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The Emmy Awards’ production team has added Danette Herman, Al Gurdon, Florian Wieder and Raj Kapoor to its ranks, producers announced today. The newcomers arrive as the Emmy telecast nears with a Sunday, Sept. 22 airdate on Fox. The announcement was made by the telecast's executive producers Don Mischer, Charlie…

Emmy-nominated actresss Niecy Nash will take the stage at the BET’s 2019 Black Girls Rock! Awards as host. The celebration will tape on August 25 at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, NJ and will have its broadcast premiere on September 8 on BET. The star-studded lineup of celebrants and attendees that…

Carrie Underwood will host the 53rd Annual CMA Awards in November, with special guest hosts Reba McEntire and Dolly Parton in a celebration of legendary women of country music. The Country Music Association made the announcement today. The awards show broadcasts live from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday…

Oscar-winning actress Octavia Spencer is set to receive the Inspiration Award at the 2019 GLSEN Respect Awards. GLSEN, an education organization working to create safe and inclusive K-12 schools for LGBTQ youth, will present Spencer with the award at the annual gala which will take place on October 25 at the Beverly…

Producer and actress Luisa Leschin will be honored with the Norman Lear Writer’s Award at the 34th Annual Imagen Awards, which will be held August 10 at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills. Leschin is an industry vet having produced such shows as George Lopez, Everybody Hates Chris and East Los High. She…

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, using money from the license fees it gets from NBC for the Golden Globes, gave away $3.8 million to 74 entertainment-related nonprofit organizations, scholarship programs, film-restoration and humanitarian groups Wednesday night at its annual Grants Banquet at the Beverly…

UPDATE: Moviegoer interest in seeing Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood apparently wasn’t just among the public, who crowded theaters to bring in an impressive $40 million-plus weekend estimated box office haul and sold out shows in major markets, especially L.A. Oscar voters jumped on board, too. There…

KCET picked up a leading six wins tonight at the Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards, including awards for local color and culture/history. KMEX, KTLA and KVEA followed with five wins each. KTLA’s wins included the best daily morning newscast and best daily daytime newscast categories. KVEA won the best evening newscast…

In a shuffling of the publicity decks just as the awards season is about to get underway in a few weeks, two PR vets are on the move. Longtime Screen Actors Guild Awards publicity chief Rosalind Jarrett Sepulveda has decided to leave her post after 20 years in the job, and a 50 year career in the entertainment…

With today’s initial announcement of Gala and Special Presentations at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, we get the first major burst of clues to the race for the 92nd annual Academy Awards. On paper, and mostly sight unseen, I spot at least 20 films that might be considered hopefuls for the Oscar race…

At this morning’s Emmy nomination announcement, Television Academy Chairman and CEO Frank Scherma and 2019 Emmy show producers Don Mischer and Ian Stewart told me no decision has been made about whether to have a host this year. In fact, Mischer tells Deadline they have not even made any offers. This year’s Oscar show…

The Avengers rule the day as Marvel and Disney’s box office juggernaut Avengers: Endgame picked up 14 Saturn Award nominations, along with another couple for Avengers: Infinity War.   Read the full list of nominees here. It was by far the biggest individual total for a film, followed by Disney’s Aladdin with nine…