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With the exception of a few soap operas and public affairs programs, no TV show has been on the air longer than NBC’s Saturday Night Live, which will embark on its 50th season Sept. 28. And as we approach the 76th Emmys, which will take place just a few weeks before that, it is the most celebrated show in the history of that event. Indeed, SNL holds the records for most Emmy nominations with 341 (Game of Thrones is second with 159) and wins with 89 (GoT is second with 59). And Lorne Michaels, its creator and overseer for all but five of its seasons, holds the record for most Emmy noms for an individual with 106 (Sheila Nevins is second with 77) and has racked up the second most…

When nominations for the 2024 Emmys were announced, Richard Gadd was intentionally riding the tube in London. “I’ve learned in life, don’t put too much emotional weight behind [things], because if you really want something and it doesn’t go your way, it can be quite devastating, so I didn’t want to reserve a period of time where I would just be sitting, so I just went about my day,” says the creator and star of the streaming phenomenon Baby Reindeer. Gadd’s fear of tempting fate proved superfluous when the seven-part drama — which currently stands as Netflix’s 10th most watched English-language series with more than 85 million views since its release on April 11 — garnered 11 nods, including best limited or anthology series, and best writing and best actor…

In Ripley, Netflix’s dazzling eight-part adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s landmark 1955 crime novel The Talented Mr. Ripley, the approach to the material is more emotionally cold and deliberately paced than in the 1999 movie adaptation. Anchored by a bravura performance by Andrew Scott, the series — nominated for 13 Emmys — was written and directed by veteran screenwriter Steven Zaillian (Oscar winner for Schindler’s List). Zaillian joins THR for a conversation about this ambitious project’s journey to the small screen. What inspired you to remake something that had already been tackled to great success by Hollywood? Twenty years had gone by since the 1999 movie. I felt that there was a way of doing this in a longer format that would hopefully capture the feeling that I had when I…

When Lisa Henson first saw Jim Henson Idea Man, the Ron Howard-directed documentary about her famous puppeteer father, she instantly considered it a success. “It was wonderful to see that Ron had landed it,” Lisa tells THR. “We had hoped that in the storytelling, Ron might be able to channel some of the creativity of Jim Henson and The Muppets, and he brought sketches to life with animation, used stop-motion from time to time, and presented the film in a creative style.” That approach earned the documentary eight Emmy nominations, including outstanding documentary and directing for Howard, as well as nods for cinematography, editing and writing. Was this documentary an immediate yes for you and your siblings? Yes. We had been approached for several years by various documentary filmmakers and…

Noah Hawley wasn’t entirely sure how the fifth season of Fargo would end — even as he began to write it. At that point in the series, Dot Lyon (Juno Temple) had persevered through several life-threatening ordeals and at last is at home with her family when Ole Munch (Sam Spruell) — a criminal for hire who’s also a centuries-old sin eater — shows up at her house to collect on a debt he believes she owes him. “When I sat down to write that final sequence, it wasn’t my plan that it would go the way that it went,” Hawley tells THR. “I assumed that Munch would show up at her house, and it would become one final, tense set piece. Then I thought, ‘Well, that’s his scene. What…

Issa López was a niche horror auteur from Mexico City when HBO enlisted her to create a fourth season of its True Detective franchise. She then penned and directed all six episodes of True Detective: Night Country, which co-stars Jodie Foster and Kali Reis as Alaskan law enforcement investigating the death of a group of scientists bizarrely entombed in a 2,000-pound hunk of ice that’s dubbed a “corpsicle” by Foster’s character, Liz Danvers. The macabre reboot drew a new wave of admirers — even if series creator Nic Pizzolatto wasn’t among them (he called the season “insulting” and a “hot mess” on Instagram). López checked in with THR the morning of the show’s 12 Emmy noms, including outstanding limited or anthology series. This is going to be a day you…

In the episode “Deer Lady,” FX’s Reservation Dogs reveals the backstory of the mysterious eponymous character played by guest star Kaniehtiio Horn (pictured) — a spirit who presents as a woman with hooves and kills “unsavory men.” “This is like the whole episode in one quick shot,” says Emmy-nominated DP Mark Schwartzbard of this moment in the episode, after which Deer Lady exacts revenge on an abusive man from her past. “The episode is about historical trauma — reclaiming it and trying to move on from it,” continues Schwartzbard. “This one shot manifests that, not through anything we did with the camera, but basically through the performance.” This episode, directed by Danis Goulet, is a departure from the typical shooting style on the show, which Schwartzbard describes as “observational.” But…

Until this year, I worried about Just for Us’ timeliness. Just for Us, if you haven’t seen it, is a comedy show about a Jew — me — who attends a meeting of white nationalists in Queens. Eventually, they cotton on. The show has had a long and blessed life, having wound its way through the anglophone comedy world, finding a nice home on Broadway last summer before alighting on Max this April. However, in its 2018 infancy, I was only a few months removed from the gathering it was based on, and was trawling it through British and Australian comedy venues. Small theaters, pubs above a shoe store, anywhere that would have me. And coupled with the praise (faint!) was the word “timely.” Remember 2018? Those Thai kids had…

The message of found community that undergirds Lessons in Chemistry parallels the experience the cast and crew had on the set of the Apple TV+ drama. “I cannot overstate what a beautiful collaboration this was,” says showrunner Lee Eisenberg of the series about a chemist turned cooking show host struggling with loss and the unpredictability of life. “If we had an hour, I would tick off about 100 names of people that I would not be talking to you if not for them.” Chief among them would be actors Brie Larson, Aja Naomi King and Lewis Pullman, who all scored Emmy nominations for their work on the adaptation of Bonnie Garmus’ novel of the same name, which is also up for outstanding limited series. Eisenberg chats with THR about how…

Long before Amazon Studios released the Emmy-nominated telefilm Red, White & Royal Blue, the story had legions of dedicated fans. Casey McQuiston’s 2019 book, on which the film is based, launched the 33-year-old author’s now lengthy career as a new-adult novelist, writing about characters in their late teens and early twenties. When news of an adaptation hit the internet, fans of the novel flooded social media with their casting ideas for the story’s main characters, Alex Claremont-Diaz, the first son of the United States, and his nemesis turned beau, Prince Henry, the “spare” British prince. Ultimately, the roles went to Taylor Zakhar Perez (Alex) and Nicholas Galitzine (Henry). McQuiston, an executive producer on the Matthew López film, is now co-writing the sequel, announced in May, alongside the screenwriter and director.…

Andrew Scott is Emmy nominated this year for playing the titular antihero on the Netflix miniseries Ripley. But this isn’t the Irish actor’s first rodeo playing a murderous trickster. In 2010, he debuted on the BBC/Masterpiece Theatre’s Sherlock as Jim Moriarty, the archnemesis and unhinged counterpart to the world’s most famous detective (played by Benedict Cumberbatch). Moriarty toyed with Sherlock, sending him on a life-or-death crime-solving scavenger hunt across London before nearly blowing up him and John Watson at a pool, then entangling the sleuth in an attempted theft of the Crown Jewels. All the while, Scott’s performance veered unpredictably from calm and composed to uncontrolled screams — in keeping with his character’s madness. And the roller-coaster storyline wasn’t over with 2012’s climactic season-two finale “The Reichenbach Fall,” where Moriarty…