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Sisters, Black Bird, Echo 3, For All Mankind, Loot, The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, Pachinko, Slow Horses, Trying, and the 14-time Emmy Award-nominated Severance. Global phenomenon Ted Lasso continued its streak as the most Emmy Award-winning comedy for the second year in a row, with its second season landing the award for Outstanding Comedy Series, while Pachinko and Severance landed prestigious AFI Program of the Year honors. Apple TV+ made history as the first streaming service honored with the Academy Award for Best Picture with CODA, and debuted broadly acclaimed films including Cha Cha Real Smooth, Luck, Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me, and Spirited, which has become the biggest film ever on the service. Causeway, Emancipation, and Sidney were recognized with African-American Film Critics Association honors, and the acclaimed documentary Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues landed the IDA Documentary Award for Best Music Documentary. This year, Apple TV+ is set to premiere highly anticipated original series and films from the world’s biggest storytellers, including new Apple Originals Dear Edward, Hello Tomorrow!, The Reluctant Traveler, and Shrinking; new seasons of award-winning and widely celebrated series such as The Afterparty, Schmigadoon!, Servant, Swagger, and Truth Be Told; and new films Argylle, Killers of the Flower Moon, Sharper, and more. In 2022, Apple made significant moves into live sports, first with the debut of “Friday Night Baseball” on Apple TV+, which exclusively showed two marquee Major League Baseball games every Friday night during the regular season. Apple also announced an unprecedented 10-year partnership with Major League Soccer. In a historic first for sports, fans around the world can stream every single MLS match through the MLS Season Pass service on the Apple TV app, without any local blackouts, starting February 1, 2023. MLS Season Pass will bring MLS to its biggest worldwide audience ever, as all matches will be available on billions of devices through the Apple TV app and on the web. With iOS 16, Apple News introduced My Sports, allowing sports fans to easily find news and in-depth coverage of their favorite leagues, teams, and players, and watch highlights right in the News app. Fans can also sync their favorite teams across Apple News and the Apple TV app to follow updates, get tune-in reminders, and more. And with iOS 16.2, Live Activities for the Apple TV app lets users follow their favorite sports teams from select leagues with live scores right on their Lock Screen and the Dynamic Island on iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max.1 In 2022, Apple Fitness+ became available to iPhone users to subscribe to and enjoy in 21 countries, even if they don’t have an Apple Watch, and grew the library to 3,500 workouts and meditations. Fitness+ also introduced Time to Run;