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Every semester, the Berkeley Forum hosts a series of panels and speakers, all on a variety of timely topics and featuring significant community members.

The reputation Lilly Singh has built for herself is as someone shattering all conventions of the media industry — as a performer of color that broke an internet that was primarily white.

On Thursday night, the bittersweet final first episode aired on NBC and signaled that this farewell season will indeed be a fun one.

A network famous for its iconic comedies, NBC hasn’t quite made its comeback after ending its trifecta of “The Office,” “30 Rock,” and “Parks and Recreation.”

Sci-fi legend William Shatner has been quite active lately — releasing a new book, recording a Christmas album and going on tour with the 1982 film “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan,” to name a few things.

Shows that try to mirror the real world often glamorize or demonize it, but “The Good Place” just reflects it. Nobody is perfectly good or irrevocably bad. That’s what makes it so difficult to coexist, but it’s also what makes it so important to try to be a good person.

Awards shows snubbing great art is nothing new, so rather than sit with the ennui, here are 11 random things from season two of “The Good Place” that made us think, “Wow, what a good forking show that should be nominated for every category that it qualifies for.”

We are presently in a golden age of television. It would be nearly impossible for one person to sort through all of the television at our fingertips and decide what is or isn’t the best. This is where the Emmy Awards come in.

More than 140 people came to Cheit Hall to hear King speak about the day-to-day challenges of putting together a show in less than a week as well as his experiences from working in the entertainment industry for his entire life.

The event brought together more than 20 animal shelters and rescue organizations from across the Bay Area and was hosted in conjunction with an NBC event.