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Debra Birnbaum is a skilled multi-platform content creator, with over 20 years of experience covering news and entertainment. She's currently the executive editor, TV for Variety, overseeing all television coverage for the trade magazine's multiple platforms, including the weekly print edition and Variety.com. She also covers the Emmy Awards, producing 13 special issues highlighting the Emmy contenders. As the President/Editor-in-Chief of TV Guide Magazine, a position she held for seven years, she revitalized a classic brand with innovations like the annual "Fan Favorites" cover contest, the Comic-Con photo studio, and the "Hot List" party. She appears frequently on TV as an entertainment expert, and regularly moderates panels for the TV Academy, Screen Actors Guild, Paley Center, Comic-Con and more. She has also worked for Redbook, George, More, The New York Post, and Us Weekly.

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  ‘And Just Like That’ will be back — but it won’t be Emmy eligible this season

  By Debra Birnbaum Verified

  Apr. 15, 2025

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  ‘And Just Like That’ will be back - but it won’t be Emmy eligible this season

  By Debra Birnbaum Verified

  Apr. 15, 2025

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  ‘Breakfast Club’ cast reunites for the first time in 40 years: ‘We all really do love each other’

  By Debra Birnbaum Verified

  Apr. 14, 2025

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