Innholdsfortegnelse for Awards Special 18B - June 17, 2024 i The Hollywood Reporter

I’ve spent my whole career looking at food from the perspective of origin and, specifically, as an opportunity to deepen empathy among humans. For me, hosting High on the Hog, based on Jessica B. Harris’ text of the same name, has been a dream come true. As we started to discuss the second season, which delves into the Black diaspora as told through a culinary story, the stories of the Great Migration and the Civil Rights Movement happened to be stories that are directly connected to my own family lineage. When we introduced High on the Hog to audiences in season one, my style of engaging was not really about me as the host; it was more deferential. But as we continued our journey in the second season, we felt…

Did you know Jeopardy! has won the most Emmys of any game show? The show, which has been on the air since 1964, even holds a Guinness World Record for its total 44 wins in its 60-year history (as of last July, the show has received a total of 135 Emmy nominations). Among those prizes, Jeopardy! received its first Primetime Emmy last year. “Every Emmy win is exciting,” producer Sarah Whitcomb Foss, who has been with Jeopardy! for 20-plus years, tells The Hollywood Reporter, adding that the Primetime Emmy win was “particularly special.” “Each year the show is recognized, it feels like a wonderful affirmation that people still find it rewarding to learn new things and that this beautifully simple format that Merv Griffin created 60 years ago is still…

Queer Eye has proven to clean up quite nicely, with the unscripted television franchise having collected 12 Emmy wins from 38 total nominations. It landed its first Emmy for its debut season after initially launching as Queer Eye for the Straight Guy on Bravo during the summer of 2003. Focusing on five gay men known as the “Fab 5” who dole out makeovers and life advice to straight dudes in need of some guidance, it was a culture-defining hit right out of the gate. The series set Bravo ratings records in its inaugural run and turned the five charming stars — Carson Kressley (“Fashion Savant”), Ted Allen (“Food and Wine Connoisseur”), Kyan Douglas (“Grooming Guru”), Thom Filicia (“Design Doctor”) and Jai Rodriguez (“Culture Vulture”) — into ubiquitous figures. “The concept…

In Griselda, Sofía Vergara leaves behind her comedic roots and steps into the violent, backstabbing world of her eponymous character, a reallife drug lord becoming increasingly deranged over the course of the six-part miniseries. Episode five sees her break her composure, pulling a gun on her estranged husband, Dario, shooting up his car and then forcing party guests to have sex in front of her at gunpoint.…

John Early can’t help himself. What was to be a low-commitment interview in the park is now crudité and coffee at his Eastside Los Angeles home — and he’s already apologizing for the lack of alternative milks. “The folly of my life is that it’s all structured around getting the right marinated feta,” says the 36-year-old actor and comic, who wonders aloud whether he’s been typecast as the “panicked host.” He adds, “Yet we are in my home, and there are snacks. I wish to not be like this.” If Early feels this serial inclination to play the host has seeped into his acting work — see his role in the recent feature Stress Positions and five seasons playing vain Brooklynite Elliott Goss on the HBO dark comedy Search Party —…

Chatting with Jane Lynch about The Weakest Link, I set myself up for a dose of the biting humor that keeps audiences tuned in to the NBC game show week after week, when I ask an unfortunately cliché question. “Is there any celebrity guest you’re dying to have on the show?” I quiz. “Not dying to have — I don’t think I’d die for that, Brande,” Lynch says with a hearty laugh. Sean Hayes is her answer, the actor and friend of Lynch’s responsible for her foray into game show hosting. From 2013-20, she presided over Hollywood Game Night, which Hayes created, at his request. “Hollywood Game Night was a boot camp for game show hosting,” Lynch explains. “I learned how to be pretty good on my feet, pretty nimble,…

Season three of Max’s Hacks begins with a suspended camera pan above the Las Vegas Strip that guides viewers inside Caesars Palace, where it follows a familiar figure through the casino for a gag of a reveal. Captured in one take, the shot, which the show’s director of photography Adam Bricker calls “kind of badass,” is a nod to the pilot episode of the comedy, which followed Jean Smart’s Deborah Vance from her curtain call through the backstage and bowels of the casino and into her dressing room. “Our showrunners really wanted to reintroduce the viewer to this world,” Bricker says, noting the two-year gap since season two debuted in 2022. Getting the pacing right for the scene, which was set to the Electric Light Orchestra track “Evil Woman,” was…