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This year, an astounding three quarters of the 16 acting categories include at least two nominees from the same show; some categories have as many as four, and others have multiple groups from separate shows. As best I can determine, there has never been an Emmy race with more “friendly fire.” In the lead races, drama actor nominees include This Is Us’ Sterling K. Brown and Milo Ventimiglia; drama actress nominees include Killing Eve’s Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh; and limited series actress nominees include When They See Us’ Aunjanue Ellis and Niecy Nash. In the supporting races, comedy actor nominees include Barry’s Anthony Carrigan, Stephen Root and Henry Winkler; comedy actress nominees include The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’s Alex Borstein and Marin Hinkle; drama actor nominees include Game of Thrones’…

BANDERSNATCH Netflix’s first foray into a choose-your-own-adventure narrative was two years in the making, and only made possible because of an in-house storytelling tool, called Branch Manager, that allowed Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker to bring his interactive story map to life. As a result, there are thousands of variations on the story. “We had to learn a new way of filmmaking, editorially and productionwise,” producer Annabel Jones told THR of the branching narrative. Brooker and Jones can’t even agree about how many endings the series has. “I don’t know how many endings there actually are — I think I’ve forgotten,” said Brooker. When Jones suggested to THR that there are five “definitive” ends, Brooker interrupted: “No. There are more than that.” BREXIT The drama around Brexit continues to this…

If the current era of fake news, manufactured crises and deepfake GIFs hasn’t set a river of fraud streaming through your consciousness, it’s at least streaming through your TV. Three films on the subject have been nominated for Emmys in the outstanding documentary or special category, including one by two-time winner Alex Gibney, who added a third nomination for his HBO film The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, an exploration of Theranos, the high-tech company that promised to revolutionize blood testing. Nominated for four Emmys is Netflix’s Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened, director Chris Smith’s insightful look at the infamous music festival that promised pristine model-strewn Bahamian beaches and delivered camping tents in an empty lot lacking food, light and water. HBO also nabbed four nominations…

ANTHONY BOURDAIN: PARTS UNKNOWN (CNN) Episodes from the 12th and final season of the late Anthony Bourdain’s series earned a total of six nominations. Most of the episodes were unfinished when Bourdain died June 8, 2018. The Parts Unknown team chose to finish and air the series, with episodes set in NYC, Bhutan, Kenya and Texas. Only the Kenya episode, featuring W. Kamau Bell, includes Bourdain’s narration. “He really soaked up the culture there. You could just tell how much fun he was having with Kamau,” director Morgan Fallon tells THR. “This really was a special episode.” LEAH REMINI: SCIENTOLOGY AND THE AFTERMATH (A&E) Leah Remini’s series investigating the Church of Scientology (of which she is a former member) has been nominated for all three of its seasons (winning the…

In November 1971, ABC stepped into the film subgenre known as the “guy cry,” and scored a massive hit with Brian’s Song. The TV movie was in the tradition of sad-but-uplifting sports films that dates back to 1942’s The Pride of the Yankees and continued with 1973’s Bang the Drum Slowly. The 74-minute film told the true story of Chicago Bears Hall of Famer Gale Sayers (Billy Dee Williams, then 34, who would go on to play Lando Calrissian in 1980’s The Empire Strikes Back) and his mid-’60s friendship with fellow player and roommate Brian Piccolo (James Caan, then 31, who would appear as Sonny Corleone in The Godfather a year later). The tearjerker’s key element is Piccolo’s death at 26 from cancer. “The film was really a love story…

CHERNOBYL HBO’s exploration of the 1986 Soviet nuclear accident and its cover-up required ‘that we, as outsiders, were telling the story from the inside’ BY KATIE CAMPIONE ● The idea for HBO’s Chernobyl started the way most budding curiosities do: with a quick Wikipedia search. But that simple inquiry into the infamous 1986 nuclear accident sent series creator Craig Mazin, 48, on a deep dive that eventually produced the five-part limited series (and a podcast to match), which went on to amass a growing audience each week — and 19 nominations. What was the biggest difficulty adapting Chernobyl? The hardest part for us was the constant desire to be as accurate as we could, faced with certain realities of production schedule and budget. We understood that if you’re telling a…

JANE FONDA IN FIVE ACTS (HBO) Actress, activist and fitness tycoon Jane Fonda is at the center of Susan Lacy’s film exploring her upbringing, three marriages, acting career and entrepreneurial efforts. “I think I hit the points that shaped her in these various lives that she’s lived — Jane has been very many Janes — that propelled her to do what she did and become a fully realized person,” Lacy told THR. WORLD PREMIERE Jan. 20, 2018, at the Sundance Film Festival STAR TURNS Robert Redford, Lily Tomlin, producer Paula Weinstein and Fonda’s former spouses Tom Hayden and Ted Turner all appear in the documentary. THR REVIEW “Lacy expertly balances her subject’s big-picture cultural significance with the personal trajectory of emotional struggles, creative drive and self-invention.” LOVE, GILDA (CNN) Filmmaker…

AMERICAN MASTERS (PBS) The iconic series, examining the life and works of the world’s greatest artists, earned its 75th Emmy nomination this year. It has won 28 times, including 10 for outstanding nonfiction series and five for outstanding nonfiction special. Masters’ 32nd season included profiles on artist Basquiat, painter Elizabeth Murray, sculptor Eva Hesse and musician Sammy Davis Jr. (pictured). CHEF’S TABLE (Netflix) The fifth season of the delicious Netflix series from Jiro Dreams of Sushi filmmaker David Gelb, which follows world-class chefs and their passion for food, visited chefs in Istanbul, Bangkok and Barcelona. It was the show’s most diverse season yet. A standout episode featured Cristina Martinez, the undocumented Mexican immigrant chef behind Philadelphia’s South Philly Barbacoa and El Compadre. HOSTILE PLANET (National Geographic) Narrated by Bear Grylls,…

1 Game of Thrones’ “Battle of Winterfell” episode has one of the longest battle sequences ever filmed. How many weeks of night shoots did it take? A 5 B 11 C 19 D 27 2 Which of the below received the most nominations in 2019? A Bill Hader B Phoebe Waller-Bridge C Sandra Oh D James Corden 3 Which of the following shows did not have someone from the true story involved in the project? A Fosse/Verdon B When They See Us C A Very English Scandal D My Dinner with Hervé 4 The idea for Netflix’s When They See Us originally arose from a tweet sent to Ava DuVernay by one of the Exonerated Five. A True B False 5 This “branching path” symbol appears in the Black Mirror TV movie Bandersnatch. What…

It had been more than three decades since Sir Anthony Hopkins last trod the stage in the kind of Shakespeare role that defined his fiery early theater career, and 20 years since tackling the Bard’s Titus onscreen. But all it took was a brief scene shot onstage for another project entirely to stoke the actor’s appetite again — and in turn launch Amazon Studios’ sleek, propulsive, modernized take on the play, now Emmy-nominated as outstanding television movie. Colin Callender was serving as executive producer of the 2015 film adaptation of The Dresser — starring Hopkins and directed by Richard Eyre — when Hopkins, in character as a Shakespearean actor, performed sequences from Lear onstage in a London theater as cameras rolled. “This was the first time that Anthony Hopkins walked…

In July 2012, Jerry Seinfeld premiered Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee on Sony’s digital platform Crackle, scooping up his funny friends in vintage cars and going for a drive and a coffee date at a local spot. After nine seasons, the show was picked up in 2017 by Netflix for season 10, which earned the series its fourth Emmy nomination — and its first in the informational series or special category. The season’s guests included Dave Chappelle, Ellen DeGeneres and Jerry Lewis (filmed a few months before the icon’s 2017 death). Days before the 11th season’s July 19 debut, Seinfeld, 65, sat down with THR to talk awards, favorite guests and toothpaste brands. Moving from Crackle to Netflix, how has the show changed over time? When I get to the…