Jordan
Peele
The annual MTV Movie
Awards have a makeover
coming this year as for the
first time ever, movie and
television categories will
both be represented on
the show. Nominees were
unveiled last week, Jordan
Peele’s Get Out led the
pack with six mentions.
Additionally, the actor and
actress categories have
been combined into non-
gendered fields for movies
and TV shows.
Donald Glover
Beyoncé
Ava DuVernay
20
Mike Colter
DeRay
Davis
Ice
Cube
VH1 has renewed reality competition series hosted by
DeRay Davis, Hip-Hop Squares for a second season. Exec
produced by Ice Cube, the game show ranks as VH1's
highest-rated new show in a year. The series ranks as the
No. 1 non-sports cable show in its time period among
adults 18-34. The order is for an additional 20 episodes —
on par with its freshman haul. The series will return in 2018.
Cube and his Cube Vision executive produce the series
in conjunction with Jesse Collins Entertainment, Scott St.
John and Jeff Kwatinetz’s The Firm and CBS Television
Distribution.
Beyonce’s visual album Lemonade and Donald Glover’s
freshman FX series Atlanta were among the finalists for
the 76th Annual Peabody Awards, the Peabody Awards
Board of Jurors announced Wednesday. Other notable
finalists this year include the first season of the Marvel-
Netflix series Luke Cage, which stars Mike Colter as a man
with superhuman strength and impenetrable skin, and
Ava DuVernay’s Oscar-nominated documentary 13th,
which explores racial issues within the U.S. prison system.
Over the next several weeks, the awards organizers will
winnow that list down to 30 winning programs. Peabody
Award winners and finalists will be celebrated at a gala
event on May 20th in New York. The event will be taped
for a television special to air on both PBS and Fusion
networks on June 2 at 9 p.m/8c. Rashida Jones, a
previous Peabody winner for Parks and Recreation and
current star of Angie Tribeca, will serve as host.