The African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) has set a new date to celebrate its previously announced AAFCA TV Honors winners. The private, invitation-only event was previously scheduled for August 27th but was postponed due to the SAG-AFTRA strike and will now be held on December 3rd at the Hotel Casa del Mar in Santa Monica, California.​
The AAFCA TV Honors recognize outstanding achievements in Broadcast Television and Streaming with a special emphasis on entertainment representing the Black diaspora. Previously announced winners include Quinta Brunson, the cast of “P-Valley,” Jessica Williams, Debbie Allen, Niecy Nash-Betts, “The 1619 Project” and many more. Special honorees include Jennifer Hudson, who will receive the We See You Award, Delroy Lindo, who will receive the Legacy Award, and five-time Emmy® nominee Marla Gibbs who will receive the Legend Award. The Apple TV+ show “Ted Lasso’’ will receive the Inclusion Award, and CBS’ “S.W.A.T.,’’ produced by Sony Pictures Television in association with CBS Studios, will receive the Impact Award.
“We are happy that our industry can take a collective sigh of relief and get back to work,“ stated AAFCA co-founder and president Gil Robertson. “We love a good party here at AAFCA and we’re going to pull out all the stops to celebrate our winners and honorees. With the industry in flux for so many months, we’re really looking forward to finally getting to recognize and celebrate these incredible talents.”
A full list of previously announced winners follows:
2023 AAFCA TV HONORS AWARD RECIPIENTS:
BEST TV COMEDY – “Abbott Elementary” (ABC)
BEST TV DRAMA – “P-Valley” (Starz)
BEST NEW SHOW – “Mo” (Netflix)
BEST DOCUMENTARY – “The 1619 Project” (Onyx Collective/Hulu)
BEST LIMITED SERIES – “The Best Man: The Final Chapters” (Peacock)
BEST TV MOVIE – “Shooting Stars” (Peacock)
BREAKOUT STAR – Jessica Williams – “Shrinking” (Apple TV+)
BEST ENSEMBLE – “P-Valley” (Starz)
BEST TV WRITING – Quinta Brunson – “Abbott Elementary” (ABC)
BEST TV DIRECTING – Mary Lou Belli, Debbie Allen, Tasha Smith, Henry Chan, Jordan E. Cooper – “The Ms. Pat Show” (BET+)
BEST TV ACTING (Female) – Niecy Nash-Betts – “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” (Netflix)
BEST TV ACTING (Male) – J. Alphonse Nicholson and Nicco Annan – “P-Valley” (Starz)
Harvey Weinstein hit with new sex crime charge in New York
Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a new sex crime charge in New York, as he awaits retrial in his landmark #MeToo case.
Details of the new allegations were not immediately available. He was charged with committing a criminal sex act.
The jailed ex-movie mogul has long maintained that any sexual activity was consensual.
Prosecutors revealed last week that Weinstein had been indicted on additional sex crime charges that weren't part of the case that led to his now-overturned 2020 conviction. But the new indictment was sealed until his arraignment.
Prosecutors have said that the grand jury heard evidence of up to three alleged assaults — two in hotels in the Tribeca neighborhood and one at a lower Manhattan residential building. The purported incidents took place from the mid-2000s to 2016, prosecutors said.
But it's not clear whether any of those allegations underlie the new indictment.
While bracing for the new charges, Weinstein also is awaiting retrial after New York state's highest court this spring overturned his 2020 conviction on rape and sexual assault charges involving two women. The high court, called the Court of Appeals, ordered a new trial, which is tentatively scheduled to begin Nov. 12.
The Court of Appeals ruled that the then-trial judge unfairly allowed testimony against him based on allegations that were not part of the case. That judge's term expired in 2022, and he is no longer on the bench.
Prosecutors have said they'll seek to fold the new charges into the retrial, but Weinstein's lawyers say it should be a separate case.
Weinstein, who also was convicted in 2022 in a Los Angeles rape case, remains behind bars while awaiting his New York retrial.
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