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The MTV Movie & TV Awards and the Television Critics Assn.’s TCA Awards recently added non-gendered acting categories.
The new Emmy option comes four years after Asia Kate Dillon, a non-binary performer who plays a non-binary character on Showtime’s “Billions,” asked the TV academy to reconsider its acting definitions.
“I’d like to know if in your eyes ‘actor’ and ‘actress’ denote anatomy or identity and why it is necessary to denote either in the first place?,” Dillon said at the time. “If the categories of ‘actor’ and ‘actress’ are in fact supposed to represent ‘best performance by a person who identifies as a woman’ and ‘best performance by a person who identifies as a man’ then there is no room for my identity within that award system binary.”
Stevie Ryan seemed ready to break out of a rut.
Her pioneering work as an early YouTuber had led to a VH1 show, but “Stevie TV” was canceled after two seasons and Ryan subsequently struggled to chart a course in Hollywood. For a period, she had stopped going to auditions altogether.
In spring 2017, however, she recommitted to her career, telling her manager that she was ready to get back to work.
Around the same time, Ryan was also allegedly starting a new relationship one with Gerald Baltz, a nurse practitioner who for two years had provided her with psychiatric care, issuing her prescriptions for several drugs used to treat mental health disorders.
The Handmaid s Tale Team on Social Relevance in a Post-Trump World
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After a year and a half, dystopian drama “The Handmaid’s Tale” is returning to Hulu amid a notably different social and political climate than the one it left. But in doing so, it will inevitably reflect on where we’ve been, as well as offer a fictional take on where we may be going.
“I am more focused right now [on] how the show relates to the post-Trump era,” said showrunner Bruce Miller during a virtual Television Critics Assn. press tour panel for the show on Thursday. “A lot of the show this season is about waiting for things to snap back to normal, and expecting things to snap back to normal and why aren’t they snapping back to normal and when am I going to feel normal and they were supposed to be normal?! So, I think that as much as we are addressing the things that came up during the Trump era, we’re addressing the things that come u
Animaniacs Reboot Renewed for Season 3, Marvel s M.O.D.O.K Gets May Premiere Date at Hulu
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Yakko, Wakko and Dot aren’t done with their Hollywood comeback yet.
Ahead of its second season premiere later this year, Hulu’s “Animaniacs” reboot is already getting renewed for a third season, announced the Disney-owned streaming service at its Television Critics Assn. press tour day.
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The ’90s animated series, which ran for five seasons from 1993 to 1998, came back to the small screen last fall after 22 years off the air, skewering and satirizing everything from modern-day politics to the Olympics to, of course, the entertainment industry.
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