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Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. MasterClass, the popular e-learning platform that taps celebrities and newsmakers to teach online classes, has unveiled a new deal in an effort to shore up subscriptions throughout the summer.The latest MasterClass deal gets college students three months of courses for only $1. The “Summer of Learning” promotion  launched today and will only be available for 24 hours.

Wilson Chapman editorThe Tribeca Festival has announced the television premieres for its upcoming 2022 edition.The festival, which takes place each year in New York City, features screenings and premieres of notable films, television series and audio storytelling. For its television slate, the festival will premiere nine new series and screen the returns of two series.The television lineup includes six docuseries: Hulu’s “Victoria’s Secret: Angels and Demons,” an exposé of the lingerie retail chain; HBO Max’s “Menudo: Forever Young,” a look behind-the-scenes of the titular Puerto Rican boy band; Peacock’s “The End is Nye,” which sees celebrity scientist and TV host Bill Nye examine potential global disasters; Showtime’s “Supreme Team,” an examination of a real-life Queens gang co-directed by rapper Nas; A&E Network’s “Right to Offend,” a Time Studios production that looks at the history of Black comedians using their comedy to push for social change; and ESPN’s “The Captain,” which looks at the 20-year Major League Baseball career of five-time World Series champ Derek Jeter.

Ashley Hume Lyn Lear, Gloria Calderón Kellett and Bill Nye were among the over 300 guests who attended the launch event for Good Energy’s playbook for screenwriters at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles on Tuesday night.The nonprofit organization’s new playbook titled “Good Energy: A Playbook for Screenwriting in the Age of Climate Change,” is a resource guide aimed at helping industry professionals integrate climate in the storylines of film and television projects.Hosted by Good Energy and Bloomberg Philanthropies, the event took place at the museum’s fifth-floor Tea Room and Wilshire Terrance, where attendees enjoyed cocktails as the sun was setting over the L.A. skyline.

EXCLUSIVE: Naked Lunch, the first podcast hosted by Phil Rosenthal (Everybody Loves Raymond) and from SiriusXM’s Stitcher, has lined up its inaugural set of guests. Former Raymond stars Brad Garrett and Ray Romano will join Rosenthal and co-host David Wild, along with Brad Paisley, Elaine May, Jimmy Kimmel, Nancy Silverton, Paul Reiser, Roy Choi, and others.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorThe people who once said they’d like to teach the world to sing now want to instruct it on how to recycle.Coca-Cola has over the decades used TV commercials to make consumers feel good about buying drinks that range from Sprite to Smartwater. To instill similar feelings about recycling the many bottles and cans that contain its beverages, however, it’s testing a different tactic.Coca-Cola has enlisted science educator Bill Nye to star in a nearly three-minute animated vignette that is available to stream on YouTube and takes viewers inside the recycling process.

Linoleum is certainly something of a curiosity as it strives to use a simple premise to explore, however subtly, themes of loss, identity, and fulfilling a dream of a suburban husband and father who finds a space age satellite drop out of the sky and into his backyard fueling his lost ambition of becoming an astronaut and building a homemade rocket to do just that.

Colin West’s “Linoleum” is the kind of movie that’s all but impossible to review with any specificity, because so much of its achievement lies in its surprises – how it seems to be doing one thing while slyly doing another, without deception, and then revealing its ultimate intentions with grace and style. This is the writer/director’s second film, and he displays a confidence and storytelling acumen that’s frankly inspiring.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaJim Gaffigan has had a very busy pandemic. The fruits of his COVID-era labors are on display recently in two distinctive projects that illustrate the size and scope of his ambitions.First, there’s his recently released special “Comedy Monster,” a filmed version of his stand-up act that quickly became a ratings juggernaut for Netflix (more on that later).Then there’s “Linoleum,” an off-beat dramedy that premieres March 12 at SXSW and showcases a much more understated Gaffigan doing double duty, playing both a children’s TV host named Cameron and a charming NASA scientist called Kent. Both projects were conceived and shot as the world was grappling with its new masked reality.

Bill Nye sent a stark warning about the events that could potentially happen if Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier collapses.

The stars are stepping out for the Don’t Look Up premiere!

Dr. Anthony Youn, a board-certified plastic surgeon and popular TikTok doctor, is weighing in on Zac Efron‘s “new face” that has so many fans wondering if he had work done.

Zac Efron got botched wtf I’m so devastated,” read one of the tweets. Efron was promoting a video he’d been involved with for Earth Day alongside the American science TV presenter Bill Nye, when the tweets piled in.

Zac Efron is Twitter’s latest victim after a screenshot of the actor has gone viral with many saying he has a “new face.” The picture is from a virtual Earth Day celebration hosted by Bill Nye and Justin Bieber that was posted to social media on April 21st. The “Down To Earth” star had a brief cameo in the video for the musical and praised Nye for being a “genius.” Once the screengrab was posted to Twitter, it spread like wildfire.

Zac Efron recently grabbed headlines for his breakup with girlfriend Vanessa Valladares. While the dust on that is yet to settle, the actor took fans by surprise when he appeared in a new video to promote Bill Nye’s “Earth Day Musical special with Facebook Watch".

OK, we’d tell you to sit down or hold onto something, but if you’re here you probably already saw (above).

Zac Efron has fans doing an about face following his appearance on an Earth Day special. The "High School Musical" star appeared on Bill Nye's "Earth Day Musical" special with Facebook Watch on April 22, but a lot of fans missed his message, as they focused instead on his face. Did he get plastic surgery? Did he get face fillers? Those were the types of questions trending on Twitter."I refuse to believe this is Zac Efron's face now," one person wrote. I refuse to believe this is Zac Efron's face

Zac Efron has become a trending topic on Twitter after a video of his latest appearance went viral.

Zac Efron was one of the many celebs who joined forces with Bill Nye on Earth Day to present a special musical to fans.

Bill Nye will host and exec-produce a new science series called The End is Nye for Peacock, the streamer announced today.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterPeacock has ordered a new series hosted by world-famous science educator Bill Nye, Variety has learned exclusively.Each episode of the show, titled “The End is Nye,” dives into the myths and realities of both natural and unnatural threats, from viruses to volcanoes, asteroids to authoritarianism, and climate change to chemical warfare.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterFor years, Disney has been keeping 80% of the revenue from older shows that it distributes to streaming platforms, leaving only 20% to be available to stars and other profit participants.It does so by classifying the revenue as “home video.” Under a formula dating from the introduction of the VCR, Disney subtracts an 80% royalty to its in-house distributor to cover the costs of distribution.In 2017, Bill Nye, star of “Bill Nye the Science Guy,” challenged that

The Masked Dancer spoilers follow. The Masked Dancer, the equally weird and wonderful spin-off of The Masked Singer US, has revealed the celebrity identity behind another one of its contestants.

Bill Nye is reminding us all about the importance of wearing masks as the world continues to battle the coronavirus pandemic.

You know Bill Nye the Science Guy, the man who makes concepts like inertia and phases of matter not only digestible, but actually mildly funny. Now, get ready for Steve Kornacki the Election Guy, the man who makes the intolerable wait for the presidential election results a bit more tolerable.Kornacki, MSNBC and NBC News's national political correspondent, has been working overtime to relay all the information viewers need to know about the hell storm that is the 2020 election.

Bill Nye, everybody's favorite "science guy," has teamed up with 4-H to take students to Mars (figuratively speaking.) 4-H is a network of youth organizations across the United States that provides educational opportunities. Every year, 4-H hosts the 4-H STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) Challenge (formerly known as 4-H National Youth Science Day).

Bill Nye is done with skirting around a topic and his new TikTok platform is proof.

Bill Nye has tackled racism in his latest TikTok video — and the internet is so here for it. The 64-year-old TV personality, otherwise known as The Science Guy, posted a clip on July 18 which explained how human beings came to have different skin tones — despite being the same species.

pair of videos on TikTok, where he displays a common surgical mask, a scarf that “won awards in the Washington state fair for both design and workmasnship” and a homemade face mask.“Why do people in the scientific community want you to wear a face mask when you are out in public?” he says. “Well, please, consider the following.

Bill Nye is the latest public figure asking people to wear masks amid the coronavirus pandemic, as numerous states have seen spikes in the number of newly reported cases. On Wednesday evening, Nye posted two TikTok videos explaining the science behind different types of masks.