Pete, widely considered to be one of the preeminent awards analysts for both film and television, has for the past seven years been Deadline's Awards Columnist covering what is seemingly now the year-round Oscar and Emmy seasons. He is also Deadline's Chief Film Critic, having previously reviewed films for MovieLine, Boxoffice magazine, Backstage, Hollywood.com and Maxim. In addition to writing, Pete is also host of the year-round KCET Cinema Series, where he screens a selection of films prior to their theatrical release and interviews filmmakers. He previously held producing positions at Entertainment Tonight, Extra, Access Hollywood, The Arsenio Hall Show, The Martin Short Show and AMC Network and is the recipient of five Emmy nominations for writing.
With a huge challenge in trying to stage a live awards show while still in the shadow of Covid, the Emmys pulled off a mostly entertaining three hours and 15 minutes, even if (save for a couple of surprise wins) it was all a pretty predictable outcome. Most pundits (including me) were forecasting wins of Ted Lassofor…
So, this is it. The Primetime Emmy Awards main event Sunday capped off a year of television and celebrated with true live event for the first time in two pandemic-shunted years, witch Cedric the Entertainer hosting the 73rd annual ceremony at The Event Deck at L.A. Live.
Deadline’s live blog team was on hand across…
In the midst of the fall festival season when studios roll out their most prestigious Oscar contenders, why not take a timeout from all that serious stuff, sit back and watch director-writer Joe Carnahan take us on a tightfisted, machismo-infused, ultraviolent B-movie ride?
Since the heydays of primo movie bad guys…
The long and winding Emmy Awards season comes to an end finally on Sunday when the Primetime Emmys are presented on CBS. The Queen’s Gambit, Saturday Night Live, The Mandalorian, Ted Lasso, The Crown and others ran up some impressive totals during last weekend’s three Creative Arts ceremonies, but now we are going to…
And now we come to the grand finale of my prediction posts for Emmy’s key contests. The name of this category has evolved over the years — the new name is designed to find someplace other than Television Movie to showcase individual episodes of what are known as Anthology series. After Netflix continually triumphed…
‘Tis the season. Well almost. And perhaps that is why AMC+ and RLJE recently swooped in and took the new holiday-themed dramedy Silent Nightoff the market (domestically at least) before its Toronto International Film Festival premiere tonight. Who doesn’t love a good ‘ol Christmas movie, perhaps the most reliable…
In terms of past winners that might be in line to take the Outstanding Drama Series crown again, Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale is the only one of eight nominees in this category that has won before here — and that was in 2017, for its first season. With an impressive 21 nominations, the show seems to be having an Emmy…
I am not of fan of movies that resort to breaking the fourth wall, as it were, and letting their key characters talk incessantly to the audience. It is a device that generally feels lazy, a writer’s crutch to explain away story points instead of letting us discover for ourselves. The recent annoying pandemic comedy Tog…
In the past, Emmy voters tended to like one show and then let it repeat for several seasons as the champ in the Comedy Series category. Until very recently, just three series enjoyed multiple runs at the gold: there were three wins in a row for 30 Rock, followed by five wins in a row for Modern Family, then three wins…
There is history to be made again this year in a category that is as diverse as they get. With Mj Rodriguez aiming to be the first-ever transgender winner here, that could be quite a hard scenario to resist for voters who might want to throw a bone to Pose in its final go-round. Like Drama Series Actor, the winner…
Three past winners in the category meet three first-time nominees in an interesting showdown that does not include an opportunity for last year's winner, Jeremy Strong, to repeat, since his series Succession was delayed by Covid. This means that acting winners from other recent Emmy seasons do have a chance to come…
