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Christine Baranski Has a Promising ‘Mamma Mia 3’ Update
Christine Baranski puts in the work. The 16-time Emmy nominee, up for her latest trophy as supporting actress in a drama for The Gilded Age, is spending her summer filming the HBO series’ third season shrouded in all the stifling accoutrement that the period piece requires. During a day off from production, the actress emphasized […]
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What the ‘House of the Dragon’ Cast Starred in Before the ‘Game of Thrones’ Spinoff
It’s a temporary farewell to Westeros as House of the Dragon aired its Season 2 finale on Aug. 4, and Season 3 isn’t expected to begin production until early 2025. But that doesn’t mean that the HBO show’s cast won’t remain top of mind. Whether you were Team Black or Team Green, there are some […]
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Tom Brady Roast EP on How the QB Greenlit the Uncensored Show: “LFG”
“Roasts have never been nominated before for anything, ever,” says Jeff Ross, “Roastmaster General” of Netflix’s The Greatest Roast of All Time: Tom Brady, still giddy and in shock over the special’s Emmy nomination. “Yet it’s this great American tradition that’s been going on for over 100 years. To see it up there with the […]
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How Nikki Glaser Became the New Queen of Comedy
When Nikki Glaser was making her stand-up special Someday You’ll Die, she foresaw critical acclaim in her future. “I kind of just knew it was going to be nominated for an Emmy — I hate to sound crazy,” she tells THR just hours after earning her first Emmy nomination. The 40-year-old comedian is in the […]
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Alan Cumming Insists, “I Act My Socks Off in ‘The Traitors’”’
For Alan Cumming, hosting The Traitors is already the reward; his Emmy nomination for reality or reality/competition host is just a bonus — one almost as coveted as immunity from elimination. “I really love doing it,” says Cumming of the hit Peacock series (which also scored a nom for best reality competition program) that has […]
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‘Mr. and Mrs. Smith’ Co-creator Francesca Sloane Breaks Down the Emmy-Nominated Drama’s ‘Couples Therapy’ Episode
Francesca Sloane, writer and co-creator of Mr. & Mrs. Smith, worked with Donald Glover to reinterpret the 2005 film of the same name into a dark dramedy about two for-hire agents embroiled in a tumultuous fake marriage. Sloane selected this scene from episode six, “Couples Therapy,” where John and Jane Smith (Glover and Maya Erskine) […]
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‘Umbrella Academy’ Cast Explain Series Finale and Saying Goodbye to Final Timeline
[This story contains major spoilers from Umbrella Academy season four.] Faced with one last existential threat to the universe, Netflix’s Umbrella Academy went out with a bang. Standing together for one last time, the beloved group of superheroes set aside their sibling rivalry and agreed on one thing: In order to save the world, they […]
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‘House of the Dragon’: Every Episode (So Far), Ranked
Eighteen episodes and two seasons into its run, House of the Dragon is already almost over. Sure, it will take years and years for the series to reach the end of its planned four-season arc, but the halfway point is the right point to take a beat and take stock of all that’s come before. […]
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‘Slow Horses’ Showrunner Will Smith Dissects Season Three Finale of the Wry and Flatulent Show
Slow Horses, the wry and flatulent anti-Bond espionage series streaming on Apple TV+, has been exactly the show its relatively cult following has come to love from the day the cast and crew began filming the first episode, says showrunner Will Smith. The British series, which debuted in 2022, follows Oscar winner Gary Oldman’s churlish […]
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Maya Rudolph and Kristen Wiig Were Also Up for Emmys at the Same Time 12 Years Ago
Maya Rudolph and Kristen Wiig have quite a few things in common beyond getting their start on Saturday Night Live. This year, they’re both Emmy nominated for outstanding actress in a comedy series: Rudolph for Loot and Wiig for Palm Royale, both on Apple TV+. But before their success with scripted series, the duo had […]
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When Older Shows Become Newly-Minted Emmy Nominees
Many awards prognosticators expected the drama categories at this year’s Emmys to feature an odd assortment of nominated titles. Consider it a perfect storm of sorts: With the ending of HBO’s Succession (which took the top prize for three of its four seasons) and AMC’s Better Call Saul (which garnered a staggering 53 nominations across […]
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David Castañeda Says ‘Umbrella Academy’ Made Him a Man, and Now It’s “Time to Graduate”
The Umbrella Academy has always been personal for David Castañeda. For the better half a decade, the actor has starred as Diego Hargreeves in the series that became one of Netflix’s most-streamed shows in 2019. Based on the Dark Horse comic series by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá, and created by Steve Blackman and Jeremy […]
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Jodie Foster Has Heard the ‘Longlegs’ Discourse — at the Gym
Six months after her media blitz for True Detective: Night Country, Jodie Foster is still singing her series’ praises. Now, thanks to 19 Emmy nominations (including an outstanding lead actress mention and, for her producer work, a best limited series nom), she says she’ll keep playing hype woman for Issa López’s spin on the HBO […]
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Al Franken as Tim Walz and Colin Jost as J.D. Vance? A Speculative Casting of the VP Candidates for ‘SNL’
It’s an election year and with all of the media frenzy and speculation, a bevy of new faces have stoically entered the national political fray. This sort of national political exposure comes for these career civil servants at a major inflection point for the country. So, naturally, this means that their parody equivalents will mock […]
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Tom Hollander Didn’t Know What a Big Deal Truman Capote Was When He Signed on to Play Him
Truman Capote, in his lifelong quest for infamy, left a trail of TV appearances behind for Tom Hollander to draw from for his portrayal of the flamboyant American novelist in the FX’s Feud: Capote vs. The Swans. “If I’d known quite how much [he’s known], I would have been more nervous,” Hollander admits of not […]
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‘Ripley’ Star Andrew Scott on the Parts of Tom He Finds “Very Endearing”
Nearly five years after Andrew Scott was cast as Tom Ripley in Steven Zaillian’s limited series Ripley, based on Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 novel, the Irish actor has received an Emmy nomination for his portrayal of the infamous con man. In a conversation with THR, Scott, who also received a Gotham Award for his performance, reflects on […]
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