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Television

Photo: Fran Brill (CFA’68) holds two of the characters she created: monster Zoe and the little girl Prairie Dawn

TV & Film

BU Alum Is ″a Muppet Legend″

March 3, 2026

Photo: Jacques Pépin with his little black curly dog and a glass of white wine.

Food

Jacques Pépin’s New Cookbook Celebrates His Twin Passions: Cooking and Painting

December 4, 2025

Photo: Oz, a character from Batman, portrayed by Colin Farrell, stares out onto the street ahead of him

TV & Film

COM Alum Earns Emmy Nomination for Helming the Finale of The Penguin

September 11, 2025

Photo: A man with gray hair wearing a blue tshirt, holding a coffee mug, and standing inside a fountain

TV & Film

Commercial Success: Actor David Hoffman Is Liberty Mutual’s Doug

March 25, 2025

Photo: A collage-style image with a swirling colorful background featuring black and white photos of the Beatles and author Debbie Gendler

Books

An Alum’s New Memoir Recounts Six Decades of Beatlemania

December 3, 2024

Photo: BU Alum Russell Morash standing behind a table in his home in Lexington, surrounded by tools and other workshop equipment

Tributes

Russell Morash Introduced How-To Television

December 3, 2024

Photo: A man in business casual dress standing in front of the Olympic Rings in Paris for the 2024 Summer Olympic Games

Social Media

COM Alum Will Bring the Summer Olympic Games to Social Media for NBCUniversal

July 19, 2024

Photo: Sam Lisenco, a white man with stubble and a prominent mustache, poses for a photo on a red carpet. The picture is from the shoulders up, showing him in his black suit and black tie.

TV & Film

“Yes, Chef!” BU Alum Receives Emmy Nod for His Work on The Bear

January 11, 2024

Photo: A picture of a filer which reads ANOTHER ANTI-GAY MURDER!

TV & Film

Alum’s True-Crime Book Now a Critically Acclaimed HBO Series

November 16, 2023

Photo: GFran Drescher, center, joined with National Executive Director and Chief Negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, and the TV/Theatrical Negotiating Committee members posing with one fist up in the air. They stand in front of a wooden wall.

TV & Film

BU Actors Celebrate Hollywood Strike Settlement and Return to Work

November 16, 2023

Photo: Jo Farkas, an elderly white woman wearing sunglasses, a white long-sleeved sweater, and jeans, smiles and poses with hands on hips on a sunny day. Behind her, desert hills and the white Hollywood sign can be seen in the distance.

Tributes

Jo Farkas, Whose Second Act Was Acting, Dies at 96

November 16, 2023

Photo: Writers from the Writers Guild of America picketing outside Paramount Pictures Studios

Film & TV

BU Hollywood Writer Alums React with Joy, Relief to End of 148-Day Strike

October 2, 2023

Photo: Melissa Adan of ABC News is shown reporting live from a roadside in Maui. A tan woman with black hair tied back and wearing a navy blue sleeveless blouse and khaki pants looks to her cellphone as a man wearing a large bucket hat, red shirt, and jeans holds a large TV camera in front of her. they stand on a dry, dirt road as fluffy clouds litter the blue sky.

Journalism & Media

Maui Wildfires Reunite Two BU Journalism Alums in the Field

August 22, 2023

Documentary

Alum-Produced Documentary Screens at the White House

July 17, 2023

Photo: Two individuals stare with their backs facing the camera over a bridge. On the left, a woman with a hijab wearing a light-colored checkered shirt. On the right, a man in a blue button up.

FILM

Alum’s Short Tackles Mental Health in the Muslim Community

July 10, 2023

Photo: Members of the The Writers Guild of America (WGA) picket outside Paramount Pictures on Friday, May 5, 2023, in Los Angeles. Various people walk and hold signs that read "Writers Guild on Strike" along with handwritten text and sayings. They walk in front a large gate that reads "Paramount Pictures".

Television

For BU Alums in Hollywood, the Strike Is about Survival in a Streaming, AI World

May 9, 2023

Photo: Deena Sheldon filming a Sunday Night Football game in Green Bay in 2008. A white woman with long, curly dirty blonde hair stands behind a large professional video camera on a high platform. She smiles as the photo is shot and a crowd of Green Bay Packers fans cheer in the stadium behind her.

TV & Film

Alum Deena Sheldon Inducted into the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame

February 8, 2023

Music supervisor Thomas Golubić (COM’93) says he sometimes gets to build character playlists for actors and directors to help them think about the characters they play in a certain way. Photo by Ashley West Leonard

TV & Film

What’s It Like to Be a Music Supervisor for a TV Show? Just Ask Thomas Golubić (COM’93)

January 23, 2023

Photo: Fox Sports reporter Jenny Taft on the sidelines at the November 25 FIFA World Cup USA-England match. A white woman wearing a a white shirt and light blue blazer holds up a microphone with a large "FOX" label on it. A green football pitch. The seats are filled with fans in the background and a large replica 2022 World cup can be seen in the background as well.

Journalism & Media

COM Alum Reports from the Biggest Stage in Sports—the FIFA World Cup

December 15, 2022

A composite image with photos of Liz Patrick, and a background of the NYC skyline in black and white

TV & Film

Saturday Night Live’s New Director Talks Sketch Comedy, MTV, and Ellen DeGeneres

November 3, 2022

Saturday Night Live’s New Director Talks Sketch Comedy, MTV, and Ellen DeGeneres