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UPDATED with backstage video: In accepting her second back-to-back Emmy in the best supporting actress comedy category tonight for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Alex Borstein told a moving story onstage about her Holocaust survivor grandmother, and how she she can be an example for women today to “step out of line”. In…

UPDATED with video: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel's Alex 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…

EXCLUSIVE: Rachel Brosnahan, the lead of Amazon’s breakout comedy series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, has renegotiated her deal, landing a big salary increase, I have learned. I hear co-star Tony Shalhoub also has completed his contract renegotiation with Amazon Studios while fellow co-star Alex Borstein is in the final…

Upon hearing her name announced as winner of the comedy supporting actress statuette, Alex Borstein, 47, shrugged off her silvery silk wrap and deliberately jiggled her breasts at the camera with all the insolent moxie of her on-screen character, Susie Myerson, a brassy talent booker for a '50s Greenwich Village…

Two-thirds of the way into the pilot of Amazon Studios' The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, there's a moment that underscores just how unflappable Rachel Brosnahan's uptown Jewish housewife heroine, Miriam 'Midge' Maisel, truly is. Her business suit-wearing wannabe stand-up hack of a husband, Joel (Michael Zegen), drops the…

Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino are known for fast-paced dialogue on their shows, and the Golden Globe-winning Amazon series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel isn’t any different. But to the show’s creator, the dialogue isn’t as fast as everyone claims. “Amy and I have contended that it's not our stuff [where]…

In the midst of production on Season 2 of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel—a series which garnered two Golden Globes, two Critics’ Choice Awards and a PGA Award in its first run—stars Alex Borstein, Michael Zegen and Marin Hinkle stopped in at Deadline’s Tribeca Studio yesterday to tease a bit of what we can expect from the…

The Golden Globe-winning Amazon series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel represented at Deadline’s The Contenders Emmys with show creators Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino, along with stars Rachel Brosnahan, Tony Shaloub, Alex Borstein, Michael Zegen and Marin Hinkle. Brosnahan, who won the Golden Globe in January…

HBO ran the first season of its dark comedy series Getting On in November. It's about nurses working in the women's extended-care facility of a Long Beach hospital and stars Laurie Metcalf, Alex Borstein and Niecy Nash. You may have missed it; the premium network only aired six episodes, with no big promotional push…