Entertainment roundup
Cecilia Vega joins ‘60 Minutes’
Cecilia Vega, a White House correspondent and weekend anchor for ABC News, is joining the CBS news magazine “60 Minutes.”
CBS News announced Thursday that Vega will be a correspondent on the venerable franchise, the most watched news program on television. Openings for fulltime roles on “60 Minutes” are rare and remain the most coveted positions in the TV news business.
Vega will be the first Latina correspondent on the program in its 55-year history.
‘Bros,’ ‘White Lotus,’ ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ top GLAAD noms
Nominations for the 34th annual GLAAD Media Awards are out — and proud.
GLAAD, the world’s largest LGBTQ media advocacy organization has announced the nominees for its prestigious awards honoring fair, accurate and inclusive representation of LGBTQ people and issues.
Topping the list of nominees in various categories are “Bros,” “White Lotus” and “RuPaul’s Drag Race.”
Honor for Adam Sandler to be aired on CNN
CNN will broadcast this year’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, taking over a star-studded Kennedy Center awards show that has been aired by PBS for the past two decades.
The ceremony, which this year honors Adam Sandler, will be held in the Kennedy Center’s Concert Hall on March 19. CNN will air an edited version of the ceremony one week later at 8 p.m. The cable giant will also stream the broadcast for “pay TV subscribers via CNN.com and CNN OTT and mobile apps, or CNN go where available,” according to a news release from the Kennedy Center.