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The 2022 College Football Playoff semifinals, which will send Georgia and TCU to the national championship, scored for ESPN networks. Saturday's Georgia-Ohio State CFP semifinal at the Peach Bowl averaged 22.1 million viewers on ESPN networks, according to ESPN and Nielsen fast-nationals, marking…

The final two of the College Football Playoffs championship have been set, and the surprise team in the field of four has made it to the championship. TCU, unranked at the start of the season, beat No. 2 Michigan Saturday in a wild and woolly Fiesta Bowl game that saw a 44-point third quarter. TCU…

Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) was projected to win election to a full Senate term on Tuesday, defeating football star Herschel Walker in a runoff that was the final chapter of the midterms. Warnock’s victory will give Democrats a 51-49 margin in the Senate, a one-seat gain that gives the party a clear…

The College Football Playoffs lineup has been set, and there was one surprise. TCU, unranked at the start of the season, stayed at No. 3 despite an overtime loss on Saturday to Kansas State in the Big 12 title game. So when the announcement came today on the four-team playoffs, the Horned Frogs…

UPDATED: The Georgia Supreme Court revived the state’s restrictive abortion law Wednesday, again banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, at least temporarily. In its ruling, the high court put a lower court order that declared the ban unlawful on hold while the case is appealed, requiring abortion…

Cavea Plus, a streaming service based in the country of Georgia, has joined the anti-piracy coalition Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment. Formed in 2017 with a a focus on copyright protection and enforcement, the coalition now has 42 members, with a governing board that includes Motion Picture…

A VR executive and a seasoned Olympics broadcaster have unveiled BlueStar Studios, a $180 million, 53-acre campus in Forest Park, GA, the latest in a stream of projects to address booming demand for production space in the state. Studios are scarce everywhere, but Georgia's 30% tax credits remain a…

“On any given night, there's 50 million Trump jokes. So I started to stay away from it,” Cedric the Entertainer told Variety in 2020. The same rule does not apply to Trump’s friend Herschel Walker, it seems. In a new 90-second ad for the Progress Action Fund, the star of CBS’ The Neighborhood takes aim at the Georgia…

College football’s championship series is expanding from four to 12 teams, embracing the six highest-ranked conference champions and six at-large teams. The College Football Playoff’s 11-person board of managers unanimously voted Friday for the inflation to take hold in 2026. But it is also encouraging the sport’s…

Trevor Noah and his Daily Show team are taking their show on the road. It marks the first time that the Comedy Central late-night series has gone on the move in such a big way since the Covid pandemic began. The show will cover the midterm elections from the battleground state. It will record full shows from…

UPDATED, 5:59 PM: Proposed changes to Georgia's best-in-the-country film incentives program have been scrapped. The proposed changes, which would have capped tax credits at $900 million a year and banned film companies from selling the credits to third parties, had been backed by Georgia's Senate Finance Committee but…

After nearly two months off, the cast and crew of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever are ready to resume production next week on the Marvel mega sequel. The news, first reported by The Hollywood Reporter, was confirmed today by a person close to the situation. Marvel had no comment. The film is also again listed among the…