The Producers Guild of America hosted its annual East Coast celebration of the PGA nominees on Tuesday evening (2/20) at Manhatta in New York City. The producing team for Beckham (season 1) was presented with the award for Outstanding Sports Program and the producing team for Sesame Street (season 53) received the award for Outstanding Children’s Program.
The East Coast celebration marked the first in a week’s worth of bicoastal events culminating with the PGA Awards on February 25.
In attendance at the East Coast ceremony were producing team members from nominated productions and PGA guests including Shawn Levy (All the Light We Cannot See), Kimberley Ferdinando (The Disappearance of Shere Hite), Shoshana Guy (The 1619 Project), Dara Schnapper (Succession S4), and David Hinojosa (Past Lives).
The award for Outstanding Short Form Program and the PGA Innovation Award will be announced at the West Coast celebration at Members Restaurant in Los Angeles on Thursday, February 22. The remaining Producers Guild Awards winners will be announced at the annual award show on Sunday, February 25, at The Ray Dolby Ballroom in Hollywood.
More than 67 million people watched Donald Trump and Kamala Harris debate. That’s way up from June
An estimated 67.1 million people watched the presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, a sharp increase from the June debate that eventually led to President Joe Biden dropping out of the race.
The debate was run by ABC News but shown on 17 different networks, the Nielsen company said. The Trump-Biden debate in June was seen by 51.3 million people.
Tuesday's count was short of the record viewership for a presidential debate, when 84 million people saw Trump's and Hillary Clinton's first faceoff in 2016. The first debate between Biden and Trump in 2020 reached 73.1 million people.
With Harris widely perceived to have outperformed Trump on Tuesday night, the former president and his supporters are sharply criticizing ABC moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis. The journalists waded into on-the-fly fact checks during the debate, correcting four statements by Trump.
No other debates are currently scheduled between the two presidential candidates, although there's been some talk about it and Fox News Channel has publicly offered alternatives. CBS will host a vice presidential debate between Tim Walz and JD Vance.
Tuesday's debate stakes were high to begin with, not only because of the impending election itself but because the last presidential debate uncorked a series of events that ended several weeks later with Biden's withdrawal from the race after his performance was widely panned.
Opinions on how ABC handled the latest debate Tuesday were, in a large sense, a Rorschach test on how supporters of both sides felt about how it went. MSNBC commentator Chris Hayes sent a message on X that the ABC moderators were doing an "excellent" job — only to be answered by conservative commentator Ben Shapiro, who said,... Read More