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You Thought The Emmys Were Over?

Heck no. Meet the International Emmys, where - no surprise - Netflix leads all contenders in number of nominations. - Variety

There’s No Such Thing As A Free TV

Telly’s 10-inch wide “smart display” runs “while you watch shows, movies, YouTube videos, and play video games. Even when you turn off the TV with a tap of the remote’s power button, the secondary screen remains illuminated.” - The Verge (Archive Today)

What The Heck Is ‘VistaVision,’ And Why Should Moviegoers Care?

VistaVision is a selling point of the new Leonardo DiCaprio One Battle After Another, or at least that’s the public relations push. “A TV set couldn’t give you the experience this format could deliver in a theater. In 2025, neither can streaming.” - The New York Times

No, Progressive Casting In Films Doesn’t Lose Money

And in some cases? It’s a great idea for box office receipts, or so a new study show. - The Guardian (UK)

How Late Night TV Became So Political

To understand how network late-night hosts became such critics of Trump, you have to take the long view, because their increasingly political commentary preceded the current president and happened gradually. You can trace the evolution quite neatly over the career of Jimmy Kimmel. - The New York Times

New York Public Radio Offers Free Programming To Other Public Radio Stations Deemed “At Risk”

The Station-to-Station Programming Project will waive distribution fees for programs produced or syndicated by NYPR — among them Radiolab, The New Yorker Radio Hour, Freakonomics Radio and Science Friday — to stations which had received 10% or more of their budgets from the soon-to-close Corporation for Public Broadcasting. - Inside Radio

Corporation For Public Broadcasting Makes Its Final Grants To Local Stations Before Shutting Down

The $7.1 million being distributed is left over from the previous year’s pool of grant money; it had been allocated for grants which, in the end, weren’t awarded or were returned. If the CPB weren’t closing, that money would normally have been rolled over into the following year’s pool. - Inside Radio

Poll: More Americans Prefer To See New Movies By Streaming Than In Theatres

About three-quarters of U.S. adults said they watched a new movie on streaming instead of in the theater at least once in the past year, according to the survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, including about 3 in 10 who watched new movies on streaming at least once a month. - APNews

The Movie Hospital — Where Damaged Movies Go To Be Reborn

Resurrection, as often as not, means restoration, and one of the festival’s many missions is to showcase, and to explore, the painstaking ways in which wounded films can be healed. Basically, if movies were people, whether foreign or Italian-born, Bologna is where they would choose to live. - The New Yorker

Chinese Distributor Altered Australian Film To Make Gay Male Couple Straight

Early this month, moviegoers who saw preview screenings of the horror movie Together, starring Dave Franco and Alison Brie, posted on Chinese social media that one of a male couple shown getting married in the film was digitally altered into a woman. - NBC News

NJ PBS To Close Down Next Summer

The contract between the New Jersey Public Broadcasting Authority and New York City PBS station WNET — which has operated NJ PBS since 2011, when then-Gov. Chris Christie eliminated funding to state-run NJN — expires on June 30, and the two parties have been unable to agree on an extension. - Inside Radio

Comedians Are Square In The Authoritarian Sights

It’s easy to roll your eyes at late-night comedians getting applause for mocking the president. Many people, myself included, found some of those jokes pandering. But that now seems a little glib. - The New York Times

Jimmy Kimmel Returns — On His Own Terms

Kimmel’s strident stance last night made clear that he had prevailed in his weeklong power struggle with Disney; he was addressing the controversy on what seemed to be his own terms. - The Atlantic

What You Get When A Moral Philosopher Designs A Video Game

“Bennett Foddy … began his career as a moral philosopher at the University of Oxford. But on the side he was making hilarious, preposterous video games that explore what it means to move.” - The New York Times

ABC’s Decision To Put Jimmy Kimmel Back On Air Totally Wasn’t Due To Public Pressure, Insist Insiders

“Two Disney insiders insist the company's decision, announced Monday afternoon, to bring Kimmel back wasn't influenced by growing Disney+ boycotts, the FCC, affiliates or the open letter signed by 400 celebrities. … It was, they told TheWrap, guided by ‘what's the right thing to do.’” - TheWrap (MSN)

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