Teddy Perkins, an Atlanta character too unnerving to ever forget, put on his finest velvet robe and splashed some water on his horrifyingly immobile face to enjoy a rare night out at last Monday’s Emmy awards. Those who watched, intending to enjoy a relaxing evening of giving awards to the wrong shows and improving…
Netflix had a damn good night at the Emmy Awards last night, with The Crown and Godless winning a handful of trophies each and bringing the streaming service’s total to 23 Emmys this year—if you count the Creative Arts awards that were handed out last week. That leaves Netflix tied with HBO, which won the big drama…
Let’s be totally honest here: The Outstanding Directing For A Variety Special Emmy going to Glenn Weiss, the guy who directed the Oscars ceremony, seemed pretty boring. It’s the kind of award that’s usually good for a snack break, since most TV viewers probably don’t care who directed the Academy Awards, but Weiss…
For having made a big show out of how diverse its nominees were this year, the Emmys sure have been giving a lot of awards to, you know, white people. Having evidently predicted that this would be the case, co-host Michael Che decided to right some wrongs by visiting some prominent black TV actors and presenting them…
A fun game during the crowd shots at award shows is to try and pick out the best famous people you recognize, like Carson Daly, whoever’s lucky enough to sit next to Carson Daly, and any super-big stars who should be doing something more fun than politely clapping for people who are less famous than they are. However,…
After a couple years of hard work and conscientiousness, the entertainment industry has done it: Everything is fixed. As noted in the musical opening at the Emmy Awards tonight, the bad guys are all in jail, the Emmy nominees are just a hair more diverse than they normally are, and both a white guy and a black guy are…
Welcome to The A.V. Club’s coverage of the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards. Follow along with our writers’ commentary and analysis below.
The 70th Primetime Emmy Awards take place tonight, September 17. The following are A.V. Club TV editor Erik Adams’ predictions for the winners of the acting awards, mixed in with some wishful thinking.
Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Monday, September 17. All times are Eastern.
The 70th Primetime Emmy Awards take place Monday, September 17. The following are A.V. Club TV editor Erik Adams’ predictions for the winners of the major series awards, mixed in with some wishful thinking and endorsements of worthy programs overlooked by the Academy Of Television Arts & Sciences. Watch for thoughts…
The Creative Arts Emmys were held over the weekend, and while there were a number of surprises, there were also some richly deserved tributes. To wit: The late Anthony Bourdain, along with his CNN show Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, picked up six Emmy awards.
With the Television Academy preparing to dole out trophies for the 70th time—first with the Creative Arts Emmys on Saturday, September 8 and Sunday, September 9, followed by the big primetime ceremony on Monday, September 17—we ask: Of the nominees, who deserves to win an Emmy this year?
Megan Amram made a web series. Perhaps you’ve heard of it? It’s called An Emmy For Megan, and it’s about a fictionalized Megan Amram creating a web series called An Emmy For Megan in order to win an Emmy for Outstanding Actress in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series. It’s a taut, psychologically dense piece of…
It’s a watershed year for the Primetime Emmy Awards: For the first time since the early ’00s, HBO does not boast the lion’s share of nominations. Not that it went overlooked: Though the pay-cable channel’s 108 nominations fell short of Netflix’s 112, it still has the most-nominated program, with Game Of Thrones …
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences revealed its nominees for the 70th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards this morning, carving some 9,100 submissions down to a varied field of competitors that reflects the continued rise of streaming platforms (well, at least one streaming platform) in a shifting TV landscape where…
Voting for the 2018 Emmy nominations starts in just a couple of days; obviously, that’s big business for anyone involved in the TV industry. And nobody thinks about “big business” like Nathan Fielder, whose Comedy Central series Nathan For You could, hypothetically, win this year, potentially courtesy of its…
Netflix is still in the Jeffrey Tambor business, with the streaming service recently confirming that he’ll return to Arrested Development’s fifth season despite allegations that he sexually harassed a former assistant and one of his Transparent castmates, but Amazon—the home of Transparent—has quietly been cutting all…
Weekend Update co-anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che are stepping out from behind the desk as co-hosts of his year’s Primetime Emmy Awards, Variety reports. The two will be at the center of a Saturday Night Live-heavy Emmys telecast executive produced by SNL bossman Lorne Michaels. NBC chairman Robert Greenblatt says…
Sunday’s Emmy Awards featured big wins, historic moments, and huge surprises, most notably, the appearance of disgraced former White House press secretary Sean Spicer. The choice was, to put it mildly, puzzling. While Spicer may no longer work in the administration, he was still complicit in its actions, whether he…
While the people behind the Emmys would probably tell you that every award is special, three awards at tonight’s ceremony have extra historical significance.
