The Television Academy has announced the redefined Emerging Media Programming Peer Group (replacing the Interactive Media Peer Group) with requirements that better reflect the current media landscape.
The Interactive Media Peer Group was formed over 20 years ago to provide a home in the Television Academy for the burgeoning new and digital media pioneers of television, with a focus on advancing interactive arts and sciences and fostering creative leadership in interactive media. In the two decades since, the television industry has undergone significant change with all media effectively having gone digital and the definition of what constitutes interactive programming shifting.
Because of these dramatic changes, in 2021 the Television Academy’s Board of Governors voted to form a committee to evaluate the composition and qualifications for the Interactive Media Peer Group to ensure both the peer group and the Academy were reflecting and representing the future evolution of the television industry.
The Academy’s Board of Governors has now approved the committee’s recommendation to reorganize the Interactive Media Peer Group as the Emerging Media Programming Peer Group, which represents professionals from across the industry who create or have an impact on emerging media content, such as: virtual, alternate, mixed or extended reality interactive storytelling; viewer-driven narratives, storylines and sequences of content consumption; and multi-platform and/or metaverse storytelling. Revised membership requirements for both active and associate membership are available on the Television Academy website.
The reorganization of the Emerging Media Programming Peer Group is effective Jan. 1, 2023; and the Academy is currently developing a timeline to elect new governors for the peer group, enabling representation in the boardroom in the new year.
Sean “Diddy” Combs seeks bail, citing changed circumstances and new evidence
Sean "Diddy" Combs filed a new request for bail on Friday, saying changed circumstances, along with new evidence, mean the hip-hop mogul should be allowed to prepare for a May trial from outside jail.
Lawyers for Combs filed the request in Manhattan federal court, where his previous requests for bail have been rejected by two judges since his September arrest on racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking charges.
He has pleaded not guilty to charges that he coerced and abused women for years with help from a network of associates and employees, while silencing victims through blackmail and violence, including kidnapping, arson and physical beatings.
He has been awaiting a May 5 trial at a federal detention facility in Brooklyn.
In their new court filing, lawyers for Combs say they are proposing a "far more robust" bail package that would subject the entertainer to strict around-the-clock security monitoring and near-total restrictions on his ability to contact anyone but his lawyers. But the amount of money they attach to the package remains $50 million, as they proposed before.
They also cite new evidence that they say "makes clear that the government's case is thin." That evidence, the lawyers said, refutes the government's claim that a March 2016 video showing Combs physically assaulting his then-girlfriend occurred during a coerced "freak off," a sexually driven event described in the indictment against Combs.
They wrote that the encounter was instead "a minutes-long glimpse into a complex but decade-long consensual relationship" between Combs and his then-girlfriend.
The lawyers argued that the jail conditions Combs is experiencing at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn violate his constitutional... Read More