The six-time shorts nominee breaks down his comedic YouTube hits and explains why he’s less interested in changing minds than he is getting people to listen.
Composer Dan Romer explains the decision to ditch the HBO franchise’s iconic sound for a warmer, stranger blend of spaghetti Western guitars, whistles and modern drums.
Emmy-nominated stunt performers Jeremy Fitzgerald and Tim Soergel reveal what it took to run, fight and fall in suits with 12-inch feet.
“My job as the showrunner is to make sure that this doesn’t break the spell with the audience … that it feels right and doesn’t feel desperate,” says Steven Conrad of the musical moment between Jason Bateman and David Harbour’s characters.
Emmy’s music branch continues to welcome newcomers. Eighteen of this year’s 54 nominees, or one-third of the total in seven categories, are first-timers to the competition. And only 12 are previous winners of TV’s highest honor. Composer Dave Porter, whose long professional relationship with creator-producer Vince Gilligan dates back to “Breaking Bad,” earned his first […]
NBC will host a special Law & Order: Special Victims Unit marathon next month featuring the best of Mariska Hargitay’s episodes. The block will air Thursday, September 10, as a tribute to Hargitay ahead of her hosting the Primetime Emmy Awards the following Monday. The Season 28 premiere of Law & Order: SVU is set […]
Last year, after CBS made the decision to cancel The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel threw his support behind his fellow late-night host to win the main late-night Emmy. Kimmel put up a billboard saying, “I’m voting for Stephen.” Many wondered then, 12 months on, after Kimmel had his own annus horribilis, including […]
The Television Academy today announced the winners of the 78th Emmy Awards in juried categories from Animation, Costume and Innovation in Emerging Media Programming. Among the winners: The Masked Singer and The Traitors for Outstanding Costumes, and Eyes of Wakanda and Star Wars: Visions for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation. See the complete list below. […]
It’s hard to believe that South Park turns 30 next year, having run through 28 seasons — with a 29th incoming — since Comedy Central debuted “Cartman Gets an Anal Probe” 29 years ago this week in 1997. Everyone knows the show’s core characters — 10-year-old best friends Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman, and […]
A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. There must be something in the air. Although the Primetime Emmys are a few weeks away, you might not be crazy to think they are actually happening this weekend as networks and streamers (mostly streamers) are gathering just about every nominee they can find to […]