Road To Emmys Annual Series
“Succession” and “Ted Lasso” topped the Emmy Awards on Monday, earning best drama and comedy series distinction, respectively, in a ceremony that touted the power of TV and extended honors to “Squid Game” and winners who delivered messages of empowerment.
The evening’s uplifting tone, as...
The high fives continued on the second night of the 2022 Creative Arts Emmy Awards weekend. On the first evening (Saturday, 9/3), Adele: One Night Only (CBS) and The Beatles: Get Back (Apple TV+) led the way with five Emmys apiece. The Sunday best tonight (9/5) were ...
Earning historic distinction as the first non-English language series to be nominated for the Outstanding Drama Series Emmy, the dystopian Korean thriller Squid Game (Netflix) centers on people who are so desperate for money that they consent to compete in a series of schoolyard games...
“This is my Twin Peaks,” recalled production designer Jeremy Hindle, hearkening back to what he felt after reading a script for Severance (Apple TV+) penned by series creator Dan Erickson. “The tone was so strange and the story so good, I was immediately enamored.”
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Oscar Wilde famously said, “Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”
There’s some truth to that in Hacks (HBO Max) where we see series artisans benefiting from an on-set dynamic that in one key respect mirrors the behavior of the characters they helped to create....
Back in February, Succession (HBO) earned the unique distinction of sweeping the DGA Awards’ dramatic series category nominations--Kevin Bray for the “Retired Janitors of Idaho” episode; Mark Mylod for “All the Bells Say”; Andrij Parekh for “What It Takes”; Robert Pulcini and Shari...
From New Girl to golden girl turned fallen girl--that’s the wide-ranging, protagonist-driven ride navigated by Elizabeth Meriwether who prior to this current awards season was perhaps best known for her lengthy tenure as a writer and executive producer on New Girl, a smart,...
Editor Nena Erb, ACE earned her third career Emmy nomination last week; it was for the “Choice, Okay?!” episode of Insecure (HBO) directed by Kevin Bray. This marks her second such nod for Insecure in the Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Comedy Series category,...
As in years past, a healthy percentage of those SHOOT interviewed relatively early on for its The Road To Emmy Series--as well as prior TV Awards Season preview coverage and our Cinematography & Cameras features--has gone on to land nominations from Television Academy voters. For...
What do you do for an encore when the first season of a series receives critical acclaim to the tune of 13 Emmy nominations and three wins? That was a prime challenge facing the creative minds and artisans behind Russian Doll (Netflix).
The answer in part resided in adopting and...