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‘KPop Demon Hunters’ completes another chart double in Australia

It’s another chart week, another chart double for KPop Demon Hunters (Republic/Universal) in Australia.

The soundtrack to the hit animated Netflix film is flying at the top of the ARIA leaderboard for a ninth non-consecutive week. Among soundtracks, ARIA reports, that effort equals the nine week run by the 1997 soundtrack for Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo & Juliet.

Since the ARIA Charts were first published in 1983, only four soundtracks have logged more weeks at the top, according to the charts compiler: the Australian cast recording of Jesus Christ Superstar (10 weeks in 1992); plus Titanic (1998), Moulin Rouge (2001) and A Star Is Born (2018), which each led for 11 weeks.

Meanwhile, the top track from KPop Demon Hunters, “Golden,” reigns over the ARIA Singles Chart for a ninth consecutive week. That’s closing in on the all-time mark for a hit from an animated film, currently set at 12 weeks by Pharrell Williams’ 2014 single “Happy” from Despicable Me 2.

Back with the ARIA Albums Chart, Ocean Alley’s Love Balloon (via Community Music) lifts off for a No. 3 debut, the highest start for any new release on the current frame, published Friday, Sept. 26.

Recorded in three stints over about three months, Love Balloon is Ocean Alley’s fifth studio album, and first recorded with legendary American rock producer Nick DiDia (Bruce Springsteen, Rage Against The Machine).

With that bright start, Love Balloon is the Sydney indie-rock outfit’s third consecutive collection to hit No. 3, following 2020’s Lonely Diamond and 2022’s Low Altitude Living. Their breakthrough second album from 2018, Chiaroscuro, which housed the triple j Hottest 100 leader “Confidence,” reached No. 11 on the national survey.

Ocean Alley scores silverware as Love Balloon is crowned on the ARIA Top 20 Australian Albums chart, a feat they celebrated Saturday at London’s Alexandra Palace, with a headline show for more than 8,000 fans.

Also debuting in the top tier is Cardi B‘s sophomore studio album, Am I The Drama? (Atlantic/Warner), new at No. 8. Drama is the followup to the Bronx rapper’s 2018, Invasion Of Privacy, which peaked at No. 5.

Trent Reznor’s Nine Inch Nails bags a top 10 with the soundtrack to TRON: Ares (Interscope/Universal). It’s new at No. 10 for the American industrial rock act’s sixth top tier effort in Australia, a tally that includes a best of No. 2 for 1999’s The Fragile. Daft Punk’s soundtrack to TRON: Legacy reached No. 17 in 2011.

Lola Young just misses out on a top 10 berth with I’m Only F—ing Myself (Island/Universal), her third album. It’s new at No. 12, for the British singer’s first ARIA Albums Chart appearance.

Further down the list, published late Friday, September 26th, Brisbane band Platonic Sex crack the top 40 with their debut album Face To The Flywire (Orchard). It’s new at No. 31. (Billboard)

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Selena Gomez marries Benny Blanco in star-studded California ceremony

American actress and singer Selena Gomez has tied the knot with music producer Benny Blanco in a lavish Southern California wedding.

The Only Murders in the Building star, 33, shared a carousel of photos and videos on Instagram from the Santa Barbara County celebration on Saturday.

In the images, Gomez appears radiant in a wedding gown while Blanco — born Benjamin Joseph Levin — wears a sharp tuxedo. The couple is seen embracing, laughing, and kissing.

Her post was simply captioned, “9.27.25” flanked by two white heart emojis.

Blanco replied beneath: “My wife in real life.”

According to Vogue on Saturday, the ceremony took place at Hope Ranch, a coastal enclave about 90 miles northwest of Los Angeles.

The guest list was glittering: Taylor Swift, Gomez’s longtime best friend, was joined by Ed Sheeran, Paris Hilton, and Only Murders co-stars Steve Martin and Martin Short among the 170 attendees.

The couple’s attire, Vogue noted, came courtesy of Ralph Lauren.

Gomez and Blanco went public with their relationship in December 2023 and announced their engagement a year later.

Blanco, 37, has produced several of Gomez’s chart-topping hits, including Same Old Love and Kill Em with Kindness.

Earlier this year, they released their joint album I Said I Love You First. (Punch)

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The next James Bond will be ‘an unknown’ British actor, according to a report

Director Denis Villeneuve is on the hunt for a potentially unknown actor to play James Bond next year, according to a new report.

On Wednesday, Sept. 24, Deadline reported that Dune filmmaker Villeneuve, 57, will begin a casting search for the next 007 after he finalizes production on Dune: Part Three with Timothée Chalamet. The outlet reported that Villeneuve and the producers behind the next iteration of the Bond franchise are looking for a “fresh face” to portray the iconic British spy, citing sources.

As Deadline reported, the next Bond will be male and portrayed by an actor from the United Kingdom, ruling out any recent rumors that American actors have been in consideration for the part. Its sources said Villeneueve’s approach is to cast “an unknown,” potentially in his late 20s or early 30s, which remains in line with what the series’ former producer Barbara Broccoli said as recently as November 2024, before she exited the franchise and handed full control over to Amazon MGM Studios in February.

“Whoever it is, has to look like he could kill you with his bare hands in a trice. From the moment you see him, that has to be readily apparent,” a source told Deadline. The outlet also reported that screenwriter Steven Knight, who is writing the next Bond movie, may be approaching the story by going back to Bond’s origins as a British naval officer before his time at MI6, though the outlet noted that the script is still being written. 

“Every name you’ve heard of, and many you’ve never heard of,” one source told the outlet. “We’ve been flooded. But understand that the casting process has not begun and it won’t until Denis finishes the Dune movie.” 

Villeneuve was announced as the next Bond director back in June; the filmmaker described the franchise as “sacred territory” in a statement at the time. “I intend to honor the tradition and open the path for many new missions to come. This is a massive responsibility, but also, incredibly exciting for me and a huge honor,” he added, in part.

Screenwriter Knight, who is best known for creating the British crime series Peaky Blinders, said in an August BBC Radio interview that he intends to “produce something that’s the same but different and better and stronger and bolder” with the next movie’s script. Knight, 65, said that casting for the lead part remains a “very good question and one I can’t give you the answer to” at that time.

Deadline reported that the next Bond movie currently plans to release in 2028 and film in 2027. Dune: Part Three, Villeneuve’s next movie, is expected to hit theaters Dec. 18, 2026. (People)

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‘Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle’ breaks another record, tops domestic box office for second weekend

Hollywood has long viewed anime as a modest but steady genre at the domestic box office. But the unexpected success of “Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle” has forced the industry to rethink the potential of Japanese animation to draw big audiences to theaters.

“Infinity Castle,” distributed by Sony-owned Crunchyroll, fell 76% from its opening weekend, but still finished No. 1 at the box office, raking in $17.3 million Friday through Sunday and bringing its total earnings to $104.73 million after nine days in US theaters.

An anime film vastly outperforming expectations has been a long time coming. There have been more than 100 anime movies released since 2000, yet none have reached $50 million at the domestic box office. A poll released in January 2024 from Vox Media and Polygon showed that 42% of Gen Z say they watch anime weekly.

In the case of “Infinity Castle,” it has helped that the latest installment from the popular “Demon Slayer” franchise has drawn acclaim from critics, receiving a 98% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a 69 rating on Metacritic.

“I think studio heads and movie theaters should be very happy that, if this becomes a trend rather than an anomaly, it will add another category of film to the quiver of potential content to put on the big screen,” said Paul Dergarabedian, head of marketplace trends at Comscore.

The sustained attention “Infinity Castle” has received from Gen Z and Gen Alpha has been a key driver for not just the movie but for the anime genre, and provided Sony and Crunchyroll with the surprise hit of September.

Dergarabedian said it’s “somewhat unprecedented” for an international anime movie to perform so well domestically.

Shawn Robbins, director of analytics at Fandango and founder of analytics firm Box Office Theory, said the movie’s buzz coming from younger moviegoers “can be a double-edged sword” because the interest can die off quickly or it can gain momentum by adding new audiences, reminiscent of the expectation-shattering run that Warner Bros. Pictures’ “A Minecraft Movie” had this year when it pulled in $162.75 million in its opening weekend, and finished with $424 million.

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The record-breaking opening weekend of “Infinity Castle” may have broadened the realm of anime to US moviegoers who otherwise wouldn’t have considered watching a “Demon Slayer” movie, said Robbins.

“That can really inspire people to go and check out something that they might not have heard of otherwise,” Robbins said, adding that the movie brought out “virtually all corners of the anime world,” including viewers with a passing interest.

On Friday, “Infinity Castle” became the highest-earning anime movie domestically, surpassing another record previously held by Warner Bros. 1999 hit, “Pokémon: The First Movie — Mewtwo Strikes Back” ($85 million). (CNN)

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Emotional Jimmy Kimmel says in late-night return he never intended to make light of Kirk’s killing


Jimmy Kimmel returned to late-night television Tuesday after a nearly weeklong suspension and nearly broke down in tears, saying he wasn’t trying to joke about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

“I have no illusions about changing anyone’s mind, but I do want to make something clear, because it’s important to me as a human and that is, you understand that it was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man,” Kimmel said, his voice breaking. “I don’t think there’s anything funny about it.”

Kimmel added: “Nor was it my intention to blame any specific group for the actions of what … was obviously a deeply disturbed individual. That was really the opposite of the point I was trying to make.” He said he understood his remarks last week to some “felt either ill-timed or unclear or maybe both.”

Kimmel criticized the ABC affiliates who took his show off the air. “That’s not legal. That’s not American. It’s un-American.” Two stations groups that represent about a quarter of ABC affiliates, Sinclair and Nexstar, had said they would not show Kimmel’s program on Tuesday.

He thanked the people who supported him, and even people who don’t like him who stood up for his right to speak, including Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. “It takes courage for them to speak out against this administration,” he said. “They did and they deserve credit for it.”

Kimmel nearly broke down again in praising Kirk’s widow, who publicly forgave her husband’s killer. If nothing else comes from the past few weeks, he said “I hope it can be that.”

ABC, which suspended Kimmel’s show last Wednesday following criticism of his comments about the Kirk’s assassination, announced Monday that “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” would return after the network had “thoughtful conversations” with the host.

Kimmel admitted that he was mad when ABC suspended him, but praised his bosses for putting him back on the air. “Unjustly, this puts them at risk.”

He mocked Trump for criticizing him for bad ratings. “He tried his best to cancel me and instead he forced millions of people to watch this show,” Kimmel said.

The decisions by Sinclair and Nexstar left ABC stations in Washington, D.C.;, St. Louis;, Nashville, Tennessee; and Richmond, Virginia among the cities airing something else. WJLA-TV, the Sinclair-owned station in Washington, instead aired a newscast and an episode of the chain’s show, “The National Desk.”

Kimmel, who has been publicly silent since his suspension, posted Tuesday on his Instagram account a picture of himself with the late television producer and free speech advocate Norman Lear. “Missing this guy today,” he wrote.

ABC suspended Kimmel “indefinitely” after comments he made in a monologue last week. Kimmel, who has been a relentless Trump critic in his comedy, suggested that many Trump supporters were trying to capitalize on Kirk’s death and were “desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them.”

Kimmel, who has been a relentless Trump critic in his comedy, suggested that many Trump supporters were trying to capitalize on Kirk’s death and were “desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them.”

Trump-appointed Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr last week said it appeared that Kimmel was trying to “directly mislead the American public” with his remarks about Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old Utah man charged with Kirk’s killing, and his motives. Those motives remain unclear. Authorities say Robinson grew up in a conservative family, but his mother told investigators his son had turned left politically in the last year.

“We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” Carr said before ABC announced the suspension. “These companies can find ways to change conduct, to take action, frankly, on Kimmel, or there is going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.”

Those remarks set a backlash in motion, with Republican Sen. Ted Cruz saying that Carr acted like “a mafioso.” Hundreds of entertainment luminaries, including Tom Hanks, Barbra Streisand and Jennifer Aniston, signed a letter circulated by the American Civil Liberties Union that called ABC’s move “a dark moment for freedom of speech in our nation.”

Podcaster Joe Rogan weighed in Tuesday on Kimmel’s side. “I definitely don’t think that the government should be involved — ever — in dictating what a comedian can or can’t say in a monologue,” Rogan said. “You are crazy for supporting this because this will be used on you.”

Some consumers punished ABC parent Disney by canceling subscriptions to its streaming services.

Trump had hailed Kimmel’s suspension and criticized his return, writing on his Truth Social platform: “I can’t believe ABC Fake News gave Jimmy Kimmel his job back … Why would they want someone back who does so poorly, who’s not funny, and who puts the Network in jeopardy by playing 99% positive Democrat GARBAGE.”

Actor Robert De Niro appeared on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on Tuesday, impersonating Carr being interviewed by Kimmel. De Niro, as Carr, said the FCC had a new motto, “sticks and stones can break your bones.”

Isn’t there more to the saying, Kimmel asked, that words can never hurt you?

“They can hurt you now,” De Niro responded, saying you have to make sure to say the right ones.

Kimmel took the stage to a long standing ovation and chants of “Jimmy, Jimmy.” One audience member, Walter Bates, said after the taping that Kimmel’s discussion of Kirk’s wife “was a very moving moment. I got very emotional and so did my wife.”

Trump’s administration has used threats, lawsuits and federal government pressure to try to exert more control over the media industry. Trump sued ABC and CBS over news coverage, which the companies settled. Trump has also filed defamation lawsuits against The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, and successfully urged Congress to strip federal funding from NPR and PBS.

After pulling out of her planned performance at the premiere of Hulu’s Lilith Fair documentary in protest over Kimmel’s suspension, singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan appeared on Kimmel’s show as the musical guest. McLachlan had been booked on the show prior to the preemption, a representative told The Associated Press.

The other guest was actor Glen Powell.

The suspension happened at a time when the late-night landscape is shifting. Shows are losing viewers, in part because many watch highlights the next day online. CBS announced the cancellation of Colbert’s show over the summer. Kimmel’s contract with ABC reportedly lasts through May.

CBS’ “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert, in his own opening monologue Monday, grabbed his recently won Emmy Award for outstanding talk series, saying, “Once more, I am the only martyr on late night!” (JapanToday)

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Rihanna, A$AP Rocky welcome third child

Barbadian singer Robyn Fenty has welcomed her third child with American rapper, Rakim Mayers, popularly known as A$AP Rocky.

The 37-year-old singer confirmed the birth in a photo released on her Instagram page on Tuesday, revealing the baby girl’s name as Rocki Irish Mayers. The newborn is the couple’s first daughter after two sons, RZA, three, and Riot, two.

Rihanna and A$AP Rocky had been friends for more than a decade before beginning a relationship in 2020, shortly after Rihanna’s split from Saudi businessman Hasan Jameel.

The couple welcomed their first son, RZA, in May 2022. The singer announced her second pregnancy during the Super Bowl Halftime Show in February 2023 and gave birth to their second son, Riot Rose, in August of the same year.

The latest addition brings the couple’s children to three within three years. (Punch)

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Claudia Cardinale, single mother who survived rape to be screen queen, dies at 87

Sixties screen siren Claudia Cardinale, who died on Tuesday aged 87, entranced audiences across the globe with the sultry gaze that made her the muse of Luchino Visconti and Federico Fellini.

With her fierce beauty and husky voice, Cardinale not only captivated Italy’s greatest filmmakers, she played opposite most of the leading men of the time, from Burt Lancaster to Alain Delon and Henry Fonda.

She died aged 87 at Nemours near Paris, in the presence of her children, her agent told AFP.

“She leaves us the legacy of a free and inspired woman both as a woman and as an artiste,” Laurent Savry said in a message.

What would turn into a fairytale career began as a nightmare.

She was raped in her teens by a film producer and became pregnant. With few options open at the time, she made the tough decision to bring up her son Patrick and try “to earn a living and her independence” from cinema, even though she never wanted to be in films.

“I did it for him, for Patrick, the child I wanted to keep despite the circumstances and the enormous scandal,” she told French daily Le Monde in 2017. “I was very young, shy, prudish, almost wild. And without the slightest wish to expose myself on the film sets.”

Born in La Goulette, near Tunis, on 15 April 1938, to Sicilian parents, Cardinale’s life had already been turned upside down at at the age of 16 when she was picked out of a crowd to win a beauty contest.

Crowned “The most beautiful Italian woman in Tunis”, the prize was a trip to the Venice film festival where she immediately turned heads and reluctantly, turned her back on her plans to become a teacher.

“All the directors and producers wanted me to make films, and I said, ‘No, I don’t want to!’ she said.

It was her father who eventually convinced her to “give this cinema thing a go”.

As she started to land small film roles, she was raped. A mentor convinced her to secretly give birth in London and entrust the child to her family.

Patrick would officially be her younger brother until she revealed the truth seven years later.

“I was forced to accept this lie to avoid a scandal and protect my career,” she said.

From then there was no looking back, as she became swept up into the golden age of Italian cinema, even though she knew “not a word” of the language, speaking only French, Arabic and her parents’ Sicilian dialect.

At 20 “I became the heroine of a fairytale, the symbol of a country whose language I barely spoke,” she wrote in her 2005 autobiography “My Stars.”

Her voice had to be dubbed in Italian until she starred in Fellini’s Oscar-winning “8 1/2” in 1963, when the star director insisted she use her own voice.

That year, aged 25, Cardinale filmed both Visconti’s epic period drama “The Leopard” and Fellini’s surrealist hit “8 1/2” at the same time.

“Visconti wanted me brunette with long hair. Fellini wanted me blonde,” she said.

Critics called her the “embodiment of postwar European glamour”, and she was was packaged as such, both on screen and off.

“It’s almost like she had sexiness thrust upon her,” Britain’s The Guardian wrote in 2013.

Embraced by Hollywood, where she refused to settle, Cardinale had a huge hit with Blake Edwards’ “The Pink Panther” with Peter Sellers, then Henry Hathaway’s “Circus World” with Rita Hayworth and John Wayne.

“The best compliment I ever got was from actor David Niven while filming ‘The Pink Panther,'” Cardinale recalled.

He said: “Claudia, along with spaghetti, you’re Italy’s greatest invention.”

Refusing to have cosmetic surgery, she went on to perform into her 80s, including in “La Strana Coppia”, a female version of Neil Simon’s “The Odd Couple” at the Teatro Augusteo in Naples.

Although desired by many, she said her “only love” was the blue-eye Neapolitan director Pasquale Squitieri, father to her daughter Claudia with whom she worked on a series of films over four decades until his death in 2017.

Her decades-long career has seen her star in 175 films and both the Venice and Berlin festivals awarded her honorary prizes.

In 2017 she featured on the official poster of the Cannes film festival amid an outcry that her thighs had been airbrushed to make the seem thinner.

A staunch defender of women’s rights, she was named UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador in 2000 in recognition of her commitment to the cause of women and girls.

“I’ve had a of luck. This job has given me a multitude of lives, and the possibility of putting my fame at the service of many causes,” she said. (JapanToday)

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Macaulay Culkin, Brenda Song, Andy Samberg and David Strathairn join ‘Zootopia 2’ cast

Disney’s “Zootopia 2” is expanding. Andy Samberg, David Strathairn, Macaulay Culkin and Brenda Song have joined the cast of the highly anticipated sequel from Walt Disney Animation Studios.

They will play the Lynxleys, an old family in Zootopia who are responsible for building the weather walls that help the various biomes function.

According to the synopsis, Samberg is Pawbert Lynxley, the easy-going runt of the powerful Lynxley family; Strathairn is Milton Lynxley, a distinguished business-mammal and the patriarch of one of Zootopia’s oldest and most prestigious families; Culkin is Cattrick Lynxley, the ambitious eldest son of the Lynxley family; and Song is Kitty Lynxley, the sharp-tongued daughter of the Lynxley family.

The new cast members join returning characters voiced by Ginnifer Goodwin (as rabbit cop Judy Hopps), Jason Bateman (as fox Nick Wilde, now a police officer), Idris Elba (as Chief Bogo, the water buffalo chief of police), Nate Torrence (as cheetah cop Clawhauser) and Shakira (as pop star Gazelle). New characters for the sequel include those voiced by Ke Huy Quan as Gary, a mysterious snake; Fortune Feimster as Nibbles Maplestick, a helpful beaver; Quinta Brunson as Dr. Fuzzby, a police therapist; and Patrick Warburton as Mayor Winddancer, an action star-turned-politician.

Other returning cast members include Bonnie Hunt, Don Lake, Jenny Slate, Tommy Chong, Raymond S. Persi and Walt Disney Animation Studios’ lucky charm Alan Tudyk.

“Zootopia 2” is directed by Jared Bush and Byron Howard, with Bush also writing the screenplay. Both Bush and Howard worked on the original film; Bush as a writer and Howard as a director. Bush is also the chief creative officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios. Composer Michael Giacchino also returns for the sequel. Yvett Merino produces the sequel.

The original “Zootopia” film, released in 2016, was a box office smash, making more than $1 billion at the global box office. It also won the Best Animated Feature Oscar and has inspired a series of Disney+ shorts and an entire theme park land at the Shanghai Disneyland resort. A 3D attraction is set to open at Disney’s Animal Kingdom at Walt Disney World outside of Orlando on Nov. 7.

“Zootopia 2” hits theaters on Nov. 26. (TheWrap)

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“Adolescence”, “The Studio” and “The Pitt” score big

In a TV year that saw four celebrated series accumulate a stunning 97 nominations, the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards guaranteed reasons to cheer.

But it was the triumvirate of “Adolescence,” “The Studio” and “The Pitt” that dominated the show, hosted by Nate Bargatze and airing live from Los Angeles on Sunday, Sept. 14.

The British Netflix drama “Adolescence” scored a leading six awards on Sunday, including for Owen Cooper, the youngest-ever supporting actor in a limited series winner at age 15.

Seth Rogen landed his first-ever Emmy for outstanding lead actor in a comedy series for his role as bumbling studio head Matt Remick in Apple TV+’s “The Studio,” which earned four awards, while the HBO drama “The Pitt,” starring outstanding lead actor in a drama series winner Noah Wyle, scooped up three.

Apple TV+’s “Severance” led this year’s nominations with 27 nods, followed by HBO’s “The Penguin” (24) and “The Studio” and HBO’s “The White Lotus” (23 each).

Eligible programs aired or streamed between June 1, 2024, and May 31, 2025.

Check out the winners from some of the night’s top categories below.

Outstanding drama series

“Andor” (Disney+)

“The Diplomat” (Netflix)

“The Last of Us” (HBO)

“Paradise” (Hulu)

WINNER: “The Pitt” (HBO Max)

“Severance” (Apple TV+)

“Slow Horses” (Apple TV+)

“The White Lotus” (HBO)

Outstanding lead actor, drama series

Sterling K. Brown, “Paradise” (Hulu)

Gary Oldman, “Slow Horses” (Apple TV+)

Pedro Pascal, “The Last of Us” (HBO)

Adam Scott, “Severance” (Apple TV+)

WINNER: Noah Wyle, “The Pitt” (HBO Max)

Outstanding comedy series

“Abbott Elementary” (ABC)

“The Bear” (FX/Hulu)

“Hacks” (HBO Max)

“Nobody Wants This” (Netflix)

“Only Murders in the Building” (Hulu)

“Shrinking” (Apple TV+)

WINNER: “The Studio” (Apple TV+)

“What We Do in the Shadows” (FX)

Outstanding limited series

WINNER: “Adolescence” (Netflix)

“Black Mirror” (Netflix)

“Dying for Sex” (FX/Hulu)

“Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” (Netflix)

“The Penguin” (HBO Max)

Outstanding talk series

“The Daily Show” (Comedy Central)

WINNER: “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” (CBS)

“Jimmy Kimmel Live!” (ABC)

Outstanding lead actor, limited series/TV movie

Colin Farrell, “The Penguin” (HBO Max)

WINNER: Stephen Graham, “Adolescence” (Netflix)

Jake Gyllenhaal “Presumed Innocent” (Apple TV+)

Brian Tyree Henry, “Dope Thief” (Apple TV+)

Cooper Koch, “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” (Netflix)

Outstanding lead actress, limited series/TV movie

Cate Blanchett, “Disclaimer” (Apple TV+)

Meghann Fahy, “Sirens” (Netflix)

Rashida Jones, “Black Mirror” (Netflix)

WINNER: Cristin Milioti, “The Penguin” (HBO Max)

Michelle Williams, “Dying for Sex” (FX)

Outstanding variety scripted series

WINNER: “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” (HBO)

“Saturday Night Live” (NBC)

Outstanding supporting actor, comedy series

Ike Barinholtz, “The Studio,” (Apple TV+)

Colman Domingo, “The Four Seasons” (Netflix)

Harrison Ford, “Shrinking” (Apple TV+)

WINNER: Jeff Hiller, “Somebody Somewhere” (HBO)

Ebon Moss-Bachrach, “The Bear” (FX/Hulu)

Michael Urie, “Shrinking” (Apple TV+)

Bowen Yang, “Saturday Night Live” (NBC)

Outstanding reality competition program

“The Amazing Race” (CBS)

“RuPaul’s Drag Race” (MTV)

“Survivor” (CBS)

“Top Chef” (Bravo)

WINNER: “The Traitors” (Peacock)

Outstanding supporting actress, comedy series

Liza Colon-Zayas, “The Bear” (FX/Hulu)

WINNER: Hannah Einbinder, “Hacks” (HBO Max)

Kathryn Hahn, “The Studio” (Apple TV+)

Janelle James, “Abbott Elementary” (ABC)

Catherine O’Hara, “The Studio” (Apple TV+)

Sheryl Lee Ralph, “Abbott Elementary” (ABC)

Jessica Williams, “Shrinking” (Apple TV+)

Outstanding lead actress, drama series

Kathy Bates, “Matlock” (CBS)

Sharon Horgan, “Bad Sisters” (Apple TV+)

WINNER: Britt Lower, “Severance” (Apple TV+)

Bella Ramsey, “The Last of Us” (HBO)

Keri Russell, “The Diplomat” (Netflix)

Outstanding supporting actor, drama series

Zach Cherry, “Severance” (Apple TV+)

Walton Goggins, “The White Lotus” (HBO)

Jason Isaacs, “The White Lotus” (HBO)

Sam Rockwell, “The White Lotus” (HBO)

WINNER: Tramell Tillman, “Severance” (Apple TV+)

John Turturro, “Severance” (Apple TV+)

Outstanding supporting actress, drama series

Patricia Arquette, “Severance,” (Apple TV+)

Carrie Coon, “The White Lotus” (HBO)

WINNER: Katherine LaNasa, “The Pitt” (HBO Max)

Julianne Nicholson, “Paradise” (Hulu)

Parker Posey, “The White Lotus” (HBO)

Natasha Rothwell, “The White Lotus” (HBO)

Aimee Lou Wood, “The White Lotus” (HBO)

Outstanding lead actress, comedy series

Uzo Aduba, “The Residence” (Netflix)*

Kristen Bell, “Nobody Wants This” (Netflix)

Quinta Brunson, “Abbott Elementary” (ABC)

Ayo Edebiri, “The Bear” (FX/Hulu)

WINNER: Jean Smart, “Hacks” (HBO Max)

Outstanding lead actor, comedy series

Adam Brody, “Nobody Wants This” (Netflix)

WINNER: Seth Rogen, “The Studio” (Apple TV+)

Jason Segel, “Shrinking” (Apple TV+)

Martin Short, “Only Murders in the Building” (Hulu)

Jeremy Allen White, “The Bear” (FX/Hulu)

Outstanding TV movie

“Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy” (Peacock)

“The Gorge” (Apple TV+)

“Mountainhead” (HBO)

“Nonnas” (Netflix)

WINNER: “Rebel Ridge” (Netflix)

Outstanding host, reality or competition program

RuPaul Charles, “RuPaul’s Drag Race” (MTV)

Mark Cuban, Lori Greiner, Kevin O’Leary, Barbara Corcoran, Robert Herjavec, Daymond John and Daniel Lubetzky, “Shark Tank” (ABC)

WINNER: Alan Cumming, “The Traitors” (Peacock)

Kristen Kish, “Top Chef” (Bravo)

Jeff Probst, “Survivor” (CBS)

Source: (USAToday)

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Hollywood comes to Kimmel’s defense after ABC pulls late-night show

Hollywood blasted the White House for targeting free speech after ABC pulled Jimmy Kimmel’s talk on Wednesday under regulatory threats from Donald Trump’s administration, rallying behind the late-night comic after his comments about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

The Walt Disney-owned broadcaster said it was yanking “Jimmy Kimmel Live” indefinitely after at least one affiliate said it would replace the show on its airwaves and the nation’s top communications regulator threatened investigations due to Kimmel’s statements.

The late-night host, a frequent Trump critic, had suggested in his monologue on Monday that Kirk’s allies were using his death to “score political points”.

Unions representing writers and actors said the move amounted to an attack on constitutionally protected free-speech rights, saying ABC should not have caved in the face of U.S. government pressure.

The suspension of Kimmel’s show marked the latest action against media figures, academic workers, teachers and corporate employees over their remarks about Kirk following the 31-year-old’s assassination a week ago in Utah.

“What we have signed on to – painful as it may be at times – is the freeing agreement to disagree,” the Writers Guild of America West and Writers Guild of America East said in a joint statement. “Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich. Silencing us impoverishes the whole world.”

A 22-year-old suspect has been charged with Kirk’s murder, and his precise motive remains unclear. Kirk’s death spurred an outpouring of grief among fans while also galvanizing some prominent right-wing supporters to target people who were critical of Kirk’s views or joked about his killing.

SAG-AFTRA, the union representing actors, condemned the scrapping of the show, saying “the decision to suspend airing Jimmy Kimmel Live! is the type of suppression and retaliation that endangers everyone’s freedoms,” while actor Ben Stiller wrote “this isn’t right” on social media site X.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to pull licenses from television stations and has pressured broadcasters to stop airing content he finds objectionable. He has also trained his ire on print media with the filing of a $15 billion defamation lawsuit against the New York Times.

Earlier on Wednesday, Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr had urged local broadcasters to stop airing the show. Kimmel, who has frequently targeted Trump on his late-night comedy show, did not respond to a request for comment.

ABC pulled the show after Nexstar Media Group, which owns 32 ABC affiliates, said it would stop airing the show following Kimmel’s September 10 comments, when he suggested that “the MAGA gang” was “doing everything they can to score political points” off of Kirk’s assassination. He also criticized Trump’s mourning, comparing it to “how a four-year-old mourns a goldfish.”

Carr, in Wednesday remarks to conservative podcaster Benny Johnson, said “we can do this the easy way or the hard way,” suggesting the regulator could open investigations and broadcasters could face fines. He praised Nexstar, saying that “it is important for broadcasters to push back on Disney programming that they determine falls short of community values.”

The American Federation of Musicians said that “Trump’s FCC identified speech it did not like and threatened ABC with extreme reprisals. This is state censorship.” (JapanToday)