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Updated, 1:57 Pm: Saturday’s planned SpaceX/NASA mission launch has been scrubbed and rescheduled for a day later due to a bad weather forecast. Discovery and Science Channel now will begin their live coverage at 2 p.m. Pt on Sunday.

Exclusive, November 11: SpaceX and NASA are reteaming to make some more history together this weekend. Elon Musk’s SoCal-based company and the U.S. space agency will send four astronauts to the International Space Station via the Falcon 9 rocket as part of the first official Iss crew-rotation mission from America in nearly a decade. Discovery and Science Channel will carry the launch live beginning at 3 p.m. Pt on Saturday, November 14.

Watch a promo for Space Launch Live: Crew-1 Liftoff above.

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission will launch U.S. astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker and Japan Aerospace Exploration astronaut Soichi Noguchi from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral,...

Aymar Jean Christian is part of the inaugural class of Peabody Fellows, distinguished media scholars who provide fresh perspectives and commentary on behalf of the Peabody Media Center, the outreach and media production arm of the prestigious awards program based at the University of Georgia. He is an assistant professor of communication studies at Northwestern University.

You know you’re a TV nerd when your most anticipated awards announcements are the Writers Guild Awards. TV is a writer’s medium. Every TV fan awaits the Emmys, and some even bother to care about the Golden Globes, but most don’t know the major Guilds give out statues to television producers.

Nerdier still, I’m most interested in the nominees almost nobody writes about: web original short form comedies and dramas.

So while you probably could not imagine my disappointment when the WGA released their nominees for original short-form new media this year,...

The dates of the 2015 Lower East Side Film Festival have been announced, along with some high-profile judges. The fifth annual festival will run from June 11-21 at the famous Landmark Sunshine Cinema, Anthology Film Archives, Crosby St. Hotel, East Village Cinema, Sixty Les, and other downtown venues. From "Orange is the New Black," Emmy-nominated actor Laverne Cox, actor Parker Posey and Golden Globe-winning Rachael Horovitz have joined the judges' table, which already consists of Lessff Festival Directors Damon Cardasis, Tony Castle, Roxy Hunt and Shannon Walker.  For tickets and more info check out the festival's website. Read More: Attention, Filmmakers: The Lower East Side Film Festival Announces Call for Submissions...

Wes Anderson's "The Grand Budapest Hotel" won the Original Screenplay honor at the recently concluded Writers Guild Awards while Morten Tyldum's "The Imitation Game" took home the Adapted Screenplay trophy. "The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swarts" written by Brian Knappenberger won Documentary Screenplay award. The film is not nominated for an Academy award.

In TV land, HBO's "True Detective" won the Drama Series award and FX's "Louie" received the Comedy Series trophy.

Here's the complete list of winners (highlighted) and nominees of the 2015 Writers Guild Awards:

Feature Film

Original Screenplay

Boyhood, Written by Richard Linklater; IFC Films

Foxcatcher, Written by E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman; Sony Pictures Classics

The Grand Budapest Hotel, Screenplay by Wes Anderson; Story by Wes Anderson & Hugo Guinness; Fox Searchlight Winner

Nightcrawler, Written by Dan Gilroy; Open Road Films

Whiplash, Written by Damien Chazelle; Sony Pictures Classics

Adapted Screenplay

American Sniper,...

More than two years after Circle of Lies had its North American premiere in Canada on iTunes and cable systems, the producers are still battling to stem the illegal downloading of the teen drama.

When director Matt Cerwen.s film launched on iTunes 11 days later in the Us, the executive producers believe the title had already been viewed more than 350,000 times. Now they estimate the worldwide figure is 1.35 million.

.For a small budget Australian film this is a financial disaster,. John Kearney, who executive produced the independently-financed film with Ian Kirk and David Field, tells If.

.If those illegals were legal at, say, $1.90 per time (average return to the production company) then there would be reason to smile. Ian Kirk has issued seven take-down notices to YouTube and there could be more very soon..

A former head of Film Victoria and Crawford Productions, Kearney takes issue with a recent Choice...

The Writers Guild of America announced the TV nominees for the 2015 WGA Awards on Thursday (December 4) morning and several new shows broke into the fields in a big way. And, of course, there were a number of big WGA Award nomination head-scratchers. Specifically, where the heck was FX's "Fargo"? The answer is below. Making perhaps the biggest splash was "Transparent," which earned three nominations and, since "Orange Is The New Black" earned two nods and "House of Cards" pick up one, that meant that Amazon Prime and Netflix are, at least for one award-giving organization, on equal footing as creators of original programming. The Jill Soloway-created "Transparent" is nominated for New Series, where it will go against "The Affair," "The Knick," "Silicon Valley" and "True Detective." "Transparent" and "Silicon Valley" are also up for Comedy Series, going against "Louie," "Veep" and "Orange Is The New Black." Lest you panic...

"Vicky & Lysander" doesn't officially premiere until Dec. 19, but you can get a sneak peek at Logo TV's latest online comedy series exclusively on HuffPost Gay Voices.

Starring Shannon Walker and Damon Cardasis in the titular roles respectively, “Vicky & Lysander” follows the twisted and hilarious antics of "a deluded Manhattan couple who work tirelessly to climb the New York social ladder," according to a press release.

"Our first original web series, 'Hunting Season,' performed incredibly well, so we're thrilled to continue that tradition with a completely different kind of program from this talented group of writers and performers," Charles Runnette, Online Editorial Director for Logo, said in a statement. "Logo's always looking for ways to bring compelling entertainment to our audience, and web series like ‘Vicky & Lysander’ are the perfect way to do it."

“Vicky & Lysander” premieres Wednesday, Dec. 19 at 3 p.m. Est on LogoTV.com with new episodes posting...

The third annual Les* Film Festival has been slated for June 13-23, 2013.  The festival, under the direction of Damon Cardasis, Shannon Walker, Tony Castle and Roxy Hunt, unveils the best of low-budget filmmaking from around the world at its location on the Lower East Side. In addition to screening films, the 2013 festival will also showcase live music for the first time. The past two Les* Film Festivals have welcomed judges and participants such as actress Susan Sarandon, NYC performance artist Justin Bond, actor Willem Dafoe, filmmaker and actor Jon Heder and NYC filmmaker and photographer Harvey Wang. Submissions are now open for the 2013 Les* Film Festival at www.lesfilmfestival.com.  Les Intro Video from Bfd Productions, LLC on Vimeo.

Young filmmakers Damon Cardasis and Shannon Walker have been working together for over six years. Well, working and playing that is. The two became fast friends while attending Nyu and proceeded to get themselves both permanently separated and kicked out of class on occasion for loudly goofing off. What drove their professors up the wall, ultimately benefitted the two when they were finally allowed to collaborate in a sketch writing class. From one of the pieces they created, the idea for the New York City interactive dinner theater show Vicky and Lysander was birthed. Heralded as “A Howling Success” by the New York Press, the two play a hilariously mismatched couple hosting a dinner party for their “closest friends”, or the audience.

Though the show is still expected to have another run in the near future, the comic duo wanted to expand their efforts to a new medium that fascinated them both: film.