‘Ozark’ vs. ‘Succession.’ ‘Mrs. Maisel’ vs. ‘Schitt’s Creek.’ Danson vs. Levy. Brosnahan vs. O’Hara, Aniston vs. Linney. So who’s gonna go home with coveted statuettes? Deadline’s awards columnist sifts through the virtual tea leaves.
The 72nd annual Primetime Emmy Awards caps a weeklong procession of honoring the best of 2020 in television Sunday with a hybrid virtual ceremony beginning at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on ABC hosted by Jimmy Kimmel.
The ceremony will also stream on ABC.com, and the full week of Emmy shows will be available on-demand on ABC.c…
Following Rick and Morty’s second Emmy win for Animated Program tonight, co-creator/EP Dan Harmon was asked to weigh in on the controversy over white actors voicing characters of color that has gripped the TV animation world during the past few months.
Kristen Bell in June stepped away from playing the mixed-race chara…
All five nights of the virtual 2020 Creative Arts Emmys are in the books, and awards rivals HBO and Netflix came away tied with 19 wins apiece. HBO’s Watchmenand Disney+’s The Mandalorian came away with the most wins for an individual program with seven each. Check out the charts below with wins by program and…
UPDATED, Saturday 8:24PM: It turns out Eddie Murphy did have an acceptance speech which he pre-recorded for his Guest Actor in a Comedy Series Emmy win tonight; the telecast didn’t air it. Here it is below from the Television Academy’s Twitter feed.
Says Murphy below, “Thank you to everybody at the Emmys. Thank you so…
On Saturday night Cherry Jones took home her third Emmy award, this time for her guest role of Nan Pierce in the “Tern Haven” episode of HBO’s Succession.
Jones’ character heads up the powerful Pierce family, who own a fictional newspaper called The New York Mail. Thus far, the show centered on the rise and fall of…
He's won six NBA championships and is widely considered the greatest basketball player of all time and tonight Michael Jordan helped the team behind ESPN's The Last Dance win an Emmy.
The Last Dance beat Netflix's Tiger King, Hulu's Hillary, PBS' American Masters and HBO's McMillion$ to win Outstanding Documentary or…
On Saturday night Ron Cephas Jones took home a second Emmy for his guest turn in NBC mega-hit This is Us, and it’s been a family affair, since Jones’ daughter Jasmine Cephas Jones also won an Emmy Thursday night, for her work on Quibi's #FreeRayshawn, making them the first ever father-daughter winners in Emmy…
Four nights in, the virtual 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards had gone without a hitch, successfully juggling dozens of categories and hundreds of pre-taped speeches. But during Night 5, the main Creative Arts Emmy ceremony airing live on FXX, the announcement of the winner for Outstanding Guest Actor i=In a Drama Series was…
Eddie Murphy was planning a return to stand-up comedy this year, but then the pandemic happened.
“We were planning before the pandemic hit, this year we’d be working on doing stand-up and getting stuff together, but all this happened,” said Murphy from his home tonight, appearing in the Creative Emmys virtual…
Maya Rudolph has gone from zero to two Emmys in just three days. On Saturday night she snagged her second trophy of the week-long Creative Arts Emmys virtual ceremony—this time for her turn as Kamala Harris inSaturday Night Live, hosted by Eddie Murphy. And just this past Thursday, Rudolph took home her very first Emm…
Netflix won its first Emmy in the unstructured reality category with Cheer, the reality docuseries following the Navarro College Bulldogs Cheer team.
This comes 24 hours after Jerry Harris, one of the stars of the show, was arrested on child pornography charges.
Cheer, which launched in January, beat Netflix…
Kate McKinnon reflected on the significance and inspiring power of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The Bombshell actress paid tribute to the legal titan after Ginsburg, 87, died on Friday.
"For so many of us, Justice Ginsburg was a real-life superhero: a beacon of hope, a warrior for justice, a robed…
