Michelle Obama’s Campaign to Educate Girls Around the World
First lady Michelle Obama’s efforts to ensure that education of girls is accessible around the world gets in-depth treatment in a new CNN Films documentary whose airings are timed globally to coincide with the International Day of the Girl. It may not have made huge headlines at the time, but the first lady’s travels in June 2016 to Liberia and Morocco were well-documented in preparation for the special, which also features FLOTUS’...
Critics’ Choice Unveils Nods for First-Ever Documentary Awards
Recognizing the potent art form that documentaries have become in the past few years, the Critics’ Choice is instituting its first-ever separate awards ceremony to recognize excellence in the genre. After deliberations in nominating committees, comprised of members of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) and the Broadcast Television Journalists Association (BTJA) that make up the Critics’ Choice organization, the nominations...
‘Defying the Nazis:’ The Story of a Couple Who Stood Up to Hitler
It was 1939. The Nazis were ravaging Europe when a young Unitarian minister, Waitstill Sharp, answered a call at his office in Wellesley, Massachusetts that would change not only the life of his family but the course of history during the early dark days of World War II. It is a tale of sacrifice and heroism that may not have been told if not for a high school paper written by Sharp’s grandson, Artemis Joukowsky. When Joukowsky was a...
Inside the Record-Breaking Emmy Awards Governors Ball with Cheryl Cecchetto
Three full nights of black tie and ball gowns. The Emmy Awards have become that big. In a first for the Television Academy, the organization is putting on three Governors Balls order to celebrate all of the participants in both the Creative Arts Emmys, which were handed out over two nights September 10 and 11, and the upcoming Primetime Emmy Awards, airing live on ABC September 18 with host Jimmy Kimmel. Even without this year’s...
Holy *#$%! South Park is Bigger, Better and Entering Season 20
It’s a staggering concept, but Eric Cartman, Kyle Marsh and Stan Broflovski should be 28 by now. Instead, the crudely animated characters that sprung from the imaginations of Trey Parker and Matt Stone are perennially 8 years old—but always up to new tricks– as “South Park,” the animated series that put Comedy Central on the map, enters its 20th season on the cable network September 14. Here are some other astounding...
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