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The Handmaid’s Tale is out of action for most Emmys this year—given the fact the Hulu drama missed the eligibility window, except for three “hanging episodes” left over from last summer—but the show has made up for it by winning both guest acting spots they were up for. Following Bradley Whitford’s guest actor in a dra…

Bradley Whitford has made history as the first person to win an Emmy in both the comedy and drama guest categories. Picking up the award at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Sunday for his role as Commander Joseph Lawrence in Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale, Whitford previously won the comedic version for Transparent in…

A follow-up to the award-winning The Handmaid’s Tale is in the works. MGM Television and Hulu are developing The Testaments, Margaret Atwood's sequel to her best-selling dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale. MGM and Hulu are currently in talks with Handmaid's showrunner Bruce Miller about how the upcoming novel can…

Crafting a "creepy, otherworldly and alien" sound for the first season of The Handmaid's Tale, composer Adam Taylor's biggest challenge since then has been watching the story evolve, and finding ways in which his score can evolve with it. One of the most well regarded dramas on television today, Bruce Miller's…

Ten episodes into The Handmaid’s Tale’s third-season run, Hulu has renewed the Emmy, Golden Globe and Peabody Award-winning drama series for a fourth season. The announcement was made at TCA. The Handmaid’s Tale has been a brand-defying series for Hulu and became the first streaming show to win a best series Primetime…

Having aired in June, the current third season of Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale may not be eligible for Emmys, but nonetheless, due to the Academy’s ‘hanging episode’ rule, Season 2 has 11 nominations this year. The rule means that while the final three episodes of Season 2 fell outside of the Emmy eligibility window for…

Screenings, live viewings, conversations, tributes and talent appearances highlighting Deadwood, The Handmaid’s Tale, When They See Us, The Good Place, Better Things and other TV titles are among the offerings at the third annual Split Screens Festival. The event at New York’s IFC Center runs May 29 to June 3. Notable…

EXCLUSIVE: Award-winning Handmaid’s Tale helmer Reed Morano has joined LBI Entertainment’s talent roster. Morano made history as a director and executive producer of Hulu’s Elisabeth Moss-led series. She became the first woman ever to win the Emmy and DGA Award for drama series in the same year and was the first woman…

EXCLUSIVE: O-T Fagbenle has joined Marvel's Black Widow in a leading role opposite Scarlett Johansson. Fagbenle joins previously announced castmembers David Harbour, Florence Pugh, and Rachel Weisz. Production will reportedly start this June in London. Australian filmmaker Cate Shortland (Lore) is directing the…

Emmy award-winning actress Elisabeth Moss has two big projects at SXSW one is the music drama Her Smell where she plays a punk rock musician struggling with sobriety and her creative groove — which is more than appropriate for the Austin-based confab. The other a little horror film called Us from Jordan Peele which…

An interview with The Handmaid’s Tale author Margaret Atwood will be broadcast globally to more than 1,000 cinemas to mark the Sept. 10 publication of the novel’s long-awaited sequel, The Testaments. Presented as a live-stream in some venues and tape-delayed in others, Margaret Atwood: Live in Cinemas will originate…

EXCLUSIVE: VH1 Trailblazers Honors will celebrate two women closely associated with some timely subjects next month: The Handmaid’s Tale author Margaret Atwood and #MeToo founder and activist Tarana Burke. They will be feted as vanguards along with previously announced honorees House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and…