Month: July 2020

Nearly all of the 20 or so staffers of Deadspin who departed the sports and culture website in 2019 during a remarkable mass exodus have reunited to form a new digital company, Defector Media. Using a subscription format, unlike the advertising-dependent Deadspin, Defector will primarily cover sports but plans to occasionally divert from that based on the inclinations of … Continue reading Former Deadspin Staffers Reunite To Form Subscription Digital Outlet Defector Continue Reading →

Apple TV+ When Apple TV+ hit The Morning Show had its Season 2 production stopped by COVID-19, no one rested on their laurels. According to Emmy nominee Mark Duplass, who played beleaguered producer Chip Black, the show is in rewrites to reflect the current global situation—something they also did in Season 1 as a response to #MeToo. “We … Continue reading Mark Duplass: ‘The Morning Show’ Season 2 Is In Rewrites To Reflect This “Larger, Global Phenomenon” Continue Reading →

Michael Becker/Fox The Masked Singer has crashed the Emmy reality race, the first Fox show in this category since So You Think You Can Dance in 2015. The mystery singing competition will go up against last year’s winner RuPaul’s Drag Race, Nailed It!, which broke through last year, Top Chef and The Voice. The category was down to five nominations rather than six as a … Continue reading ‘The Masked Singer’ Enters Emmy Reality Race, Scores First Major Nod For Fox Alternative Entertainment Continue Reading →

Netflix Dead To Me creator Liz Feldman recently announced that the show’s upcoming third season will be its last. Celebrating four Emmy nominations following Tuesday’s announcement, Feldman told Deadline the idea for how the show would end came to her in a flash during production on Season 2. “I always knew from the inception of the show that … Continue reading ‘Dead To Me’ Creator Liz Feldman On Its Final Season 3: The Ending “Came To Me Pretty Profoundly” Continue Reading →

Netflix; ESPN The almost first female POTUS is in the game, but the playoff in the Emmy docuseries category looks to be a battle between Joe Exotic and Michael Jordan. Facing Hulu’s Hillary, PBS’ venerable American Masters and HBO’s McMillion$, the very well watched Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness and The Last Dance snagged six and three nominations respectively from the TV Academy … Continue reading ‘Tiger King’ & Michael Jordan’s ‘The Last Dance’ Face Off In Emmy Documentary Battle Continue Reading →

Netflix; HBO Jason Bateman, reigning Emmy winner for director in a drama series, is a double threat on the acting side this year. He landed his third consecutive nomination in the Lead Actor In a Drama series category for his starring role as Martin ‘Marty’ Byrde on Netflix’s Ozark. Additionally, he is nominated as a Guest Actor … Continue reading Jason Bateman, Sterling K. Brown, Giancarlo Esposito & Maya Rudolph Land Multiple Emmy Acting Nominations Continue Reading →

Michael Buckner This morning, Ramy Youssef is celebrating his first trio of Emmy nominations for his Hulu comedy series Ramy—looking forward, at the same time, to a series he’s developing with Apple. Starring Youssef’s Ramy co-star Steve Way, the untitled project will center on the latter actor’s experiences as a disabled individual, looking also at the experiences of his family. “We’re really excited … Continue reading Ramy Youssef On Emmys Breakthrough, ‘Ramy’ Season 3 & Digging Into Perspective Of Disabled With Upcoming Apple Series Starring Steve Way Continue Reading →

With nominations now out for the 72nd annual Emmy Awards, we give our take on what it all means as the race for TV gold enters its final phase in the most competitive and certainly challenging season ever. Who are now the frontrunners to win? What are our opinions of the most surprising snubs and inclusions? Did the … Continue reading TV Talk Podcast Emmy Noms Edition: Netflix’s Dominance, ‘Succession’s Path To Victory, ‘Schitt’s Creek’ Last Hurrah & The Downside Of Going Virtual Continue Reading →