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2024 Emmys Best Game Show and Host Predictions

[ad_1] Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any individual contender. As other formal (and informal) polls suggest, competitions are fluid and subject to
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Buyers Get First Taste of ‘Coolie,’ Chinese Diaspora Series

[ad_1] Chinese industry executives will get a first taste of “Coolie,” a big-budget historical miniseries that focuses on the enslaved Chinese workers in Cuba in the 1860s. MM2 Entertainment is handling China rights to the production on behalf of I.E. Entertainment. The Suharjono sisters’ I.E. Entertainment is representing rights in the rest of the world. Following a shoot in the Dominican Republic and Panama which wrapped in April, preliminary footage
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Joe Lycett dressed as Queen Elizabeth I at the Baftas

[ad_1] Many of the celebrities wore loose fitting outfits, as they tried to keep cool with the sun beating down on London's Royal Festival Hall.Not so Joe Lycett. The comedian arrived dressed as Queen Elizabeth I, in a white cape and gown with a ruff around his neck.Lycett did carry two different types of fan on the red carpet, one manual and one battery-powered, as temperatures soared.But that wasn't enough
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Colombia election: Former Farc rebels face first ballot

[ad_1] Image copyright AFP Image caption The vote is being viewed as a test ahead of presidential elections in May Polls have closed in Colombia's congressional elections that saw former members of the Farc guerilla group take part for the first time.The ex-rebels, now known as the Revolutionary Alternative Common Force (also Farc), were given 10 congressional seats as part of a historic peace deal signed in 2016.But opinion polls
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Pro-Kurdish demonstrators close London and Manchester stations

[ad_1] Image copyright @broseph_stalin Image caption A large crowd gathered outside the entrance to King's Cross Pro-Kurdish demonstrators have caused delays and disruption at major railway stations in London and Manchester.Police were forced to close Manchester Piccadilly after people stormed the station and climbed on to the tracks.Within hours, King's Cross was shut down to stop protesters getting on the tracks. Both stations have reopened.Demonstrators are protesting against Turkey's military
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Russian spy: What are nerve agents and what do they do?

[ad_1] Image copyright Reuters Image caption Officials in protective suits examine the area where Mr Skripal and his daughter were found Police say a nerve agent was used in an attempt to murder the Russian former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in Salisbury, Wiltshire. The pair are critically ill, along with a police officer who was among the first to attend the scene. But what are nerve agents