Topicality and breaking format can get a show noticed, but those same qualities can also be risky, provoking studio concerns about whether an episode is too of-the-moment or viewer tune-out if a…
Limited series and television movies have significantly fewer hours to tell their stories than traditional drama or comedy series. But this doesn't stop their creators from exploring rich worlds or…
Hollywood's interest in adapting true stories to the big and small screen is a tale as old as the industry. But in recent years the trend of gravitating toward stories more deeply rooted in reality…
Monday kicks off two straight weeks of last-ditch campaigning for this year's Emmy contenders. Final ballots are due by 10 p.m. PT on Monday, Aug. 28, and then it's three more grueling weeks of…
Coming off a dazzling best picture win for Barry Jenkins’ “Moonlight,” distributor A24 has locked in a wide-ranging slate of awards season players. Since last we checked, the company has acquired…
Sunday night marked the 2017 Teen Choice Awards, honoring teenagers’ favorite pieces of pop culture from not only film, TV, and music, but fashion, sports, and online as well. While there was no…
Bailey's election is a cause for celebration for DPs as one of their own takes the Academy reins for the first time in the org's 90-history.
For Emmy-nominated supporting actors on topical series, work in 2016-17 sometimes bordered on the prescient. The first scene "Homeland" star Mandy Patinkin and F. Murray Abraham filmed last season…
Academy Award and Grammy winner Common, born Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr., is a multi-threat as an actor, rapper, songwriter and producer and now one step closer to achieving the coveted EGOT thanks to…
“House of Card’s” Emmy nomination tally for 2017 is officially up one. The series earned a nod for contemporary costumes, after the Television Academy determined “This is Us'” submitted episode was…
In the fifth episode of the FX limited series "Feud," aptly titled "And the Winner Is … (The Oscars of 1963)," bitter rivals Joan Crawford (Jessica Lange) and Bette Davis (Susan Sarandon) go…
