The Producers Guild of America hosted its annual East Coast celebration of the 2023 PGA nominees last night (2/21) at Bottino in New York City. The celebration marks the first in a week’s worth of bicoastal events culminating with the PGA Awards on February 25.
During the NYC proceedings, the producing team for Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off was presented with the award for Outstanding Sports Program, and the producing team for Sesame Street (Season 52) was presented with the award for Outstanding Children’s Program.
In attendance were producing team members from nominated productions and PGA guests including: Gerry Robert Byrne (Severance), Brittany Radocha (The Daily Show with Travor Noah), Halle Stanford (Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock), Rebecca Teitel (The Territory), Mark Kamine (The White Lotus), Marsha Cooke (30 For 30), Bill Owens (60 Minutes), Tanya Bracco (The Late Show with Stephen Colbert) and Daniel Battsek (The Banshees of Inisherin).
The award for Outstanding Short Form Program and the PGA Innovation Award will be announced at the West Coast celebration at Tiato Santa Monica in Los Angeles on Thursday, February 23. The remaining Producers Guild Awards winners will be announced at the annual award show on Saturday, February 25 at the Beverly Hills Hilton.
“Scandal” cast will reunite for online script reading for hurricane relief in western North Carolina
The cast of ABC's hit political drama "Scandal" may need to brush up on their snappy, speedy delivery known as "Scandal-pace," because they're reuniting for a good cause. Its stars including Kerry Washington, Tony Goldwyn and Bellamy Young will take part in a live virtual script reading on Nov. 17 to raise money for hurricane relief in western North Carolina.
Beginning Friday, fans can go online and donate to reserve a spot for the online reading. Proceeds will benefit United Way of North Carolina. Everyone who donates will be able to take part in a virtual pre-event with the cast and Shonda Rhimes will give an introduction.
Additional guest stars will also be announced. The online fundraising platform Prizeo is also holding a contest where one person who donates online via their site will be selected to read a role from the script with the actors. The winner should not worry about the "Scandal"-pace, assured Young over Zoom.
"Whomever the lucky reader is can read at whatever pace they want," she said.
Young, who played Mellie Young, the first lady and later Republican presidential nominee on "Scandal," was born and raised in Asheville, North Carolina. She came up with the idea for the effort with a friend and took it to her fellow "Scandal" actors, who all jumped on board. Young said this is the first script reading the cast has all done together since the show ended after seven seasons in 2018.
Which episode they will be reading has not been announced yet.
Young said it's "been devastating" to see so many parts of her hometown badly damaged by Hurricane Helene, which ravaged western North Carolina one month ago.
To research the best use for donations, Young spoke with numerous political leaders, including North... Read More