• VMAs 2020: How the ‘live’ show was filmed amid the COVID-19 pandemic

    VMAs 2020: How the ‘live’ show was filmed amid the COVID-19 pandemic

    The 2020 MTV Video Music Awards are scheduled to air “live” from New York on Sunday night, but most of the performances, award presentations, and red carpet interviews were already pre-recorded days in advance, Page Six has learned. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, MTV took additional measures this year to produce the award show within …
  • Who’s performing at the VMAs 2020? A complete list of artists

    Who’s performing at the VMAs 2020? A complete list of artists

    The coronavirus decimated the 2020 music festival season, so consider Sunday’s MTV VMAs the hottest virtual concert of the year. The annual Video Music Award extravaganza is just about the closest thing to a live music event we’ll see this year — even if stars might be accepting their Moon Person trophies on the August …
  • VMAs 2020: How to watch and livestream MTV’s biggest night

    VMAs 2020: How to watch and livestream MTV’s biggest night

    The 2020 MTV VMAs are here to break your Netflix and quarantine routine. The 35th annual music video awards telecast on Sunday, Aug. 30 will offer some much-needed escape, as the coronavirus continues to halt life and — and live music — as we know it. While it won’t be the typical award-show experience spectacle …
  • Who is this year’s VMAs host? Meet Keke Palmer

    Who is this year’s VMAs host? Meet Keke Palmer

    Keke Palmer is going to be having a real kiki as host of the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards from New York on Sunday. The “Hustlers” actress-singer, 27, will preside over performances by the likes of Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande, The Weeknd and Miley Cyrus in the first live major awards show of the …
  • Eligibility for the 2020 Tony Awards have been announced

    Eligibility for the 2020 Tony Awards have been announced

    Though the coronavirus pandemic has kept Broadway shuttered for the better part of the 2019-2020 season, the Tony Awards show must go on — virtually — and with far fewer productions qualifying for consideration. Only 18 shows and plays qualified for this year’s award show, a significant drop from last year’s 34 eligible productions, and …
  • VMAs 2020 countdown: Best and worst musical lockdown performances

    VMAs 2020 countdown: Best and worst musical lockdown performances

    They’re not exactly the Moonpersons that anybody wanted to land at the VMAs. But when the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards go down on Sunday, there will be two new, COVID-era categories: best quarantine performance and best music video from home. Lady Gaga, Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber, and Post Malone are among the music …
  • VMAs 2020 can’t come soon enough for Lady Gaga in hilarious social media posts

    VMAs 2020 can’t come soon enough for Lady Gaga in hilarious social media posts

    At the beginning of March, Lady Gaga announced the initial dates of her “Chromatica Ball” tour promoting her new album, which would have seen her playing a half dozen dates in Europe and the US, concluding at MetLife Stadium on Aug. 19. Well, we all know what happened next, and while a canceled tour is …
  • Roman Polanski loses bid for Academy reinstatement

    Roman Polanski loses bid for Academy reinstatement

    A California judge denied Roman Polanski’s bid to be reinstated to the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences, the organization behind the Oscars. The controversial director sued the Academy in April 2019 after it expelled him in May 2018, alleging he had been thrown out without any warning or fair process. The director behind “Rosemary’s …
  • iHeartRadio Music Awards 2020 broadcast canceled due to coronavirus

    iHeartRadio Music Awards 2020 broadcast canceled due to coronavirus

    The iHeartRadio Music Awards telecast, which had originally been set to air on Fox March 29, has finally been officially canceled for this year, with the winners instead now slated to be unveiled on radio stations and social media over the four-day Labor Day weekend. The new plan was announced by iHeartMedia Monday morning. The …
  • Viola Davis says playing Annalise Keating is the ‘highlight of her life’

    Viola Davis says playing Annalise Keating is the ‘highlight of her life’

    Viola Davis was among the honorees at the second African American Film Critics Association TV Honors on Saturday. Davis was awarded best actress at the virtual celebration for her role in “How to Get Away with Murder.” “I am truly grateful for the experience … to create a character that meant so much to so …