With so many nominees to choose from, Academy voters had a tough task just trying to get through all the content and come up with some deserving winners. Deadline’s awards columnist Pete Hammond reveals who he’d like to see clutching the hardware.
Bill Hader gave a shout-out to the directors on his hit HBO comedy seriesBarry when accepting the trophy for outstanding lead actor in a comedy series tonight at the 71st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards.
Hader, who also directs on the show, said he’s often asked by the press ‘”how do you direct yourself?'” Hader noted…
In accepting her Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series on Sunday, Fleabag star Phoebe Waller-Bridge was both humble – "I'm really shaking, oh my God, look at her!" she said directly to her Emmy statuette – and as irreverent as is befitting for her character, the sexually impulsive Fleabag.
Starting off…
Fleabag's Phoebe Waller-Bridge scooped the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series Emmy tonight, ending Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ Veep streak in the same category at six. The win was Waller-Bridge’s second of the evening, coming a few minutes after she accepted a trophy for writing Fleabag. Stunned on stage, she…
RuPaul's Drag Race has sashayed into its second straight win in the Outstanding Competition Program category and host RuPaul Charles got political as he accepted the award.
The VH1 reality competition series beat The Amazing Race, The Voice, Top Chef, American Ninja Warrior and Nailed It! It had already made history…
Disney crashed the Emmys on Sunday, announcing the start to pre-orders for Disney+ and running an ad for the streaming service in the first position of the awards telecast’s first commercial break.
The company said U.S. consumers can start signing up now, nearly two months before the November 12 launch of the…
The marvelous Tony Shalhoub won the first trophy of the night at the 71st Emmy Awards for his portrayal of Abe Weissman on the Amazon-produced original series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
It was the fourth Emmy win of Shalhoub’s career, which has included high-profile roles on shows such as Wings (he played Antonio…
Nicolaj Coster-Waldau had spoken out in defense of Game of Thrones’ contentious final season before, but speaking to Deadline on the Emmys red carpet on Sunday he said fans’ negative reactions to the show had come as a huge surprise to the cast and crew.
“I think that for a lot of people on the show there was kind of…
Take a look at Deadline's gallery of TV executives who walked the red carpet Sunday at the 2019 Primetime Emmy Awards at the Microsoft Theater. Click on the image above to launch the photo gallery. Photos by Todd…
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel'sAlex Borstein caused a stir last year when she revealed she picked up her Emmy for best supporting actress in a comedy series without a bra. This year, she doubled down and joked that she wasn't wearing any underwear as she picked up her second straight win for her role in the Amazon…
Last year, Emmy producers pledged (via Kate McKinnon and Kenan Thompson boasting “We Solved It”) that they’d figured out TV’s pesty diversity problem, and, at the same time, the dilemma of how to open a show without a host. Except McKinnon and Thompson seemed like hosts. So no fair.
Did they really solve it this year…
When Bette Midler says, “This is gonna be fun,” who are we to disagree? In this just-released teaser for Netflix’s upcoming Ryan Murphy series The Politician – the first look at Midler and Judith Light – politics does indeed look, well, fun. If a little deadly.
Premiering on September 27, the series – check out the…
Fox censors hit the mute button on Sarah Silverman’s salty comments on Sunday during the network’s coverage of the arrivals carpet from the 71st Emmy Awards. In a wry twist, Silverman’s clipped comment was a critique of today’s “cancel culture” and its smothering effect on truly trenchant comedy.
Silverman was…
