TV Academy Will Keep Emmys Talk and Sketch Categories Separate This Year, Reversing Rule Change (EXCLUSIVE)

When the American Film Institute released their AFI Top 10 Films of the Year list last month, five of the top 10 were movies with Black themes and almost exclusively Black casts, a breakthrough for diversity in the Black filmmaking community on a par with nothing else I can remember when it comes to year-end awards recognition. Those films were Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods, George C.

What a difference a year makes. After last year’s BAFTA film nominations sparked outrage due to a lack of diversity, the organization’s top brass couldn’t be more thrilled with this year’s dramatic U-turn in nominations.

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.

Louise Redknapp has hit out at cruel online trolls following the tragic death of Caroline Flack. Singer Louise, 46, was left heartbroken after her Love Island host friend Caroline took her own life age 40 last year.

allows federally-funded social service providers to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.The members of Congress have signed onto a letter asking Acting HHS Secretary Norris Cochran to reverse the rule, which would allow various forms of discrimination, such as a taxpayer-funded adoption and foster care agency refusing to place children with same-sex couples, an immigrant services center refusing to support an LGBTQ refugee or asylum seeker, or a federally-funded

direct to your inboxThe International Football Association Board (IFAB) has announced another change to the handball rule that will come into effect from the start of July.Football’s leading lawmakers have now confirmed that because the interpretation of handball incidents have “not always been consistent”, the rule has been altered.A statement read: “Accidental handball that leads to a team-mate scoring a goal or having a goal-scoring opportunity will no longer be considered an offence.”Members

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeThe Television Academy has signed a deal with diversity consulting firm ReadySet to evaluate the organization’s inclusion and representation practices.The announcement comes as another awards-giving body, the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. (which oversees the Golden Globes), has come under fire for its lack of any Black members.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeThis year’s SAG Awards are keeping it short and sweet in recognition of this socially distanced age of COVID-19.

Carolina Rial wowed the “Voice” coaches on Tuesday’s episode.

Fans of Coronation Street will have been keeping up with the sad storyline featuring Leanne Battersby (played by Jane Danson), who’s turned to a medium to try to contact her late son Oliver.The concept of the afterlife was also the focus of the recent Netflix series Surviving Death, which helped reignite the debate: what happens to us when we die? Some studies show that 50% of us claim to hear the voice of a deceased loved one while grieving – a notion that can bring some comfort.

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.

Minutes after the 78th annual Golden Globes Awards wrapped, Time's Up president and CEO Tina Tchen released a pair of letters to its voting body, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, and its network sponsor, NBC, demanding a more substantive response to its lack of a diverse membership.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeHBO dominates this year’s Producers Guild Awards nominations in outstanding sports program, landing four out of the five nods. That’s one of three categories revealed on Friday by the Producers Guild of America, which announced nominations in the television specialty fields.Also spotlighted were outstanding children’s special and short form program categories.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeFox Entertainment has launched the digital docuseries “Making History in Hollywood,” featuring some of the network’s top Black stars as they discuss who and what inspires them in entertainment, and their experiences.The first episode, which launches on Friday, Feb.

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Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeBunim-Murray Prods. has a new boss: Julie Pizzi has been named president of the Banijay-owned studio.

TheTelevision Academy has decided to keep separate its variety talk series and variety sketch series, reversing a previous plan, announced last December, to merge the two categories after much debate. "While the Academy remains concerned about the number of series produced and the relatively small pool of entries in the variety sketch genre, it acknowledges that the differences between variety sketch and talk programs merit separate consideration," reads the Academy's statement in part.

tweeted on Thursday, after the project was formally announced by the network during the Television Critics Association’s Winter 2021 Press Tour. Excited to bring this project to life about such a significant event in American history.  Coming this spring to @HISTORYpic.twitter.com/peQQSsjmq8Tentatively titled, the document will chronicle the events that happened a century ago, from the birth of Black Wall Street in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to its catastrophic downfall over two violent and deadly days,