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The Sentinel Awards returned on Tuesday night at the Television Academy’s Wolf Theater for its first in-person ceremony in three years, honoring 12 shows whose storytelling tackled powerful and timely topics.

The event, hosted by Yvette Nicole Brown, recognized Reservation Dogs, Abbott Elementary, Dopesick, Hacks, The White Lotus, A Million Little Things, Upload, The First Lady, Resident Alien, Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock, Never Have I Ever and Harlem for their handling of topics including racism, mental health and abortion.

Hollywood, Health and Society, a program from the USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center, presented the awards. Season one of Reservation Dogs received a special Culture of Health Award, recognizing TV’s power to affect audiences with stories that address important issues of health, well-being and equity in society.

Stars in attendance included Quinta Brunson and presenter Tyler James Williams, with her Abbott...

NBC's forthcoming streaming service, Peacock, is ramping up its development slate, despite the service not being fully revealed to the masses.

The network unveiled six additional series it has in the works, including a MacGruber TV series starring Will Forte, as well as a Laverne Cox-Norman Lear series titled Clean Slate.

They join the Queer as Folk reboot as programs under development. Neither of the shows has received series orders.

Here is the full list of new shows in the works.

The Adventure Zone

Based on the McElroy Family’s wildly popular Dungeons & Dragons podcast and No. 1 New York Times best-selling graphic novel series, The Adventure Zone is a side-splitting and heart-filled fantasy animated comedy series that follows an unlikely, poorly equipped trio and their beleaguered Dungeon Master as they reluctantly embark on a quest to save their world.

Writer/executive producer: Adam Higgs (Orphan Black)

Executive producers: Clint McElroy,...

Ahead of its formal debut Thursday, NBCUniversal has put six projects in development at Peacock, including a revival of Will Forte’s “MacGruber.”

Additional projects include a transgender themed drama executive produced by and starring Laverne Cox, a comedy based on the McElroy family’s “Dungeons & Dragons” podcast, and others from Amy Poehler and Mindy Kaling.

“MacGruber” will see Forte return as his “SNL” character, a spoof of “MacGyver.” The character appeared in a number sketches and starred in a 2010 movie alongside Kristen Wiig, Ryan Phillippe, Val Kilmer and Maya Rudolph. The character was created by Jorma Taccone, a member of The Lonely Island musical comedy group that also featured “SNL” alum Andy Samberg.

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In the Peacock revival, MacGruber gets out of prison after more than a decade. Here is the rest of the...

Ahead of Comcast’s investor presentation today to officially unveil NBCUniversal’s upcoming streaming service Peacock, the platform has announced its inaugural development slate. It includes comedies MacGruber, starring and co-written by Will Forte; and Clean Slate, starring and co-written by Laverne Cox and George Wallace. Creative auspices on Peacock’s series in development also include Amy Poehler, Mindy Kaling, Norman Lear and Lorne Michaels, among others. The projects come from within NBCUniversal Content Studios — from both Universal TV and Ucp — as well as from outside studios, Warner Bros. and Sony.

From the get-go, Peacock’s original series slate had a comedy bent, with sequels to sitcoms Saved By the Bell and Punky Brewster among the platform’ first orders, along with pickups for A.P. Bio and Ed Helms-Mike Schur comedy Rutherford Falls.

The streamer’s development slate continues that programming direction. Five of the six projects on it are comedies,...

Peacock is adding a bunch more feathers to its slate.

Only a couple hours before NBCUniversal unveils the new streaming service, Peacock has announced it is developing series with Amy Poehler and Mindy Kaling, among others.

The Poehler-produced project is titled “Division One” and is described as a coming-of-age comedy about an underdog women’s collegiate soccer team that gets a new female coach – a former professional soccer player who’s fallen from grace – and must decide whether or not they’re going to take the risk of trying to be great.

Maggie Carey, who is best known for directing episodes of shows such as “Barry,” “Silicon Valley” and “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” is writing, directing and executive producing the show, alongside Julia Brownwell who serves as a writing-executive producer. Poehler, who was recently announced as the co-host for next year’s Golden Globes, is exec producing via her Paper Kite banner,...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is once again under fire this Oscar season after announcing February 11 the four categories that will be cut from airing during the live broadcast on ABC: Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Live Action Short, and Best Makeup and Hairstyling. The initiative was first announced last summer on the same day the Academy tried and failed to introduce the Best Popular Film Oscar, but outrage over the decision has hit a fever pitch now that the cut categories are confirmed. Guillermo del Toro, winner of Best Director and Best Picture for “The Shape of Water” last year, led the charge on social media.

“If I may: I would not presume to suggest what categories to cut during the Oscars show but – Cinematography and Editing are at the very heart of our craft,” del Toro wrote on Twitter. “They are not inherited from...

Jonathan Gold, the Los Angeles Times critic whose love of the obscure ethnic food shops of Los Angeles turned on a generation to tastes they may not have discovered, has died. He was 57 and passed from pancreatic cancer at St. Vincent Medical Center in Los Angeles tonight, according to his wife, Times arts and entertainment editor Laurie Ochoa. He was only diagnosed with the disease in early July, and his rapid demise shocked colleagues.

He was the first food critic to win the Pultizer Prize, taking home the honors in 2007. Gold pioneered reviews of the noodle shops, Thai restaurants and odd take-out restaurants that make up much of the sprawling Los Angeles food landscape. He delighted in places that offered menus that weren’t in English and proprietors eager to give him off-the-menu items.

In the course of his four decades as a food critic, he changed restaurant reviews from...

Twitter’s new favorite person, Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon, found himself in a situation on Wednesday that played out as so many Twitter spats have before: Get criticized, get defended, joke around after with your friends.

Except this time the criticism was coming from the president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr. — who issued the snarky tweet just two days after his wife was hospitalized for opening an envelope containing a suspicious white powder.

And the jokes? They were coming from Hollywood’s Josh Charles and Mindy Kaling, among others. (Reese Witherspoon has already made her feelings about Rippon known.

How is your holiday going? I'm in North Carolina for reasons that are too complicated and unrelated to my usual life to explain. Where are you right now? As I sit here, still digesting the morning after, I'm thinking about awards season and how thrilled I always am when it arrives and how it's amusing that it fills so many people other people with dread.

Even one of our team members here...

Happy Awards Season! pic.twitter.com/eB7iQlvFXX

— Jason Adams (@Jamnpp) November 23, 2015

The Boyfriend calls himself an "Oscar Widow" but most people who hate Oscar season have less personal and more pious reasons "movies are art! they're not in a race. It's so reductive. Oh, btw, check out my top ten list here http://bit.ly/hypocrite"

Since you're probably too full from yesterday's mad banquet to eat, please deour these delicious tweets instead after the jump...

Charlotte Rampling...

Family time is wonderful, but let's face it: An integral part of the Christmas experience is checking your phone every 45 minutes to see if Twitter's finest have anything entertaining to report. We combed Twitter for the best of 2014's yuletide quips. These were the most satisfying stocking stuffers. Best thing about being deep in debt is that a few more expensive Christmas presents aren't going to make any fucking difference. — Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) December 26, 2014 Grandma won't even suspect that I bought her gift last minute pic.twitter.com/St4lnv1S1x — Bridger Winegar (@bridger_w) December 25, 2014 Thank goodness we have "The Interview" to heal our broken nation this Christmas. It's a capitalist miracle! — Josh Gondelman (@joshgondelman) December 25, 2014 During the holidays, there's honestly nothing better than being with family for 15, maybe 20 minutes. — Kevin Farzad (@KevinFarzad) December 25, 2014 Merry Christmas!!! Hope it's a great one!!! And don't worry, there's only a...

27-year-old Chris Schleicher is a writer for The Mindy Project. Before launching his comedy career, though, Schleicher spent 16 years as a competitive figure skater — he and his pairs partner (a.k.a. his sister) were ranked 13th in the nation before Schleicher retired in his early 20s. (He actually got the Mindy job by writing a pilot about his skating days, which, naturally, was called On Thin Ice.)

In short, Schleicher knows more about figure skating than you do — and he’s also a lot funnier when riffing on the sport’s inherent ridiculosity. So please, before NBC airs the...

Football — it is a game. And one that many people watch. Gay people, allegedly, are some of these people. The More You Know.

Now that Seattle and Denver are headed to the Super Bowl on February 2, it’s probably time to learn something real about this sport. To help usher you (and me) into comprehensive football awareness, here are 10 tweets from gays who commented on yesterday’s big games. Or just said something about the games. Or seemed to know what football was.

1. Richard Lawson introduces you to the Seahawks’ head coach Pete Carroll.

Pete Carroll looks like a senator who murdered his mistress in a Wesley Snipes thriller

— Richard Lawson (@rilaws) January 20, 2014

2. Dave Holmes invites you to shake hands with Jim Harbaugh, the coach of the losing San Francisco 49ers.

Jim Harbaugh looks like the reverse of that Far Side cartoon where the lady's dog is in her butt.

Turns out you only need the tweets of gay people to understand the grandeur and horror of the Golden Globes — even if you’re a “NYEEWWWcomer” to the ceremony (quoth Jacqueline Bisset). Enjoy these observations, all delivered by gay luminaries of the tweet machine.

“I’m going to miss the Golden Globes tonight” is the perfect way to start a suicide note. — Bryan Safi (@bryansafi) January 12, 2014

“Wait, you can Win these?” – Amy Adams — Chris Schleicher (@cschleichsrun) January 13, 2014

Leonardo DiCaprio seems like fun. Hahaha, no he doesn't.

— Richard Lawson (@rilaws) January 13, 2014

I feel a bond with American Hustle. It's not a great drama or a great comedy. But it's tricked a lot of people into thinking it's both.

— Nick Stadler (@Nickadoo) January 13, 2014

Cate Blanchett just admitted her inspiration for "Blue Jasmine" was Taylor Swift in two years. #GoldenGlobes

— Louis Virtel (@louisvirtel) January 13, 2014

congratulations to Bono on his having ended apartheid

— Dan...

Here’s a thought to make January more bearable: February is worse. Heh!

Yikes. We’re in dire need of comedy this month, and here are 10 gay tweets (and an extra one from me) designed to make this month lovable. I also tacked on a tweet from Patton Oswalt about Neneh Cherry that sent me into Drugstore Cowboy-type convulsions.

1. Richard Lawson jokes by not joking at all.

Liz Cheney is dropping out of the race to spend less time with her family.

— Richard Lawson (@rilaws) January 6, 2014

2. Chris Schleicher values the least important meal of the day.

Why do people have kids? Because they got bored of going to brunch?

— Chris Schleicher (@cschleichsrun) January 7, 2014

3. Matt Whitaker needs a moment.

Just found out Robin Roberts has been cheating on me for ten years.

— Matt Whitaker (@matt_twittaker) December 31, 2013

4. Sean Brewster is the hero of January.

Just told a homeless man I...

Twitter’s where I go when I know real news like Tila Tequila‘s feelings and how Carrie Underwood‘s rendition of “The Lonely Goatherd” went. These 10 tweets (plus one of my own thrown in) will fill you with both the holiday And journalistic spirit.

1. Guy Branum’s hiring, y’all.

Can I hire a personal assistant in India to look at shirtless Facebook photos of guys I’ve had crushes on and feel sad for me? I’m so busy!

— Guy Branum (@guybranum) December 9, 2013

2. Ronan Farrow is a boldface liar. Teehee! I italicized that.

And here I thought Ariana Grande was a Microsoft Word font.

— Ronan Farrow (@RonanFarrow) December 7, 2013

3. Braden Graeber just wrote a PSA that Shakira needs to tape.

Hips don’t lie; people lie.

— braden graeber (@hipstermermaid) December 10, 2013

4. Conner Habib can’t help but react like to M’Lynn to popular music.

Why does the lead singer...

So, Tom Daley has a boyfriend. That means two things: 1) He is subject to a grudge match against Matthew Mitcham for our eternal love; 2) The gay men of Twitter have been responding. Here are my favorite ten responses so far. (Caution: Nph should be notified that there’s nothing “misguided” about lusting after Olympians of any sexual orientation. We consider it a pastime here.)

I’m relieved to know that all of my panting over @TomDaley1994 at the Summer Olympics wasn’t completely misguided.

— Neil Patrick Harris (@ActuallyNPH) December 2, 2013

Imagine if Matthew Mitcham and Tom Daley had a baby. It would literally come out as a rainbow flag performing a perfect swan dive. — Brendan Maclean (@macleanbrendan) December 3, 2013

Congrats Tom! I’m glad Someone understood the message of “Frozen” this weekend! https://t.co/O2wvHHcEGm — Chris Schleicher (@cschleichsrun) December 2, 2013

It’s important to tell a guy who comes out that you “knew all along.

Straight up, now tell me: Are you prepared to love Nick Jonas forever? Oh, oh, oh. Speaking for myself: Yes, and I’m just having fun.

Learn more about these feelings in the ten best gay tweets of the week.

1. Nick Stadler knows Orson Scott Card is ready for his own personal hunger games.

If Ender’s Game breaks $100 million at the box office, Orson Scott Card intends to celebrate by hunting a homosexual with a crossbow.

— Nick Stadler (@Nickadoo) November 3, 2013

2. Billy Eichner charts Paula Abdul‘s journey from Forever Your Girl to Forever A Woman In The Eyes Of Her Synagogue.

Paula Abdul is having her belated bat mitzvah in Israel, a ballsy move considering her relationship with militant Palestinian Mc Skat Cat. — billy eichner (@billyeichner) November 4, 2013

3. Please extend a congratulatory fiddle-dee-dee to Chris Schleicher today!

Vivien Leigh was born 100 years ago today. I came out of the closet 5 years ago today.

The past week’s been tough with Congress shutting down and Miley doing anything but shutting down. Time for some gay perspective. Here are 15 tweets (including one of my own that I nefariously inserted) by out gay Twitter users we love.

1. Braden Graeber knows why you’re here.

A lot of people exist because their parents didn’t have snapchat.

— braden graeber (@hipstermermaid) October 15, 2013

2. Guy Branum knows who you hurt.

It is National Coming Out Day: Your mother could use a good cry. — Guy Branum (@guybranum) October 11, 2013

3. I know you bought Bangerz.

If you complain that Miley Cyrus can’t sing, you don’t get to own Bob Dylan albums. — Louis Virtel (@louisvirtel) October 14, 2013

4. Billy Eichner hopes you had fun celebrating on Monday, because it was all a sham.

Columbus gets the credit but in many ways Sandra Bullock found America.

— billy eichner (@billyeichner) October 14, 2013

5. Chris Schleicher captions your isolation.

It’s 2013, so I assume you’ve already acquainted yourself with the bad news: Internet commentary about TV is almost always better, or at least funnier, than TV itself. This was especially true in the case of last night’s Emmys, an unusually somber event given that it was supposed to be celebrating our current “golden age of television.” When weren’t we in a golden age of television again? 1997 or something? Please. Don’t tell me you didn’t love The Single Guy.

Fortunately, funny gay guys (and I) live-tweeted the Emmys. Here are ten of my favorite quips from that posse on Merritt Wever‘s big night.

1. Chris Schleicher thinks one Big Bang Theory star treated a comic legend like his dim brother Darryl (or his other dim brother Darryl).

I’m Jim Parsons and I have several Emmys. Here’s Bob Newhart. He has one.

— Chris Schleicher (@cschleichsrun) September 23, 2013

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Every once in awhile we need to stop and reflect on a very eventful week. This strikes me as one of those weeks.

Here are 10 Twitter gays who parse everything from Alec Baldwin‘s idiocy to Doma’s super-idiocy in under 140 characters. I snuck some non-topical Twitter commentary in there too, for balance’s sake.

Nick Stadler tries his best to understand Alec Baldwin and, by default, ourselves.

I searched craigslist personals for “feet in ass” and got no results. I don’t know where Alec Baldwin gets his info about what queens dig.

— Nick Stadler (@Nickadoo) June 29, 2013

On the day Doma and Prop 8 struck down, Bryan Safi attempted to understand the inner dialogue of gay marriage opponents. We salute him.

“Maybe We’Re the weirdos.” – a thought that’s maybe, just maybe, dawning on bigots today — Bryan Safi (@bryansafi) June 26, 2013

Chris Schleicher‘s home is thankfully un-broken.

I...