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It’s no secret that Warner Bros. Discovery has treated some of the company’s most iconic characters with as much care and respect as Sylvester the Cat gives to Tweety Bird. After shelving a completed Batgirl spin-off and a new Scooby-Doo movie, just so that they could be used as tax write-offs, the corporation made headlines for similarly scrapping the release of the promising, and 100 percent complete, Looney Tunes feature Coyote vs. Acme.

Man, this company would sell off Humphrey Bogart’s bones if they thought it would save them a few bucks.

One silver lining to this depressing turn of events: Warners still had another feature length Looney Tunes project in the pipeline: The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie, a sci-fi parody in which Daffy Duck and Porky Pig battle mind-controlling aliens.

The Day the Earth Blew Up made its world premiere...

The 2nd Annual Children’s and Family Emmy Awards announced their winners on December 16 and 17. These prizes were formerly handed out as part of the Daytime Emmys, but they were given their own separate event as part of a restructuring of the Emmys as a whole. Scroll down for the complete list of winners in all categories.

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Preschool Series

Blue’s Clues & You! — Nickelodeon

Helpsters — Apple TV+

X — Sesame Street — HBO Max

Slumberkins — Apple TV+

Waffles + Mochi’s Restaurant — Netflix

Children’S Or Family Viewing Series

Are You Afraid of the Dark — Nickelodeon

Best Foot Forward — Apple TV+

Jane — Apple TV+

Malory Towers — BYUtv

X — The Muppets Mayhem — Disney+

Young Teen Series

X — The Crossover — Disney+

Ghostwriter — Apple TV+

High School Musical: The Musical – The Series — Disney+

The Mysterious Benedict Society — Disney+

Xo, Kitty...

Disney racked up 93 nominations for the second annual Children’s and Family Emmys over their different networks, including Disney+ and Disney Junior.

Netflix followed with 61 nominations and Nickelodeon with 30, with AppleTV+ proving itself to be a rising player with 27 total nods.

“We are very proud of the growth experienced in year two of the Children’s and Family Emmys, especially in the development and cultivation of the new categories dedicated to puppetry,” said Rachel Schwartz, director of Daytime and Children’s & Family Emmy Awards, in a statement.

Among the notable actors who received nominations for acting categories included “The Santa Clauses” stars Tim Allen and Kal Penn, “National Treasure: Edge of History” player Catherine Zeta-Jones, Gina Rodriguez for Netflix’s “Lost Ollie,” and various voice performances were recognized for Hollywood vets such as Laurence Fishburne, Jack Black, Tom Kenny and Rob Paulsen.

Details for the ceremony are slated to drop sometime next week.

The video that changed Alaya High’s life is, by production standards, rather elementary.

Shot on a phone, handheld at a slightly off-kilter angle, it shows the tiny 11-year-old girl as she sits in the passenger seat of her father’s car. It looks, in fact, like the sort of video every parent has taken in the spur of the moment. Footage fired off to a spouse or a grandparent, meant for a space no more public than a group chat, destined for an emoji reaction or, if the recipient is feeling generous or a little bored, a follow-up question. The content, though, is pretty extraordinary.

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Lay Lay, as she calls herself, is rapping with the talent and tenacity of someone twice her age. A speck of a thing, she’s checking herself out in the car’s visor mirror (“Hold on, Daddy, lemme make sure...

President Joe Biden’s second State of the Union address emphasized bipartisanship again and again. But while he may or not have achieved it, Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema certainly did when she brought Americans of all stripes together to make fun of her outfit.

Now Sinema, the once-Democratic Senator who ostentatiously re-registered as an independent last November, has been frequently called out for what critics say is attention-seeking behavior. But she may have outdone herself with her State of the Union look: An extremely bright yellow dress with huge, extremely frilly sleeves that had people comparing her to everything from Big Bird to a Teletubby.

One user said Sinema skinned Big Bird to get her outfit.

I see Kyrsten Sinema skinned Big Bird for her outfit.

— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) February 8, 2023

Another one noted Sinema’s classic video game energy.

Kyrsten Sinema looks like the female reboot of Scorpion from Mortal Kombat.