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We have all the winners for the 46th annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards. The News categories were in the spotlight Wednesday at the Palladium Times Square in New York City, which also is set to host the Documentary ceremony on Thursday night. See the list of winners below.

The 67 total categories cover programming content that premiered during calendar 2024.

Today‘s Al Roker received a Lifetime Achievement honor for his career in broadcast journalism during the News ceremony Wednesday. Jon H. Else received a lifetime honor at Thursday’s Documentary ceremony for his contributions to documentary filmmaking.

Here are the winners of the 2025 News & Doc Emmys. For the full list of winners including individuals, click here for News and click here for Documentary:

News (Night 1)

Outstanding Live News Program

ABC World News Tonight with David Muir (ABC)

Outstanding Recorded News Program

The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper (CNN Worldwide)

Outstanding Emerging...

June 2 officially marked a changing of the guard at NBC Nightly News after long-time anchor Lester Holt handed the reins over to Tom Llamas. In the wake of the seismic shift in news, the ratings for the new host are in, and it's been a mixed bag so far. For his first few shows settling in, Llamas came in behind ABC's ever-dominant World News Tonight with David Muir, which topped both it and CBS Evening News on the charts per TV Insider. Moreover, he underperformed Holt in the early ratings, significantly trailing Muir by 17% in total viewers and a staggering 157% among adults aged 25–54 during Holt's final week on air. However, the newly-titled NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamasdelivered the best year-over-year audience retention of any other newscast, pointing to a positive future ahead, even with a new face.

Overall, for Llamas's debut week, Muir's news desk led NBC's program by 28% in overall ratings,...

Denise Rehrig will be the new executive producer of ABC News Live’s flagship show Prime with Linsey Davis.

Rehrig is returning to the network, having been senior broadcast producer at Good Morning America.

As EP, she will oversee all aspects of the newscast, including editorial direction and day-to-day production. She will report to Seni Tienabeso, vice president of ABC News Live and specialized units. She succeeds Eric Ortega in the role.

Rehrig had been co-executive producer of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, during a time when the show won an Emmy for the special Stephen Colbert’s Election Night 2020: Democracy’s Last Stand Building Back America Great Again Better, and the team won a Peabody award. She also produced last year’s Election Night Live With Brian Williams, the Amazon Prime election special.

Almin Karamehmedovic, president of ABC News, said in a statement, “With a proven track...

Denise Rehrig, a veteran news-and-talk producer who recently held a senior role at “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” has been named executive producer of ABC News’ flagship streaming program, “Prime With Linsey Davis.” The show streams weeknights on ABC News Live.

Rehrig will manage editorial direction, story development and day-to-day production. She will report to Seni Tienabeso, vice president of ABC News Live and Specialized Units.

“With a proven track record of editorial excellence and deep cross-platform experience, I’m thrilled to welcome Denise Rehrig back to ABC News in her new role,” said Almin Karamehmedovic, president of ABC News, in a statement. “I trust her leadership will propel the show to new heights, delivering compelling journalism that meets the moment every night.”

Rehrig in 2024 produced Amazon Prime’s “Election Night Live with Brian Williams,” an experiment by the streaming giant to see how it might develop news programming around critical events.

Tom Llamas has no formal training in juggling, but his new assignment for NBC News will have him working to keep some very big plates spinning in the air.

When Llamas takes over the “NBC Nightly News” desk from Lester Holt on Monday night, one of his first jobs will be to ensure that the program’s audience barely notices, even if a transition in such a program is one of the more seismic things that happens on TV. He will do it even as he keeps his old job, anchoring “Top Story,” an hour-long streaming program for the broadband outlet NBC News Now that starts the minute “Nightly” ends Monday through Friday.

“It’s funny, but most of the questions I’ve received” since NBC News announced his new role have focused on “‘How are you going to do that?”’ says Llamas during a recent interview with Variety. “I...

When Tom Llamas finishes his first night as permanent anchor of NBC Nightly News on Monday, he’ll go right on into his next assignment, Top Story, the nightly NBC News Now streaming newscast he’s anchored for nearly four years.

The rehearsals have included this key switch-off, as the show will move from one production team to the next. “Monday is the real test,” Llamas said. “It will be trial by fire. It’s never been done like that in this capacity but we have the best at 30 Rock and I know we are going to get there.”

Llamas’ dual roles speak to where things are for the face of broadcast news divisions, as networks seek to capture younger viewers who never picked up linear television habits. Top Story, he noted, has captured new news viewers on platforms like Roku and YouTube.

Llamas, 45, is succeeding Lester Holt, who will...

Lester Holt delivered his final report as “NBC Nightly News” anchor Friday after 10 years at the desk, leaving viewers with words of gratitude and optimism.

Holt, 66, earlier this year announced that he would be leaving “Nightly” this summer. But he’s not leaving the network: Going forward, he plans to devote himself full time to NBC News’ “Dateline,” which he has anchored since 2011.

“As anchor, it has been an honor to lead this program and an honor to be welcomed into your homes,” Holt told viewers on his last broadcast. “I’m so grateful for your trust around here. Around here, facts matter, words matter, journalism matters and you matter.”

He continued, “Over the last decade, we have shared some dark and harrowing days and nights from our country — the pandemic, mass shootings, natural disasters — each testing our resilience and our compassion. It’s why I often like to leave...

“It has been an honor to lead this program and an honor to be welcomed into your homes,” Lester Holt said Friday, signing off for the final time as anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News. “I’m so grateful for your trust around here. Facts matter, words matter, journalism matters, and you matter.”

In a news-packed show leading with tornados in the South, Elon Musk’s Doge exit and drug use reports, Sean “Diddy” Combs sex-trafficking trial, wildfires in Canada, and Taylor Swift finally buying back her music, Holt’s departure was one of the biggest stories of all

Holt, 66, announced earlier this year he would be stepping down as anchor after 10 years in the spot, though he isn’t disappearing from the Comcast-owned NBC. He will remain with the network in a full-time role hosting Dateline.

Today, it was that role at the newsmagazine series that got a shout-out from Holt.

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It’s the end of an era at the NBC Nightly News, as Lester Holt is stepping away from the anchor’s desk today after nearly 11 years.

Holt has been the face of the network’s flagship broadcast since he took over the job from Brian Williams back in 2015.

In an emotional announcement, Holt revealed in February that he would be stepping down following a historic run.

Lester Holt attends the Time 100 Gala 2019 Lobby Arrivals at Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 23, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images for Time) What’s next for Lester Holt?

“A smile comes to my face when I think that with Nightly News, and Dateline, I have now anchored two of the most successful and iconic television news programs in broadcast history,” he wrote at the time.

“As a 20-year-old radio reporter on the police beat chasing breaking news around San Francisco,...

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Mia Threapleton might be on the verge of her big break.

The 24-year-old London native is the star of the new Wes Anderson film The Phoenician Scheme, which opens in select theaters today and nationwide next month.

And her performance as the novitiate daughter of Benicio Del Toro’s war profiteer is already drawing rave reviews.

But there’s a dark cloud hanging over Mia’s bright future, as she’s currently being plagued by the same two words that have irritated so many young stars of her generation:

Mia Threapleton poses during “The Phoenician Scheme” photocall at the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 19, 2025 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

Yes, as the daughter of Kate Winslet and filmmaker Jim Threapleton, Mia is often described as a nepo baby.

And while other up-and-comers with famous last names have embraced the label,...

After taking over from Brian Williams in 2015, Lester Holt‘s last night as host of NBC Nightly News is May 30. But he’s not leaving TV news altogether. The journalist will continue as principal host of Dateline, and he explained the appeal of this pivot in a new interview previewing his final days at the Nightly News desk. Holt’s NBC Nightly News departure was announced on February 24, 2025. He told Variety that this exit frees up his time in a liberating way, allowing him to do the in-depth, long-form reporting he wasn’t able to produce while Nightly News took priority of his free time. Being the lead anchor of a nightly news bulletin also meant having to drop what he was doing to report breaking news as a moment’s notice. Holt is looking forward to flexing “some different news muscles” that have long been underused in this newly expanded Dateline role.

Lester Holt’s next job has him working a role he hasn’t held in a very long time: the new guy.

When Holt, who has anchored “NBC Nightly News” for the past decade through coronavirus, the rise of President Trump and a steady increase of horrific shootings across the nation, steps away from the desk on May 30th, he will do it with the knowledge that he still has a few stories to tell. He will start contributing more frequently to “Dateline,” the NBC newsmagazine that in recent years has focused on true-crime stories — and become a major contributor to the news division’s revenue in the process.

Holt, 66 years old, is a regular “Dateline” presence, but usually as the host of the show, not the teller of the stories that fill its hour. “The big buy-in was to be able to do more of the hours,” the anchor...

The 2025 American Music Honors, presented by the Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey, gathered legends of rock, country, soul and Americana Saturday for an evening of memorable performances and heartfelt tributes. But by the time guest of honor Bruce Springsteen took the podium at the Pollak Theatre, even he’d had enough of himself.

“If I hear my name again, I’m going to fucking throw up,” Springsteen joked. “Let’s talk about fucking someone else.”

With that, the spotlight shifted to the evening’s honorees: Smokey Robinson, Emmylou Harris, Tom Morello, John Fogerty and Joe Ely. Each was celebrated by a standout lineup of presenters and performers including Springsteen, Patti Scialfa, Steve Van Zandt and Nils Lofgren. The night, hosted by Brian Williams, also featured a surprise performance from 2024’s honoree Jackson Browne. The latter joined Springsteen, Morello and...

The American Music Honors, an annual event organized by the Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center, took place Saturday at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey, this year honoring Smokey Robinson, John Fogerty, Emmylou Harris, Tom Morello, and Joe Ely.

Every honoree with the exception of Joe Ely was on site to receive the award, as well as perform their classic songs with help from Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul, Bruce Springsteen, and surprise guests Jackson Browne, Nils Lofgren, Nora Guthrie, and Darlene Love. In other words, an...

These days, it seems like all anyone can talk about in Hollywood are "nepo babies." Originating in the early 2020s, "nepo baby" describes individuals whose success can be attributed to a parent or relative's previous success in the same industry due to nepotism. Plenty of celebrities have achieved accolades without fans knowing about their famously talented families. Some of the most iconic A-listers in film and TV owe their successes to extreme privilege, such as people like Ben Stiller, or Zoë Kravitz. 

Most of the time, nepo babies are forced to wear their privilege on their sleeves just by virtue of their names, as Allison Williams (daughter of former NBC anchor Brian Williams) told Wired, "It doesn't feel like a loss to admit it ... If you trust your own skill, I think it becomes very simple to acknowledge." Others, like Jamie Lee Curtis, have spoken out against the ridicule towards nepotism babies in pop culture.

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Big news from the world of television today, as one of America’s most trusted journalists is stepping away from the job that made him a household name.

Lester Holt has been the anchor of NBC Nightly News since 2015.

The network announced today that Holt has decided to step down from the job.

NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt speaks onstage during ‘V.F. Sneak Peek: “Queen & Slim”‘ at Vanity Fair’s 6th Annual New Establishment Summit at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on October 22, 2019 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for Vanity Fair)

He will remain at NBC as host of the popular primetime news magazine Dateline.

Lester Holt speaks out on decision to step down

“A smile comes to my face when I think that with Nightly News, and Dateline, I have now anchored two of the most...

Lester Holt announced today that he was stepping down as anchor of NBC Nightly News.

He’s been in the post for the past decade.

Holt will continue in his role until early summer, and then will take a full-time role at the newsmagazine Dateline.

No successor has been named.

“After 10 years, 17 if you include my years on the weekends, the time has come for me to step away from my role as anchor of Nightly News,” Holt wrote in a memo to staffers. “It has truly been the honor of a lifetime to work with each of you every day, keeping journalism as our true north and our viewers at the center of everything we do.”

Holt’s exit from Nightly News has long been rumored, but it comes amid tumult in the broadcast and cable news business, as linear television looks for ways to rein in costs.

There...

In a changing of the guard, NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt will step aside from the program this summer, moving to a new full-time role at the primetime newsmagazine Dateline.

Holt and NBC News executives announced the move to staff Monday morning.

Holt has been the lead anchor of Nightly News for a decade, succeeding Brian Williams. Before taking over the weekday edition he led the weekend Nightly News and was the primary fill-in anchor when Williams was out. Holt joined NBC News in 2000, and has been contributing to Dateline since 2011.

“A smile comes to my face when I think that with Nightly News, and Dateline, I have now anchored two of the most successful and iconic television news programs in broadcast history,” Holt wrote in a note to staff. “As a 20-year-old radio reporter on the police beat chasing breaking news around San Francisco, I could never have...

Lester Holt, the NBC News anchor known for his ability to lead hours of breaking news coverage without pause, is finally ready for a breather.

The NBC News veteran plans to step away in early summer from his anchor duties on “NBC Nightly News,” which he has held since 2015. After that, he plans to devote himself full time to NBC News’ “Dateline,” which he has anchored since 2011.

“After 10 years, 17 if you include my years on the weekends, the time has come for me to step away from my role as anchor of ‘Nightly News.’ It has truly been the honor of a lifetime to work with each of you every day, keeping journalism as our true north and our viewers at the center of everything we do,” Holt said in a memo to staffers Monday. “But before we play the walk off music, I have another announcement. I’m excited...

Brian Williams returned to anchoring duties for one evening in November for Prime Video’s 2024 election night coverage, marking a rare TV appearance for a man who was once a nightly sight on NBC. Williams was the face of NBC Nightly News for more than a decade, until a 2015 controversy tarnished his legacy. The controversy related to his recollections of his time covering the Iraq War. In January 2023, Williams told NBC viewers he had been traveling with four U.S. Army helicopters forced to land to avoid enemy fire and then trapped by a sandstorm. That much was true, but over the next dozen years, Williams made it seem like he was closer to the action than he actually was, that the helicopter in which he was riding was shot down. Eyewitnesses, however, said other helicopters were hit and that Williams’ helicopter arrived at the scene an hour later. In a timeline of statements from Williams,...

The legendary Smokey Robinson will be honored at the Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music’s third annual American Music Honors in April, the organization announced on Tuesday.

The Motown icon and “You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me” singer will be celebrated alongside John Fogerty, Emmylou Harris, Tom Morello, and Joe Ely.

“This year’s honorees represent a cross-section of American music,” Robert Santelli, founding executive director of the Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music, said in a statement. “Rock, Americana, soul, and country are all...

As award season kicks off to celebrate the best films of 2024, many critics and audiences are reflecting on the movies that shaped the last 12 months and made a significant impact over the last year. But discussions of the best recent films shouldn't forget the movies that have shaped the entire decade — the best and most influential movies of the 2020s thus far.

With the 2020s now halfway through, many people are looking back at the best films of the last five years, the movies that have been the audience's favorite experiences through a global pandemic and tumultuous world politics. Audiences decided that these films are some of the most treasured of the decade, based on their ratings on Letterboxd.

This Animated Film Charmed Audiences Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2021)

Directed by:

Dean Fleischer Camp

Starring:

Jenny Slate, Dean Fleischer Camp, Isabella Rossellini

Letterboxd Score (out of 5):

4.24

Based on...

The streaming service could offer live news surrounding more big events after drawing decent ratings on Election Night 2024.

Is Prime Video about to start its own news division? The idea might give some Washington Post readers pause, but the idea that Amazon is getting further into the news business isn’t so farfetched. According to an exclusive reporting from Variety, Amazon is mulling a larger entrance into the news broadcasting space after drawing good ratings to its 2024 Election Night coverage med by veteran anchor Brian Williams.

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Prime Video’s stream of Election Night 2024 coverage was its first foray into live news as former NBC...

As the results of Election Night 2024 became known, Brian Williams looked to the future. ”Our country is about to change again,” he told viewers of a news special he was hosting on Amazon Prime Video, with a diorama of a highway lane placed behind him. “And life, of course, goes on. Hell, my next gig is to emcee our firehouse annual dinner on Saturday night in New Jersey, my hand to God.”

Williams and others like him may have more to look forward to than hosting community potlucks.

Amazon has been holding exploratory talks about possible news concepts, according to four people familiar with the matter, a sign that the streaming and e-commerce giant sees a chance for news to bolster its economics, even as traditional players in the space are grappling with tougher times. CNN, ABC News, CBS News and NBC News have all cut staff in recent months,...

Update: CBS on January 8 announced that due to sports coverage of Farmers Insurance Open on January 24, O’Donnell’s original date to sign off from “CBS Evening News,” her last broadcast will now take place on January 23.

Norah O’Donnell’s last day behind the anchor desk of “CBS Evening News” will be January 24, CBS News revealed Friday, setting up a timeline for a transition to a new format for a venerable news program that has been part of its schedule, under various names, since 1941.

O’Donnell, who became anchor of “Evening News” in July of 2019, is moving to a new role as a senior correspondent that will have her contribute special reports built around enterprise work or landing interviews with prominent newsmakers. She will continue to contribute to “Evening News,” “60 Minutes” and other CBS News programs. The arrangement is understood to be part of a longer-term commitment that the anchor...

So, another election night has come and gone, leaving behind the usual debris of yard signs and the lingering scent of democracy (or something like it). And who better to sift through the wreckage than Seth Meyers, whose “Late Night” has become a reliable post-election sanctuary? This Wednesday, he’s got a lineup that caters to […]

Late Night With Seth Meyers Welcomes Brian Williams, Bridget Everett...

The early years of Saturday Night Live weren’t exactly the most sober. In retrospect, Lorne Michaels probably should have credited a giant baggy of cocaine as one of the “Not Ready for Prime Time Players.” But even though the cast was far from clear-headed, an early host’s drinking problem was so severe that it nearly derailed the entire show.

During its second season in March of 1977, SNL featured host Broderick Crawford, the legendary actor best known for his Oscar-winning performance in All the King’s Men.

Unfortunately, Crawford was a severe alcoholic, whose drinking became so bad that he was “arrested several times for DUI.” Oddly enough, this happened while he was working on the TV cop show Highway Patrol.

In a recent interview with The A.V. Club, Dan Aykroyd was asked about the one and only time that Crawford hosted SNL. Aykroyd recounted that Michaels begged Crawford to...

Jason Bateman is the ultimate Grinch in the trailer for upcoming Netflix Christmas film “Carry-On” — you know, if the Grinch’s M.O. was more mass murder than toy theft.

This holiday season we’re thankful for Taron Egerton, who plays a low-level Tso, which is a Tsa agent, hand-selected by Bateman to be his forced accomplice. Bateman’s a domestic terrorist who is trying to get a bag through airport security and onto a plane; context clues tell us that it’s not just a water he purchased before the checkpoint.

The streaming movie’s official logline reads: “A young Tsa agent fights to outsmart a mysterious traveler who blackmails him into letting a dangerous package slip onto a Christmas Eve flight.”

“Ethan, today is a day that you’re gonna remember for a very long time,” Bateman’s character tells Egerton’s. “But if you handle it right,...

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Except for one particular Tsa agent. Netflix has just released the trailer for Carry-On. Carry-On is an upcoming feature film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra (Jungle Cruise, Black Adam) and starring Taron Egerton (Rocketman, Kingsman: The Golden Circle). Tj Fixman wrote the script’s first draft, with Michael Green responsible for the most recent polish. Dylan Clark (The Batman) is producing. Carry-On is the first production of the overall deal between Netflix and Amblin.

The film also stars Sofia Carson, Danielle Deadwyler, Logan Marshall-Green, Dean Norris, Sinqua Walls and Jason Bateman. The cast will also include Gil Perez- Abraham, Tonatiuh, Curtiss Cook, Joe Williamson and Josh Brener. The plot logline reads, “A young Tsa agent fights to outsmart a mysterious traveler who blackmails him into letting a dangerous package slip onto a Christmas Eve flight.” Collet-Serra is no stranger to a suspense-filled...

Chris Wallace is departing CNN after three years, the network confirmed today.

Wallace joined CNN in 2022 as an on-air commentator and host of the weekly talk show Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?

Wallace told The Daily Beast that he plans to find a new home on an independent platform such as streaming or podcasting.

Mark Thompson, CNN’s CEO and chairman, said in a statement: “Chris Wallace is one of the most respected political journalists in the news business with a unique track record across radio, print, broadcast television, cable television and streaming. We want to thank him for the dedication and wisdom he’s brought to all his work at CNN and to wish him the very best for future.”

Wallace was coming to the end of a three-year contract, which he signed after abruptly exiting Fox News Sunday in 2021. As one of Fox News’ top news-side personalities,...

Chris Wallace came to CNN to get heavily involved with reaching streaming audiences, and it looks like he will leave the Warner Bros. Discovery-backed news outlet still looking to do the same.

Wallace, a veteran commentator who held forth on Fox News Channel’s “Fox News Sunday” as well as NBC News’ “Meet The Press,” told The Daily Beast Monday that he planned to leave CNN, which he initially joined to participate in the scuttled streaming operation CNN+, to try his hand at reaching people via an independent digital venture.

CNN confirmed Wallace would leave three years after he initially signed on after leaving Fox News to do so. The typical anchor contract in the news business is for a similar amount of time. CNN tried to convince Wallace to stay, according to a person familiar with the matter.

“Chris Wallace is one of the most respected political journalists...

Updated 2:59 Pm: Control of the House of Representatives is still unknown, but the final viewership numbers are in for Tuesday’s election, and it ain’t a winner.

Across 18 networks, Donald Trump’s sweeping victory for a return to the White House he was kicked out of four years ago was watched by an audience of 42.3 million, according to Nielsen. The measurement was in the 7 p.m. – 11 p.m. Et period, which was hours before the final tally of Trump’s win and Vice President Kamala Harris’ loss was in.

The 42 million and change is a strong result in today’s decentralized media environment, by any non-Super Bowl standard. However, as an indication of what and where Americans are getting their news, that primetime viewership was actually down a hard 25% from the 2020 election that saw Joe Biden defeat Trump.

The outlets that Nielsen used for its 2024 ratings metric were ABC,...

Some of the nation’s biggest TV anchors saw the plans they had for Election Night change almost as soon as the first exit polls came in.

Early preparations for election coverage had called for hours and hours spent on sifting through what was supposed to be a neck-and-neck race. Instead former President Donald Trump quickly emerged as president-elect Donald Trump, while Vice President Kamala Harris’ supposed foundations among “Blue Wall” states like Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania crumbled throughout the evening.

The biggest audience tuned in to Fox News Channel, according to early Nielsen estimates that may change later in the day, followed by ABC News, and then MSNBC. From the late afternoon to the wee hours of the morning, the anchors had to keep level heads, and wait for the actual figures to come in before they could tell the full story.

Still, they could see a narrative building,...

Most of the nation’s big TV-news anchors used the same phrase throughout Election Night: “We’re not there yet.” As things turned out, they were.

TV networks came to the 2024 Election ready for a rehash of the one they covered in 2020. Executives had 24-hour coverage sessions mapped out for the battle between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, and expected, based on polls, to have political panels at the ready through the weekend. The belief was that, like last time, swing states including Pennsylvania, Michigan and Arizona would need days to tabulate the results. Before midnight, however, the crystal ball became more clear. On NBC, around 11 p.m., Lester Holt chided his colleagues for starting to speak as if the whole thing had been decided. “This is beginning to sound like a post-mortem,” he cautioned.

Soon, it would be. After 1 a.m,, Fox News Channel’s...

Prime Video took over a soundstage in Los Angeles Tuesday for its first live election special — but despite the expansive space and technology on display, the telecast’s opening hours didn’t feel much different than the multitude of other election night options.

Election Night Live began with anchor Brian Williams reciting a voiceover addressed to the founding fathers, noting what they established for the nation (along with the fact that many of them were slaveholders) while asking for “the strength and wisdom to see our way through this.”

The special originated from a Volume stage (the same kind of high-tech facility used on shows like The Mandalorian). Most of the time, a series of images from across the country was projected behind Williams, with a huge, swooping “Live News Alert” banner taking over the screens when there was a result to report.

The special did a lot of run-up before any results came in,...

Brian Williams is back on the news beat.

The former NBC News and MSNBC anchor is hosting Election Night Live, Prime Video’s first crack at live coverage of a breaking-news event. Originating from Amazon’s Culver City studio, the multi-hour, ad-supported special kicked off at 2 p.m. Pt — watch the cold open above and a trailer for the special below.

Recalling his stint as host of MSNBC’s The 11th Hour, Williams remains the jocular, sorta folksy wordsmith as he riffed about the sheer size of the studio — noting that people there are “getting their steps in — and revived catchphrases including how coverage will continue “on the other side” of a commercial break. At one point, he name-checked his former colleague, MSNBC’s Map Maven Steve Kornacki.

Related: Deadline’s Updated Election Night Coverage

The show also includes a murderer’s row of TV pundits including James Carville, Abby Huntsman,...

Brian Williams didn’t come to Election Night to break news, but rather to put it all together.

The NBC News veteran kicked off an interesting American experiment Tuesday evening by taking to Amazon’s Prime Video to host a live hours-long Election Night special on the streaming giant’s massive platform. Williams got to use his gift of gab while his corporate benefactor got to experiment with fishing for audiences with broadcasts around momentous live events that aren’t an NFL game or other sports event.

“Election Night with Brian Williams,” made available free to anyone who wanted to watch it — whether or not they held an Amazon Prime subscription — launched at 5 p.m., well before official coverage kicked off at MSNBC, Fox News Channel, CBS News or ABC News, and just as CNN began to look at its first exit poll of the evening and NBC News took...

There’s a little election this week that you might have heard about.

The early votes are in and the polls are open for the 2024 presidential showdown between Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican former President Donald Trump. Now we pivot to The Coverage.

There’s no shortage of options for how to watch Election Day – and Night, and probably Week – unfold on broadcast and cable TV and streaming services beginning Tuesday. See a rundown of the various networks and platforms’ plans below.

Related: Donald Trump Celebrity Endorsements: A List Of Celebrities Supporting The Ex-potus

Along with the usual suspects of network news divisions, cable news pundits, pubcaster PBS and political outlet C-span comes a new player: Amazon’s Prime Video, which features former NBC News and MSNBC mainstay Brian Williams in his return to the anchor chair.

So read on to decide on how to watch America decide.

If the anxiety induced by tonight’s election results makes you want to hide under the desk for safety, then V Spehar has a show for you. Spehar, the creator and pundit who hosts Under the Desk News, is going live across multiple platforms with a November 5 special called Election Night Pizza Party.

Spehar will appeal to their Millennial and Gen Z fans by offering “graphs without context,” “digestible explainers,” and “key updates,” according to a logline emailed to Tubefilter.

The synopsis describes Pizza Party as Spehar’s “alternative to legacy media.” Rather than delivering the staid election night special viewers might be used to, the Under the Desk host is invoking concepts like “brain rot media” and nostalgia, both of which are compatible with their target audience. The goal is to create a “high school civics class for the scroll generation.”

Though Spehar’s goal is to update legacy media’s election night format,...

Amazon shares climbed over 4% in after-hours trading on Thursday after the company beat Wall Street expectations for its third quarter of 2024, posting a wider-than-expected profit and an 11% year over year increase in revenue.

The results were bolstered by a 19% year over year increase in advertising services revenue to $14.3 billion, which includes sales to sellers, vendors, publishers, authors and others through programs such as sponsored ads, display and video advertising.

Net sales for its subscriptions services segment, which includes annual and monthly fees associated with Amazon Prime memberships, as well as digital video, audiobook, digital music, e-book and other non-Amazon Web Services subscription services, grew 11% to $11.3 billion during the third quarter.

Here are the top-line results:

Net income: $15.3 billion, compared to $9.9 billion a year ago.

Earnings per share: $1.43 per diluted share, compared to $1.14 expected by analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research.

Revenue: $158.9 billion, up 11% year over year, compared to $157.07 billion...

Amazon topped Wall Street estimates in the third quarter, posting an 11% rise in revenue compared with the year-ago quarter and diluted earnings per share of $1.43.

The earnings figure came in well above the Street expectation of $1.14, while total revenue of $158.9 billion eased past the consensus forecast of $157.3 billion.

The company said it expects revenue in the holiday fourth quarter to grow 7% to 11% compared with the same period in 2023, reaching between $181.5 billion and $188.5 billion. Operating income should come in between $16 billion and $20 billion, Amazon said, with Wall Street setting the bar at $17.49 billion.

CEO Andy Jassy noted the holiday season got an early kickoff with Prime Deal Days earlier this month. “There’s so much more coming,” he said in the earnings release, “from tens of millions of deals, to our NFL Black Friday game and Election Day coverage with Brian Williams on Prime Video, to over 100 new cloud infrastructure and AI capabilities.

Amazon reported its third-quarter 2024 earnings, revealing ad sales rose 19% year over year amid the company’s push to insert ads into Prime Video.

Analysts had expected $14.25 billion in ad revenue and the e-commerce giant reported $14.3 billion. Per Amazon, that includes sales of advertising services to sellers, vendors, publishers, authors and others, through programs such as sponsored ads, display and video ads.

The company also reported its subscription services revenue was up 11% in Q3, which ran July 1-Sept. 30, at $11.3 billion.

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“As we get into the holiday season, we’re excited about what we have in store for customers,” Amazon President and CEO Andy Jassy said in a press release. “We kicked off the holiday season with our biggest-ever Prime Big Deal Days and the launch of an all-new Kindle lineup that...

Turn on Amazon’s Prime Video on Election Night, and you will see the streaming giant do something it has never done before: live coverage of a breaking news event.

Brian Williams, the former NBC News and MSNBC anchor who will host Election Night Live, has described the special as the first “new product introduction in the Election Night space since color television.”

In an interview with Deadline, Williams wouldn’t go into specifics but promised a reveal of “our own exclusive IP.” A set built on a Culver City soundstage will be “all LED,” and he will be mobile “between different areas of the studio where analysts and journalists and a historian or two and our data folks are working.”

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He said that he has asked Amazon to take no breaks during the special, but “I don’t know if I’ll win that tug of war.

One of the closest, most surprising and momentous presidential elections in recent memory has broadcast and cable networks preparing for the unexpected for its finale: election night.

Traditionally one of the highest-rated news nights of the cycle, this year the challenges for news divisions are in determining the wisest use of resources with all seven swing states within the margin of error, no easy task given the cost pressures on linear TV in general. Added to that are concerns over security, safety and misinformation, with recent incidents serving as a reminder of potential more alarming situations on November 5.

“Definitely, I have never seen anything like it. There’s no question about that,” said Mary Hager, CBS News’ executive editor of politics, who has been doing election nights at CBS News since 1992.

“There’s so much information, misinformation,” she said. “There’s so many people involved. Never, certainly that I can remember,...

Multiple on-demand streaming services are offering election coverage this year, and you can watch without coming close to what you’d pay for cable.

The 2024 U.S. presidential election is coming up fast. Election day is set for Tuesday, Nov. 5, less than two weeks away as of the time of this writing. Will Vice President Kamala Harris continue trying to build on the policies of the Biden administration, or will former President Trump win another term in the White House? The polls are incredibly tight, and a clear winner likely won’t emerge until election night itself, if not after. If you want to keep track of all the latest news and updates without a cable subscription, I’ll break down the best ways to watch national coverage of the election all evening long using top streaming services.

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Sinclair’s national news brand will offer special coverage of the 2024 Presidential Election and key races in different parts of the country on Tuesday, November 5, The Desk has learned.

The program — called “Beyond the Podium: Election 2024” — will air on approximately 90 broadcast television stations owned or operated by Sinclair, including those affiliated with the CW Network and some MyNetwork and Fox-affiliated outlets. It will also stream for free on all of Sinclair’s local TV websites and The National News Desk’s YouTube channel, a spokesperson confirmed.

In an exclusive interview with The Desk this week, Sinclair’s Vice President of News Scott Livingston said the special will harness the immense synergies between Sinclair’s local news-producing stations and its team of national journalists who helped build The National News Desk from the ground up.

Nearly all of Sinclair’s 66 local newsrooms will be contributing...

Netflix is adapting In the Likely Event, a novel by Fourth Wing author Rebecca Yarros, The Hollywood Reporter can exclusively reveal.

The film, adapted to the screen by Lindsey Ferrentino — one of five movies she’s writing for the streaming giant — is a romance between a U.S. soldier, Nate, and a congressional aide, Izzy, set against the war in Afghanistan. The book was first published in August 2023.

In the Likely Event will be overseen by Brian Williams for Dylan Clark Productions and by Kira Cousineau for Netflix. “I’m absolutely thrilled to be working with Dylan Clark Productions and Netflix to bring In the Likely Event to life,” Yarros said. “It’s such a special book to me and I can’t wait to see Nate and Izzy brought to the screen by such a thoughtful and passionate team of creators.”

Ferrentino recently talked to THR about her vast...

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Amazon’s streaming service Prime Video is moving forward with plans to produce an Election Night special that will be hosted by former NBC News anchor Brian Williams, the company confirmed on Thursday.

On November 5, Williams will host “Election Night Live with Brian Williams,” which will offer live updates on national and local races throughout the United States, including the 2024 presidential election.

The special will start streaming on Prime Video at 5 p.m. Eastern Time, Amazon said in a statement. All Amazon customers will be allowed to watch the special, even if they do not have a Prime membership or otherwise subscribe to Prime Video.

“After 41 years in the business — from local news to network shows to cable news — this feels like the next big thing, and the global marketplace of Amazon is a natural home for this first-of-its-kind venture,” Williams said in a statement. “Together we will...

Former NBC News anchor Brian Williams will host a live election night special on Prime Video, marking Amazon’s first go at news coverage.

The streamer confirmed on Thursday that Election Night Live with Brian Williams, a one-night special delivering election results and analysis, will stream on Tuesday, Nov. 5 beginning at 5 pm Et.

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Prime Video is officially in business with Brian Williams.

The Amazon-owned streaming platform has set an election night special, Election Night Live with Brian Williams, which will see the former NBC News anchor lead viewers through the returns on Nov. 5.

The special will see Williams joined by “prominent contributors” who will provide insight and analysis across the political spectrum. NBC and CNN veteran Jonathan Wald will be executive producer, with Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner’s White Cherry Entertainment producing the special. Weiss, the veteran of the Oscars, Emmys, Tonys and a slew of other live events, will also serve as director of the special.

Amazon, of course, does not have its own news division, so the special will combine some familiar elements like real-time poll results and commentary, while also referencing third-party news sources across all political affiliations. A politics RedZone, if you will.

The Hollywood Reporter had previously...