”, a new musical starring Meryl Streep, James Corden, Kerry Washington, Nicole Kidman and more.

Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, has revealed that she had a miscarriage in July, giving a personal account of the traumatic experience in hope of helping others. She described the miscarriage in an opinion piece in the New York Times on Wednesday, writing: "I knew, as I clutched my firstborn child, that I was losing my second." Markle and husband Prince Harry have an 18-month-old son, Archie.

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex has shared the heartbreak she felt after suffering a miscarriage this summer (2020).The Suits actress turned British royal, who shares an 18-month-old son, Archie, with husband Prince Harry, revealed the tragic news in an article penned for The New York Times on Wednesday (November 25, 2020).“It was a July morning that began as ordinarily as any other day: Make breakfast. Feed the dogs.

David Dinkins, who served as New York City's first and only Black mayor during the 1990s, has died at 93. Dinkins' health aide found him unresponsive in his Lenox Hill apartment Monday night, the New York Post reported. The NYPD confrimed the report.

the COVID-19 pandemic, many rich New Yorkers fled the city to retreat to more secluded places.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterNetflix is expanding its footprint in New Mexico, announcing Monday that it is expanding ABQ Studios and pledging an additional $1 billion in production spending there.The investment, per a release from the streaming giant, will create about 1,000 production jobs in New Mexico over the next decade as well as 1,467 construction jobs to complete the expansion.Calling Netflix an “incredible partner,”  New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham praised the streamer in a

Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: Hulu is developing a half-hour dramedy in the world of technology and dating, based on a New Yorker short story from Kate Folk.

An op-ed from The New York Times offered a stunning admission Wednesday about President Trump's strong stance on keeping schools open during the coronavirus pandemic.  Hours after it was announced that New York City schools would be shutting down amid nationwide spikes in coronavirus cases, Times opinion columnist Nicholas Kristof wrote a piece titled, "When Trump Was Right and Many Democrats Wrong." "Some things are true even though President Trump says them," Kristof began.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterWinners for the 2020 New Zealand Television Awards were announced today, with the event becoming of the few physical screen award ceremonies to be held during the pandemic.The Luminaries, produced by Southern Light Films and Working Title TV, was the big winner in the drama craft categories with multiple wins including Best Script: Drama for Eleanor Catton, who adapted her Man Booker Prize-winning book for television, Best Director: Drama for Claire

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