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    Nominees set for Producers Guild’s Innovation Award

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    The Producers Guild of America (PGA) has unveiled the nominees for The PGA Innovation Award ahead of the 34th Annual Producers Guild Awards. The PGA Innovation Award recognizes the production of a noteworthy, impactful new media program that significantly elevates the audience’s viewing experience.

    The recipient of the 2023 PGA Innovation Award, as well as the PGA Award-winners of the Short Form category, will be announced at the Nominee Celebration Event on the evening of February 23 in Los Angeles, and highlighted at the PGA Awards ceremony on the evening of Saturday, February 25, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. 

    Nominees for the 2023 PGA Innovation Award are listed below in alphabetical order. The PGA will honor the program as a whole, rather than the individual producers. As such, the producers of these programs are not required to go through the awards eligibility determination process.  

    2023 PGA Innovation Award Nominees

    • Dance Monsters (Lime Pictures)
    • Experience Yosemite (CityLights)
    • Ghostbusters VR Academy (HOLOGATE)
    • LeMusk – A Cinematic Sensory Experience (Intel Corporation)
    • Lustration (New Canvas)
    • On The Morning You Wake (To the End of the World) (ASTREA)
    • OXYMORE by Jean-Michel Jarre (VRROOM)
    • PerfectoVerse (Watch and Play)
    • Stay Alive, My Son (UME Studios)
    • Stranger Things Immersive Watch Party (Sawhorse Productions)
    • Verizon Pepsi Halftime Ultra Pass (R/GA)

    The award honors exceptional distinctiveness, inventiveness, and the impact of the submitted work in expanding the conventions of program format, content, audience interaction, production technique and delivery. This year’s nominees highlight access to historic moments, seamless application of AR/VR, and emotionally immersive experiences.  The jury noted industry-wide emphasis on gaming, virtual togetherness, and mass adoption of innovative technology. 

    Programs released between January 1, 2022 and December 31, 2022 were eligible for the honor. Entries were vetted by a nominating committee, co-chaired this year by Eric Shamlin and John Canning, and reviewed and voted-on by a blue-ribbon jury of experts.

    The Innovation Award was first introduced in 2019, when the PGA awarded the inaugural prize to the team behind “Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series – Episode 1.” In 2022, the team behind “For All Mankind: Time Capsule,” an AR app created by Apple to promote the second season of “For All Mankind,” was honored with the award. In 2023, this award continues to highlight progress in the industry and the Guild’s commitment to recognizing innovation in storytelling.

    The 2023 Producers Guild Awards event chairs are Mike Farah, CEO at Funny Or Die, and Joe Farrell, chief creative officer at Funny Or Die. The 2023 Producers Guild of America Awards are produced by Anchor Street Collective for the Producers Guild of America. Branden Chapman is executive producer, Carleen Cappelletti is co-executive producer, Matt Ullian and Jane Sarkin of Boldface Partners are talent executives, and Jim Piccirillo is director. 

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    EU accuses TikTok of “addictive design” that harms children, seeks changes to protect users

    Friday, February 6, 2026
    The icon for the TikTok video sharing app is seen on a smartphone in Marple Township, Pa., Feb. 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)

    The European Union on Friday accused TikTok of breaching the bloc's digital rules with "addictive design" features that lead to compulsive use by children, in preliminary charges that strike at the heart of the popular video sharing app's operating model.

    EU regulators said their two-year investigation found that TikTok hasn't done enough to assess how features such as autoplay and infinite scroll could harm the physical and mental health of users, including minors and "vulnerable adults."

    The European Commission said it believes TikTok should change the "basic design" of its service. The commission is the EU's executive arm and enforcer of the 27-nation bloc's Digital Services Act, a sweeping rulebook that requires social media companies to clean up their platforms and protect users, under threat of hefty fines.

    TikTok denied the accusations.

    "The Commission's preliminary findings present a categorically false and entirely meritless depiction of our platform, and we will take whatever steps are necessary to challenge these findings through every means available to us," the company said in a statement.

    TikTok's features including infinite scrolling, autoplay, push notifications, and highly personalized recommender systems "lead to the compulsive use of the app, especially for our kids, and this poses major risks to their mental health and wellbeing," Commission spokesman Thomas Regnier said at a press briefing in Brussels.

    "The measures that TikTok has in place are simply not enough," he said.

    The company now has a chance to defend itself and reply to the commission's findings. Regnier said "if they don't do this properly," Brussels could issue a so-called non-compliance decision and possible fine worth up to 6% of... Read More

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