Awardsline

We’ve known for nearly a year when the 2020 DGA Awards will be held — thanks to the Oscars’ earlier date — but the guild today revealed the other key dates leading up to its 72nd annual trophy show. With the ceremony set for January 25 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, the Directors Guild’s theatrical…

The 2020 edition of Music’s Biggest Night will be a big one for Ken Ehrlich. CBS and the Recording Academy today set him to produce his 40th — and final — Grammy Awards. Ehrlich’s producing partner on the past three Grammycasts, The Late Late Show EP Ben Winston, also will produce the 62nd annual Grammy Awards in…

A three-time Emmy nominee with a 33-year screen career, Natasha Lyonne has wanted to employ her talents behind the scenes for as long as she can remember, finally doing so with her Netflix hit Russian Doll. Today, the series earned 13 Emmy nominations in its first go-round, demonstrating to the actress beyond the…

Coming onto Veep as showrunner in Season 5, David Mandel has been caught since then between a rock and a hard place. "It's funny. When I started this thing, the question was always, 'What are you doing about the pressure of taking over for Armando [Iannucci]?' Then, I guess I got a year off, and it's now turned into…

When I walked into the Television Academy’s Wolf Theatre for this morning’s Emmy nomination announcement, the first thing I saw on the wall were the words “Netflix Lobby.” Those naming rights for the prolific streamer take on double meaning on a day like this because they not only won the lobby, they also got a…

The success of ABC’s Live in Front of a Studio Audience continued this morning when the live special received three Emmy nominations including Outstanding Variety Special (Live), Outstanding Directing for a Variety Special for James Burrows and Andy Fisher and Outstanding Production Design for a Variety Special. The…

With a total of 12 Emmy nominations, Showtime’s Escape at Dannemora has emerged as a leader in the limited series race. The show based on a real-life 2015 prison break explores the dynamics between convicts Richard Matt (Benicio del Toro) and David Sweat (Paul Dano) and prison worker Joyce “Tilly” Mitchell (Patricia…

Given the Television Academy's tendency to reward the same critical favorites year after year at the Primetime Emmy Awards, it's often difficult for newer series to break into the race—particularly, in the category of Outstanding Competition Program. This year has proven to be an exception, with Netflix’s Nailed It!…

VH1’s popular drag queen reality competition RuPaul’s Drag Race cleaned up this morning when it came to Emmy nominations. It had repeat nominations for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Competition Program as well as Outstanding Competition Program — but the entire Drag Race franchise made history, garnering 14…

For Pop TV, the Eugene and Dan Levy comedy Schitt’s Creek has finally over-runneth at the Emmy nominations after five seasons on the air. Or as father and son exclaimed today, “Team Canada is heading to the Emmys!’ Reacted Pop TV President Brad Schwartz, who is also Canadian, on Twitter minutes after the nominations…

At this morning’s Emmy nomination announcement, Television Academy Chairman and CEO Frank Scherma and 2019 Emmy show producers Don Mischer and Ian Stewart told me no decision has been made about whether to have a host this year. In fact, Mischer tells Deadline they have not even made any offers. This year’s Oscar show…

Bruce Springsteen is within reach of EGOT: With his Netflix special Springsteen on Broadway Emmy-nominated for an Outstanding Variety Special (Pre-Recorded), Springsteen could add the TV award to a shelf that already includes an Oscar, a Tony and plenty of Grammys. Springsteen won an Oscar in 1994 for “Streets of…