This year’s GLAAD Media Awards will honor the legacy of HappinessSantana Lopez (played by the late Naya Rivera).
Partner Happiness alumni Chris Colfer, Darren Criss, Jane Lynch, Kevin McHale, Heather Morris, Matthew Morrison, Amber Riley, Harry Shum Jr., Jenna Ushkowitz, Jacob Artist, Vanessa Lengies, Becca Tobin and Alex Newell will virtually meet at the 8th ceremony April to mark the 10th anniversary of Santana’s debut on the Fox series. Demi Lovato, who played Dani on the show, Santana’s girlfriend, will present the segment.
The awards will be broadcast on the GLAAD YouTube page on Thursday, April 8, at 8 pm ET, and on Hulu, that same night, starting at 10 pm ET.
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* Raven-Symoné will headline the HGTV pilot What not to design (working title), based on TLC’s What not to wear. In the program, Raven and her team of experts (designer Nina Ferrer and artisan James Worsham) conduct interventions to reform disasters in domestic projects.
* Alexander Siddig (Gotham, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) joined the drama Apple TV + Shantaram, playing Khader Khan, the revered boss of the Bombay underworld who acts as a surrogate father for Charlie Hunnam’s character, reports our sister site Deadline.
* Amazon’s Lord of the Rings The series hired British Chinese director Wayne Che Yip to direct four episodes, continuing the work of Spanish filmmaker JA Bayona, who directed the first two episodes.
* Season 2 of the Apple TV + comedy Trying, starring Esther Smith and Rafe Spall, opens Friday, May 14, with new episodes premiering weekly. What’s more, Apple renewed the British comedy for a third season.
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