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  • Monday, Apr. 15, 2024
43rd College Television Award winners unveiled, honored at gala ceremony
Chris Perfetti, far left, and Lisa Ann Walter, far right, with Chapman University students Kaan Berkant, Jennifer Baker and Yinghui Li, winners of the comedy series award for “Slobopoly,” at the 43rd College Television Awards, presented by the Television Academy Foundation on April 13, 2024, in North Hollywood, California. (Photo by Danny Moloshok/Invision for the Television Academy/AP Images)
LOS ANGELES -- 

The Television Academy Foundation announced the winners of the 43rd College Television Awards, which recognize and reward excellence in student-produced programs from colleges nationwide, at a star-studded awards gala at the Saban Media Center in North Hollywood, Calif., on Sunday (4/13).

“Congratulations to all the winners in television’s most esteemed and coveted student awards,” said Tina Perry, chair of the Television Academy Foundation. “The Foundation is proud to leverage its platform to showcase the exceptional work of the industry’s future leaders. Our sincerest gratitude to all the celebrities and sponsors who participated in this event to make it a memorable experience for students.”

The 2024 winners were presented awards by top television stars, including  Lisa Ann Walter (Abbott Elementary), Chris Perfetti (Abbott Elementary), Midori Francis (Grey’s Anatomy), Zyra Gorecki (La Brea), Courtney More

  • Saturday, Apr. 13, 2024
Faced with possibly paying for news, Google removes links to California news sites for some users
A sign is shown on a Google building at their campus in Mountain View, Calif., on Sept. 24, 2019. On Friday, April 12, 2024, Google announced it was testing removing links to California news websites from some people's search results. The search giant said it was preparing in case the Legislature passed a bill requiring it to pay media companies a fee for linking to its content. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
By Adam Beam & Tran Nguyen
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- 

Google on Friday began removing California news websites from some people's search results, a test that acted as a threat should the state Legislature pass a law requiring the search giant to pay media companies for linking to their content.

Google announced the move in a blog post on Friday, calling it a "short-term test for a small percentage of users ... to measure the impact of the legislation on our product experience." The company said it also would pause new investments in the California news industry, including the partnership initiative with news organizations and its product licensing program.

"By helping people find news stories, we help publishers of all sizes grow their audiences at no cost to them. (This bill) would up-end that model," Jaffer Zaidi, Google's vice president for global news partnerships, wrote in the blog post.

The California Legislature is considering a bill that would require tech giants like Google, More

  • Friday, Apr. 12, 2024
Robert MacNeil, creator and first anchor of PBS "NewsHour," dies at 93
This Feb. 1978 photo shows Robert MacNeil, executive editor of "The MacNeil/Lehrer Report". MacNeil, who created the even-handed, no-frills PBS newscast “The MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour” in the 1970s and co-anchored the show for with his late partner, Jim Lehrer, for two decades, died on Friday, April 12, 2024. He was 93. (AP Photo/FILE)
By Dave Bryan
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

Robert MacNeil, who created the even-handed, no-frills PBS newscast "The MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour" in the 1970s and co-anchored the show with his late partner, Jim Lehrer, for two decades, died on Friday. He was 93.

MacNeil died of natural causes at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, according to his daughter, Alison MacNeil.

MacNeil first gained prominence for his coverage of the Senate Watergate hearings for the public broadcasting service and began his half-hour "Robert MacNeil Report" on PBS in 1975 with his friend Lehrer as Washington correspondent.

The broadcast became the "MacNeil-Lehrer Report" and then, in 1983, was expanded to an hour and renamed the "MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour." The nation's first one-hour evening news broadcast, and recipient of several Emmy and Peabody awards, it remains on the air today with Geoff Bennett and Amna Nawaz as anchors.

It was MacNeil's and Lehrer's disenchantment with the style and content More

  • Thursday, Apr. 11, 2024
O.J. Simpson, fallen football hero acquitted of murder in "trial of the century," dies at 76
In this May 14, 2013, file photo, O.J. Simpson sits during a break on the second day of an evidentiary hearing in Clark County District Court in Las Vegas. Simpson, the decorated football superstar and Hollywood actor who was acquitted of charges he killed his former wife and her friend but later found liable in a separate civil trial, has died. He was 76. (AP Photo/Ethan Miller, Pool, File)
By Ken Ritter
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- 

O.J. Simpson, the decorated football superstar and Hollywood actor who was acquitted of charges he killed his former wife and her friend but later found liable in a separate civil trial, has died. He was 76.

The family announced on Simpson's official X account — formerly Twitter — that Simpson died Wednesday after battling cancer. Simpson's attorney confirmed to TMZ he died in Las Vegas.

Simpson earned fame, fortune and adulation through football and show business, but his legacy was forever changed by the June 1994 knife slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman in Los Angeles.

Live TV coverage of his arrest after a famous slow-speed chase marked a stunning fall from grace for the sports hero.

He had seemed to transcend racial barriers as the star Trojans tailback for college football's powerful University of Southern California in the late 1960s, as a rental car ad pitchman rushing through More

  • Wednesday, Apr. 10, 2024
When are the 2025 Oscars? The Academy Awards announce date, sticking to early start
An Oscar statue appears at the 91st Academy Awards Nominees Luncheon, Feb. 4, 2019, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Danny Moloshok/Invision/AP, File)
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 

The 97th Academy Awards will be held March 2, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announced Wednesday.

That moves the annual ceremony up about a week. This year's Oscars were held on March 10. The telecast, which culminated in the best picture win for Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer," was watched by an estimated 19.5 million people, up about 4% from the year prior.

The film academy is also sticking with an earlier start for the awards. Like this year's show, the Oscars will kick off at 7 p.m. Eastern, an hour earlier than they have typically done. ABC will again air the Academy Awards.

The Golden Globes, after signing a new five-year deal with CBS, recently set Jan. 5 as the date for next year's ceremony.

  • Wednesday, Apr. 10, 2024
Studio behind "Sound of Freedom" wants to give audiences greenlight power
An attendee walks past advertisements for upcoming films including "The Garfield Movie" and "Joker: Folie a Deux" on the opening day of CinemaCon 2024 at Caesars Palace, Monday, April 8, 2024, in Las Vegas. The four-day convention of the National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) runs through Thursday. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
By Lindsey Bahr, Film Writer
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- 

Angel Studios wants to give audiences the power to decide what movies are made.

The company behind last summer's surprise box office hit, the child trafficking movie "Sound of Freedom," employs a crowdfunding model to finance projects from the ground up.

"The gatekeeper model is broken, it isn't working for audiences, the creative community or the theater owners either," Angel's distribution head Jared Geesey told an audience of theater owners and exhibitors Wednesday in Las Vegas.

Its biggest hit to date, "Sound of Freedom," earned over $250 million globally and was one of the top 10 films of the year domestically. Angel Studios raised the funds to make it in just a week. When it was in theaters, they introduced a unique "pay-it-forward" model in which ticket buyers could choose to buy tickets for strangers. Company leaders say it resulted in nearly 2 million additional people seeing "Sound of Freedom."

In 2023, their first More

  • Tuesday, Apr. 9, 2024
The Jon Snow sequel to "Game of Thrones" isn't happening, Kit Harington says
Kit Harington poses for photographers upon arrival at the Olivier Awards in London, Sunday, April 10, 2022. Winter is, apparently, not coming back, as Harington shut down talk of a Jon Snow sequel to HBO’s massive hit “Game of Thrones” during an interview with The Associated Press Tuesday, April 9, 2024. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP, File)
By Brooke Lefferts
NEW YORK (AP) -- 

Winter, apparently, is not coming back. Kit Harington has shut down talk of a Jon Snow sequel to HBO's massive hit "Game of Thrones."

"There are no plans for it at the moment. It's off the table for the foreseeable," Harington told The Associated Press in an interview Tuesday, while promoting his new crime drama film "Blood for Dust."

"Game of Thrones" ended in 2019 after eight seasons, but the prospect of spinoffs were bandied about. Fans had to wait three years for the only one that's aired thus far, the HBO prequel "House of the Dragon," set two centuries before "Game of Thrones."

A sequel centered around the popular Snow, who started "Game of Thrones" as an outcast and brother of the Night's Watch and fought his way to more power in Westeros and the truth of his ancestry, had reportedly been in development for a few years.

"We sort of threw around a few ideas. Nothing really stuck, and we're going to leave it there for More

  • Tuesday, Apr. 9, 2024
Tina Perry elected chair of Television Academy Foundation
Tina Perry
LOS ANGELES -- 

Tina Perry, president of OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network, has been elected chair of the nonprofit Television Academy Foundation, finishing out the 2024 term. The Foundation is dedicated to preserving the legacy of television while educating those who will shape its future,

OWN president since 2019, Perry oversees the operational and creative areas of the network and OTT streaming, reporting to OWN chairman and CEO Oprah Winfrey. Perry was instrumental in OWN’s successful launch into scripted programming with popular drama series Queen Sugar, Cherish the Day, Greenleaf, The Haves and the Have Nots, the Peabody Award-winning David Makes Man, The Kings of Napa, and All Rise. She oversees the continuing success of the network’s lineup of unscripted hits that includes the Love and Marriage franchise, Ready to Love, Speak Sis, Family or Fiancé, Black Love, and Put A Ring On It in addition to the Daytime Emmy-award winning Super Soul Sunday.

Perry More

  • Tuesday, Apr. 9, 2024
Cannes Lions launches LIONS Creators
Cannes Lions trophies
LONDON -- 

The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity has announced the launch of LIONS Creators. A new experience taking place during the week of Cannes Lions, this dedicated forum will include a curated mix of exclusive learning and networking experiences for creators and those working in the wider creator economy.

In 2023, Goldman Sachs analysts estimated that the creator economy was a $250bn industry and could reach $480bn by 2027. Simon Cook, CEO, Lions, said, “With potential growth of this scale, it’s crucial that the Festival plays a role in bringing together the platforms, the brands, the creators and the agencies, and a wider cross-section of the industry to have the most pressing conversations around how we co-create, collaborate and unlock greater value and progress for the wider industry in this space.”

Speaking about the initiative, Thea Skelton, VP of events, Lions, said, “Creators are an increasingly important part of the More

  • Monday, Apr. 8, 2024
Disney allowed to pause its federal lawsuit against Florida governor as part of settlement deal
The Cinderella Castle is seen at the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World, July 14, 2023, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Allies of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Disney reached a settlement agreement Wednesday, March 27, 2024, in a lawsuit over who controls Walt Disney World’s governing district.(AP Photo/John Raoux, File)
By Mike Schneider
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- 

An appellate court on Monday granted Disney's request for a two-month pause in a federal lawsuit against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his appointees to Walt Disney World's governing district after the two sides reached a settlement on separate litigation in state court.

Disney's request last Friday to the federal appellate court was motivated by last month's settlement deal involving two Florida lawsuits between Disney and the DeSantis-appointed Central Florida Tourism Oversight District. After DeSantis took over the theme park's governing board, the company and the district began fighting in state court over how Disney World will be developed in the future.

As part of the settlement, Disney agreed to pause the separate federal lawsuit, which is being appealed, pending negotiations on a new development agreement with the DeSantis appointees. The district provides municipal services such as firefighting, planning and mosquito control, More

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