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 little boy is scared. There’s such a large crowd outside the theater. He has no idea what will happen when he walks through the doors and into the room filled with dozens of seats, all facing a large blank square. Plus it’s in the dark. He’s been told him …
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Will this be the year that the Emmys stop being so monotonous? Probably not, but we can keep hoping. Because most categories involve ongoing series that stick around for years, the Emmys have always suffered from predictability in a way that the Oscars, Grammys, or Tonys do not. The easiest …
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It started with just a few of them, a random passerby or two milling about Toronto’s King Street in Hawaiian shirts and curly-haired wigs. Then, as if following some primitive instinct, they’d find each other and begin to chat. At one point, four twentysomethings dressed in the same floral printed …
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By his own calculation, writer-director-actor-Comic-Con personality Kevin Smith is not particularly imaginative. “I’m not very creative by any stretch,” the 52-year-old Smith tells Rolling Stone from his home in California, bobble heads bearing his characters’ names stacked in rows behind him. “I just take shit that happened to me and …
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This fall, the comedy Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul. — starring Regina Hall and Sterling K. Brown as Southern Baptist scammers sweating to re-open their megachurch after a public scandal — will not just herald the ascendance of a fresh new comic filmmaker. It will introduce viewers to two …
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These days, Neil Gaiman‘s most frequent collaborator is his own twentysomething self. As an executive producer on the decades-in-the-making Netflix adaptation of The Sandman and the showrunner of Amazon Prime’s Good Omens (based on his 1990 novel with the late Terry Pratchett), the wildly successful and prolific fantasy author keeps …
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This post contains spoilers for the season finale of The Rehearsal, which is now streaming on HBO Max. Among the most clever things about Nathan Fielder‘s The Rehearsal is that its very structure, along with the secrecy behind how Fielder and company produced the docu-comedy, makes it almost entirely analysis-proof. …
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House of the Dragon, the first of several planned spin-offs to HBO’s monumental hit Game of Thrones, premieres August 21st, more than three years after the original show ended. If you’re wondering how the series fits into the world of the Seven Kingdoms (and just how many strange, barely pronounceable …
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