For the past 50 years, The Grammys have aired on CBS. But starting in 2027, they’ll have a new home.
The award show, known as Music’s Biggest Night, is moving to ABC, Hulu and Disney+, where it will remain through 2036. The Recording Academy will produce multiple Grammy-branded music specials as part of the deal.
The announcement comes ahead of the Grammy nominations, which will be announced Nov. 10 via a livestream event that starts at 11 a.m. ET.
In the first year of the agreement, in 2027, ABC will not only air The Grammys, but also the Super Bowl and the Oscars. The network is also home to the CMA Awards and Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest.
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Directors Steven Spielberg and Spike Lee are the latest recipients of the National Medal of Arts, handed out by President Joe Biden on Monday.
The award is “the highest award given to artists and arts patrons by the federal government” and goes to “individuals or groups who are deserving of special recognition by reason of their outstanding contributions to the excellence, growth, support, and availability of the arts in the United States.”
The National Medals of Arts were handed out for 2022 and 2023, with documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, Idina Menzel, Eva Longoria, Queen Latifah and Missy Elliott also being honored, along with the late Tejano singer Selena Quintanilla.
In addition, actor and literacy advocate LeVar Burton, writer Aaron Sorkin and the late chef Anthony Bourdain were honored with the 2023 National Humanities Medal, which “honors an individual or organization whose work has deepened the nation’s understanding of the human experience, broadened citizens’ engagement with history or literature, or helped preserve and expand Americans’ access to cultural resources.”
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As reported, Alec Baldwin‘s controversial Western film Rust is making its world premiere at Toruń, Poland’s EnergaCAMERIMAGE Festival, which runs from Nov. 16 to Nov. 23.
The annual event is the most recognized festival dedicated to the art of cinematography and cinematographers, but some in that field are crying foul over promoting the film that led to the shooting death of its cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in 2021.
She was mortally wounded and director Joel Souza injured when a live bullet in the chamber of a Colt-style revolver being aimed by Baldwindischarged, striking both of them.
“I’m all for memorializing Halyna and her beautiful work but not by screening and thereby promoting the film that killed her,” replied Rachel Morrison, a veteran director of The Morning Show and The Mandalorian, and the cinematographer for Black Panther and other films.
Veteran cinematographer Bill Bennett noted, “Agreed. IMDB lists 31 credits for movies that Halyna shot as Cinematographer. Why not show one of those at the festival to honor her?”
“To promote and celebrate a film which took the life of its cinematographer is unthinkable,” expressed Kate Reid, who counts Apple TV+’s Silo and Game of Thrones among her credits.
Rings of Power and Peaky Blinders alum Laurie Rose called it “just appalling” and “mind-boggling,” adding in part, “you don’t [honor her] with the film that she didn’t survive … To even shine light on a production that was obviously a failure on so many levels is shameful.”
For what it’s worth, Hutchins’ mentor Stephen Lighthill is taking part in the post-screening Q&A, and at least one comment said that should be taken as a sign of support.
Apple TV+ is sweet on Sugar, its crime drama starring and executive produced by Colin Farrell: The show has been renewed for season 2.
This comes as Farrell’s other crime drama, The Penguin, continues to score for Max.
Unlike Penguin, however, Farrell is quite recognizable in the Apple series.
Matt Cherniss, head of programming for Apple TV+, trumpeted, “Since its premiere, audiences have been gripped by the mysteries and twists of Sugar, with an incredible performance by Colin Farrell at the center.”
Cherniss adds of the show’s producers, “Colin, Simon Kinberg, Audrey Chon and the entire team behind this series have brilliantly blended genres to create a compelling, can’t-miss series that keeps viewers guessing, and we cannot wait to see where Detective John Sugar finds himself in season two.”
According to the streamer, “Sugar is a contemporary, unique take on one of the most popular and significant genres in literary, motion picture and television history: the private detective story.”
The producers add that “season two will see Sugar back in Los Angeles, taking on another missing persons case as he continues to look for answers surrounding his missing sister.”
