| Updated: 11:13 p.m.
The Hill Cumorah Pageant was scheduled to take its final bow this summer. As it turns out, the curtain came down on the long-running event for the last time almost two years ago.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Tuesday that, because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the pageant will not be produced this year.
Or ever again.
Instead, the Palmyra, N.Y., spectacle will be celebrated with a broadcast of the 2019 pageant to âcommemorate the contributions of tens of thousands of volunteer participants through the years,â according to a church news release. (It can be viewed beginning July 9 on broadcasts.ChurchofJesusChrist.org.)
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Television Critics Association members didn’t confront anyone about religious or LGBTQ issues at recent press tour.
(Photo courtesy Chris Frawley/BYUtv) BYUtv managing director Michael Dunn addresses members of the Television Critics Association in 2019.
| Feb. 28, 2021, 2:00 p.m.
The virtual Television Critics Association press tour earlier this month went rather well for BYUtv. There were no confrontational questions about the channel’s owners, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Unlike past years, nobody raised the church’s stance on members of the LGBTQ community. Nobody questioned whether BYUtv lacks diversity.