Television Academy Opens Membership To Promo Producers & Directors, Commercial Performers The Television Academy announced today that it will expand membership to include on-air promo producers and directors as approved by its Board of Governors. Commercial performers and narrators have also bee..

NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke: “Facebook Has A Very Serious Problem” Steve Burke, CEO of NBCUniversal, kicked off the fourth annual NBC Innovation Day with a keynote appearance touching on the Facebook scandal and the consolidation spree going on in the media business, among other subjects. ..

One of the most consistent items on my personal to-do list is to do more yoga. It's always been something I wished I was more into, as I noticed my friends, who became die=hard yogis, seemed more mentally sane and physically fit. Yoga seemed like a great workout, since all it felt like I was doing for a full hour was playing an adult game of Twister. I left yoga classes feeling happy and a wee bit more flexible than when I came in. But when it comes time to picking and choosing my workout for the day, I usually ditch taking a yoga class and take a high-intensity workout class instead with the thought that it will be more of a calorie burner and a body shaper than a Vinyasa. I began to wonder: can yoga help with weight loss or should I stick with boot-camp-style classes instead? 44549710 Heather L. Tyler, an NSCA-certified personal trainer, says that even a higher-intensity power yoga class won't burn enough calories by itself to reduce weight. "However, yoga is tremendously ..

NBC’s Diverse Late Night Writers Program Names 2018 Class NBC has named the 2018 class for its Late Night Writers Workshop, an initiative dedicated to discovering and developing late night and sketch comedy writers of diverse backgrounds. Related 'Major Crimes' Kearran Gio..

Weinstein Co. TV Exec Megan Spanjian Moves To UTA Megan Spanjian, the EVP and Head of Scripted TV at The Weinstein Company, has joined UTA as a senior packaging executive in the agency’s television department. She started this week, and in her new role she will work with UTA’s writers, directors..

Shocker! MGM Chairman/CEO Gary Barber Leaving Company After Eight Years At The Helm Gary Barber is exiting as Chairman/CEO of MGM and MGM Holdings Inc. Its Board of Directors has initiated what they are calling “a CEO transition” to begin looking for a new chief executive officer. Barber has ser..

Over the past year, I’ve become a Cardi B fan. She’s funny and sharp and a great addition to the mainstream pop-culture landscape. While she’s been around for years, Cardi B really became “white famous” (RIP to that show, I watched it) in the past few years. Now she’s got hit singles and a huge diam..

The #MeToo movement has done an amazing job of letting everyone know what qualifies as consent and explaining how older men in positions of power use that to prey on younger women trying to start their careers. Why do I mention this? I don’t know, really. Let’s watch this clip of Benjamin Glaze, a 1..

George Lucas’ L.A. Museum Breaks Ground For 2021 Completion The official groundbreaking is underway for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, which will celebrate the art of visual storytelling in painting, illustration, comic art, photography, film, animation and digital art. Construction is comme..