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The Television Academy has announced its recipients for the 17th Television Academy Honors, which recognizes seven television programs and their producers “who have leveraged the extraordinary power of storytelling to propel social change,” according to the Academy.

The honorees are four non-scripted series and three scripted series: 1000% Me: Growing Up Mixed, The 1619 Project, A Small Light, Beef, Deadlocked: How America Shaped the Supreme Court, Heartstopper and Lakota Nation vs. United States.

“This year’s honorees have leveraged the medium’s power to drive meaningful conversation and create social impact,” says Television Academy chair Cris Abrego. “We honor their commitment to authentic, evocative storytelling that tackles important social issues that affect the global audience.”

Scott Freeman, Governor of the Reality Programming Peer Group, chaired this year’s Television Academy Honors selection committee with Bobbi Banks, governor of the Sound Editors Peer Group, serving as vice chair.

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As one Emmys season has ended, with a new one already en route, the Television Academy has taken a moment to announce the recipients of its 17th Television Academy Honors, with a recognition ceremony set for Thursday, May 23 at Citizen News in Hollywood, CA.

The Television Academy Honors are meant to recognize compelling TV programs, and the producers behind them, who have leveraged the power of storytelling to propel social change. The seven honorees, including four unscripted programs and three scripted series, are “1000% Me: Growing Up Mixed,” “The 1619 Project,” “A Small Light,” “Beef,” “Deadlocked: How America Shaped the Supreme Court,” “Heartstopper,” and “Lakota Nation vs. United States.”

The projects, which all premiered in 2023, have been recognized for addressing complex topics relevant to society today, including social injustice, civil rights, Lgbtqia+ rights and experiences, Indigenous history and reparations, the experience of mixed-race Americans, racism and racial justice, and mental health.

The Television Academy have revealed the recipients of its 17th Television Academy Honors. The recipients include four non-scripted series and three scripted series.

Each year, Television Academy Honors celebrates programs that raise awareness about complex issues facing society.

“This year’s honorees have leveraged the medium’s power to drive meaningful conversation and create social impact,” said Television Academy Chair Cris Abrego. “We honor their commitment to authentic, evocative storytelling that tackles important social issues that affect the global audience.”

The Honors recipients will be celebrated during a recognition ceremony slated for Thursday, May 23 at Citizen News in Hollywood, CA.

Recipients are:

1000% Me: Growing Up Mixed (Get Lifted Film Company; HBO Documentary Films). From four-time Emmy-winner W. Kamau Bell, this documentary explores what it means to grow up mixed-race in America through conversations with multiracial children and their families in the San Francisco Bay Area, including his own. Bell tackles...

Paranoia, at least the kind stemming from a lack of confidence, isn’t the dominant sensation permeating Oliver Stone’s frenzied and decidedly campy pledge of malignance JFK, the film that briefly made conspiracy theorizing not just socially acceptable, but practically a cornerstone of citizens’ civic duty. No, in practice, JFK is as sure of itself as a QAnon truther, setting into centripetal motion hundreds of specious theories and dancing around the logical gaps like Max Ophüls’s camera did the titular jewelry of The Earrings of Madame de… It’s the crown jewel of the small but potent batch of mainstream American films of the late Boomer era that seemingly rode the collective insanity of the cultural zeitgeist to financial reward and cultural cachet—two other obvious examples being Network, which explicitly “articulated the popular rage” that had more or less been building since the Kennedy assassination, and the...

From the progressive decisions of the 1950s heralded by Chief Justice Earl Warren to the historic confirmation of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and forward ahead to last year’s effective reversal of Roe v. Wade, the new Showtime docu-series “Deadlocked: How America Shaped The Supreme Court” will detail just exactly how we got here. The timely four-part doc on the Paramount+ with Showtime plan this Friday, Sept. 22, airing later on Showtime at 8 p.m. Et. You can watch with a subscription to Paramount Plus.

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Kyle MacLachlan is one of the great actors part of David Lynch’s company, turning up in some of his most famous—and infamous—works in both film and television.

But that doesn’t mean Kyle MacLachlan is a David Lynch scholar. Even the star of Dune, Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks is a little confused by the perplexing works of Lynch. In a recent interview with The A.V. Club, MacLachlan said, “I don’t pretend to understand much of what David does, but I do recognize that I’m his conduit through these worlds, and that’s a challenge—and also, I feel pretty good about that. There’s a confidence that I understand what’s necessary for me to do with David.”

He continued, “There’s still the large chunks of data that I don’t understand, and I don’t need to understand, honestly. His movies are experiential,...

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At the 1990 Academy Awards, the nominations for documentary featured a surprising number of actors. Dustin Hoffman lent his voice to a film about the Aids memorial quilt, Joe Mantegna told the tale of one US county’s crack epidemic, while Gregory Peck narrated a biography of chief justice Earl Warren. Fast forward to this year’s ceremony and the actors had gone quiet. With the exception of Riz Ahmed’s dubbing on the English-language version of Flee, the shortlisted films had no booming star narrator. In fact, they had no traditional narrators at all.

This could, of course, be a quirk of the Academy’s ever-changing preferences, or an anomalous year. But, says Dr Catalin Brylla, principal lecturer in film and television at Bournemouth University,...

Wife and husband team Rebecca Romijn (“Star Trek: Strange New Worlds”) and Jerry O’Connell (“The Talk”) will co-host CBS’ upcoming reality series “The Real Love Boat,” the network announced Tuesday.

Inspired by the ’70s scripted series “The Love Boat,” “The Real Love Boat” is a dating show that sees contestants mingling on a luxury cruise ship, sailing through the Mediterranean. The show will feature destination dates and challenges between the couples that form, with one couple winning a cash prize and a free trip from Princess Cruises.

“The Real Love Boat” is set to premiere Oct. 5 at 9 p.m. Et on CBS, following “Survivor” and leading into “The Amazing Race.” Eureka Production produces the series in association with Buster Productions. Chris Culvenor, Paul Franklin, Wes Dening and Jay Bienstock executive produce the series for Eureka.

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The Supreme Court has been under the lens in a major way after its landmark ruling to reverse Roe v. Wade last week.

Dawn Porter, director of documentaries including The Way I See It and John Lewis: Good Trouble, will now explore the history of the court, the justices, decisions and confirmation battles that have shaped the United States, in four-part docuseries Confirmed for Showtime.

The series is produced by Porter’s Trilogy Films and Sony Pictures Television and will air in 2023. It comes after Porter struck an overall deal with the Eli Holzman and Aaron Saidman-run Industrial Media, which is now owned by Sony.

Porter will direct and exec produce with Holzman and Saidman exec producing for Sony.

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“Confirmed,” a new docuseries from Dawn Porter, that will trace the modern history of the Supreme Court, and the people, decisions and confirmation battles that have shaped the United States is headed to Showtime, the cable network announced Tuesday. The four-part series will air in early 2023.

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Oliver Stone’s epic conspiracy-thriller JFK, surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the case brought about by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison in relation to his murder, was released in 1991 to an astonishing level of critical backlash. Even before JFK arrived in theatres it was being pilloried and attacked by many in the media. The attacks were kick-started by Washington Post correspondent George Lardner, an investigative reporter who wrote a piece called On the Set: Dallas In Wonderland; How Oliver Stone’s Version Of The Kennedy Assassination Exploits The Edge Of Paranoia, which was actually based solely on a leaked copy of Stone’s first draft of the script.

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With a perfect last name amid imperfect circumstances, Richard and Mildred Loving made history when their fight for the state of Virginia to recognize their interracial marriage made it all the way to the Supreme Court in 1967.

Now, their love story is making headlines again, with a screen adaptation of their odyssey, simply titled Loving, generating early Oscar buzz after earning rave reviews in this year’s awards circuit.

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Great American stories of triumph over adversity, of rising above circumstances, beg to be made into sprawling epics. But too often filmmakers give into temptation and turn bombastic even the mundane, overblowing the ordinary into Hollywood-style spectacle for the benefit of ticket sales or award nominations. Made amid this cacophony, the crowning achievement of Loving is its steadfast refusal to thread into extravagance or to resort to stately speeches and grand pronunciations to capture its audience.

Loving is instead a modest movie about quiet suffering and determined resistance, about victory through perseverance. In conveying the story in understated tones, director Jeff Nichols pays the ultimate homage to his protagonists. Richard Loving and his wife Mildred were humble people—they lived in rural Virginia in the 1950s and wanted only a simple family life devoted to the other. They also happened to be a white man and a black woman, at...

With a perfect last name amid imperfect circumstances, Richard and Mildred Loving made history when their fight for the state of Virginia to recognize their interracial marriage made it all the way to the Supreme Court in 1967. Now, their love story is making headlines again, with a screen adaptation of their odyssey, simply titled Loving, garnering rave reviews at Cannes - and generating early Oscar buzz. But just who were Richard and Mildred Loving (portrayed onscreen by Australian actor Joel Edgerton and Ethiopian-born Ruth Negga)? Read on to learn more: 1. They Were Arrested in Their Bedroom Five Weeks After Their...

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'JFK' movie with Kevin Costner as Jim Garrison 'JFK' assassination movie: Gripping political drama gives added meaning to 'Rewriting History' If it's an Oliver Stone film, it must be bombastic, sentimental, clunky, and controversial. With the exception of "clunky," JFK is all of the above. It is also riveting, earnest, dishonest, moving, irritating, paranoid, and, more frequently than one might expect, outright brilliant. In sum, Oliver Stone's 1991 political thriller about a determined district attorney's investigation of the assassination of U.S. president John F. Kennedy is a slick piece of propaganda that mostly works both dramatically and cinematically. If only some of the facts hadn't gotten trampled on the way to film illustriousness. With the exception of John Williams' overemphatic score – Oliver Stone films need anything but overemphasis – JFK's technical and artistic details are put in place to extraordinary effect. Joe Hutshing and Pietro Scalia's editing...

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The late Senator Edward Kennedy candidly speaks of the demons that contributed to his long and fascinating life and political career. Read on for excerpts prior to the book's publication. In his 532-page memoir titled "True Compass," already obtained by the New York Times, Kennedy opens up about his remorse for the infamous Chappaquiddick car accident in 1969. He calls his leaving the scene of the accident "inexcusable" and admits he lived with guilt associated with it for decades to follow. On July 18, 1969, Kennedy drove a car off a bridge into a pond. He swam to safety, leaving Mary Jo Kopechne in the car to drown. She was found 10 hours later. The life of Kennedy has been marked by many family tragedies including the assassination of his brother, President John F. Kennedy, in 1963. Following the investigation, he had a full briefing by Earl Warren, the chief justice, and says he "was satisfied then,...

In a posthumous memoir, Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy writes of fear and remorse surrounding the fateful events on Chappaquiddick Island in 1969, when his car accident left a woman dead, and says he accepted the finding that a lone gunman assassinated his brother President John F. Kennedy.The memoir, "True Compass," is to be published Sept. 14 by Twelve, a division of the Hachette book group. The 532-page book was obtained early by The New York Times.In it, Kennedy says his actions on Chappaquiddick on July 18, 1969, were "inexcusable." He says he was afraid and "made terrible decisions" and had to live with the guilt for more than four decades.Kennedy drove off a bridge into a pond. He swam to safety, leaving Mary Jo Kopechne in the car.Kopechne, a worker with slain Sen. Robert F. Kennedy's campaign, was found dead in the...