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    Producers Guild unveils Children’s, Short Form, Sports and Innovation Award winners

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    A scene from "Formula 1: Drive to Survive" (photo courtesy of Netflix)
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    The Producers Guild of America hosted its annual West Coast celebration of the PGA Award nominees and their producing teams on Thursday night (2/26) at The Aster in Hollywood. The celebration kicked off events leading into the Producers Guild Awards ceremony on Saturday, February 28.

    During the evening, winners of four of the PGA Awards categories were announced:

    –The producing team for Sesame Street was presented with the award for Outstanding Children’s Program.
    –The producing team for Formula 1: Drive to Survive was presented with the award for Outstanding Sports Program.
    –The producing team for Adolescence: The Making of Adolescence was presented with the award for Outstanding Short Form Program.
    –The producing team for The Wizard of Oz at Sphere was presented with the PGA Innovation Award which celebrates outstanding entertainment endeavors across VR, AR, experiential and other emerging media.

    The remaining Producers Guild Awards winners will be announced at the annual award show on Saturday at The Fairmont Century City.

    Additionally on Thursday evening, Lydia Dean Pilcher (Queen of Katwe, Radium Girls) was presented with the Vance Van Petten Entrepreneurial Spirit Producing Award for her nearly two decades of work championing sustainability in film and television, including chairing the PGA’s Sustainability Task Force. Pilcher’s award was presented by Tendo Nagenda.

    Recent NYU graduate of the dual MBA/MFA program, Jessica Li was announced as the recipient of the Debra Hill Fellowship supporting emerging producers. The award was presented by Selection chairs Deniese Davis and Lucienne Papon.

    The PGA Innovation Award is juried and not voted on by the membership of the Producers Guild. This year’s jury was led by Angela Russo-Otstot (chief creative officer of AGBO), Joanna Popper (CEO, Laurel Beach), and Maureen Fan (co-founder & CEO of Baobab Studios). The complete blue ribbon jury included:

    Albert Cheng, head of AI Studios, Amazon MGM Studios
    Angela Russo-Otstot, chief creative officer at AGBO
    Blake Kammerdiener, sr. manager, Film and TV, XR Programming at SXSW
    Fidji Simo, CEO of Applications, OpenAI
    George Strompolos, CEO of Promise
    Jess Lee, partner at Sequoia Capital, co-founder & CEO of Polyvore
    Joanna Popper, CEO, Laurel Beach
    John Gaeta, founder, Escape AI Media
    Lisa Gregorian, president, Unlikely Collaborators
    Liz Rosenthal, curator, Venice Immersive, Venice International Film Festival, founder & CEO, Power to the Pixel
    Maureen Fan, CEO, co-founder Baobab Studios
    Miles Perkins, industry manager, Film & Television, Unreal Engine
    Nonny de la Peña, director ASU Narrative and Emerging Media Program and CEO Emblematic Group
    Shicong Zhu, head of studio (LA), DramaBox
    Stephanie Mehta, CEO and chief content officer, Mansueto Ventures
    Victoria Bousis, cross-media director, technologist, & founder of UME Studios – PGA Innovation Award Winner (2023) “Stay Alive My Son (VR)”

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    Actor Anthony Head, known for “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Ted Lasso,” dies at 72

    Friday, June 5, 2026
    Anthony Head arrives for the European premiere of 'The Iron Lady' on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Jonathan Short, File)

    Anthony Head, the suave, smooth-voiced British actor known for roles in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Ted Lasso," has died, his family said Friday. He was 72.

    Head's daughters, actors Emily and Daisy Head, told the Press Association news agency that the actor passed away due to complications from pneumonia.

    The stage and TV performer became well known to British audiences in the 1980s as one half of a will-they, won't-they romantic couple in a series of ads for Nescafe Gold Blend instant coffee. The ads were later re-shot for a U.S. audience for Taster's Choice.

    Head achieved wider fame as librarian Rupert Giles, mentor to the title character in the cult-favorite supernatural series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," which ran from 1997 to 2003.

    He most recently played Rupert Mannion, the villainous ex-husband of Hannah Waddingham's character Rebecca, in "Ted Lasso."

    "Our grief is far greater than the hole he has left behind, but we know his legacy will live on, in the shows he was a part of, and in the audiences that love them," his daughters said. "How lucky we are to know we are able to watch him doing what he loved, even when he is no longer with us."

    Head was born in London on Feb. 20, 1954 to Seafield Head, a documentary filmmaker, and Helen Shingler, an actor. His older brother, Murray, is also an actor.

    Other notable roles included playing Geoffrey Howe, the deputy to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, played by Meryl Streep, in the Oscar-winning "The Iron Lady."

    Head portrayed a prime minister himself in the sketch comedy show "Little Britain," as well as King Uther Pendragon, the father of Prince Arthur, in the "Merlin" TV series. He also appeared in "Motherland," Manchild," and "Silent Witness," along... Read More

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