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UPDATED,  2:40 PM: Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has been sentenced to more than 11 years in prison following her January conviction on fraud and conspiracy charges related to her company’s failed blood-testing technology. The sentence, handed down Friday by U.S. District Judge Edward Davila, includes an…

In a hard-to-call category, Amanda Seyfried won her first Emmy, for a nuanced portrayal of Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced biotech entrepreneur and one-time Silicon Valley rock star convicted of criminal fraud. "Thanks for recognizing me among these amazing actors,” said an emotional Seyfried. "This is a really nice…

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. In this column: interviews with the director who guided Chadwick Boseman to a posthumous Emmy nomination for his final performance ever and a chat with Amanda Seyfried on the challenges met and conquered in playing Elizabeth Holmes, for which she…

Michael Showalter is an actor, comedian, producer, director and writer. He has done it all in a career that has taken him from being a major figure in the comedy troupe The State to a writer-actor in the cult classic Wet Hot American Summer, its sequel and prequel on Netflix, plus the 2005 comedy breakout The…

The Dropout directors Michael Showalter and Francesca Gregorini zeroed in on a number of small details to help Amanda Seyfried prepare for her role as disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes in the Hulu miniseries. Before the cameras rolled, the two sat down with Seyfried to discuss blocking and how they planned…

"I'm just making an argument to make this fascinating to our listeners here," jokes our Awards Columnist today on Deadline's TV Talk podcast. With TV Academy members casting their ballots for nominations as we speak, Pete Hammond and Deadline’s Chief TV Critic Dominic Patten want to make everyone's day a little bit…

Liz Hannah is certainly having a good season, with strong buzz for not one but two top Limited Series Emmy contenders, both on Hulu. For The Girl From Plainville, which stars Elle Fanning as the controversial Michelle Carter, who was convicted of essentially bringing about her boyfriend’s suicide, Hannah was creator…

Emmy voting started Thursday, and for our penultimate TV Talk podcast of this stage of the season, we have some names for you to consider. Euphoria's Zendaya, Dopesick's Michael Keaton, Hacks‘ Jean Smart and Paul W. Downs, Squid Game's Lee Jung-jae, the Succession gang, Grace & Frankie's Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, Thi…

The tight race for one of Emmy’s most prestigious categories, Outstanding Drama Series, is the topic for this week’s edition of Deadline’s podcast, TV TALK.  Awards Columnist and Chief Film Critic Pete Hammond and Deadline TV critic Dominic Patten go at it in trying to make sense of the contenders, and who may have…

"There are so many good things, so many different kind of series here," Deadline's Awards Columnist and Chief Film Critic Pete Hammond says on today's TV Talk podcast, speaking about the Limited Series contenders for this year's Emmys. With the likes of Hulu's Dopesick and The Dropout, HBO's The White Lotus, Netflix's…

Amanda Seyfried, Naveen Andrews and creator Elizabeth Meriwether were filming the Hulu series The Dropout while subject Elizabeth Holmes was on trial. During a Contenders TV panel Sunday at the Paramount Theatre, they recalled following the trial closely as they told Holmes' story. Meriwether incorporated information…

As Hollywood speeds through movie awards season and the world seems to move closer and closer to the geopolitical edge over Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, timing is again of the essence. On one level, that is very true on the small screen this week with our candidates for the show you have to watch – as you can…