Appointments
Eminent British media personality Afua Hirsch has been named advisory chair for the 2022 edition of Screen Scotland‘s Edinburgh TV Festival. Founder of Born in Me Productions, an independent production company focusing on scripted and non-scripted television, movies and podcasting, Hirsch is renowned for her work on black culture, history, identity and culture in the African diaspora and worldwide. Hirsch has presented documentaries including “African Renaissance,” a documentary series for the BBC on African art, “Enslaved,” an Epix series about the history of the transatlantic slave trade with Samuel L. Jackson, and podcast series “We Need to Talk about the British Empire,” for Audible. Hirsch is also the author of “Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging” and bestselling children’s book ‘Equal to Everything’. She is currently the Wallis Annenberg Chair of Journalism at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
Hirsch has been a festival...
Eminent British media personality Afua Hirsch has been named advisory chair for the 2022 edition of Screen Scotland‘s Edinburgh TV Festival. Founder of Born in Me Productions, an independent production company focusing on scripted and non-scripted television, movies and podcasting, Hirsch is renowned for her work on black culture, history, identity and culture in the African diaspora and worldwide. Hirsch has presented documentaries including “African Renaissance,” a documentary series for the BBC on African art, “Enslaved,” an Epix series about the history of the transatlantic slave trade with Samuel L. Jackson, and podcast series “We Need to Talk about the British Empire,” for Audible. Hirsch is also the author of “Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging” and bestselling children’s book ‘Equal to Everything’. She is currently the Wallis Annenberg Chair of Journalism at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
Hirsch has been a festival...
- 3/1/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
The smart money's on ABC.
That's the consensus that emerges when you talk to TV industry types about where Jay Leno will go after he turns "The Tonight Show" over to Conan O'Brien.
Why? Because ABC has the most to gain by hiring Leno and plunking him down between Letterman and Conan at 11:35 p.m.
With Leno, ABC has a once-in-a- blue- moon opportu nity to suddenly seize the lead in late- night after decades of play ing also-ran to NBC and CBS.
But what of "Night line" and Jimmy Kim mel, you ask?...
That's the consensus that emerges when you talk to TV industry types about where Jay Leno will go after he turns "The Tonight Show" over to Conan O'Brien.
Why? Because ABC has the most to gain by hiring Leno and plunking him down between Letterman and Conan at 11:35 p.m.
With Leno, ABC has a once-in-a- blue- moon opportu nity to suddenly seize the lead in late- night after decades of play ing also-ran to NBC and CBS.
But what of "Night line" and Jimmy Kim mel, you ask?...
- 7/28/2008
- by By ADAM BUCKMAN
- NYPost.com
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