GLAAD Media Award recipients were announced in 16 of this year's 29 media categories at the 25th Annual GLAAD Media Awards, presented nationally by Ketel One Vodka, Wells Fargo, and Hilton Worldwide, and locally by Delta Air Lines and Bud Light, at the Waldorf Astoria New York on Saturday night.
The highly-anticipated second season of Netflix's ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK will premiere on June 6th. Netflix will release season one of the popular drama series on Blu-ray and DVD on May 13.
Master chefs in New York City will support The Doe Fund in the Third Annual 'sweet: New York' tasting event on Thursday, March 13th from 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm at the Bowery Hotel.
The Paley Center for Media today announced the full lineup of special guest panelists scheduled to appear for the 31st annual ultimate TV fan festival, PALEYFEST: The William S. Paley Television Festival
Wasatch Theatrical Ventures will present one of the great American plays of the 20th century, INHERIT THE WIND, written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, directed by the award-winning Kiff Scholl, produced by Racquel Lehrman/Theatre Planners. In a small town courtroom and with the eyes of the nation upon them, two legal giants face off over a teacher's right to teach evolution to a high school class in this critically acclaimed drama based on the Scopes Monkey Trial. As rousing and relevant today as it was when it debuted in 1955, INHERIT THE WIND is an edge-of-your-seat riveting look at the age-old conflict between science and religion. The play opens Friday, February 8th and runs through March 16th at the Grove Theatre Center in Burbank, CA.
ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK creator Jenji Kohan has confirmed to US Weekly that Laura Prepon, who announced last fall that she would be departing the Netflix hit during its upcoming second season, will stick around a little longer than expected.
“Hollywood Game Night” will return to NBC on Monday, Jan. 20 with back-to- back episodes (8-10 p.m. ET/PT). The season kicks off with a heated battle of the sexes. Julie Bowen, Beth Behrs and Valerie Bertinelli will face off against Lester Holt, Jason Alexander and Martin Short in a series of hilarious games.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Kohan is currently developing an untitled period piece drama, which she will also write alongside ALPHAS' Bruce Miller and Tracy Miller.
Deadline writes that Taryn Manning (Orange Is The New Black) has joined the indie movie A LIGHT BENEATH THEIR FEET, directed by Valerie Weiss from a script by Moira McMahon Leeper.
The Paley Center for Media and the Mayor's Office of Media & Entertainment will present the first annual PaleyFest: Made in NY on October 2-6 at the Paley Center in New York.
As first reported by Buzzfeed, Laura Prepon, who plays a former international drug-runner/dealer and girlfriend of series lead Taylor Schilling on Netflix's ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, will exit the series midway through the upcoming second season. Prepon will wrap her character's currently storyline before departing the Jenji Kohan-created series, with the option to return available.
Nick Jonas, of the multi-platinum hit band The Jonas Brothers, will guest star on Hawaii Five-0 later this fall on the CBS Television Network. Jonas will portray a computer hacker involved in a case that the 5-0 team is investigating whose motives might be even more complicated than they suspect.