Coming off the enormous success of something like Mad Men is no easy task, but Matthew Weiner, that series’ creator and executive producer, has found an unexpected yet equally satisfying way to do it with the Amazon anthology series The Romanoffs. Every week brings a different story and different cast, but all…
GLOW stunt coordinator Shauna Duggins won an Emmy last year for Outstanding Stunt Coordination for a Comedy Series or a Variety Program, after hitting the stunt biz lottery of sorts for handling the action on a series that revolves around female wrestling. The Netflix comedy is getting awards buzz again for a Season 2…
Charlie Barnett dies a lot in the new Netflix comedy series Russian Doll, and that isn’t a comment on his performance — just on his character Alan, who is on a death spiral and lives in a time loop as the show’s writers find inventive ways to kill him off.
It is unique to be sure as you might expect from a series…
A person who has spent most of his career "being anonymous, or nearly anonymous," W. Kamau Bell is still adjusting to the attention that his CNN unscripted series United Shades of America has brought him. Beginning his artistic journey as a "live performer [and] podcaster, working on lots of small things," Bell is now…
The 2017 publication of Salt Fat Acid Heat, winner of the James Beard Award for Best General Cookbook, established author Samin Nosrat as a major culinary authority. But the Netflix series adapted from her book has gone even further—turning her into a television star.
"It’s been overwhelming," Nosrat says of reaction…
Sharon Horgan is facing a "Catastrophe-shaped hole" as she says an "emotional" goodbye to the Channel 4 and Amazon comedy.
Horgan, speaking to Deadline from the Hollywood Hills, is doing the rounds to mark the end of the series that she created and co-starred with Rob Delaney as she prepares a slew of new projects to…
The path of Emmy history is littered with many injustices. Take, for example, Steve Carell's failure, despite five nominations, to earn a trophy for playing Michael Scott on The Office. Or how about The Wire, which somehow, despite becoming one of the definitive exemplars of peak television, only ever mustered a…
Brett Johnson and Oscar-nominated The Player scribe Michael Tolkin began working with each other as producer-writers on Ray Donovan and it was during that
series that they made an immediate go at adapting the true story about two inmates who escaped the maximum security Clinton Correctional facility in the quiet town…
Three days into the first round of Primetime Emmy voting, the TV Academy has disqualified several members — all in the performers branch comprised by actors — for engaging in “block voting,” a pattern where a group of people have an agreement to cast their vote for the same person.
“The Television Academy has…
Michael Douglas got his big break in series television in the early 70’s in his multi-Emmy nominated supporting role in ABC’s The Streets Of San Francisco . Despite winning an Emmy for playing Liberace in the HBO TV film Behind The Candelabra , he had not returned to series TV until this season when Netflix lured the…
When opportunity calls you better be ready to answer. Bob Odenkirk was more than ready back in 2009 when he was called on to portray Saul Goodman, the criminal attorney (in more ways than one) who became one of the most memorable Breaking Bad characters. Odenkirk dialed in to the character’s despicable charms so well…
An executive producer behind the American Ninja Warriorfranchise and Hell's Kitchen, Arthur Smith is always looking to break the mold and push limits within the reality competition space, doing so most recently with NBC's The Titan Games.
Co-created by A. Smith and Dwayne Johnson, who also serves as host, and…
