Television Academy Hires Diversity Consultant ReadySet to Analyze Practices and Create Action Plan

Making some much needed adjustments!

Home Team, the UK indie production house founded by Dominic Buchanan and Bennett McGhee, has hired Jessica Hill as Senior Development Executive.

Bachelor host Chris Harrison has hired a high-profile Los Angeles lawyer to represent him amid his racism controversy and temporary step-back as the host of the ABC franchise.

Lisa Kennedy It’s tricky deciding what kind of cheese “Deadly Illusions,” a diverting thriller starring Kristin Davis and Dermot Mulroney streaming on Netflix, is exactly. Soft and overripe, from the look of it.

Naman Ramachandran “Attenborough’s Life in Colour” producer Humble Bee Films is strengthening its team with the hire of BBC Studios Natural History Unit executive Jayne Edwards as head of development.Humble Bee recently hired long-time Icon Films executive Stephen McQuillan as its creative director.

In celebration of “Stone Cold” Steve Austin Day, take a look at A&E and WWE’s upcoming documentary about the pro-wrestling legend.

Farrah Abraham, 29, proved she still knows how to look good even when she works up a sweat! The Teen Mom OG star spent some time doing outside yoga in Palm Beach on Mar. 14 and wowed in a florescent pink thong one-piece that accentuated her figure. She posed in various stretching positions, including one in which she laid on her stomach and lifted the upper half of her body while her head was stretched back.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeIt’s been a year since the Television Academy put a halt to officially sanctioned Emmy For Your Consideration events, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, they’re set to finally return next week — but virtually, of course.Emmy FYC events make a comeback on March 24 with two events at 7 p.m.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorWhile it was announced during the Grammy Awards on Sunday, the formation of the Recording Academy’s Songwriters and Composers Wing was not done in secret, and the Songwriters of North America, the Black Music Action Coalition, the Music Artists Coalition and the 100 Percenters responded quickly with an open letter to the new organization calling on it to eliminate the Minimum Delivery and Release Commitment (MDRC) requirement in music-publishing deals.

Miley Cyrus took a weekend desert getaway to Palm Springs, CA and ended up in the company of a tall, sexy guy. She and some pals hit up the downtown hotspot The Village Bar on Mar.

Entertainment marketing outfit Create Advertising Group has hired Callie de Quevedo as SVP and Head of Integrated Marketing. In her new role, de Quevedo, who earlier in her career held pubic relations posts at NBC, Disney, and Fox Television, will create strategy-driven, integrated campaigns for Create clients which include most major Hollywood studios and networks and top gaming companies.

hired a diversity consultant and an outside counsel to assist with its “transformational change” following outcry over the lack of Black members in the group.The group hired Dr.

EXCLUSIVE: Torrey Peters’ groundbreaking novel, Detransition, Baby, is in the works for the small screen. Anonymous Content is developing the novel as a television series. Peters is executive producing the project and will write the pilot episode. Veteran writing and producing duo Joan Rater and Tony Phelan (Council of Dads, Grey’s Anatomy) will also executive produce and serve as showrunners. Kevin Cotter will oversee the project for Anonymous Content.

Manori Ravindran International Editor“Attenborough’s Life in Colour” producer Humble Bee Films has hired long-time Icon Films executive Stephen McQuillan as its creative director.McQuillan will oversee the growth of Humble Bee Films’ factual arm, developing science, history and specialist factual programming, while also building on the company’s slate of blue-chip factual productions, which includes BBC One, Netflix and Channel Nine Australia natural history co-production “Attenborough’s Life

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.

Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks are producing a sequel series for Band of Brothers and two of the lead stars were just announced!

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) - the organisation behind the Golden Globes - says it is working on "an action plan" to recruit black members, after being criticised over its lack of diversity. The voting body is made up of just 87 members, none of whom are black, according to a recent report in the Los Angeles Times.