FREEZE FRAME -- SEPT. 15, 2014
(From l.): Mandy Patinkin of Homeland and Questlove of The Roots and NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon at the season-4 premiere party for the Showtime series in New York.
BET Networks hosted a dinner following the Toronto International Film Festival world premiere of Beyond the Lights (l. to r.): Nate Parker, actor; Gina Prince-Bythewood, director; Gugu Mbatha-Raw, actress; Debra Lee, BET chairman and CEO; Loretha Jones, BET president, original programming; and Amar’e Stoudemire, New York Knicks player.
Tennis Channel CEO Ken Solomon (l.) toasts network analyst and tennis hall of famer Martina Navratilova (c.) and her fiancée, Julia Lemigova, who got engaged in the channel’s Arthur Ashe Stadium suite at the U.S. Open.
Iowa Gov. Terry Brandstad and Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds visited Hawthorne Direct’s offices in Fairfield, Iowa (l. to r.): Tammy Shull, executive director, administration and HR, and Sarah Ledger; director of marketing, Hawthorne Direct; Reynolds; Brandstad; and Gene Silverman, VP of marketing; and Karla Crawford Kerr, director, business development and corporate relations, Hawthorne Direct.
At National Geographic Channel’s Washington, D.C., world premiere of American War Generals (l. to r.): Lt. Gen. Herbert R. McMaster; Gen. Wesley Clark (Ret.); Courteney Monroe, CEO, Nat Geo Channel; Gen. David Petraeus (Ret.), Gen. Barry McCaffrey (Ret.); and Lt. Gen. Karl Eikenberry (Ret.).
In the audience for the season-13 finale of Lifetime’s Project Runway at New York’s Lincoln Center (l. to r.): Rob Sharenow, EVP and GM, Lifetime; Emmy Rossum, guest judge; Nina Garcia and Zac Posen, judges; and Heidi Klum, co-host.
(L. to r.): Hoda Kotb, co-anchor of NBC’s Today, with fellow cancer survivor Julie Chrisley of USA Network’s Chrisley Knows Best and her daughter, Savanna, at the Susan G. Komen Foundation’s “Race for a Cure” in New York.
At the season six premiere event for FXX’s The League in New York (top, l. to r.): Jon Lajoie and Jason Mantzoukas, cast members; Jackie Schaffer, co-producer; and Paul Scheer and Stephen Rannazzisi, cast members. At bottom (l. to r.): Jeff Schaffer, co-producer, and Nick Kroll, cast member.
(From l.) Jimmy Smits and Chuck Saftler, president of program strategy and COO, FX Networks, at the season-premiere afterparty for FX’s Sons of Anarchy at Avalon in Hollywood.
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