Day: September 20, 2020

The complete list of winners and nominees

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Emmy Trophies

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The 72nd Emmy Awards Sunday night promise to be an awards show like no other.

The event, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, won’t have an audience or a red carpet. Instead, nominees have been sent their own camera kit to broadcast live from their living rooms as Hollywood doles out trophies to TV’s top talent in the first major entertainment industry ceremony since the coronavirus pandemic began. 

The expectation is that things can and will go wrong during the show, but it will all be part of the experience. A little over a dozen awards will

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How candy companies plan to save Halloween 2020

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Americans will be donning a different kind of mask this Halloween.

For some, knocking on doors and getting bags of candy from strangers may lose its appeal as people limit their social circles. Office candy bowls will remain empty. And Halloween costume parties may be scaled down or canceled.

Yet candy companies, including Hershey and Ferrero, say they are hopeful that kids will still trick-or-treat and adults will seek out sweets, even if their celebration is simpler or socially distanced because of the coronavirus pandemic. It’s also inspired those companies to

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It’s ‘outrageous’ Americans can’t get coronavirus test results in 24 hours

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Microsoft co-founder and global health philanthropist Bill Gates criticized the current state of the United States’ response to the Covid-19 pandemic on Sunday, including slow turnaround times for tests.

Gates told “Fox News Sunday” that the access to fast testing is still inadequate more than six months into the pandemic and that the U.S. was set up for a rough fall of virus cases. 

“Even today, people don’t get their results in 24 hours. It’s outrageous that we still have that,” Gates said.

The United States has suffered more than 6.7 million confirmed cases of Covid-19, resulting in nearly 200,000

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Can ‘Schitt’s Creek,’ ‘The Good Place’ win big for cable?

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Regina King stars as Angela Abar aka Sister Night in HBO’s “Watchmen.”

HBO

Heading into the Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony on Sunday night, it may seem like the biggest competition will be between HBO and Netflix.

The two networks have the most nominations this year and have battled it out for the most wins over the last few years. HBO remains the reigning champion in that regard.

Still, the dogfight between HBO and Netflix is part of a much larger trend in the TV awards circuit: subscription-based services are creating more Emmy Award-nominated and -winning content.

In 2020, a disproportionate

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