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Yahoo
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
David E. Kelley to Receive Visionary Tribute at Gotham TV Awards (Exclusive)
David E. Kelley is set to receive the Visionary Tribute at the 2025 Gotham TV Awards, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Kelley is being recognized for his work as showrunner on Apple TV+'s Presumed Innocent TV series, the first season of which starred Jake Gyllenhaal, as well as his long Emmy-winning career, including his work on such memorable series as L.A. Law; Doogie Howser, M.D.; Chicago Hope; The Practice; Ally McBeal; and Big Little Lies. More from The Hollywood Reporter Here's How 'The Studio' Got All Those Season One Guest Stars - and Its "White Whale" How 'The Studio' Creators Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg Seduced (and Skewered) Hollywood Michael B. Jordan to Receive American Cinematheque Award The Visionary Tribute is designed to recognize boundary-pushing work that will inspire the next generation of storytellers. 'David's commitment to crafting complex characters, tackling difficult social issues, and consistently elevating television as an art form embodies the spirit of innovation that The Gotham champions,' Gotham Film & Media Institute executive director Jeffrey Sharp said in a statement. 'From his extraordinary breakout writing on L.A. Law to creating cultural touchstones such as Doogie Howser, M.D., Picket Fences, Ally McBeal, The Practice and Big Little Lies, David has been instrumental in bringing to the screen some of the most acclaimed and successful series in television history. With the Visionary Tribute, we're proud to celebrate not only his remarkable achievement of Presumed Innocent, but also the high bar of excellence he has set for all creators in our community.' In addition to Kelley, previously announced honorees at the Gotham TV Awards include Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino and director Hwang Dong-hyuk, all of whom will receive creator tributes; Elisabeth Moss and the cast of The Handmaid's Tale, who will receive the inaugural ensemble tribute; Brian Tyree Henry, who will receive the performer tribute; and Sheryl Lee Ralph, who will receive the Sidney Poitier Icon Tribute. The 2025 Gotham TV Awards are set to take place on Monday, June 2, at Cipriani Wall Street in New York. Best of The Hollywood Reporter 'The Studio': 30 Famous Faces Who Play (a Version of) Themselves in the Hollywood-Based Series 22 of the Most Shocking Character Deaths in Television History A 'Star Wars' Timeline: All the Movies and TV Shows in the Franchise
UPI
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- UPI
David E. Kelley to receive Visionary Tribute from Gotham TV Awards
1 of 5 | David E. Kelley, seen with the Founders award he won at the 2024 International Emmy Awards in New York City, will be honored at the 2025 Gotham TV Awards. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo May 22 (UPI) -- The Gotham Television Awards announced Thursday that it will honor David E. Kelley with the Visionary Tribute Award. The Gotham Television Awards take place June 2 in New York City. The Visionary Tribute Award is for Kelley's television career and his latest series, the Apple TV+ adaptation of Presumed Innocent. Kelley, a practicing attorney before writing for television's L.A. Law, created legal dramas The Practice, its spinoff Boston Legal, and Ally McBeal. He adapted Scott Turow's 1987 novel Presumed Innocent, which was previously a movie in 1990. The show starred Jake Gyllenhaal, Ruth Negga, Peter Sarsgaard, Renata Reinsve, Bill Camp and O-T Fagbenle. In addition to legal dramas, Kelley created Picket Fences, Doogie Howser, M.D., Chicago Hope and adapted Big Little Lies, The Lincoln Lawyer, Nine Perfect Strangers and Big Sky. Nominees in the 12 categories were announced April 29. Nominees include Adolescence, Dying for Sex, The Pitt, Matlock, Man on the Inside, Forever, Paradise and more. The ceremony takes place live at Cipriani Wall Street. Variety will stream the ceremony on its YouTube Channel.
Los Angeles Times
08-05-2025
- General
- Los Angeles Times
LA Times Today: With Los Angeles in need of housing, downtown's empty office towers have appeal
A blast from the past – Los Angeles in the 1980's, as seen in TV's 'L.A. Law' and our skyline today. In the wake of the pandemic and our recent fires, is the promise and ambition of downtown shifting once again? Roger Vincent writes about real estate for the L.A. Times and joined Lisa McRee to discuss.
Daily Mail
29-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Dallas star Priscilla Pointer dead at 100: Hollywood actress was once Steven Spielberg's mother-in-law
Dallas star Priscilla Pointer, who played the mother of one of the two main feuding families on the 1980s soap opera, has died aged 100. Her passing was announced this Tuesday by her actress daughter Amy Irving, who was married to Steven Spielberg from 1985 to 1989. Amy broke the news on Instagram, writing that her mother had ' died peacefully in her sleep' on Monday, ' hopefully to run off with her 2 adoring husbands and her many dogs. She most definitely will be missed.' Priscilla's son David Irving shared that his mother ended her days at an assisted living facility in Ridgefield, Connecticut, via The Hollywood Reporter. She appeared on a string of beloved TV series ranging from The A-Team and The Flash to L.A. Law and Judging Amy to E.R. In addition to her television work, Priscilla also featured in a number of classic movies, including Blue Velvet, Carrie and Mommie Dearest. Priscilla acted on Dallas as Rebecca Wentworth, an oil tycoon's wife who turns out to be the long-lost mother of Cliff (Ken Kercheval) and Pam (Victoria Principal) Barnes. The primetime soap began by highlighting the contrast between the wealthy Ewing family and the poorer Barnes family - a dynamic that gets dramatically upended by the revelation that Cliff and Pam had a rich mother all along.
New York Times
21-04-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
10 TV Character Deaths That Shocked Fans Through History
[This article contains major spoilers for Season 2, Episode 2 of 'The Last of Us' and for 10 older shows dating back to 1975.] Shocking TV viewers these days is harder for a variety of reasons, and that is true of even major character deaths. Audiences may be tipped off by internet leaks and rumors — or, in this I.P.-driven age, by source material. Millions of 'Game of Thrones' watchers were floored when the Red Wedding episode aired on HBO in 2013; millions of George R.R. Martin readers were not. But for the many viewers of the HBO series 'The Last of Us' who haven't played the video games, Sunday's episode most likely came as an immense shock. (The episode, the second of Season 2, is drawn from events in the video game sequel The Last of Us Part II, from 2020.) As when Rosalind (Diana Muldaur) fell down the elevator shaft in 'L.A. Law,' or when Omar (Michael K. Williams) was murdered by a child in 'The Wire,' the death of Joel (Pedro Pascal) was jaw-dropping. It felt in some ways like a throwback. It remains to be seen how Joel's death will change the complexion of the show, but it will be fundamentally different without him. As we ponder how that might take shape, we look back at some shocking character deaths that changed everything. 'M*A*S*H' Season 3, Episode 24 (Airdate: March 18, 1975) In retrospect, it shouldn't be that shocking for someone in the Army to die during wartime. But audiences in 1975 were unprepared for news that the former commanding officer of the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital didn't make it home alive. Sure, it had been announced that McLean Stevenson (who played Lt. Colonel Henry Blake) was leaving the series, but the expectation was that his character would be simply discharged, given some fond farewells, and that would be that. But then suddenly, in the last scene of the third season finale, Radar (Gary Burghoff) announced that Blake's plane had been shot down: 'There were no survivors,' he said. With that, the mood of the show shifted from sitcom to dramedy. 'Good Times' Season 4, Episode 1 (Sept. 22, 1976) Norman Lear's sitcoms were known for tackling tough subjects, but they rarely turned tragic. But that changed with the character James Evans Sr., who helped create a blueprint for strong Black fathers on television. John Amos, who portrayed Evans, had been dissatisfied with the direction of the show. He wanted more authenticity, more serious story lines. He also publicly criticized what he saw as the show's increasing tendency toward caricature. His attitude put him on Lear's chopping block. As with 'M*A*S*H,' death happened offscreen, with the dreadful news by telegram that James had died in a car crash. After this, the show struggled to continue but never recovered. 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' Season 5, Episode 22 (May 22, 2001) When the apocalypse comes, remember to beep Buffy, the 'chosen one' who stands against the vampires, the demons and the forces of darkness. Naturally, this comes with a lot of death, including Buffy's own. She had already died in Season 1 (just a little drowning), but this second time, which capped Season 5, was different. When she realized she could close a portal between human and demon dimensions, she made the fateful choice to sacrifice herself, shocking her sister (Michelle Trachtenberg), her friends and viewers. How could 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' ever hope to continue without Buffy? This episode could have served as a series finale (it was the end of the show's WB run), but it was just the beginning of a new chapter. The show's next season took a huge tonal shift with Buffy's nonconsensual resurrection, the aftermath of which was one of the most realistic depictions of depression ever seen on television. 'The Sopranos' Season 5, Episode 12 (May 23, 2004) 'The Sopranos' wasn't reluctant to dispatch characters — the mob world is dangerous, and people get whacked. But Adriana La Cerva (played by Drea de Matteo) wasn't expecting to die — at least not until she found herself on a one-way drive with Silvio Dante (Steven Van Zandt) and started to realize what was about to happen. By then, it was too late. Compared with the show's other characters, she was collateral damage — mob-adjacent but not really a criminal, even if the F.B.I. had made her think otherwise when it tricked her into turning informant. What made her death scene especially moving was the camera's drift into the sky as we heard (but didn't see) the gunshots. It felt like not only her death but also the death of hope itself. 'Game of Thrones' Season 1, Episode 9 (June 12, 2011) Readers of Martin's books were not surprised when Joffrey (Jack Gleeson) called for the head of Ned Stark (Sean Bean). But non-readers definitely were, having been set up for the biggest of rug-pulls — not least because Bean had figured so prominently in the marketing of the series, as if he were the star. It seemed certain that he would escape a bloody fate. But poor Ned was shocked when his plea bargain was betrayed, and viewers soon realized that his story was only a prelude to the war to come. Such seemingly out-of-nowhere deaths of beloved characters became one of the show's signature moves, demonstrating over and over that no one was safe. 'Breaking Bad' Season 5, Episode 14 (Sept. 15, 2013) Martin once wrote that Walter White was 'a bigger monster than anyone in Westeros.' There is also an argument to be made that Walt's brother-in-law, the D.E.A. agent Hank Schrader (Dean Norris), was the true hero of 'Breaking Bad.' When Hank was executed, it was devastating. The two men's positions reversed so rapidly: from Walt in handcuffs, spitting at Hank, to Walt begging and bargaining the neo-Nazis for Hank's life, wrestling with his own culpability. But Hank won't beg. He accepts his fate with dignity. Walt is the one who breaks. 'The Good Wife' Season 5, Episode 15 (March 23, 2014) Often when an actor asks to leave a show, his or her character is killed off. It wasn't surprising, then, how 'The Good Wife' handled Josh Charles's request to stop playing Will Gardner. What was surprising was how violently it did so. (He is shot by a client having a psychotic break during a courtroom hearing.) This became one of the best things to happen to the show's protagonist, his longtime associate and former lover Alicia Florrick (Julianna Margulies), allowing her to reveal her true emotions and creating a hole she could never quite fill. 'Orange Is the New Black' Season 4, Episode 12 (June 17, 2016) This one hurt. When the Litchfield Penitentiary inmate Poussey Washington (Samira Wiley) was suffocated by Officer Bayley (Alan Aisenberg), it felt all too real, like the then-recent deaths in real life of Eric Garner, Michael Brown and Sandra Bland. Poussey was a lovable, nonviolent offender who might easily have re-entered society, but she was instead killed and then blamed for her own murder. A perfect storm of problems — the overcrowding, the privatization of the prison, brutal guards — could lead only to disaster, culminating in a three-day prison riot that continued over the course of the next season. 'The Walking Dead' Season 7, Episode 1 (Oct. 23, 2016) Any adaptation of a popular book will inevitably run into the problem of what to do with the death of a major character. Should it be foreshadowed? Should there be fake-outs? Should there be cliffhangers? Why not all of the above, if you're dealing with one of the most shocking deaths in the Robert Kirkman zombie comic 'The Walking Dead.' The sixth season finale, 'Last Day on Earth,' made it obvious that someone would die at the hands of Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and his barbed bat, but who? Fans were left in suspense for a grueling seven months after that tease, only to discover that, yes, Glenn (Steven Yeun) was indeed a goner, just as he was in the comics. Ratings started to drop after this, suggesting that perhaps all the hype may have backfired. 'Succession' Season 4, Episode 3 (April 9, 2023) You can't have a succession without someone either stepping down or dying, so the idea of Logan Roy's death was always in the background. (He nearly died in the pilot.) But Logan (Brian Cox) managed to hang on, continuing to outmaneuver his adult children, each of whom wanted his throne or power of his or her own. Finally, though, Logan collapsed in the bathroom of his private jet. As he received heart compressions, the audience was mostly with Logan's children Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Shiv (Sarah Snook) and Roman (Kieran Culkin) as they tried to say goodbye on the phone. For these three, what was once theoretical had became painfully real, and the remainder of the series was all about the aftermath.
