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Hulu’s Emmy-winning dystopian drama series The Handmaid’s Tale is shutting down production amid escalating coronavirus pandemic and a national emergency declared in the U.S. The drama has been filming its fourth season, which marks the directorial debut of Emmy-winning star Elisabeth Moss. It is produced by MGM…

Margaret Atwood's novel The Testaments, her long-awaited follow-up to The Handmaid's Tale, shared the prestigious Booker Prize for Fiction at a ceremony in London last night (October 15). The literary award was split with Bernardine Evaristo's Girl, Woman, Other. Evaristo became the first black woman to win the…

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…

“Heresy. That’s what you get punished for. Not for being part of the resistance. Because officially, there is no resistance. Not for helping people escape, because officially there is no such thing as escape.” Those words from June Osborne (Elisabeth Moss) at the beginning of the Season 3 trailer for Hulu’s The Handmai…

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…