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Showtime is developing A Really Good Day, a dramedy series based on Ayelet Waldman’s book, with Anna Chlumsky, six-time Emmy nominee for Veep, attached to star. The project hails from Waldman, Michael Chabon, Film44 and CBS TV Studios. A Really Good Day falls under an overall deal the husband-and-wife team of Waldman…

Anna Chlumsky, six-time Emmy nominee for Veep, and Julia Garner, coming off an Emmy win for Ozark, will lead the cast of Inventing Anna, Netflix’s upcoming 10-episode limited drama series from Grey’s Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes. It marks the first series created by Rhimes since Scandal, and the top showrunner has…

"It's a hugely proud piece of my life," says Julia Louis-Dreyfus of the seven seasons of the now concluded and much acclaimed Veep. "It's the highlight of my career," added the eleven-time Emmy winner this week at a packed Deadline Screening Series panel. "Accolades aside, which are wonderful and everything, I…

Coming onto Veep as showrunner in Season 5, David Mandel has been caught since then between a rock and a hard place. "It's funny. When I started this thing, the question was always, 'What are you doing about the pressure of taking over for Armando [Iannucci]?' Then, I guess I got a year off, and it's now turned into…

The second feature from writer/director Minhal Baig, Hala was a passion project, emerging from the director’s experiences growing up in Chicago. The daughter of immigrants, Baig is a first-generation, American-born artist whose film centers on a pivotal moment in her past—”this moment…in my senior year in high…

Cardinal, Greg Pierce’s anodyne take on urban decay and gentrification, offers a breezy but no less pointed version of the tragedy and melodrama in plays like Bruce Norris’ Clybourne Park and Lynne Nottage’s Sweat. Staged by Kate Whoriskey, this world premiere at off-Broadway’s Second Stage Theatre also offers a dream…

The Television Academy has set Veep‘s Anna Chlumsky and S.W.A.T. star Shemar Moore to announce the nominees for the 69th annual Emmy Awards next month. Here is the release: The Television Academy announced today that Anna Chlumsky and Shemar Moore will present the nominations for the 69th Emmy® Awards from the Wolf…

Veep‘s Anna Chlumsky has signed on for a recurring role in the fourth and final season of AMC’s period drama series Halt and Catch Fire. Chlumsky will play Dr. Katie Herman, Chief Ontologist, a crucial role in this season’s Search business venture. Halt and Catch Fire chronicles the tech industry and the birth of the…

How many shows lose their showrunner after they finally strike Emmy gold in one of the top categories? That's what happened with Veep, which took home the Outstanding Comedy Series Emmy last year (to add to a plethora of Emmys including four Best Actress trophies for Julia Louis-Dreyfus), offering a sweet swansong to…

Sometimes, what happens in Williamstown really oughta stay in Williamstown. That Berkshires burg with its annual summer-theater festival has been sending shows to Broadway left (The Elephant Man, a hit earlier this season) and right (The Visit, opening later this week). Last year’s The Bridges of Madison County…

Christy Grosz is an Awardsline contributor. Occasionally she still gets recognized on the street for her starring role in 1991's My Girl, but Anna Chlumsky is better known these days for HBO's Veep, in which she plays the Vice President's chief of staff Amy Brookheimer, an all-business problem-solver who spends much…