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The shows celebrated for the work of their producers is another interesting combination of mainstay contenders and up-and-comers and over the past few weeks it’s been increasingly clear which series are on the rise and which could use a boost as Emmy season looms in the (far) distant future. Among shows on the upswing is Netflix’s comedy series “Cobra Kai,” a continuation of the events that took place during the original “The Karate Kid” movies....

“Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!” Trump said on Twitter. CNN reported that the president’s physician, Navy Commander Dr. Sean Conley, told reporters around 1 a.m. ET that he received confirmation of the positive tests on Thursday evening. “The President and First Lady are both well at this time, and they plan to remain at home within the White House during their convalescence,” Conley wrote....

“I knew enough to do more than I did,” Tarantino said at the time, revealing former girlfriend Mira Sorvino told him about Weinstein harassing her. “There was more to it than just the normal rumors, the normal gossip. It wasn’t secondhand. I knew he did a couple of these things. I wish I had taken responsibility for what I heard. If I had done the work I should have done then, I would have had to not work with him....

Richard Donner spent nearly two decades working on some of the best television programs of the 1960s and ’70s. His early work included directing episodes of “The Rifleman,” “The Twilight Zone,” “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.,” “Gilligan’s Island,” and “Perry Mason.” Later, he was behind the camera for “Get Smart,” “The Fugitive,” “The Streets of San Francisco,” and “Kojak.” All that work in action and suspense paid off with back-to-back big screen hits in “The Omen” (1976) and “Superman” (1978)....

Earlier: Rita Moreno came to Lin-Manuel Miranda’s defense during a June 15 interview on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” Miranda’s film adaptation of “In the Heights” has received backlash over colorism as the cast lacks any dark-skinned Afro-Latino lead actors. Moreno, whose documentary “Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It” is executive produced by Miranda, brought up the “In the Heights” colorism controversy herself during an interview with Colbert....

The animation allows Rasmussen’s friend to maintain his anonymity even as he shares the intimate story for the first time. While that decision underscores the remarkable creative ambition of the project, it also means that the subject of “Flee” has not been making the promotional rounds over the past year. Early on, when Neon bought the movie out of Sundance and eyed its awards season prospects, it was clear that Rasmussen would need additional help to raise awareness for the project....

It also suggests something crucial about how the streaming wars are waged in people’s living rooms. As Disney — and Netflix, and WarnerMedia, and NBCUniversal, the list goes on — invest billions in direct-to-consumer streaming, their vertical integrations all lack a key element: none of them actually make the devices that consumers use to access those services. According to Tedd Cittadine, Roku’s head of content distribution, Disney is an example of “companies that get it....