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‘Escape At Dannemora’ Showrunners Michael Tolkin & Brett Johnson Discuss 12 Emmy Nominations, Working With Ben Stiller And Patricia Arquette
With a total of 12 Emmy nominations, Showtime’s Escape at Dannemora has emerged as a leader in the limited series race. The show based on a real-life 2015 prison break explores the dynamics between convicts Richard Matt (Benicio del Toro) and David Sweat (Paul Dano) and prison worker Joyce “Tilly” Mitchell (Patricia…
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Emmy Nominations Reactions: Rachel Brosnahan, Christina Applegate, Jared Harris, Ron Cephas Jones, More
Nominations for the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards were announced this morning in 124 categories. Here are some reactions from nominees.
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Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
The respective creator and executive producer behind The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Amy Sherman-Palladino…
‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Season 2 Resurfaces With 11 Emmy Nominations Under Hanging Episode Rule
Having aired in June, the current third season of Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale may not be eligible for Emmys, but nonetheless, due to the Academy’s ‘hanging episode’ rule, Season 2 has 11 nominations this year.
The rule means that while the final three episodes of Season 2 fell outside of the Emmy eligibility window for…
Patricia Arquette Gets Double Acting Emmy Nom For ‘The Act’ & ‘Escape At Dannemora’
Patricia Arquette has doubled down in the Emmys nominations list this year, with nods for both her leading role in Showtime’s prison-based limited series Escape at Dannemora and for her supporting role in Hulu’s limited series The Act—both were based on real-life characters.
The last actress Emmy-nominated in two…
Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s ‘Fleabag’ Scores 11 Emmy Nominations After Season 1 Snub
UK smash hit comedy Fleabag has broken into the Academy with 11 nominations for its second season after being passed over last year.
Creator, EP and actress Phoebe Waller-Bridge earned nods for the series, her writing and her role as the bereaved and beleaguered Fleabag, while Olivia Colman and Sian Clifford made the…
Where’s My Show? ‘Stranger Things’, ‘Big Little Lies’ And The Other Popular Arrivals That Couldn’t Appear On Emmy’s 2019 List
The fever pitch of thought and opinion circulating on Big Little Lies' second season, as well as the Emmy success of its debut rollout, might make it look like an obvious lock for this year's list of nominations. But its premiere date of June 9 counted it out of Emmy's consideration window, which closes on May 31st…
Michael Kelly On Surviving The “Really Difficult” ‘House Of Cards’ Scandal, Giving Doug Stamper His Big Finish & Embracing Life On ‘Jack Ryan’
Michael Kelly's Doug Stamper was the steel-strong thread of integrity through six seasons of House of Cards. While the show's leads Frank and Claire Underwood stopped at nothing in their Machiavellian scheming, Doug was driven only by his loyalty to Frank.
And although Kelly has three times been Emmy-nominated for the…
Ramy Youssef On Making ‘Ramy’ A Nuanced Portrait Of His Muslim-American Experience & How He Opposed The Tone-Deaf Concept Of An “Average Muslim Family”
Ramy Youssef discovered a gaping hole in comedy. Not only were Muslim people vastly underrepresented, but stories of first-generation Americans always seemed to involve a flat-out rejection of parents' religion or cultural values. Cue hilarious clashes and misunderstandings. Instead, Youssef's Hulu comedy Ramy…
Phoebe Waller-Bridge On Bringing Bond Into The Present, Why Femaleness Can’t Be Categorized & The New Project That Came To Her In A Dream
It's a gloomy Monday afternoon in Westwood and Phoebe Waller-Bridge is wrapping up Deadline’s cover shoot. Fresh from the Fleabag stage in New York, in two weeks' time her brainchild Killing Eve will sweep the BAFTAs, but of course she doesn't know that yet. For now she's hard at work on a very famous, typically…
Mindy Kaling On How ‘Late Night’ Was Inspired By Her Own ‘Diversity Hire’ Experience & The Importance Of Holding The Door Open For Others — Deadline Disruptors
Mindy Kaling was just 24 when she became both the first woman and the first person of color to join the writing staff of The Office. 14 years later, this January, her production company Kaling International sold the film she wrote, Late Night, in a record deal with Amazon at Sundance. She also just had her newest film…
Nicole Kidman & Per Saari On HBO’s ‘The Undoing’, Upcoming Liane Moriarty Projects & Forging A New Path For Female-Fronted Storytelling — Deadline Disruptors
When Nicole Kidman first met Per Saari back in 2004, theirs would become the collaboration that spawned a brave new wave of television and film production. From their first film Rabbit Hole in 2010, to this year's second season of smash hit limited series Big Little Lies, Kidman and Saari's company Blossom Films…
Ellen DeGeneres Is Not Ready To Quit Her Show; Exploring Documentaries & New Film
Ellen DeGeneres is not yet ready to give up her daytime show, she told Deadline ahead of Netflix’s FYSEE screening of her special Relatable on Wednesday.
Saying she’s “torn" on how long to keep the show, she joked, “I don’t know what I’m doing.” While her wife Portia de Rossi wants her to have a chance to relax more…
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