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The crown may be more tarnished than it was a year ago, but the Miss USA pageant is continuing on, with The CW airing this year’s big show on Sunday, August 4, at 8/7c, live from Los Angeles’ Peacock Theater. Once again, E! News personality Keltie Knight will co-host the event, and this time, she’ll be joined by The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Garcelle Beauvais. The judges for this year’s competition are Anastasia Beverly Hills founder Anastasia Soare, Miss USA 1990 Carole Gist, Miss USA 1994 Lu Parker, stand-up comedian Iliza Shlesinger, motivational speaker Natasha Graziano, Vanderpump Rules star Scheana Shay, and Athletic Propulsion Labs managing partner NJ Falk, according to a press release. The pageant comes after months of controversy around Miss USA and Miss Teen USA — both operated by the Miss Universe Organization — as the 2023 winners of the two pageants resigned within days of each other this May.

The crown may be more tarnished than it was a year ago, but the Miss USA pageant is continuing on, with The CW airing this year’s big show on Sunday, August 4, at 8/7c, live from Los Angeles’ Peacock Theater. Once again, E! News personality Keltie Knight will co-host the event, and this time, she’ll be joined by The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Garcelle Beauvais. The judges for this year’s competition are Anastasia Beverly Hills founder Anastasia Soare, Miss USA 1990 Carole Gist, Miss USA 1994 Lu Parker, stand-up comedian Iliza Shlesinger, motivational speaker Natasha Graziano, Vanderpump Rules star Scheana Shay, and Athletic Propulsion Labs managing partner NJ Falk, according to a press release. The pageant comes after months of controversy around Miss USA and Miss Teen USA — both operated by the Miss Universe Organization — as the 2023 winners of the two pageants resigned within days of each other this May.

Kcet has now led in wins at the Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards, for five years in a row.

At the 73rd awards ceremony, which took place Saturday, the station claimed a total of nine statuettes. Kvea and Spectrum SportsNet followed it up with six wins apiece. Other outlets scoring multiple wins at the show, hosted by Spectrum News 1 journalist Giselle Fernández, included ABC7 (four), Kmex (three), KTLA5 (two), Kttv-tv (two) and Spectrum News 1 (two).

The Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards honor locally produced programs in the categories of Live and Breaking News Coverage, Crime and Social Issues, Culture and History, the Arts, Human Interest, Sports, and the Environment. Presenters for this year’s ceremony, which streamed live on the Emmys website, included Carrlyn Bathe (Fox Sports West), Mike Bresnahan (Spectrum SportsNet/LA), Enrique Chiabra (Telemundo/Kvea), Allie Clifton (Spectrum SportsNet/LA), Suzanna Guzmán (Kcet/PBS SoCal), Elex B.

Advocacy Honors honored Tony Goldwyn (Scandal), Wam/Maria Shriver (American journalist), Isha Sesay (CNN) and Rj Mitte (Breaking Bad) at the Fifth Annual Television Industry Advocacy Awards presented by Tcl North America last week at the historic Tcl Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, CA.

Tony Goldwyn and Minnie Driver

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The event was hosted by Lu Parker and included special guest speaker Rachel Pittman of the United Nations Association and presenters Minnie Driver, Liz Hernandez, Renee Lawless, Jonathan King and Kathy Eldon.

The event honored leaders in the television industry who effectively use their voice for social cause. Opening remarks were presented from Una Executive Director Rachel Pittman and ignited an inspirational evening of conversation about how the television industry can use their collective platform to advocate for awareness and to effect change.

“The Advocacy Awards acknowledge and support industry advocates who are making positive change while galvanizing...

With 46 million turkeys raised on inhumane factory farms and slaughtered for Thanksgiving across America, Farm Sanctuary, the organization dedicated to combating the abuses of animal agriculture and encouraging a new awareness and understanding about farm animals, is teaming up with Kaley Cuoco, Joaquin Phoenix, Kevin Smith and his daughter Harley Quinn Smith to encourage people to #BreakTheChain of old traditions by taking the turkey off their plate and sponsoring one instead through Farm Sanctuary’s 33rd annual Adopt a Turkey Project.

Kevin And Harley Quinn Smith And Friend

In separate video messages, Cuoco and the Smiths explore the concept of tradition and how customs bring us closer, but can also bind us — especially in the case of eating turkey at Thanksgiving, as we see the impact that slaughtering millions of turkeys for a single holiday has on our health, planet, and future generations. As an easy first step, they suggest...