Innholdsfortegnelse for Emmy Special 2 June 2017 i The Hollywood Reporter

For someone who purports to hate the Emmys, Donald Trump has given the awards show a lot of attention over the years. As The Hollywood Reporter was the first to report, Trump has been a member of the TV Academy since June 2004, six months after his reality show The Apprentice premiered. That program generated massive ratings for NBC, but it never clicked with Emmy voters. Its first two seasons were nominated for reality competition series, but it lost both times to The Amazing Race and was never nominated again — to Trump’s everlasting fury. “I got screwed out of an Emmy,” he said of his first loss during an Apprentice episode a decade later. “Everybody thought I was going to win it. In fact, when they announced the winner,…

Fargo is TV’s version of a high school reunion. Every year it returns, and viewers are eager to see how much everything has changed — while also hoping it will still look somewhat the same. THR spoke with series creator Noah Hawley about how he keeps the series, now in its third season, both fresh and familiar. Even with cast and storyline changes every season, what have you tried to keep consistent on the series? Fargo has always had a very strong female identity because the movie version did. So in the first season, that literally translated into the central character of Molly Solverson [Allison Tolman]. In the second season, we didn’t have a female police officer, so we expanded the female identity with characters like Jean Smart’s Floyd Gerhardt and Kirsten Dunst’s Peggy…

Christine Baranski • THE GOOD FIGHT (CBS All Access) After thinking she’d be able to spend her golden years retired in Italy, Diane Lockhart (Baranski) loses almost all of her equity in a financial scam and is forced to roll up her sleeves and un-retire in this sequel series to The Good Wife. FAVORITE THING ABOUT HER CHARACTER “The first episode is just a series of spectacular setbacks for Diane, even having to formally end her marriage. It really was a wonderfully challenging thing to explore that for the character, who we’ve seen over the course of seven years [on The Good Wife]. We’ve seen her suffer a lot of ups and downs — the death of Will Gardner, her own bankruptcy issues with the firm — but she’s always landed on…

While Paolo Sorrentino was making HBO’s The Young Pope, he considered its 10 episodes a “long film.” Through a translator, the Italian director spoke with THR about bringing his tale of the first American pope to life. What was the biggest challenge in putting this project together? Because materials connected to the theme of the Catholic Church are so vast, complicated and full of derivations, the biggest challenge was to find a synthesis in such an ocean. Is it more or less challenging to create a fictional story about this very real institution? It’s slightly more complicated because the coefficient of imagination has to be kept in check in virtue of an adherence to a real institution, which is alive and ongoing. What were some of the more difficult aspects of the production? Set…

Anyone who grew up in a Latino family knows a matriarch like Rita Moreno’s Lydia on One Day at a Time. In Norman Lear’s Netflix reboot of his 1970s sitcom, about a single mom raising her two kids, the family this time is Cuban-American and the mom — Penelope, an army vet dealing with PTSD, played by Justina Machado — also has to contend with her meddling live-in mother. Moreno’s Lydia is never without her makeup, speaks with a strong Cuban accent (Moreno herself is Puerto Rican) and never keeps an opinion to herself. The octogenarian and EGOT is having fun in the role: In Lydia’s grand entrance on the show’s premiere, Moreno throws open a pair of curtains and is greeted by an ovation from the live audience so…

ANDREA MARTIN Great News (NBC) Martin, a twotime Emmy winner (and My Big Fat Greek Wedding’s Aunt Toula!), could add a third trophy to her mantle for the meddling mom she plays in the Peacock’s newsroom comedy, executive produced by Tina Fey and created by her protege, Tracy Wigfield. KATE MCKINNON Saturday Night Live (NBC) McKinnon displayed perhaps the most versatility of any comedy actress this season, segueing from Hillary Clinton to Kellyanne Conway to Jeff Sessions in SNL’s most watched season in decades. Last year’s Emmy winner is the one to beat. ZOE KRAVITZ Big Little Lies (HBO) Even without knowing the full backstory of her character (a history with domestic abuse — revealed in the original novel but not in the series), Kravitz’s performance in the shocking finale brought her…

The no-nonsense, gum-chewing British detective Jane Tennison now has a quarter-century history with the TV Academy. This year, Stefanie Martini is eligible for an Emmy playing what she has called a “much softer” — and younger — version of the character in the Tennisonfocused prequel, Prime Suspect 1973. Tennison originally was seen in the U.S. as a character played by Helen Mirren in the British-made series Prime Suspect, a two-part mystery that aired stateside on PBS on Jan. 23, 1992. “Mirren gives a subtle and balanced portrayal of a woman who sometimes must outdo the men at their own worst traits in order to gain a minimum of respect,” The Hollywood Reporter said in its review. Mirren, 71, has been nominated for six Emmys for playing the character (out of…