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With more networks, personalities, formats and new shows coming and going in the late night TV space than ever before, it might come as a surprise that when the Emmy nominees were announced in July, the variety talk category looked exactly as it did last year. The 2018 winner, Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, is again joined by Full Frontal With Samantha Bee, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Daily Show With Trevor Noah, The Late Late Show With James Corden and The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. But that’s not for a lack of competition and fresh voices in the space. During the 2018-19 season, Conan O’Brien mixed up his show’s format on TBS, Desus & Mero found a larger platform on Showtime and Netflix’s Patriot Act With Hasan Minhaj…

THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL (Amazon) “The most important thing is to preserve the clarity of the dialogue, set within the audio background of the time period,” says rerecording mixer Ron Bochar of the work on the 1950s-and ’60s-set story that stars Rachel Brosnahan as a housewife with a knack for stand-up comedy. This includes incorporating the sounds of period vehicles, machinery and phones as well as a walla track (crowd sound) with conversations related to the month and year of a given episode. “Within this ’50s reality, the dialogue has to shine, whether it’s happening in a diner or on the stage or coming from television sets,” says Bochar of the show’s signature quick-witted talk, citing a telethon scene with “six different television sets that had to sound true to…

Randy Rainbow (yes, that’s his real name) has never considered himself a particularly political person — but that’s changing (sort of). In the nearly three years that have passed since his viral 2016 video “Braggadocious” — a biting Mary Poppins-inspired take on Donald Trump’s odd choice of vocabulary during a debate with Hillary Clinton — took Rainbow’s career to new heights, the comedian has dedicated most of his time to crafting politically charged musical parodies as part of his Emmy-nominated YouTube series, The Randy Rainbow Show. “I’ve been activated by this administration. I’m ‘woke,’ as the kids say,” explains Rainbow, a registered Democrat whose videos each typically rack up hundreds of thousands of views. “I don’t have a passion for politics, but I do have a passion for truth and…

Among Game of Thrones’ 32 nominations are three for the editors on the HBO fantasy series’ final season. Katie Weiland earned a nom for the “Iron Throne” episode, Crispin Green for “Winterfell” and Tim Porter for “The Long Night.” Porter, who over the years has earned three previous nominations and one Emmy for his work on the series, talked with THR about this chapter, which featured a massive battle sequence that finally saw the end of the Night King. What was the biggest editing challenge to “The Long Night,” and how did you approach it? “The Long Night” is essentially a continuous action sequence from beginning to end, with very little dialogue. The challenges came from constructing the narrative mainly through the action. It was a constant search for the…

Ryan O’Connell wasn’t supposed to be a TV star. But the creator of Netflix’s Emmy-nominated shortform comedy Special — based on O’Connell’s memoir about finding his identity as a gay man with mild cerebral palsy — wound up becoming just that. O’Connell cut his teeth in television with writing jobs on MTV’s Awkward and NBC’s Will & Grace revival but had to take acting classes before he wound up in rare air as the star, writer and showrunner of his own show. It has all paid off, with O’Connell securing a surprise acting Emmy nomination after a Better Call Saul shortform series and its star, Jonathan Banks, were disqualified. O’Connell — the lone writer on all eight episodes of Special — opens up about his path to Emmy recognition, which…

SNL’s Slew of Singing, Sketching Nominees Matt Damon He emceed the “Westminster Daddy Show” and ironically celebrated sad Christmas on the Dec. 15 show. Sandra Oh A Favourite inspired skit saw her shot in the arm, but more concerned with the feelings of men around her. Robert De Niro The March 30 cold open saw the actor playing Robert Mueller, with Alec Baldwin appearing as Trump. Adam Sandler When he hosted May 5, the former castmember offered a heartfelt musical tribute to his friend Chris Farley. John Mulaney The former SNL writer’s host gig included a bathroom bodega musical, “Legal Shark Tank” and a riff on Scream. Emma Thompson Her May 12 performance featured a Beauty and the Beast bit and an etiquette lesson with Leslie Jones. Reunions Jessica Lange…

Based on Joe Wright’s film of the same name, Amazon’s Hanna stars Esme Creed-Miles as the title character, a teenager on the run from the CIA. For series cinematographer Dana Gonzales, the process started with looking back at the 2011 movie. “When reimagining an amazing film, you cannot help but think about the original images and tone,” says Gonzales, whose previous work includes the FX series Fargo and Legion. But Gonzales and director Sarah Adina Smith decided they wouldn’t precisely follow in the footsteps of the film. “We wanted the audience to experience the world like Hanna does: the wilderness that she has lived in since birth for 16 years and the harsh reality of the outside world that becomes her new surroundings.” The nominated “Forest” episode (the first of…