The Quibi production “#FreeRayshawn,” won Creative Arts Emmy Awards for stars Laurence Fishburne and Jasmine Cephas Jones, in the short-form category.
Much of the the content had previously run on Quibi, but more than a dozen new programs will make their exclusive debut on The Roku Channel. Today s announcement marks a rare opportunity to acquire compelling new original programming that features some of the biggest names in entertainment, said Rob Holmes, vice president of programming at Roku, in a statement. We’re excited to make this content available for free to our users in The Roku Channel through an ad-supported model. We are also thrilled to welcome the incredible studios and talented individuals who brought these stories to life and showcase them to our tens of millions of viewers.”
Celebrity deaths in 2020: Remembering stars who died this year
Updated Dec 30, 2020;
Posted Dec 19, 2020
2020 celebrity deaths included actors Sean Connery, Chadwick Boseman and Kelly Preston and rocker Eddie Van Halen. (AP)
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Celebrity deaths: In memoriam 2020
As we near the end of 2020, we take time to look back at those celebrities and other famous individuals we have lost in the past year. Check out our slideshows to learn more about those stars who have passed on.
Singer Hillard “Sweet Pea” Atkinson, 1945 - 2020
Ohio native and former member of Was (Not Was) also collaborated with the likes of Bonnie Raitt, Bob Dylan and Sir Elton John over the course of his career
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Making the Band. He has won two primetime Emmy Awards for
Born This Way, a series documenting the lives of young adults with Down syndrome, and the documentary
Autism: The Musical. His most recent documentary titled
TransHood premiered on HBO in November 2020.
In 2012 Murray was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame. He has served multiple terms on the board of the Television Academy representing the Reality Peer Group and has been a co-chair of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards committee.
Murray and Bunim/Murray Productions have been avid supporters of the Foundation s annual Summer Internship Program through the years, hosting and hiring numerous interns who have come through the program.