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Ted Danson on Working With Amazon to Reduce Single-Use Plastic

Oceana, the world’s largest worldwide advocacy group targeted on ocean conservation, held its annual SeaChange Summer season Get together on Saturday.

The Laguna Seaside get together, hosted this 12 months by Ted Danson, raised $1.5 million for campaigns to guard and restore the oceans in California and around the globe. “We’ve been doing it for 17 years, and we’ve raised over $20 million simply from that space alone,” Danson informed THR.

“They’re such a devoted, supportive, beneficiant viewers down there, it’s one in every of our favourite occasions,” the actor stated, including that the group is “often capable of get Hollywood to return down” for the fundraiser.

This 12 months’s occasion, which honored longtime supporter and SeaChange co-founder Valarie Van Cleave, included an deal with from the group’s new CEO Jim Simon. Singer Lisa Loeb additionally carried out a personal live performance for attendees. The get together had a slew of superstar friends alongside Danson, together with Diane Lane, Oscar Nuñez, Dennis Haysbert, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Sam Trammell and extra.

All through the occasion, Oceana highlighted greater than 25 victories over the previous 12 months together with convincing Amazon to scale back single-use plastic in North America, new habitat protections in a number of international locations, and actions in California to scale back whale and sea turtle entanglements in business fishing gear.

Danson, a board member of Oceana, can simply recall the group’s many wins. “Plastics is simply this enormous downside wherever you go, together with southern California,” he defined, mentioning that the group labored with Amazon to scale back single-use plastic. “They’ll be stopping using plastic pillows by the tip of 2024,” he added.

“Relating to plastics, we work with companions on a regular basis to get this stuff achieved,” Danson stated. “We’re positively main the cost,” he continued, including that “there are various different organizations which have been engaged on this with us.”

The actor emphasised how detrimental plastics are. “It’s an enormous downside,” he stated. “Plastics are projected to triple by midcentury.”

He additionally identified that it’s not nearly being higher at recycling. “That’s a terrific advertising and marketing slogan for the plastic trade, but it surely doesn’t work. It by no means has,” Danson stated. “I believe one thing like 8 % of all of the plastic created has been recycled, and numerous the time that’s simply down-cycling, in order that bag is now a plastic garden chair as a result of it’s recycled, however then that chair turns into a problem sooner or later.”

In between his time with Oceana and Danson’s many different skilled gigs, he’s been engaged on a Cheers podcast together with his former co-star Woody Harrelson. “I really feel prefer it’s this privilege to take a seat down with any individual for an hour and a half and have a real, relaxed, deep-as-you-can-go dialog, and learn the way that individual turned that individual.”

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‘Mary Tyler Moore Show’ Writer Was 91

Bob Ellison, the two-time Emmy Award winner who wrote for The Mary Tyler Moore Present and served as a game-saving inventive/script guide on Cheers, Wings, Becker and lots of different comedies, has died. He was 91.

He died April 8 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Middle in Los Angeles, his enterprise supervisor, Malcolm Orland, informed The Hollywood Reporter. “He was a sweetheart and so good at what he did,” Orland mentioned.

Ellison got here from the world of selection exhibits, the place he wrote and/or produced a number of specials that starred Julie Andrews and Burt Bacharach. He additionally co-developed the 1988-92 NBC sitcom Expensive John, starring Judd Hirsch.

Ellison wrote 15 episodes and was an government story editor over the past two of The Mary Tyler Moore Present’s seven seasons (from 1975-77). He shared an Emmy with Allan Burns, James L. Brooks, Ed. Weinberger, Stan Daniels and David Lloyd for the beloved collection finale, “The Final Present.”

The unheralded Ellison was a guide on one other legendary sitcom, NBC’s Cheers, for its ultimate seven seasons (1986-93); on NBC’s Wings for its final 4 years (1993-97); and on CBS’ Becker for its ultimate 5 seasons (1999-2004).

He carried out related duties for Caroline within the Metropolis, Andy Controls the Universe, Bob, Amen, Angie, Better of the West and Mr. President.

“He was at all times optimistic, at all times humorous and at all times introduced new power into each writing session,” Becker creator Dave Hackel informed THR. (They labored collectively on Expensive John and Wings as properly.)

So simply what does a inventive guide do? They “come on someday per week on a troubled script, go to a run-through and a studying and discover out what the issues are and attempt to repair them. Generally that entails jokes that don’t work,” he informed fellow comedy author Ken Levine on a 2019 episode of the Hollywood & Levine podcast.

“You at all times must determine that the reply is within the air. You simply have to attend, comprehend it when it comes alongside and seize it. You’ll be able to’t go in and say it’s unattainable, you could’t discover it, that you just’ll by no means get it.”

Throughout one spectacular stretch, he labored on six exhibits per week.

Born in New York on Feb. 25, 1933, Robert Ellison graduated from the LaGuardia Excessive Faculty of Music & Artwork and began out in present enterprise as a trombone participant within the Catskills. He usually had a joke for the stand-up with whom he was sharing a nightclub invoice.

Ellison as soon as wrote a bit concerning the TV present Ben Casey for a comic book and bought paid $68.80 for it, a sum he used to cowl the price of an Olivetti typewriter he’d simply bought. That despatched his profession in a brand new route, and he would write for Tony Bennett, stand-up Pat Henry and lots of others.

He labored on The Steve Allen Comedy Hour, The Dom DeLuise Present and the Robert Morse-starring That’s Life within the Nineteen Sixties, then was employed for specials hosted by the likes of Andrews, Bacharach, Alan King, Bing Crosby, Petula Clark, Jackie Gleason, Mac Davis and Richard Pryor.

Ellison obtained his first Emmy for a 1971 Bacharach particular and was additionally nominated for his writing on The Kraft Music Corridor that yr, Julie and Carol at Lincoln Middle (that might be Andrews and Carol Burnett) in 1972 and The Julie Andrews Hour in 1973.

He labored on the Mary Tyler Moore spinoffs Rhoda and Phyllis and produced The Betty White Present, all for MTM Enterprises, too.

Survivors embrace his spouse, Elaine. That they had no kids.

Levine additionally wrote alongside Ellison on Cheers, Becker and different comedies and introduced him in to assist out on Large Wave Dave’s, the 1993 CBS sitcom he created with David Isaacs. “When David and I might get a present on the air, our first name was at all times to you,” Levine informed him on the podcast.

Ellison recalled a time when an ABC government who had two “henchmen” with him watched a run-through of a sketch he had written. “My Midwest asshole tells me that’s not humorous,” the man informed Ellison. “I mentioned, ‘Which one is he?’”

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Cheers, ESPN Hobey Baker Podcasts Teased at IAB Podcast Upfront 2024

The Interactive Promoting Bureau (IAB) held their 2024 Podcast Upfront in New York on Thursday, Could 9. IAB gathered manufacturers, companies and media patrons to offer an unique glimpse into upcoming podcast programing.

The occasion, of which The Hollywood Reporter was a media sponsor, included shows from Wondery, iHeartPodcasts, Acast, NPR, SiriusXM Media, Libsyn Advertisements, Paramount Audio, Seekr, WNYC Studios, POD Digital Media, Cumulus Media, Higher Collective, The Every day Wire, Claritas, Sonoro, YAP Media Community and ESPN Podcasts.

The day was hosted by YAP Media Community podcast hosts Jenna Kutcher of The Objective Digger podcast and Rachel Rodgers of Hiya Seven. In the course of the panels, it was shared that, in keeping with Edison Analysis, 135 million individuals hearken to a podcast month-to-month and that 60 % of adults hearken to podcasts month-to-month. In the meantime, in keeping with Acast, 36 % of adults have by no means listened to a podcast and there may be nonetheless untapped potential to develop audiences.

In creating the day’s agenda, IAB aimed to be reflective of the “urgent and present themes” within the podcasting house, from anticipated progress in income to evolving promoting methods to video podcasts.

“You’re speaking about an {industry} that’s been on a very spectacular sizzling streak, each from an advertiser curiosity perspective, from a listener curiosity perspective, from a income perspective,” Matt Shapo, IAB’s director of digital audio and video, tells The Hollywood Reporter.

“What we did this 12 months, as we have been getting ready thematically, was fascinated with ways in which we might proceed to, from an editorial perspective, spotlight the strengths of the medium for listeners and advertisers alike,” he provides.

Unsurprisingly, many networks unveiled a number of new exhibits, together with Jon Stewart‘s The Weekly Present, teased by way of a show-stealing video message aired in the course of the Paramount Audio presentation.

The previous and present weekly Every day Present host joked by means of the video about what sort of promoting he’d be open to (snacks and outerwear) and why he couldn’t make the occasion (“After they instructed me about it, I didn’t imagine there was an upfront for podcasts”).

SiriusXM showcased an upcoming Cheers podcast, The place Everyone Is aware of Your Title with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (Typically), co-hosted by present alums Danson and Harrelson. The present is ready to premiere in simply over a month on June 12.

Different notable bulletins included The Offensive Line hosted by social media star Annie Agar for Wondery and ESPN’s upcoming podcast Looking for Hobey Baker, the latter a narrative concerning the faculty hockey participant and World Battle I fighter pilot. The podcast shall be launched in June, tied particularly to Pleasure Month, because the present plans to “re-contextualize the hockey legend by means of the lens of his lesser identified struggles as a queer man within the early twentieth century,” in keeping with a launch.

Total, for IAB, podcasting is a particular medium for advertisers and shoppers because of the distinctive nature of the connection between hosts and audiences. “You’re particularly deciding on one-on-one time with that content material in contrast to you’re doing with every other sort of content material,” says Chris Bruderle, IAB’s vice chairman of {industry} insights and content material technique.

Trying again at this 12 months’s upfront, IAB discovered a couple of key takeaways. “Podcast is now a multi-platform medium,” Bruderle notes. “It isn’t simply an audio medium. It’s a video medium, and additionally it is an occasions medium.”

Bruderle famous that advert income progress for the 12 months was 5 %. For a mixture of causes, video and occasions being one among them, that quantity is projected to extend, Bruderle says, with IAB projecting a 12 % improve.

Trying ahead from Thursday’s upfront, IAB sees industry-wide tendencies which are more likely to evolve over the 12 months. One factor that was on the prime of thoughts, in keeping with IAB executives, is an actual shift in angle of which podcasts advertisers will wish to purchase into. Shapo famous that advertisers are starting to see that a number of the best promoting might be completed on smaller exhibits with extremely engaged audiences.

“We’re lastly starting to have a mindset shift, the place patrons don’t essentially assume they must solely purchase the highest 10, 50, 100 exhibits that they’ve heard of,” Shapo observes, including, “You may get extra gross sales out of a 7,000 downloads-a-month present, you then get out of a 100,000 downloads-a-month present, as a result of it’s simply the proper setting by which to share that message.”