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Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeGreetings from Variety Awards Headquarters! Today is May 24, 2021, which means it’s 7 days until Emmy eligibility ends on May 31; 24 days until nomination-round voting starts on June 17; 32 days until the Daytime Emmys telecast on June 25; 35 days until nomination-round voting ends on June 28; 50 days until nominations are announced on July 13; 87 days until final-round voting starts on Aug. 19; and 118 days until the Primetime Emmys telecast on Sept. 19

Rachel Campos-Duffy has been tapped to co-host Fox & Friends Weekend, the announcement coming days after the network confirmed that they were parting ways with Jedediah Bila.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorRachel Campos-Duffy, a commentator who is also known from her time on MTV’s “Real World” series, was named a co-host at “Fox & Friends Weekend,” replacing Jedediah Blia. She is slated to start on June 12.Placing Campos-Duffy in the role means Fox News has a more stalwart conservative on the program than her predecessor.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorBillie Eilish, George Strait, Stevie Nicks, Miley Cyrus, Rüfüs Du Sol, DaBaby, Erykah Badu, Megan Thee Stallion, and Doja Cat are the top-billed performers for the 20 th anniversary Austin City Limits Music Festival, which returns at full capacity this fall.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorMatt Siegel, a radio host at Boston’s KISS-108 who stormed off of his show on Wednesday after being told not to make jokes about Demi Lovato’s non-binary announcement earlier that morning, returned to his post on Thursday morning.“I’m here. Good morning,” the veteran host said before addressing the issue on the air, according to Boston.com.

Summer Harl has shared an adorable snap of her and her baby son Ace, as they soaked up the Scottish sunshine. Summer, who gave birth to her first child just four weeks ago, enjoyed a day out on the East Coast with her family and baby boy.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorErykah Badu, Phoebe Bridgers and St. Vincent are scheduled to headline the Pitchfork Music Festival, which returns to Chicago after a pandemic-induced skip year in 2020.

The prestigious Cannes Film Festival, which got canceled in 2020 due to the COVID outbreak has delayed its official press conference by one week. As per a report in Variety, the highly anticipated press conference will now occur on June 3.

Kelsea Ballerini and Kenny Chesney are heading home to Tennessee.

Lollapalooza Festival will return to Chicago with a four-day event at its usual place and date range — Grant Park, July 29-August 1 — sources tell Variety.

Manori Ravindran International EditorThe Berlin Film Festival has confirmed that its in-person June event will go ahead as planned, taking place as an outdoor event.Organizers said the event will run from June 9-20, noting that “the Berlinale is pleased to be able to give audiences the enjoyment of an open-air cinema experience at 16 venues in total at the Summer Special.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVElon Musk declared himself to be the first person with Asperger syndrome to host “Saturday Night Live” in the opening of his May 8 monologue.“Or at least the first person to admit it,” he said on stage at Studio 8H.Musk identified casually and then followed it up with a joke, noting that he’s “pretty good at running human emulation mode.” Musk also noted that he doesn’t have a lot of “intonational variation in how I speak, which I’m told makes for

Summer Harl has posted a sweet snap of her and her baby son Ace, just less than three weeks after he was born. The former Celtic TV host and her partner ex-Celtic keeper Craig Gordon welcomed their son on April 19, and have been smitten ever since.

“Sparkles It’s confirmed, official, and it’s going to be hard to wait: #Benedetta by Paul Verhoeven with Virginie Efira joins the #Cannes2021 #Competition! Projected in World premiere in Cannes on July 9th, the film will be released in theatres in France on the same day,” and with that, the Cannes Film Festival finally announced the new Paul Verhoeven film, “Benedetta,” at their festival, a year after it was supposed to initially premiere.

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A reality competition series based on classic backyard toy slip and slide is gliding on to NBC.

The Casting Society of America will host two virtual town halls this month as part of its Asian American Pacific Islander Initiative. Celebrating Asia Pacific American Heritage Month, CSA says the town halls and roundtable discussions – on May 10 and 17 – “are designed to affect concrete change in how creatives, in this historically underrepresented community, have been perceived, what they have achieved, and how we all can create systemic change to move the needle of progress forward.”

“Sparkles It’s confirmed, official, and it’s going to be hard to wait: #Benedetta by Paul Verhoeven with Virginie Efira joins the #Cannes2021 #Competition! Projected in World premiere in Cannes on July 9th, the film will be released in theatres in France on the same day,” and with that, the Cannes Film Festival finally announced the new Paul Verhoeven film, “Benedetta,” at their festival, a year after it was supposed to initially premiere.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorBillie Eilish, Post Malone, Megan Thee Stallion A$AP Rocky, J Balvin, Da Baby and many more are scheduled to perform at the 10 th anniversary edition of Governors Ball, New York’s largest music festival, on the weekend of Sept. 24-26 at the the Citi Field complex in the city’s borough of Queens.Other top-billed performers include Rufus Du Sol, Ellie Goulding, Leon Bridges, 21 Savage, Young Thug, Phoebe Bridgers, Portugal.