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Gary Knell, 57, is president and chief executive of Sesame Workshop, the New York-based nonprofit group that produces “Sesame Street,” the long-running PBS children’s program. He has headed the organization since 2000.

London’s silent film history wasn’t just illuminated by a tinny piano and a pathetic old pianist. “Market forces were at work in cinema exhibition as in any other trade, and good music brought in the punters just as much as good films.”

If the future doesn’t look hopeful to you now, you’re not alone: Filmmakers of the past and present show us grim dystopias, with the occasional perk of a space-age shoe.

Want to hear anything as you watch your favorite T.V. shows and movies? Then hope for a contract resolution for the American Federation of Television & Radio Artists.

“The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Manhattan, claims that Fox Searchlight Pictures, the producer of “Black Swan,” had the interns do menial work that should have been done by paid employees and did not provide them with the type of educational experience that labor rules require in order to exempt employers from paying interns.”

“Cable and satellite companies currently carry over-the-air network TV signals without paying for them. The Supreme Court of Canada said Thursday it will hear a case that could determine if cable and satellite companies must pay broadcasters to retransmit their television signals.”

“In his profoundly captivating video work The Clock, … [the] thousands of shots he has spliced together from the history of cinema depict little else but scenes of characters checking the time, fretting about it, or surrounded by bell towers or digital clock radios that ground the action on the screen within the cycle of a fictive day and night.”

“After significant gains during the 2010-11 primetime season, the overall number of LGBT characters on scripted television has dipped to 2.9 percent of scripted series regulars, down slightly from the 3.9 percent registered last year.”

“This year, for the 10th successive year, HBO, the pay-TV network, received more prime-time Emmy awards than any other network.”

“The lawsuit claims that Cinemark is engaged in an industry practice called “circuit dealing,” in which theater chains leverage their size and buying power to prevent distributors from booking movies at theaters owned by their rivals.”