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🎥 Today on AvA LIVE at 12:30pm PT Chris Lake & I are giving away tix to his L.A. shows this weekend plus Terry Crews, the Michael Jordan of Lacrosse, and Taylor Swift’s biggest fan(dom) experts join us. I’ll be taking questions live from the chat. Come hang with us!
📝 Hollywood took a step back with diversity in 2025. Grammys announce a Best New Artist rule change. LA’s neighbor delivers permanent production incentives, and more.
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Before we begin… this is sooooo goooood
📹 People are calling today’s show their “dream blunt rotation.” Me. I am “people.”
Hit the live chat if you want to win passes to see Chris Lake in LA this weekend.
⭐ Hollywood took a step back with diversity in 2025
Lead actors of color peaked in 2024 at 51% and dropped to 36% last year. The cast for streaming films dropped from 41% to 25.8% as well. Read UCLA’s full report here.
⭐ Culver City, California approved a $400 million permanent slate of annual production incentives for films including free parking, tax cuts, and more.
You had me at free parking xoxo
⭐ Is linear programming dead or are you just looking in the wrong places and love to complain?
YouTuber Adam Mockler just launched a political debate show (Deadline)
Recess Therapy’s Julian Shapiro-Barnum wants To “revolutionize” Late-Night by keeping It exactly the same, except on YouTube (Deadline)
The signature walking interview of linear TV is headed to social with shows like StreetTalk bringing back the old formula: CEO + anchor and an extra extra slow walk to make it look like an ambassador visit.
⭐ Hey soooooo Heated Rivalry wasn’t about the hockey btw
⭐ This NBA Finals between the Knicks and the Spurs was the most watched championship in nearly 30 years with an average of 24.5 million concurrent viewers.
⭐ The Grammys are adding 5 new categories while also updating the rules to allow musicians to lose apply for Best New Artist 4 times rather than 3
The entire narrative around Best New Artist in recent times is that it includes artists who are certainly not new. Pretty sure this change just made it worse? I’m going to buy a FYC Grammys billboard for Mozart Best New Artist if anyone wants to crowd fund with me.
Girl power btw:
⭐ All Emmys nominations are set to be announced on July 8th 👀
⭐ Major League Baseball is debuting a new ‘Players Studio’ to turn athletes into content creators.
Nothing like a bunch of mid-30 year old dudes becoming content creators. Oh wait.. that’s literally me??? (please watch AvA LIVE today and say hi in the live chat)
CAA is bringing Kendall Ostrow on as an executive for their Creators division. She brings over 20 years of experience ranging from the ‘Ellen DeGeneres Show,’ to helping launch UTA’s digital data and insights practice.
CNN enlists finance content creator Kyla Scanlon to become an Analyst and Contributor. Social media turning into jobs your parents would understand once again!
Former Amazon MGM + Warner Bros. Discovery PR exec Adam Keen launched his own firm called Agenda Collective, and already works with A24, Lionsgate, WME, and more.
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