With Olive Kitteridge doing so well at the Emmys, Frances McDormand wants to do more. The Oscar-winning actress, who had been the driving force behind the four-hour HBO miniseries, won her first Emmys tonight for starring in and executive producing. When McDormand optioned Elizabeth Strout's book, on which the mini…

Tom Brady’s New England Patriots blew out the Buffalo Bills on Sunday afternoon and Michael Strahan and Terry Bradshaw were on hand to provide a smooth segue for Fox into the 67th Emmy Awards. The three-hour parade, led by host Andy Samberg, scored more often than it fumbled — even if there were even fewer surprises…

HBO flat-out dominated the 67th Emmy Awards tonight, winning more hardware than the rest of the networks combined. The premium cable net won 14 trophies during the ceremony at the Microsoft Theater — including Outstanding Drama Series (Game Of Thrones), Comedy Series (Veep) and Limited, Movie or Special (Olive Kitterid…

“If there had been a Rotten Tomatoes in 1601, he would have gotten a 73.” So WGAW Vice President Howard A. Rodman compared Shakespeare to television. What he meant is that the Bard in his day was, like television until rather recently, seriously underrated and disrespected. Things change, however, and now, so Rodman…

Nominated for an Oscar for his role in 2007's The Visitor, character actor Richard Jenkins is back in the awards spotlight with a lead actor in a limited series/movie Emmy nomination for the role of Henry Kitteridge in HBO's Olive Kitteridge, directed by Lisa Cholodenko. The series marks Jenkins' fourth collaboration…

Ask any creative director what an opening title sequence should encapsulate and you'll get a similar answer from them all: In a minute or less, it needs to set the mood for the show you're about to see, and be robust and reliable enough to do so on a weekly basis. It is, after all, the only aspect of a series that…

Bryan Godwin, CEO of Shade VFX, has overseen visual effects on a number of major studio pictures and acclaimed TV series in recent years, including True Detective, Batman vs. Superman, Pixels and American Ultra. This year the studio was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Supporting Role for its…

Lisa Cholodenko has long been a well-respected director with her film The Kids Are Alright garnering four Oscar noms and Laurel Canyon seeing its stars Alessandro Nivola and Frances McDormand nominated for Spirit Awards. Cholodenko has dipped in and out of both TV and film throughout her career, directing episodes of S…

For the next several days I will be handicapping Emmy categories just as final voting is going on. Today we start with Outstanding Limited Series. With the former "Miniseries" category now reclassified as "Limited Series," it automatically seems to widen the potential field of competitors, since minis, in their most…

The fifth annual Critics' Choice Television Awards have wrapped after two drunken hours at the Beverly Hilton that aired live on A&E Network. Cat Deeley hosted the shindig (and won an award, too — we call inside job… just kidding). HBO was the most-awarded network with seven wins, followed by FX with four. Olive Kitter…

UPDATED, May 13: The Broadcast Television Journalists Association said today that Cat Deeley will host the fifth annual Critics’ Choice Television Awards on May 31 at the Beverly Hilton. The longtime host of So You Think You Can Dance emceed the first CCTAs in 2011. PREVIOUSLY, May 6: The heroes and villains of…

Fox Searchlight’s Birdman keeps cruising above the clouds. The consensus tonight was that the DGA belonged to Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, given its 12 years in the making, however in a surprise win, Birdman’s Alejandro G. Inarritu won the DGA at its 67th annual ceremony, in the wake of key wins at the PGA, the SAGs…