Celebrated television producer Amy Sherman-Palladino will be honored with the Producers Guild of America’s 2019 Norman Lear Achievement Award in Television. The honor recognizes her more than 20 years of acclaimed work as a producer, creator, writer, and director. Sherman-Palladino will receive the award at the 30th Annual Producers Guild Awards on January 19, 2019, at The Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles.
Sherman-Palladino is the producer and mastermind behind the beloved television series “Gilmore Girls,” the Netflix revival “Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life,” and the award-winning breakout hit “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” She earned her first Producers Guild Award in January this year when the Guild’s membership voted for “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” to win the Danny Thomas Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Comedy. Sherman-Palladino also made history at this year’s Emmys® by taking home the awards for both comedy writing and comedy directing, making her the first woman in the awards’ 70-year history to do so.
“Amy Sherman-Palladino is everything you want a TV producer to be. She’s smart, she’s tenacious, she knows the story she wants to tell and how to put together the right team to tell it,” read a joint statement by Gail Berman and Lucy Fisher, presidents of the PGA. “Her characters and stories may span different eras, but her sensibility is unique and unmistakable. Watch any episode from one of her series for just five minutes, and you’ll instantly understand why she’s built such a wide and passionate following.”
Ryan Murphy was the 2018 recipient of the PGA’s Norman Lear Award. Previous honorees include James L. Brooks, Shonda Rhimes, Mark Gordon, Chuck Lorre, J.J. Abrams, Dick Wolf, Jerry Bruckheimer, Lorne Michaels, David L. Wolper, Aaron Spelling, Carsey/Werner/Mandabach, Steven Bochco, David E. Kelley, Mark Burnett, and Norman Lear, himself.
Google Opens Its Defense In Antitrust Case Alleging Monopoly Over Online Ad Technology
Google opened its defense against allegations that it holds an illegal monopoly on online advertising technology Friday with witness testimony saying the industry is vastly more complex and competitive than portrayed by the federal government.
"The industry has been exceptionally fluid over the last 18 years," said Scott Sheffer, a vice president for global partnerships at Google, the company's first witness at its antitrust trial in federal court in Alexandria.
The Justice Department and a coalition of states contend that Google built and maintained an illegal monopoly over the technology that facilitates the buying and selling of online ads seen by consumers.
Google counters that the government's case improperly focuses on a narrow type of online ads — essentially the rectangular ones that appear on the top and on the right-hand side of a webpage. In its opening statement, Google's lawyers said the Supreme Court has warned judges against taking action when dealing with rapidly emerging technology like what Sheffer described because of the risk of error or unintended consequences.
Google says defining the market so narrowly ignores the competition it faces from social media companies, Amazon, streaming TV providers and others who offer advertisers the means to reach online consumers.
Justice Department lawyers called witnesses to testify for two weeks before resting their case Friday afternoon, detailing the ways that automated ad exchanges conduct auctions in a matter of milliseconds to determine which ads are placed in front of which consumers and how much they cost.
The department contends the auctions are finessed in subtle ways that benefit Google to the exclusion of would-be competitors and in ways that prevent... Read More