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Yahoo
21 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Anthony Mackie hooks his first career Daytime Emmy nomination for hosting ‘Shark Beach'
Some fin-tastic news for Anthony Mackie: he can now add "Daytime Emmy nominee" to his résumé. The blockbuster actor, who has starred in several Marvel films, most recently as the title character in Captain America: Brave New World, as well as Best Picture Oscar winner The Hurt Locker, earned his first career Daytime Emmy nomination on Thursday for Shark Beach With Anthony Mackie: Gulf Coast. His specific category, Best Personality (Non-Daily), was only created last year, and specifically honors "hosts, cohosts, anchors, correspondents, and narrators on Daytime eligible content that airs or streams weekly or all at once, and/or has fewer than 52 episodes per calendar year." More from Gold Derby BLACKPINK returns with comeback single 'JUMP': Watch the video now Tony Awards name 2026 nominating committee, including Tony winners Victoria Clark and BD Wong. Here's how they'll pick the contenders Mackie will compete against David Attenborough for Secret Lives of Orangutans; Brad Bestelink for Living With Leopards; Andi Sweeney Blanco, Courtney Dober, Rob North, and Kirin Stone for The Fixers, and Martha Stewart for Martha Gardens. Mackie was previously on the Primetime Emmys ballot for projects like Twisted Metal (2023), The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021), Solos (2021), Altered Carbon (2020), Black Mirror (2019), and All the Way (2016), but failed to convert any of those into a nomination. Mackie has a shot at achieving a rare feat: nabbing Daytime and Primetime Emmy bids within the same year. He's a contender for guest-starring on the Apple TV+ comedy The Studio as himself in a storyline in which he tries to get movie executive Matt Remick (Seth Rogen) to cut a long, self-indulgent sequence from Ron Howard's latest film. The Primetime Emmy nominations will be announced on July 15. Prior to today, Mackie notable awards bids included a Screen Actors Guild nomination for Best Ensemble for The Hurt Locker, plus mentions at the BET, Gotham, Spirit, NAACP, and People's Choice Awards. Released last July as a part of National Geographic's annual "Sharkfest," Shark Beach With Anthony Mackie documents the New Orleans native as he investigates increasing reports of shark encounters around the Gulf Coast. Mackie is joined by a team of leading shark experts and scientists as they explore whether humans and sharks can coexist in the same ecosystem. Following its premiere on Nat Geo, Shark Beach debuted on streaming services Disney+ and Hulu. Last year's inaugural Daytime Emmy winner for Best Personality (Non-Daily) was Christian Cooper for Extraordinary Birder With Christian Cooper. There's not enough historical data to notice any trends in this category, though a victory for Mackie, Attenborough, or Bestelink would suggest voters are fans of programs centered around animals. Shark Beach With Anthony Mackie: Gulf Coast also received a Daytime Emmy nomination for Best Non-Fiction Directing Team (Single Camera) for Matt Kay. The category's co-nominees are all animal-related: Living With Leopards, Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom Protecting the Wild, The Secret Lives of Animals, and Secret Lives of Orangutans. The 2025 Daytime Emmys ceremony will take place Oct. 17 in Pasadena, Calif. Best of Gold Derby Everything to know about 'The Pitt' Season 2, including the departure of Tracy Ifeachor's Dr. Collins Everything to know about 'Too Much,' Lena Dunham's Netflix TV show starring Megan Stalter that's kinda, sorta 'based on a true story' Cristin Milioti, Amanda Seyfried, Michelle Williams, and the best of our Emmy Limited Series/Movie Actress interviews Click here to read the full article.
Evening Standard
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Evening Standard
Summer in the city: Cultural things to do with kids over the holidays
As well as the Natural History Museum being full of exciting things to look at, including in the garden — did you know they have a garden? — this summer, head there to watch Our Story with David Attenborough, an epic and immersive tale of people and planet. It's on until January, and is a huge 360° cinematic experience, recommended for those 8 and over (with no under-4s). Also worthwhile is the Show with Teach Rex, a free event for neurodivergent children.
BBC News
2 days ago
- Science
- BBC News
Goodwood: Call to action for oceans at Future Lab
Sir David Attenborough warned in his latest film Ocean that humanity still knows more about space than the deep sea and issued a plea to protect the planet's last great wilderness. The message was echoed at the Goodwood Festival of Speed where Future Lab, an immersive exhibition, showcased cutting-edge marine science and technology at the West Sussex the exhibits was a 3D-printed model of The Endurance shipwreck which was discovered in 2022 after sinking on an Antarctic expedition in 1914. The event highlighted how innovation is helping scientists explore the ocean floor, track marine life, and preserve fragile ecosystems. Future Lab also showcased the Seabed 2030 project, which aims to map the entire ocean floor by the end of the Hall, from the project, told BBC Radio Sussex: "We still don't have a complete map of the seabed. "People say we know more about the moon than the ocean - and they are right."The Future Lab also featured a 1.5m (4.9ft) model of The Endurance, the ship used by Sir Ernest Shackleton during his ill-fated expedition. The vessel was crushed by ice and sank in the Weddell Sea, but was found well-preserved more than a century later in 2022. Elena Lewendon from the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust, which led the discovery, said: "It was pitch black down there, but the Antarctic Circumpolar Current protects the wreck from decay. We could still see paint on the hull." The team used defence-grade laser scanning and stitched together 25,000 high-resolution images to create a digital model accurate to the resulting 3D print, produced over 350 hours, includes remarkable details such as intact railings, the ship's wheel, and even artefacts like a flare gun believed to have been fired by Shackleton himself. "Most of the damage happened at the surface as the ship was crushed," said Ms Lewendon. "It went down 3,008 metres with quite a whack."Shackleton, who later lived in Eastbourne, East Sussex, famously sent a telegram to the press - not his wife - after returning via the Falklands.
Buzz Feed
2 days ago
- Science
- Buzz Feed
Sorry, What – David Attenborough Is The Reason Tennis Balls Are Yellow
You think you've just about got the planet figured out, then boom ― a fact comes along that changes the fabric of your reality. First, came the news that in most cases, it doesn't matter too much whether you choose white or brown rice. And now, in another bit of chromatic trivia, it turns out that tennis balls used to be black or white until the '70s (and Wimbledon held out until 1986). Their colour was dictated by the colour of the court (a light ball for a dark court and vice versa, so spectators can see it). 'Twas ever thus ― until a certain David Attenborough came along. What? Why? The Planet Earth presenter started working at the BBC in 1952 (having only watched one TV show). In an article with RadioTimes, David revealed that he was responsible for bringing colour to BBC2 for the first time in 1968. And he decided to focus on Wimbledon for the crowning episode of the transformation. 'We had been asking the government over and over again and they wouldn't allow us, until suddenly they said, 'Yes, OK, you can have [the colour TV technology], and what's more you're going to have it in nine months' time,' or whatever it was,' he told RadioTimes. He added that he wanted to beat West Germany to full-colour broadcast ― the US and Japan had already done it by that time. But, according to the book 2,024 QI Facts To Stop You In Your Tracks, at some point, David Attenborough noticed that the tennis balls weren't vibrant and visible enough on screen. So, in 1972, the International Tennis Federation made optic yellow tennis balls ― side note, they're officially optic yellow and not green (though in my mind, they're definitely lime).
West Australian
5 days ago
- West Australian
Dalliance in the Daintree
Daintree Rainforest is a breath of fresh air, literally, covering more than 1200sqkm in tropical North Queensland, 90 minutes drive from Cairns. I'm here on a whirlwind visit with Polestar, the road trip in a Polestar 3 pitched as 'the SUV that drives like a sport car' (full report in West Wheels) to spend the night at Silky Oaks Lodge just outside Mossman. The trip from Cairns is a dream, winding along the coast overlooking the Coral Sea. It feels like I can almost put my hand out and touch the water, it's so close, and, right on cue, Coldplay's Paradise comes up on the playlist. Life doesn't get much better than this. April to November is dry season with average daytime temperatures around 27C; nights average 19C. 'Caution. Falling coconuts', a sign reads at a rest stop. Silky Oaks Lodge, part of the Baillie Lodges group, has had an architectural redesign in the past few years as part of a $20 million refurbishment with custom furniture that includes king beds and commissioned artworks. Set along the banks of the Mossman River, adjacent to the rainforest, it has a main lodge and 40 luxury treehouse-style guest suites, all with verandas, hammocks, and names drawn from local fauna. I'm staying in the 'Green Frog', which is $2250 a night and includes a private deck with an outdoor bathtub and open-air shower. Oh, there's no TV, which I don't notice till someone points it out — and that's the whole point of it because there's a lot more to life than staring at moving pictures on a screen in a room when you consider the rainforest is anywhere between 130 million and 180 million years old. Older, even, than the Amazon. Breathe. This is as pure as it gets. Sir David Attenborough famously described it as 'the most extraordinary place on Earth'. Pricing is 'dynamic', changing with season and demand, but accommodation is all-inclusive, so you get breakfast, evening drinks and canapes, a four-course dinner menu with matched wines, fully stocked mini-bar that's replenished daily, access to the Fig Tree Rapid trails, morning yoga and one return set-schedule shuttle to Port Douglas per day. Food is delicious, the menu curated by executive chef Mark Godbeer, and the kitchen garden you can walk through reveals a very short plant-to-plate journey. Rustle, rustle . . . I'm having a steamy soak at midnight and there's a creature in the forest. No, it's not a crocodile, they're in the mangroves, but more likely a wallaby or scrub fowl. Either way, I'm too relaxed to care. It's been a busy day, taking in a drift-hike on a 'river sled' — basically an industrial-strength li-lo — along the Mossman River with Back Country Bliss Adventures, which runs guided tours just downstream from the lodge. Putting on wetsuits and dive boots, my group is assured it's too high, too cool and too clear for crocs. But the rainforest is full of other dangers, our guide drawing everyone's attention to the stinging tree menacingly close to the water as we trek along river channels to the starting point. Otherwise known as gympie-gympie, a name from the Kabi Kabi people of south-eastern Queensland, it's part of the Urticaceae family that takes in the common prickly nettle found in Europe and North America, and has the dubious honour of being, arguably, the most painful plant in the world. The sting is in its fine, needle-like hairs, which contain a neurotoxin similar to that of a spider, scorpion or cone snail — and the effect, if touched, can last for days, weeks, months and, in some instances, years, according to our guide. I ask if it has medicinal properties. Apparently, yes, and these are being studied, including the plant's anti-inflammatory properties and its potential for developing a non-opioid painkiller without harmful side effects. Finally, we get to drift. It's a bit of a balancing act, steering clear of granite boulders and tree roots. Just when I think I've got the hang of it, splash. I'm totally soaked as the guide tells us about the river's sacred role in Aboriginal Dreamtime. To think the rainforest was logged, cleared or converted to crops and pasture for more than 100 years of European colonisation till Daintree National Park was declared in 1981 and amalgamated into the UNESCO-listed World Heritage site Wet Tropics of Queensland in 1988. 'If it wasn't for all that, we'd have sugarcane right up to the riverbank,' the guide says. It's growing just across the track we walk on, but producers have been doing it tough with the closure of the Mossman Sugar Mill in 2024, which means they need to truck their sugarcane 100km to Mulgrave Central Mill in Gordonvale. 'We have to respect our past, so let's turn the Mossman mill into a museum,' the guide suggests. The Daintree Rainforest is about 120km north of Cairns along Captain Cook Highway. Allow a leisurely two to three hours with stops at beaches along the way, including Palm Cove, or make it a day and drop into Port Douglas. The drive offers some of the most stunning scenery in the world — but there may be roadworks, so be prepared for delays. If you're heading to the northern part of the Daintree Rainforest (north of the Daintree River), including Cape Tribulation, you'll need to use the car ferry, which operates daily. + Daintree Rainforest is part of the 1988 UNESCO-listed World Heritage site Wet Tropics of Queensland, which stretches along the north-east coast of Australia for 450km between Townsville and Cooktown. + UNESCO recognises the Wet Tropics as being of 'outstanding universal value', noting there are some 894,420ha of mostly tropical rainforest that 'presents an unparalleled record of the ecological and evolutionary processes that shaped the flora and fauna of Australia'. + The Wet Tropics is listed as the second-most irreplaceable natural World Heritage site on Earth by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. + In 2021 the Queensland Government handed back 160,213ha of Wet Tropics land to Jabalbina Yalanji Aboriginal Corporation on behalf of traditional owners, the Eastern Kuku Yalanji people. About 20 per cent of the land was in addition to that covered by Eastern Kuku Yalanji native title and includes the transfer of the Daintree, Ngalba Bulal (Cedar Bay), Black Mountain and Hope Islands national parks to Cape York Peninsula Aboriginal Land, marking the first time a UNESCO World Heritage area would be jointly run by traditional owners and a State government.
