These stars will always be remembered. During Sunday’s broadcast of the Emmy Awards, John Legend was tasked with leading the In Memoriam segment remembering celebrities in entertainment — and ones out of it — during a moving performance of his new song “Pieces.” “It never feels like the right time …
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Rachel Brosnahan knows how to keep her friends close and her enemies even closer. In the lead-up to the 2022 Emmy Awards, the actress gifted Jean Smart a few pounds of fancy cookies (most likely New York’s famous Levain Bakery confections) as a faux-good luck charm. The pair were both …
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After becoming the first non-English language series to be nominated for some of America’s top television prizes, Squid Game secured its place in Emmy history Monday, Sept. 12, when Lee Jung-jae took home the award for Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series. The win marks the first time in Emmy …
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The Emmys always have an uphill battle: the least glamorous, the least surprising, and the least inviting of award shows. The Grammys can always claim to be Music’s Biggest Night, just because it’s on TV, and the Oscars are the Oscars — but Emmy Night is always full of TV …
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Early in the 2022 Primetime Emmy Awards telecast, host Kenan Thompson joked, “Tonight, we celebrate the hundreds and hundreds of shows that were produced last year, and then we give awards to five of them.” Like a number of the Saturday Night Live vet’s zingers throughout the night, the line …
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The 74th PrimetimeEmmy Awardsare finally here! The ceremony, hosted by Kenan Thompson, aired Monday night from the Microsoft Theater at L.A. Live in downtown Los Angeles on NBC and, for the first time, streaming on Peacock. Successionled all nominees this year, picking up 25, including a nod for Outstanding Drama …
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Kenan Thompson wants to get back to real television — no more short clips recirculated on TikTok and reading books, or any of the other meaningless ways of passing time. The Saturday Night Live alum kicked off his hosting gig at the 2022 Emmy Awards on Monday night with a …
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Sheryl Lee Ralph has anointed Dianne Reeves’s classic deep-cut, “Endangered Species,” the song of champions. Taking the stage at the 2022 Emmy Awards to accept the award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, the Abbott Elementary star broke out into an acapella performance of the track. “I am …
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When Lizzo received her first-ever Emmy Awards nomination for her show Watch Out for the Big Grrrls, she expressed that “we didn’t do this for the awards, we did this for ourselves.” Now, as she takes home the award in the Outstanding Competition Show category, the musician is making room …
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Eminem just added another award to his already vast trophy case. The Detroit rapper (along with Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Kendrick Lamar, 50 Cent, and Mary J. Blige) won a 2022 Creative Arts Emmy award for his participation in this year’s Super Bowl Halftime performance. The star-studded 14-minute set won …
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