SAG-AFTRA is preparing for its next film and TV contract negotiations. The guild’s current pact doesn't expire until July 1, 2020. The 160,000-member union's board tonight approved the establishment of a wages & working conditions negotiating committee, and appointed SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris as its…

Facebook reportedly is developing a television set-top box equipped with a camera, that would allow for video calling as well as streaming, according to Cheddar TV. The device, code-named Ripley, would position Facebook to compete with its Silicon Valley rivals in a bid for the living room.  It would harness the same…

Apple continues to bulk up its entertainment roster, scooping up three executives from rival Amazon Studios. Amazon Studios’ second television hire, Tara Sorensen, departs to head children’s programming at Apple, the company confirmed. Tara Pietri will lead legal affairs for Apple worldwide video, and Carina Walker…

Shortly after tweeting his review of Donald Jr.’s televised interview with Sean Hannity – "He did a good job last night. He was open, transparent and innocent" – President Donald Trump announced “I have very little time for watching TV,” what with the White House functioning so perfectly: The W.H. is functioning…

Making his first visit to a U.S. mosque as POTUS, President Obama scolded the TV networks for not doing their part to portray Muslims in series storylines other than ones about national security. In conversations with young Muslims, Obama said in today’s address at the Islamic Society of Baltimore. "They were pointing…

James Murdoch has been overwhelmingly re-elected as a director to the Sky board following an AGM vote Friday. Murdoch received 95.65% in his favor, with 4.35% against. He had faced a protest earlier in the week in the form of the Local Authority Pension Fund Forum. The investment group, which owns approximately 2% of…

The Derek star may have almost had waterworks but he was far from the only one getting emotional online after the TV Academy announced the list of nominees announced for this year's Emmy Awards. Check out some of the best tweets we saw this morning. Do you have any more good ones we can add in? I have never been…

Deadline Financial Editor David Lieberman and host David Bloom talk with Chris DeWolfe, CEO of SGN Games and former CEO and co-founder of MySpace, about the very big and very quickly evolving businesses of online video games and social media. The Davids also talk about the creepy-cool future of TV that is just around…

UPDATED WITH FULL LIST: The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced nominations for the 71st annual Golden Globe Awards this morning at the Beverly Hilton. Aziz Ansari, Zoe Saldana and Olivia Wilde handled the unveiling of names and titles in 25 film and TV categories after being introduced by new HFPA president…

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Ray Richmond is an AwardsLine contributor The Golden Globes are the awards that love you immediately and without reservation. The SAG Awards are the ones that—while somewhat more tentative—like to honor their favorites repeatedly. Those tendencies held form yet again in the TV nominations announced last month…

Ray Richmond is an AwardsLine contributor Upsets happen at the Emmys with some regularity, and they've been a part of things for at least 60 of the 63 years that they have been handing these things out. Let's take a look: 1952 Red Skelton shockingly beats Lucille Ball and I Love Lucy for best comedy series and best…