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Another National Geographic reality series is reportedly coming to an end. Life Below Zero Season 23, which premiered in October 2024, will be the last for the show, cast members have said.

‘Life Below Zero’ canceled, Chip Hailstone says

Life Below Zero cast member Chip Hailstone broke the bad news about the show’s future in a Sept. 21 post on X.

“Well, folks, it’s official,” he wrote. “Life Below Zero has run its course. No contract, no Life Below Zero. It was a fun 12 years and the show won 9 Emmy Awards, and we were on the first to the last episodes. Now on to a sharp and profitable future.”

Fellow cast member Ricko DeWilde has also said the show will not return to National Geographic.

“Just want people to know that yes, after this new season airs the Life Below Zero show will be canceled by Disney which owns NatGeo,” he...

And we’re back! Just a few months after the 2023 Emmy Awards were held after a strike-related delay comes the 2024 Emmy Awards and a full weekend dedicated to the Creative Arts Emmys on September 7 and September 8 at the Peacock Theater at L.A. Live. An edited version of both ceremonies will air on Fxx at 11 p.m. Et on September 14 and stream on Hulu from September 15 through October 9.

Presenters over both nights included Olympian B-Boy Victor Montalvo, Mike Birbiglia, Nikki Glaser, Lucy Liu, Jane Lynch, Tig Notaro, Fisher Stevens, and Hannah Waddingham.

Nominated shows include perpetual heavy-hitters “Only Murders in the Building,” “The Morning Show,” and “The Crown,” although based on the technical categories, it’s “The Bear” and Shōgun that have the momentum — the FX series have hauled in 21 wins between them.

During the September 7 ceremony, “Beckham” won Outstanding Documentary Series and “Blue Eye Samurai” scored an Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program,...

“Saturday Night Live” ended Night 1 of the 76th Creative Arts Emmys with the most awards (six), including Outstanding Directing for a Variety Series, which went to Liz Patrick, who directed the episode hosted by Ryan Gosling. That episode, which featured the now famous Beavis and Butt-Head sketch, also won hairstyling and makeup. NBC’s sketch-comedy institution — the winningest show in Emmy history with 93 victories — also triumphed in production design, lighting design and technical direction.

“Jim Henson Idea Man” was another big winner Saturday night, picking up four awards. The Disney + documentary directed by Ron Howard about the creator of the Muppets took home Outstanding Documentary or Non-Fiction Special, in addition to trophies for music composition, sound editing and picture editing.

NBC’s 2024 Oscars telecast tied “Jim Henson Idea Man,” as did Netflix’s rapturously reviewed “Blue Eye Samurai” (including previously announced juried awards), which came up tops for animated program,...

National Geographic’s hit series “Life Below Zero” has won more Emmys for Best Cinematography than any other reality TV show in history. The six-time champ is nominated again at the 2024 ceremony for its Season 22 episode, “Bulletproof.” Watch our exclusive video interview with directors of photography Charlie Beck, Michael Cheeseman and Danny Day, along with camera operator Pedro Delrey, above.

Of the four nominees this year, Delrey is the only first-timer. “It was really exciting,” he reveals. “I’ve been working on ‘Life Below Zero’ for a few years, about three or four years in the franchise, and I’ve seen people be nominated and win Emmys and the whole thing. I was like, ‘Man, that would be pretty cool if that ever happened one day,’ and it was really nice when it did.”

See Making of ‘Life Below Zero’: Fascinating roundtable discussion with Sue Aikens and crew of...

Exclusive: Verve talent agency is bolstering its roster with a number of high-level executive producers and directors from Dick Wolf’s camp, including Arthur Forney, Fred Berner, Reza Tabrizi, Jim McKay, Michael Pressman, as well as consultant Connie Rice. The additions follow Verve’s acquisition of Paul Alan Smith’s New Deal Mfg. Co. last month.

Forney has been an integral player in the Wolf Camp, overseeing all post-production. Since joining Wolf in 1990 with the launch of Law & Order, Forney has since been an executive producer on FBI, FBI: Most Wanted, Chicago P.D., Chicago Med, Chicago Fire, Law & Order: Svu, currently airing its 22nd season, and the recently debuted Law & Order: Organized Crime, starring Christopher Meloni, who returns as fan favorite Elliot Stabler.

Also joining Verve is Berner, who recently directed and executive produced the pilot of Law & Order: Organized Crime, which premiered last...

Updated, 12:39 Pm: An associate producer on the former Weinstein Company series Marco Polo has filed an amended complaint charging sexual and physical abuse by Harvey Weinstein. Alexandra Canosa’s filing Monday in New York Supreme Court (read it here) details further abuse at the hands of the disgraced mogul, charging that he assaulted her “multiple times” starting in 2010 and “verbally threatened plaintiff not to speak to anyone about his abuse.”

The sprawling, detailed 72-page suit alleges: “On many occasions, Harvey Weinstein insisted on meeting with plaintiff in isolated environments for business purposes, made sure that no other persons or bystanders were around when having business meetings with plaintiff, demanded sexual contact, and threatened plaintiff if she would not give him what he wanted, and forcing himself on plaintiff despite repeated requests to stop.”

The lawsuit also names as defendants the Weinstein Company, Bob Weinstein and others, claiming they failed...