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EXCLUSIVE: The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences on Tuesday said it has booted Mikhail Solodovnikov off its board of directors. Solodovnikov runs T&R Productions, the Russia-owned media company that operates RT America. In 2017, the U.S. Justice Department ordered T&R Productions to register as a…

The French comedy Call My Agent and Israeli drama Tehran took the top prizes at the 49th annual International Emmys, which here handed out Monday night during an in-person ceremony in New York. See the full list of winners below. The UK boasts both top acting honors David Tennant for crime thriller Des and Hayley…

International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has secured Insecure star Yvonne Orji to host the 49th International Emmy Awards. The in-person trophy show is set for Monday, November 22, at the Great Hall of Casa Cipriani in Manhattan. IATAS also revealed presenters for the ceremony including Vanessa Williams…

The nominations are out for the International Emmys’ News and Current Affairs categories. The countries scoring noms today are The UK, Brazil, Qatar, Russia, The Netherlands and — for the first time ever — Kenya. BBC World Service garnered the first nomination for a program from Kenya in the Current Affairs category…

Actor and The Daily Show correspondent Ronny Chieng is set to host the 47th annual International Emmy Awards. The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences also said today that Iman will present the Directorate Award to CNN Chief International Anchor Christiane Amanpour. And Conleth Hill, who played Lord…

The organization behind the International, Daytime, Sports and News/Documentary Emmy Awards has a new leader. The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences said today that Adam Sharp, whose career includes stints at NBC, C-SPAN and Twitter, has been named as its new President and CEO. Sharp, who has been working…

Netflix Spanish-language drama La Casa de Papel (Money Heist) is going head-to-head with Amazon's Indian cricket thriller Inside Edge for an International Emmy. The two shows are among a number of SVOD titles to score nominations for the awards, which take place in New York on November 19. This year, some 44 shows…

France was the biggest single winner tonight at the International Emmy Awards, with L’hexagone taking home three statuettes during tonight’s gala at the New York Hilton. Brazil trailed close behind however, taking home two statuettes of its own. France’s hugely popular cops-and-lawyers series Spirals (aka Engrenages)…

EXCLUSIVE: At an elegant breakfast this morning at the French Embassy on Fifth Avenue, tonight’s International Emmy Awards were the raison d’être but it was Paris and the events of the last week that cast a long shadow. Caroline Proust, a star of nominated drama Spiral, a lauded decade-old series often compared to The…

Days after word arrived that next season will be Downton Abbey’s last, the series’ creator-writer is getting his due from the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Julian Fellowes has been tapped to receive the 2015 International Emmy Founders Award, which will be presented at the annual trophy show in…

The UK’s Utopia was hailed as Best Drama Series tonight at the 42nd annual International Emmy Awards, and Belgium’s What If? won Best Comedy. Game Of Thrones star Stephen Dillanewon Best Performance by an Actor for UK drama The Tunnel, and Bianca Krijgsman took the actress award for the Netherlands’ The New World. The…