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Brian Cox opened up about playing his "alter ego" Logan Roy in HBO drama Succession at a glitzy event hosted by European broadcaster Sky. Cox, alongside Succession creator Jesse Armstrong, discussed his process for playing the ruthless media mogul and patriarch and told a story about attending a Ronan Farrow-hosted…

The WGA Awards boosted a pair of movie screenplays into Oscar frontrunner status on Saturday night, handing its marquee Original Screenplay award to Bong Joon Ho and Han Jin Won for Neon’s Parasite, and its Adapted Screenplay award to Taika Wiatiti for Searchlight’s Jojo Rabbit. Both of the winning scripts are…

The Producers Guild’s 31st annual PGA Awards on Saturday at the Hollywood Palladium was the firsts of the major guild gauntlets of the movie-awards season that includes Sunday night’s SAG Awards, followed by the DGAs and WGAs. The PGA named 1917 the winner of its marquee Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer…

In January 2002, Bob Greenblatt was at the HBO Golden Globes party in the Beverly Hilton's Circa 55 restaurant celebrating the drama series win for Six Feet Under, which he executive produced. Eighteen years later, he was at the same Circa 55 party Sunday night celebrating the four Golden Globe wins for HBO in his…

There's no sign of the British invasion slowing down, with more than half of the Golden Globes small-screen wins Sunday going to shows or talent from the other side of the pond, while the film side produced the Best Picture – Drama and Best Director. Fleabag creator and star Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Succession's Jesse…

On the eve of the start of Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial, there were literally no bombshells tonight on the Golden Globes. Bombshell star Charlize Theron lost out on a Best Actress – Drama trophy from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to Judy's Renee Zellweger, and returning host Ricky Gervais veered far away…

UPDATED with video from speech: Nearly two decades after his first Golden Globe nomination, Brian Cox landed the Best Actor in a TV Series – Drama statuette Sunday night for his performance in season 2 of HBO’s critically praised drama series Succession. “I’m sorry, this kind of event does your head in,” a clearly…

UPDATED with video: Talking backstage at the Golden Globes following his win for Best Actor in a TV drama, Succession star Brian Cox was asked whether his character Logan Roy is really just a portrayal of News Corp boss Rupert Murdoch. “I’m playing Logan Roy!,” exclaimed Cox who plays a self-made media conglomerate…

UPDATED with video of speech: Succession creator Jesse Armstrong lauded the dark HBO family drama as a "team show" after winning its first Golden Globe. The Roy family saga beat out HBO's Big Little Lies, Netflix's The Crown, BBC America's Killing Eve and Apple TV+'s The Morning Show for Best Television Series – Drama…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details about the ending of Succession, season 2.  There have been few more compelling TV villains in recent years than Logan Roy, the ruthless media mogul and patriarch at the center of HBO’s lauded drama Succession. Brian Cox, who stars as Roy, yesterday scored one of season 2’s…

Succession writer and co-executive producer Lucy Prebble was last night awarded the 2019 Wellcome Screenwriting Fellowship, the prestigious UK screenwriting bursary given by the charitable organization the Wellcome Trust in partnership with the BFI and Film4. The Fellowship awards a screenwriter £30,000 ($39,000) to…

Programming on HBO Max, which will scale to 88 series across HBO and Max Originals, will be marked by a one-episode-at-a-time release strategy, the streaming service’s content chief Kevin Reilly affirmed Tuesday. Speaking to Wall Street analysts and the media during WarnerMedia’s investor day Tuesday, the executive…