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NFL to allow coach's designee to challenge calls
The NFL will allow head coaches to designate a member of their sideline staff to initiate replay challenges this season.
Brief by WorldPing · Original reporting by ESPN
Hollywood Reporter
Andrew Haigh Calls His New Film His Version of ‘The Revenant’ — Allow Him to Explain (First Look)
The director of queer favorites like ‘Looking’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ returns with ‘A Long Winter,’ a rich character study shot deep in the wilderness. Here he speaks about the film, which he calls an “endpoint” in his career thus far, for the first time.
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Can Jean Smart Become the First Woman in Emmy History to Sweep Every Season of Her Series?
Winning an Emmy is hard. Winning one for every eligible season of a television series is almost impossible, and has never happened for a woman … until now?
Brief by WorldPing · Original reporting by Variety
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First Artists Management Rebrands as Fam Agency, Expands With New Agent Dan North
First Artists Management, the Los Angeles-based talent agency specializing in composers and music supervisors, is rebranding and changing its name to FAM agency. The agency has also hired former Kraft-Engel Management agent, Dan North.
Brief by WorldPing · Original reporting by Variety
WorldPingDeadline
O-T Fagbenle Signs With Artists First
EXCLUSIVE: Artists First has signed O-T Fagbenle for management. An actor, director, writer and creator, Fagbenle is best known for his role of Luke Bankole, husband of Elisabeth Moss’ June Osborne, in Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale, which ran for six seasons.
Brief by WorldPing · Original reporting by Deadline
ESPN
Freshman phenoms: Which first-year CFB players are set to shine?
They are not the top-ranked recruits, but these first-year players could affect conference and CFP races.
Brief by WorldPing · Original reporting by ESPN
Al Jazeera
US Congresswoman Nancy Mace calls Muslim officials ‘threat’ to US
US Rep. Nancy Mace clashed with CNN's Omar Jimenez over Islamophobic remarks after Abdul El-Sayed’s win in Michigan.
Brief by WorldPing · Original reporting by Al Jazeera