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Invitations have just gone out for Deadline’s fourth annual The Contenders Emmys all-day event, set this year for Sunday, April 7 at a new venue, Paramount Studios. A total of 19 studios and networks are set to participate, bringing showrunners and talent from their biggest Emmy hopefuls including ABC Studios…

No sooner than Oscar season has ended and the Emmy season is upon us, and that means Deadline is gearing up for our fourth annual The Contenders Emmys all-day event, set this year for Sunday, April 7 at a new venue, Paramount Studios. The anticipated day has become a key launch for the beginning of the race for…

Maya Hawke comes from Hollywood royalty, but she is a relative newcomer in front of the cameras. Hawke, who is Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke’s daughter, makes her on-screen debut in Masterpiece's Little Women. The 19-year-old actress read the book in eighth grade and says landing a role in the period drama was a dream…

What happens after a first-season Emmy? Last year’s Best Drama winner Handmaid's Tale showrunner Bruce Miller and executive producer Warren Littlefield talked about Season 2 during Hulu's panels at today's Contenders event. The new season launches April 25. "It was very akin to the feeling in the first season: You…

Hours before Hulu’s Contenders panel for Sarah Silverman’s I Love You, America—the final panel of the day—the streaming service announced that the hit variety series will be back for another 11 episodes, to begin airing on September 6—just in time for conversation centering on the midterm elections. Speaking with…

Waco, the dramatic miniseries based on the deadly 51-day standoff in 1993 between Branch Davidians and federal law enforcement, premiered earlier this year on the Paramount Network, formerly SpikeTV. It stars Michael Shannon as real-life FBI agent Gary Noesner and Taylor Kitsch as Branch Davidians leader David…

“I always like characters like this who are anti-social, hard to get along with, but there's still something within them that's likeable and can help other people,” Loudermilk EP Bobby Mort told Dawn Chmielewski today at The Contenders Emmys. With Sam Loudermilk—the misanthropic recovering alcoholic and substance…

EXCLUSIVE: Stephen King adaptation Mr. Mercedes will be back for a ten-episode second season on August 22, AT&T Audience Network told Deadline during the show’s panel at The Contenders Emmys. Director Jack Bender joined stars Brendan Gleeson, Harry Treadaway, Kelly Lynch and Holland Taylor to discuss the series’ first…

Three years ago, CBS placed a lot of faith in writer, producer, comedian and singer James Corden when it handed him the reins to its Late Late Show. This was not lost on him, which he candidly admitted at Deadline's The Contenders Emmys event Sunday afternoon. "We didn't have the luxury of a fan base, so we knew we…

Sandra Oh made the trip to the DGA for Deadline’s Emmy Contenders event to talk about her new series, BBC America’s Killing Eve, which marks her first series regular role after spending 10 seasons as Dr. Cristina Yang on Grey’s Anatomy. “Immediately what struck me was the tone and Phoebe’s [Waller-Bridge, creator]…

Comedy Central's Contenders Emmys panel focused on three very funny series: Drunk History, Nathan for You, and Broad City. That's three shows, three moderators, five comically minded creatives, one stage. In short, madness. Yet out of three consecutive panels, a few facts seemed to surface — though, given the lineup…

Darren Aronofsky signed on to the docu-series One Strange Rock to give viewers a glimpse of planet Earth like they've never seen before. The 10-part National Geographic series, which is produced by Aronofsky and hosted by Will Smith, explores the fragility of Earth and how everyone on the planet has something in…