LOS ANGELES, Sept 15 (Reuters) - The 68th Primetime Emmy Awards, the highest honors in U.S. television, will be handed out on Sunday by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences at a ceremony in Los Angeles hosted by comedian Jimmy Kimmel.

CHIBA (Reuters) - Sony Corp <6758.T> aims to extend content for its dedicated virtual-reality (VR) headset into non-gaming areas such as TV and film, and has no plans to join the burgeoning market for smartphone-based headsets, its gaming division chief said.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's main opposition Democratic Party on Thursday elected a former cabinet minister as its first female leader on Thursday, following a last-minute hiccup when she was found to hold dual citizenship in violation of Japanese law.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Typhoon Meranti slammed into southeastern China on Thursday with strong winds and lashing rain that cut power to 1.65 million homes, but there were no reports of more casualties in what has been described as the strongest storm of the year globally.

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LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - Sofia Vergara is the reigning queen of television.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - "This is Us" is shocking preview audiences before its debut.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - One would be forgiven for reacting with anger, or, more appropriately, horror, at the idea of "The Exorcist" being re-tooled for the small screen. Is nothing sacred, not even the 1973 William Friedkin classic? Apparently not, given TV's current obsession with relaunching just about any piece of intellectual property that ever made even a modest amount of money.

(Reuters) - Six months after #Oscarssowhite upset the biggest movie awards in the world, television's Emmy line-up is telling a different, far more colorful, story.