Television

Winners were announced Saturday for the 40th College Television Awards, which recognize excellence in student-produced programs from colleges and universities nationwide. The Television Academy Foundation’s ceremony took place as a global livestream for the first time because of the coronavirus pandemic. Top honors went to Balloon, from Christina Cha, Jeremy Merrifield and Dave Testa of
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UPDATE, 10:15 PM: As Los Angeles and other American cities go into curfew and fires burn tonight over protests over the death of George Floyd at the hands of now arrested ex-Minneapolis cop, Hulu, Amazon’s Prime Video and Starz have added their voice to Netflix in support of Black Lives Matter. In an Instagram post
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Fox News reporter Leland Vittert, his cameraman and two security officers were harassed and struck by protesters in Lafayette Park as they covered the demonstration near the White House early on Saturday. In an interview with Deadline, Vittert described how a number of those in the crowd turned their anger on the network, before about
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UPDATED 6:15 PM After being driven away earlier by police, demonstrators regrouped in front of CNN’s Atlanta headquarters, throwing objects — including a very large firecracker — at police, as well as breaking the building’s front windows. Police formed a phalanx inside the building, just feet away from demonstrators facing them outside. One protester ran
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The commercial industry never stopped once the coronavirus pandemic hit and TV and film production shut down. As people hunkered down under stay-at-home orders amid skyrocketing numbers of infections and death, commercial endorsement agents were flooded with requests as major brands had to pivot quickly and change their messaging with ads appropriate for the health
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UPDATE 4:44AM PST: CNN reporter Omar Jimenez and his crew have now been released from policy custody after their arrest live on air this morning mid-broadcast from the Minneapolis protests. As per below, state Governor Tim Walz intervened directly in the incident after calling CNN president Jeff Zucker to apologize. After being released, Jimenez immediately
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SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of tonight’s Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.  seventh and final season premiere.  EXCLUSIVE: “I want to say that because this was our last season and because there was an underlying nostalgia, we really went for it with stories,” says Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. executive producer and co-showrunner Jeffrey Bell of
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NBC, Fremantle and Syco on Wednesday morning issued a statement about the results from the investigation into the circumstances surrounding the firing of former judge Gabrielle Union. “Through the investigation process, it has been revealed that no one associated with the show made any insensitive or derogatory remarks about Ms. Union’s appearance, and that neither
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The long wait for the Gossip Girl reboot just got longer.  The HBO Max update of the 2007-12 CW drama has been pushed to 2021, according to Vulture.  The popular teen drama series – which originally starred Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, Ed Westwick, Penn Badgley, Chase Crawford, and Taylor Momsen, among others – was set
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After weeks of singing the praises of the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a preventative measure against the coronavirus, and saying last week that was taking the drug himself, President Donald Trump revealed in an interview on Sinclair Broadcasting on Sunday that he had “Finished, just finished,” his course of the unproven treatment. “And by the
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