Dozens of 2020 Primetime Emmy nominees are celebrating their first-ever nods. They include Cate Blanchett for her work in Mrs. America, Lupita Nyong’o for Serengetti, Octavia Spencer for Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker, Anna Kendrick for Dummy and Zendaya for Euphoria. The complete list follows…

HBO's A Black Lady Sketch Show has entered the Emmy race but the sketch category has been decimated to only three nominees. Robin Thede's comedy has been nominated in the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Sketch Series category alongside Saturday Night Live and Drunk History. It comes as the Emmy rule…

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo invited Major League baseball teams to play in New York stadium as the sport suffers some COVID-19 related setbacks. “New York State could host any major league baseball game that any team wants to play,” he said at his daily briefing Tuesday. “New York state has one of the lowest…

Netflix uploaded a record 160 nominations for the 72nd annual Primetime Emmy Awards on Tuesday, swamping trophy rival HBO’s 107 noms. But the premium cabler has the program that scored the most mentions by network or platform with 26 for its limited series Watchmen. See the charts below. Amazon’s Emmy fave The Marvelou…

After Chernobyl and Fleabag dominated the Emmy Awards last year, the Brits have had a quieter time in the 2020 nominations stakes. There were snubs for new shows including ITV/AMC Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? drama Quiz and Season 2 of Netflix’s Sex Education, but there was better news for BBC/Hulu hit series Normal…

James Corden was the late-night victim of the Emmys' rule change as CBS' The Late Late Show missed out on a nomination in the Outstanding Variety Talk Series category. The nominations in this category included 2019's winner Last Week Tonight, The Daily Show With Trevor Noah, Full Frontal With Samantha Bee, Jimmy Kimmel…

Ratings agency S&P upgraded Netflix' corporate credit Tuesday, figuring the giant streamer will spend $3 billion less than anticipated this year on content production. It cited accelerated subscriber growth, improving margins, reduced cash flow deficits over the next two years and positive trends in SVOD. The agency…

This morning, actor Fred Willard and director Lynn Shelton earned posthumous Emmy nominations, for their respective contributions to ABC sitcom Modern Family and Hulu drama Little Fires Everywhere. A beloved comedic talent with a 54-year screen career, Willard was previously nominated three times for Outstanding Guest…

Tuesday’s Emmy nominations featured a bonanza of recognition for streaming and digital platforms, with 269 collective nods, up 42% from last year’s tally of 190. The nominations announcement capped a period of campaigning unlike any other in memory, especially for  these non-traditional contenders. Even before…

Rolled out in a very different manner than in previous years due to the coronavirus pandemic, today’s Emmy nominations unveiling still contained unexpected omissions and admissions galore Delivered remotely by Leslie Jones, Laverne Cox, Josh Gad and Tatiana Maslany this morning, the contenders for the 72nd Emmys…