TV personality Jimmy Kimmel hosted the 72nd Emmy Awards on Sunday in the largely empty Staples Center in Los Angeles while nominees waited at home to discover whether they had won. Winners gave their acceptance speeches via livestream and, in most cases, received their trophies through prearranged delivery.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences suffered embarrassment in 2015 when #OscarsSoWhite started trending on social media. April Reign, the activist who started the hashtag, noted at the time that the academy’s membership was 92 percent white and 75 percent male. The controversy went from bad to worse when the list of 2016 nominees for the Academy Awards had less ethnic diversity than the 2015 slate.

Hip-hop mogul and serial entrepreneur Kanye West has a new album dropping soon, a recently inked 10-year clothing deal with Gap, and a traveling gospel choir.

Pro-Trump she’s not, but actress Rose McGowan had no love for Democrats, either, at the close of their national convention last week. “What have the Democrats done to solve ANYTHING?” she tweeted. “Help the poor? No. Help black & brown people? No. Stop police brutality? No. Help single mothers? No. Help children? No. You have achieved nothing. NOTHING.”

Some fans of the fantasy novels that inspired the HBO series Game of Thrones wish author George R. R. Martin would have stayed home on July 31 and worked on the long-overdue next book in the series. Instead, he hosted the 2020 Hugo Awards, which honor the year’s best fantasy and science fiction books.

Americans have relied on television for entertainment during pandemic-induced isolation, but networks and studios may have trouble offering them something new to watch this fall. Most studios ceased production of scripted programming because of the coronavirus. Flare-ups in California and Georgia, two of the top states for filming TV shows, have caused producers to question the safety of resuming work. Disputes with unions over COVID-19 testing also have plagued some efforts to restart.

Actress Ashley Judd won an important appeal last week in her lawsuit against disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. Her victory might make it easier for other women to find legal recourse against sexual harassment and abuse in the workplace.