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Update December 28, 2018 at 12:30 p.m. Pt: Bre Payton died Friday at age 26, according to a tweet from her friend Morgan Murtaugh

Bre Payton, a staff writer at The Federalist, was found unconscious in her room Thursday morning and is currently in critical condition at a San Diego, California, hospital.

Payton, 26, was discovered by her friend Morgan Murtaugh, who first reported the news on Twitter Friday morning.

“24 hours ago I found my friend unconscious and called 911,” Murtaugh said. “She’s been in a coma since and really needs a miracle right now. Please, if you’re religious at all, send prayers this way. We really need them.”

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Murtaugh also shared a website about Payton’s condition that had more information.

“Bre was taken to the hospital where she was admitted to the ICU, sedated & intubated, and doctors began working up a diagnosis.

In the wake of a series of wildfires that surged across Northern California last month, resulting in more than 40 deaths and the devastation of 6,000 homes -- with damage estimates in the billions of dollars -- YouTube and Twitter announced today that they will both livestream a Band Together Bay Area charity concert on Thursday beginning at 8:45 pm Et to support recovery efforts

Featuring performances by Metallica, Dead & Company, Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds, G-Eazy, Rancid, and Raphael Saadiq, all ticket sales will go to an emergency relief fund established by local poverty-fighting nonprofit Tipping Point Community. Tipping Point will distribute funds to community foundations, local service providers, and government partners, who will work to provide temporary housing, food, education, and healthcare services. Funds will be harnessed toward the low income communities that were hit hardest by the fires.

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TheWrap business reporter Matt Pressberg spoke with CAA’s Colin Brady and Youku Tudou’s Catherine Zhang at TheGrill to discuss what’s next for China’s entertainment industry as streaming services and interest in premium content expand. Zhang, who works as Director of International Content Cooperation at Youku Tudou, discussed the company’s recent acquisition by Alibaba and its plan to invest $1.5 billion in content creation, both for premium TV shows and for user-generated content. Also Read: At TheGrill 2017, A Tipping Point: Tech Platforms Have Arrived on the Shores of Content “For the top content, the budget per...

Paying $24.40 for a gallon of milk might sound crazy, but that's how much it would feel like if you were living below the poverty line in the San Francisco Bay Area. One in 10 Bay Area families lives below the poverty line, making $24,300 or less per year. That's one-fifth of the average income in the Bay Area, making basic needs five times harder to afford. Popsugar is proud to be partnering with Tipping Point Community, the leading poverty-fighting organization in the Bay Area, in its first-ever awareness campaign called Poverty Line Prices. The campaign sheds light on what it's like for people too poor to meet their basic needs every time they visit the grocery store. The video above captures the reactions of shoppers as they purchase groceries with prices inflated by 500 percent. The film was shot at a grocery store in Nob Hill, one of San Francisco's most affluent neighborhoods,...

It’s been two years since Time magazine proclaimed a new era of inclusion in America with a May 2014 cover featuring actress Laverne Cox and the eye-catching headline: “The Transgender Tipping Point.” The groundbreaking Time cover came 10 months after Cox appeared in her breakout role as Sophia Burset on Netflix's Orange Is the New Black. That's the power of entertainment media — one outstanding performance by a charismatic and talented actress can accelerate change across an entire culture. Since then, trans people have begun to appear on reality shows like TLC's I Am Jazz, E!'s I Am

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The American Theatre Wing has announced the recipients of its 2015 National Theatre Company Grants. This year's recipients are 1st Stage Tysons, Va, BagampBaggage Productions Hillsboro, Or, Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company Boulder, Co, Congo Square Theatre Company Chicago, Il, Kansas City Actors Theatre Kansas City, Mo, Mildred's Umbrella Theater Company Houston, TX, The Nola Project New Orleans, La, Portland Playhouse Portland, Or, San Francisco Playhouse San Francisco, CA, Serenbe Playhouse Chattahoochee Hills, Ga, Theater Alliance Washington, D.C., and Tipping Point Theatre Northville, Mi. The prestigious grants totaling 120,000 will be presented on Monday, September 21st at a private event.

Team Bruce! After putting a face to the transgender movement last year in her role on Orange Is the New Black and on the cover of Time magazine’s “The Transgender Tipping Point” issue, Laverne Cox is now praising another member of the trans community who is making history: Bruce Jenner. The former Olympian broke social media records and made endless headlines for his daring interview with Diane Sawyer, in which he confirmed his plans to transition from a male to a female. “I think a lot of people [...]...

It's Girls meets Gladiators!

Lena Dunham is guest-starring tonight's all-new episode of Scandal, and aside from her questionable wig, we're excited to see what the HBO star will bring to our favorite Tgit drama.

To get the inside scoop on Dunham's secretive debut on the Shonda Rhimes series, we caught up with the Golden Globe winner and the stars of Scandal and we found out who's the biggest Girls fan on set. (Spoiler Alert: It's hard to tell because the entire cast was wilding fangirling and fanboying over Dunham's appearance!)

"Shonda is a very skilled writer and wrote me a really fun party to play," Dunham dished to ETonline at the Girls PaleyFest red carpet. "Unfortunately, besides the images that you've already seen, B6-13 will take me out of I say anything."

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It's no secret that Dunham is a huge Scandal fan. In...

Here at Digital Spy, we love a game show. And we love Richard Osman. So when we got a call asking if we'd like to take part in a journalists' edition of Richard Osman's game show Two Tribes, how could we resist?

If you missed the first series of Two Tribes, here's how it works: the contestants fill out a questionnaire beforehand, and then in each round they're split into two tribes depending on whether they answered "yes" or "no" to a particular question. Then the tribes battle it out to stay in the competition.

That all sounds simple enough, but then we got sent the questionnaire, about a week before we went on set. And let us tell you, there is nothing simple about this questionnaire (which is pretty long - we were advised that it might take half an hour to complete, so they aren't messing around...

GLAAD has announced nominees for the 26th annual GLAAD Media Awards in categories covering film, television, comic books, music and journalism. And in the film arena, Oscar season staple "The Imitation Game" was joined by films like "Love is Strange," "Pride," "Dear White People" and "Lilting" in the list of nominations. Check out who else was nominated below. Winners will be announced on March 21. And remember to follow along with the rest of the season at The Circuit. Outstanding Film - Wide Release "The Imitation Game" "Love is Strange" "Pride" "The Skeleton Twins" "Tammy" Outstanding Film - Limited Release "Dear White People" "Life Partners" "Lilting" "The Way He Looks" "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" Outstanding Drama Series "Degrassi" "The Fosters" "Game of Thrones" "Grey's Anatomy" "How to Get Away with Murder" "Last Tango in Halifax" "Masters of Sex" "Orphan Black" "Pretty Little Liars" "Shameless" Outstanding Comedy Series "Brooklyn Nine-Nine...

Every year the folks over at GLAAD seek to honor media figures for fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the Lgbt community and the 26th Annual GLAAD Media Awards just unveiled the nominees.

GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis told E! News, "For nearly 30 years, the GLAAD Media Awards have raised the bar for inclusion in news and entertainment, transforming Lgbt representation in media and moving the dial for acceptance across the globe. It's been a remarkable year for equality, and nowhere is that more evident than in the visibility Lgbt people have gained across media.”

“This year's nominees, including expanded categories in Outstanding Comedy and Drama Series, reflect the widening diversity of Lgbt images and storylines that are closing the gap to full acceptance." The 26th Annual GLAAD Awards will go live on March 21st. And the nominees are:

Outstanding Film - Wide Release

The Imitation Game (The...

52 comedy series and 83 drama series with regular portrayal of Lgbt characters were considered this year, as opposed to 2005, when GLAAD could only...

Amazon Studios’ Golden Globe winner “Transparent” joins Oscar nominee “The Imitation Game” and indie comedy “Dear White People” as nominees for the 26th annual GLAAD Media Awards announced on Wednesday.

Other nominees in the film and television categories include ABC’s “How to Get Away with Murder,” HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” “Looking” and “The Normal Heart,” while “Pride,” a Golden Globe nominated movie, is also nominated with John Lithgow and Alfred Molina drama “Love Is Strange.”

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America’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender media-advocacy group has pulled back the curtain on the nominees for its 26th annual GLAAD Media Awards.

The Weinstein Company’s Best Picture Oscar contender The Imitation Game is up for Outstanding Film, Wide Release alongside Sony Classics’ Love Is Strange, CBS Films’ Pride, Roadside’s The Skeleton Twins and Warner Bros’ Tammy. Gunning for the top prize for limited-release movies are Dear White People (Lionsgate), Life Partners (Magnolia Pictures), Lilting (Strand Releasing), The Way He Looks (Strand) and Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow (Film Movement).

The organization this year expanded its nominees for Outstanding Comedy and Drama Series to 10. Among the shows going for the gold are Amazon Prime Video’s rookie series Transparent — which won star Jeffrey Tambor a surprise Golden Globe last week — ABC’s freshman drama How To Get Away With Murder, Netflix’s Orange Is The New Black,...

Nominees for the 26th Annual GLAAD Media Awards were announced Wednesday, and freshman series Transparent, How to Get Away With Murder and Playing House were among those to snag nominations.

The awards — which honor media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community — will be handed out on March 21 (in Los Angeles) and May 9 (in New York).

This year, the categories of Outstanding Drama Series and Outstanding Comedy Series were expanded to include 10 nominees instead of the usual five.

The full list of this year’s TV nominees follows; the complete round-up can be found at GLAAD.

The 'Glee' star and pop singer opened up to Oprah about her sexual and gender identity.

Former Glee star and Filipina pop singer Charice Pempengco sat down with Oprah for her Own series Where Are They Now? , and discussed her sexual identity, and when she first realized that she was gay.

"I knew when I was five," Charice told Oprah. "I was in grade school, and I saw this girl, and I felt different. I didn’t know what it was, but I just knew, at that time, that it felt special."

Video: Raven-Symone Slams Fellow Child Stars For Their Tabloid Scandals On 'Where Are They Now?'

Oprah also asked Charice about her views on her own gender identity.

"So you struggled with transgender, did you?" Oprah asked. "Were you thinking about transitioning to become a male?"

"Not exactly… My soul is like a male, but I'm not going to go through that stage...

The National Television Awards 2015 longlist nominations have been announced and voting is now (October 14) open.

Hosted by Dermot O'Leary, the NTAs celebrate the best and most popular TV and are exclusively voted for by viewers. The 2015 awards take place at London's O2 on January 21.

The Nta shortlist will be announced in January when the final round of voting begins. Viewers can vote for free online at nationaltvawards.com or by calling the Nta vote form request line 0844 646 2060.

Full list of 2015 nominations:

Chat Show Host

Adam Hills

Alan Carr

Graham Norton

Jonathan Ross

Michael McIntyre

Paul O'Grady

Piers Morgan

Sarah Millican

Comedy

Benidorm

Big School

Birds of a Feather

Blandings

Boomers

Citizen Khan

Derek

Mrs Brown's Boys

Not Going Out

Outnumbered

The Big Bang Theory

The Wrong Mans

W1A

Daytime

Animal Saints and Sinners

Antiques Road Trip

Bargain Hunt

BBC Breakfast

Coach Trip

Escape to the Country

Father Brown

Fifteen to One

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Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word—the MTV/Logo documentary special about the experiences of young transgender people—will premiere at 7 p.m. on Oct. 17, the day after national Lgbt Spirit Day. Orange Is the New Black actress and transgender activist Cox is producer and host.

The T Word, renamed since its original announcement, will profile seven transgender individuals ranging in age from 12 to 24, with a focus on the particular challenges they each face—including the rocky journey of coming out to friends and family, and the current crisis of anti-transgender bullying and violence. Cox also wants to highlight the...

BBC One's Tumble was seen by an average audience of 3.31 million (21%) on Saturday evening (August 23).

The BBC gymnastics show narrowly improved on last week's average of 3.30 million, as Emma Samms became the second celebrity to exit the show.

As previously reported, the return of Doctor Who was the highest-rated show of the evening by some distance, entertaining 6.79 million (32.5%) at 7.50pm.

The feature-length episode, which marked the full debut of Peter Capaldi as the new Time Lord, peaked with an audience of 6.96 million at 8.45pm.

It was followed by 4.20 million (21.4%) for Casualty at 9.10pm, while Match of the Day rounded off the evening with 3.47 million (26.6%).

Tipping Point was seen by 3.12 million (15.6%) over on ITV, while All Star Family Fortunes played to 2.81 million (13.7%).

Celebrity Big Brother continued to do well for Channel 5, with 1.43 million tuning in to the latest episode.

Channel 5's evening began with 791k (4.4%) for The Abba Years at 7.10pm,...

We love a good quiz show here at Digital Spy, so when Gethin Jones invited us to come down and play his new series The 21st Question, how could we refuse? It's a pretty simple premise - a group of contestants compete but only the one who correctly answers the 21st Question has a chance at going through to win some big money.

When we weren't scowling at our inability to get a question right, we caught up with Gethin to find out 21 more things about him (including his weird celebrity crush!) and the show, which kicks off this afternoon...

1. The concept of the show is very simple - but there are lots of tactics!

"The quiz is very simple. The only way you can win any money is by being on the Power Spot when I ask the 21st question. That's it, that's the premise of the show, and...

The latest Big Brother instalment appealed to more than 800,000 viewers last night (August 2), according to overnight figures.

Channel 5's reality show managed 829k (4.1%) from 9pm, with Bit on the Side earning 379k (3.6%) later from 11pm.

Sandwiched in between Big Brother was Autopsy: The Last Hours Of, which had 563k (3.4%).

BBC One's Commonwealth Games coverage averaged 5.37m (28.6%) during primetime, with a peak of 8.07m (38.6%) at around 9.15pm.

BBC Two continued airing the Commonwealth Games from 10pm, drawing in 1.48m (8.3%).

Preceding the Glasgow event on BBC Two were Proms Extra (216k/1.1%), hosted by Katie Derham, and Melvyn Bragg's Radical Lives (398k/2%).

ITV game show Tipping Point entertained 2.39m (12.9%) from 7.30pm, with All Star Family Fortunes attracting 2.34m (11.8%) afterwards.

Channel 4's Grand Designs had 728k (3.8%) from 8pm before an airing of The Inbetweeners Movie, which was watched by 1.42m (7.8%).

On the multichannels, ITV3's Foyle's War drew 874k (4.8%) from 9pm.

BBC One's primetime coverage of the Commonwealth Games averaged more than 3 million viewers last night (July 26), according to overnight figures.

The Glasgow multi-sport event appealed to 3.06m (19.5%) between 7pm and 10.10pm.

On BBC Two, Proms Extra was watched by 456k (2.8%) from 8.25pm, with The Men Who Made Us Spend taking 562k (3.3%) afterwards from 9.10pm.

ITV game show Tipping Point entertained 2.6m (16.9%). It was followed by an airing of Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones, which grabbed 1.36m (8.6%).

Channel 4 showed Simon Pegg movie Paul, managing 1.3m (8%) from 9pm. Earlier, Grand Designs was seen by 725k (4.6%).

The latest Big Brother instalment on Channel 5 pulled in 812k (4.8%) in the 9pm hour, with 334k (3.5%) catching Bit on the Side from 11pm. In between, Autopsy: The Last Hours Of had 506k (3.2%).

On the multichannels, Foyle's War was watched by 919k (5.7%) on ITV3 from 9pm.

Laverne Cox is stealing the spotlight! The "Orange is the New Black" breakout star covers the new Time's Transgender Tipping Point issue, where she opens up about living as a trans person. Cox first noticed that she might be transgendered in just the third grade. "I tell this story about third grade. My third grade teacher called my mom and said ‘Your son is going to end up in New Orleans wearing a dress,'" she says of the experience. "Up until that point I just thought that I was a girl and that there was no difference between girls and boys. I think in my imagination I thought that I would hit puberty and I would start turning into a girl." The actress attended therapy soon after, and says that she felt incredible shame about her identity. "Going to a therapist and the fear of God being placed in...

Orange is the new black, and Laverne Cox is the new face of a movement.

The actress — best known as Sophia on Netflix’s hit prison dramedy – is on the cover of the latest issue of Time, accompanied by the cover line “The Transgender Tipping Point.”

While the full cover story — which “examines the radical rise in awareness of transgender Americans and how this movement is reshaping our definitions of gender” — isn’t yet online, Time has an extended Q&A up on their website, in which writer Katy Steinmetz talks with Cox. (The cover and interview come a month...

Here at Digital Spy, we love both game shows and Andi Peters - so imagine our delight when we were given the chance to pop up to Manchester to have a go at ITV's brand new series Ejector Seat! Of course, we then went on to get very nervous (the lights are bright, you guys!), freaked out at the possibility of pressing our buzzer prematurely (who hasn't been there?) and basically kind of embarrassed ourselves a little bit.

That said, we had a great time - and can't wait to see more people getting tipped back in those Ejector Seat chairs (which are very comfy, just so you know. Deceptively comfy.) Watch the video below to see how Digital Spy did (we swear we knew all of the answers, honest) and then read on to see what Andi had to say about the show...

You've filmed a bunch of episodes of Ejector Seat now.

Andi Peters has signed up to host new ITV daytime quiz show Ejector Seat.

The game sees six players sitting on "imposing" seats, each at the top of a track that leads towards "the edge".

If they answer questions incorrectly, their seat starts to move back towards the edge - and if they fail to stop themselves, they're ejected from their seat and eliminated from the competition.

The last contestant still in their seat will then be able to take part in the final round, with the chance to win up to £10,000.

Gethin Jones has also landed a quiz show on ITV daytime, with The 21st Question seeing a "power player" facing ten challengers through a series of 'winner stays on' rounds.

The final player left standing can then go on to win, as long as they are able to answer the 21st Question.

ITV's director of daytime Helen Warner...

Arctic Monkeys and ITV's Broadchurch were among the winners at today's South Bank Sky Arts Awards.

The Arctics' Am album beat David Bowie's The Next Day and Disclosure's Settle to the Pop Music prize

Meanwhile, Broadchurch toppled Top of the Lake and The Fall for the best TV Drama accolade.

Other winners at the event, which celebrates the best in visual art, theatre, opera, dance, comedy, classical music, pop, TV drama, literature and film, were Bridget Christie in the comedy category and The Selfish Giant, which scooped the Film title.

Stephen Mangan presented the Times Breakthrough Award to the comedian Nick Helm and Tracey Emin took home the Outstanding Achievement award.

The show airs on Sky Arts 1 on Thursday (January 30).

South Bank Sky Arts Award Winners 2014:

Comedy:

Bridget Christie: A Bic for Her

Theatre:

Let The Right One In, National Theatre of Scotland

Visual Art:

Katie Paterson,...

David Bowie, Alan Partridge, Broadchurch and the Arctic Monkeys are among the nominations for the South Bank Sky Arts Awards 2014.

Today's shortlist, which celebrates the best of British culture and achievement across visual art, theatre, opera, dance, comedy, classical music, pop, TV drama, literature and film, also includes nods for The Selfish Giant, Steve Coogan's Philomena and BBC Two dramas The Fall and Top of the Lake.

Melvyn Bragg will host the awards on Monday, January 27 at the Dorchester Hotel in London.

"Once again, the list of nominees for the South Bank Sky Arts Awards shows that the UK arts landscape is as vibrant as ever," said Bragg.

"It's vital to honour the excellence of artists, performers, musicians and authors especially at this time, and we're very glad that we can do this."

Sir Peter Blake, the co-creator of The Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album sleeve,...

Despite their dramatic potential, ecological importance and scientific interest, swamps rarely get the good press that crystal-clear lakes, misty mountains and sun-drenched beaches do. This may be partly because so much superstition has grown up around them. Swamp monsters are popular expressions of this superstition, embodying the impression that swamps are muddy, bug-infested slime pits.

Perhaps the most famous such monster in the annals of film is the comic book character Swamp Thing. This tangle of humanoid swamp vegetation first appeared in DC Comics' House of Secrets #92 (1971) and he was later revamped for his own title. In the 1980s the comic was adapted for the film Swamp Thing. The character has also appeared in that film's sequel, The Return of Swamp Thing, and animated and live-action television series.

Contemporary with the origination of Swamp Thing was the first appearance of Marvel Comic's Man-Thing. Swamp Thing and Man-Thing had similar origin...