Latest in Emmy Awards

There are three top Primetime Emmy categories for dramatic storytelling — Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Limited Series and Outstanding TV Movie. In what may be a first, Carolyn Strauss scored a nomination in all three, as executive producer of HBO’s Game Of Thrones (Drama Series), Chernobyl (Limited Series)…

The Emmy Awards’ production team has added Danette Herman, Al Gurdon, Florian Wieder and Raj Kapoor to its ranks, producers announced today. The newcomers arrive as the Emmy telecast nears with a Sunday, Sept. 22 airdate on Fox. The announcement was made by the telecast's executive producers Don Mischer, Charlie…

A day after CAA was among the major Hollywood agencies to cancel plans to host their annual Emmy Weekend parties amid the ongoing standoff with the WGA, the agency said Thursday it instead is donating to the Motion Picture & Television Fund. The undisclosed sum will go to the MPTF’s Community Programs Fund, which…

Amy Poehler, who has co-hosted multiple Golden Globe telecasts and appeared in an intro segment on this year’s hostless Oscars, said Fox’s plan to go without a host for the Primetime Emmys sounds “cool” to her. Speaking on a panel at TCA summer press tour Wednesday for her new Fox animated series Duncanville (plus…

For the fourth time in history, the Primetime Emmy Awards are going host-less. Fox, which carries the ceremony this year, and the Television Academy have decided to not have a host on the show, which takes place a month and a half from now, on September 22. Fox Entertainment CEO Charlie Collier just confirmed the news…

The Television Academy will not hand out a Governors Award in September at the 71st Emmys Awards, Deadline has confirmed. It marks the first time since 1994 and second time ever that the special honor won’t be presented. The honor is bestowed to “an individual, company, organization or project for outstanding…

KCET picked up a leading six wins tonight at the Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards, including awards for local color and culture/history. KMEX, KTLA and KVEA followed with five wins each. KTLA’s wins included the best daily morning newscast and best daily daytime newscast categories. KVEA won the best evening newscast…

Better Call Saul Employee Training: Madrigal Electromotive Security, which received an Emmy nomination Tuesday in the outstanding short form comedy or drama series category, has been ruled ineligible by the Television Academy. The Academy has determined the series does not meet the minimum required runtime of two…

A three-time Emmy nominee with a 33-year screen career, Natasha Lyonne has wanted to employ her talents behind the scenes for as long as she can remember, finally doing so with her Netflix hit Russian Doll. Today, the series earned 13 Emmy nominations in its first go-round, demonstrating to the actress beyond the…

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…

When I walked into the Television Academy’s Wolf Theatre for this morning’s Emmy nomination announcement, the first thing I saw on the wall were the words “Netflix Lobby.” Those naming rights for the prolific streamer take on double meaning on a day like this because they not only won the lobby, they also got a…

HBO snagged the most Primetime Emmy nominations this morning with 137, up from 108 in 2018, and its flagship drama series Game of Thrones also topped all networks and streaming services with 32. Netflix followed with 117 total noms, followed by NBC with 58, Amazon Prime Video with 47 and CBS and FX Networks with 43…