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.
Last year’s Emmy Awards got political, with Jill Soloway exhorting the audience to “topple the patriarchy” and some people who aren’t white men actually winning awards. And that was before Donald Trump won the election and made everything political. This year, Stephen Colbert set an odd,…
Stephen Colbert kicked off the 69th Emmy Awards telecast with a song-and-dance number, with the whole thing dedicated to the fact that real life is pretty shitty and TV is fun and cool. It was a catchy performance with a number of cameos from people who appear in popular TV shows, and it even ended with a bunch of …
The A.V. Club is counting down the days leading up to the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, September 17, with an examination of this year’s major categories. Each day, TV editor Erik Adams is breaking down a category and giving us his picks for who should win, and who will win. On the final day of our Emmy Round…
The A.V. Club is counting down the days leading up to the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, September 17, with an examination of this year’s major categories. Each day, TV editor Erik Adams is breaking down a category and giving us his picks for who should win, and who will win. Today we’re looking at the nominees…
The A.V. Club is counting down the days leading up to the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, September 17, with an examination of this year’s major categories. Each day, TV editor Erik Adams breaks down a category and gives us his picks for who should win, and who will win. Today we’re looking at the nominees for…
The A.V. Club is counting down the days leading up to the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards, Sunday, September 17, with an examination of this year’s major categories. Each day, TV editor Erik Adams breaks down a category and gives us his picks for who should win, and who will win. Today we’re looking at the nominees for…
With the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards around the corner, we’re taking a minute to look back at some of the outstanding records from previous ceremonies. Between the perennial Emmy juggernaut that is Saturday Night Live and Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ domination of the comedic acting categories, there is no shortage of…
NBC’s family drama This Is Us cleaned up at the Emmy’s this year, pulling in 11 total nominations, including Drama Series, two noms for Drama Actor (for Milo Ventimiglia and Sterling K. Brown) and a host of others. That number dropped to 10, today, though, when the Television Academy disqualified the show’s nomination…
This week on The A.V. Club, we’re talking all the awards! That’s right, every last one of them. From the Oscars to the Emmys to the highly lauded and sought after CableAce Awards—we’ve got them all covered. We’re also discussing which ones, if any, actually matter, and which ones we can let ride off into the sunset.…
There was a bittersweet moment during today’s Emmy nominations announcement. The late Carrie Fisher received a posthumous nod for her guest role on Amazon’s Catastrophe. Fisher played Mia, Rob’s (Rob Delaney) mother in the most recent season, which also happened to be the show’s most poignant. This is Fisher’s third…
The nominees for the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards will be announced this morning at 11:30 Eastern. A.V. Club TV critics Erik Adams and Danette Chavez are watching the nominations, and will chime in with their thoughts below.
The nominees for the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards are being announced by Veep’s Anna Chlumsky and S.W.A.T.’s Shemar Moore at the Television Academy’s Wolf Theatre at the Saban Media Center in Los Angeles this morning. And thanks to the Television Academy’s decision to take pity on pop-culture writers and move its Emmy…
In a refreshing acknowledgement that some people in Hollywood recognize that there are issues more important than awards season, the stars and producer of the sitcom Mom announced that they are foregoing the usual “for your consideration” Emmy ad campaign. Instead, the show will spend that $250,000 ad budget on a…
Ever since Billions’ second season kicked off, performer Asia Kate Dillon has been drawing strong reviews for their performance as Taylor, the latest recruit into Bobby Axelrod’s cult of financial worship. Identifying as gender non-binary, Dillon (and Taylor) is a knowing antidote to the show’s hyper-masculine pissing…
At this year’s Emmys, Last Week Tonight won the award for Outstanding Variety Talk Series, solidifying itself as the heir to The Daily Show’s throne, at least in the heart of Television Academy voters. It also picked up the prize for Outstanding Writing For A Variety Series. Meanwhile, host John Oliver also has some…