The Producers Guild of America hosted its annual East Coast celebration of the PGA nominees on Tuesday evening (2/20) at Manhatta in New York City. The producing team for Beckham (season 1) was presented with the award for Outstanding Sports Program and the producing team for Sesame Street (season 53) received the award for Outstanding Children’s Program.
The East Coast celebration marked the first in a week’s worth of bicoastal events culminating with the PGA Awards on February 25.
In attendance at the East Coast ceremony were producing team members from nominated productions and PGA guests including Shawn Levy (All the Light We Cannot See), Kimberley Ferdinando (The Disappearance of Shere Hite), Shoshana Guy (The 1619 Project), Dara Schnapper (Succession S4), and David Hinojosa (Past Lives).
The award for Outstanding Short Form Program and the PGA Innovation Award will be announced at the West Coast celebration at Members Restaurant in Los Angeles on Thursday, February 22. The remaining Producers Guild Awards winners will be announced at the annual award show on Sunday, February 25, at The Ray Dolby Ballroom in Hollywood.
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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