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Schitt’s Creek bid adieu earlier this year in a series finale that pulled out all the romantic stops. Co-created by Daniel Levy, the CBC/PopTV show follows a riches-to-rags family forced to move to a small town they’d “bought” as a joke, which turns out to be an unglamorous but welcoming utopia free of homophobia. In its last few seasons, the show had become as much about David’s (Levy) relationship with Patrick (Noah Reid) as it was about his family, as one beau navigated his first serious relationship and the other struggled with being newly out of the closet. The finale, titled “Happy Ending,” showcased the series’ queer sensibility, with grooms David and Patrick briefly derailed (David mistakenly believes his fiance had gifted him not just a massage but the eponymous…

Peter Morgan was nearing the end of a lengthy shoot for the upcoming fourth season of Netflix’s The Crown when the coronavirus took hold in the U.K., halting production. While he was ultimately able to wrap the season with what they had, he still lost a couple weeks of filming. “I can see where the gaps are, but I’m hoping that you won’t,” says the showrunner, who adds that he feels “lucky” that they were able to get as far as they did. In the wake of the show’s nine Emmy nominations, including one for best drama series, the London-based Morgan shares what caused him to change his mind about the number of seasons the show will run, the unofficial feedback he gets from Buckingham Palace and why present-day royal…

On Nov. 12, Disney+ launched with a major offering for subscribers: the first live-action Star Wars show and the most meme-able new TV character on the internet. Executive producers Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni’s The Mandalorian, which stars Pedro Pascal as a mysterious bounty hunter, fueled Disney+ to impressive signup numbers (the service now reaches more than 60.5 million paid subscribers) and was rewarded with 15 Emmy nominations, including a drama series nom that is rare for a sci-fi show. Filoni, who for years has masterminded many of Star Wars’ popular animated shows, is also nominated this year for Star Wars: Resistance. The pair took a break from postproduction on season two (due out in October) to recall keeping Baby Yoda (which they call The Child) a secret and George…

Now in its third season, The Handmaid’s Tale is back in the Emmy race this year with 10 nominations, including for best drama series and nods for Bradley Whitford, Samira Wiley and Alexis Bledel. Season three sees Elisabeth Moss’ June continuing to build a rebellion in Gilead, seeking to save her daughter while starting an operation to transport the totalitarian society’s children to freedom in Canada. Showrunner Bruce Miller — who was forced to pause season four two weeks into filming amid the novel coronavirus shutdown, and who hopes to restart in Toronto soon — talks to THR about building a revolution, continuing to reference Margaret Atwood’s words and deciding to keep June in Gilead. What did you want to accomplish in the third season? The world is changing so…

For Ozark showrunner Chris Mundy, taking huge chances is part of the job. On the third season of Netflix’s crime thriller, which earned 18 nominations, including one for drama series, Marty and Wendy Byrde (Jason Bateman and Laura Linney) saw their already blurry moral codes challenged even further. But as the show’s writers pushed their characters into outlandishly dangerous situations, Mundy knew his actors were up for any challenges. “[The cast] makes us look really good all of the time,” Mundy says. A nominee himself for writing for a drama series, he spoke to THR about developing Ozark’s twists and turns and the tough decision to kill off some of his favorite characters. What was the biggest challenge as you began writing season three? Coming out of season one, we…

Netflix’s hit sci-fi drama Stranger Things is three seasons in and still going strong. Full of the show’s signature ’80s nostalgia, the latest season, which sees the kids of Hawkins spend the summer of 1985 at the Starcourt Mall while dealing with an otherworldly threat, is nominated for five Emmys, including a third consecutive one for outstanding drama. Creators Matt and Ross Duffer discuss with THR the third season’s departure from Halloween spookiness, its breakout stars Dacre Montgomery and Maya Hawke and plans for season four — and beyond. In terms of storytelling, how would you compare this season with the previous two? ROSS DUFFER We want each season to feel different, as opposed to recreating the same thing over and over again. With season three, we realized early on…

Succession showrunner Jesse Armstrong was gearing up to shoot the third season of his Emmy-nominated HBO drama when the COVID-19 outbreak pushed filming back indefinitely. Unable to be in production in New York, he’s spent much of the shutdown in the U.K. fine-tuning the season three scripts instead — that way he’ll be ready to go as soon as they can figure out how to safely film the show, which is up for 18 Emmy nominations, this fall. From his home in London, Armstrong opens up about the tentative date for resuming production, how he’s reworking the scripts to be more filmable and whether there are any plans for a pandemic storyline in the upcoming season. I realize everything is very fluid at the moment and no one has a…