Prestige Junkie
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‘Obsession’ Star Inde Navarrette Crashes the Best Actress Race
Plus: ‘Task’ and ‘The Gilded Age’ director Salli Richardson-Whitfield on her history-making Emmy noms
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🎧 ‘Task’ Star Tom Pelphrey’s Worst Emmy Birthday Is Behind Him
‘You cannot make it up,’ the nominee tells me of the year he was a sure thing — until he wasn’t
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The Best, Worst & Weirdest: Emmy Campaign Awards, Phase I
As voting closes, I name who won the season (Jason Isaacs), who didn’t (‘Étoile’) and the case of the missing ‘Bear’
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🎧 Brian Tyree Henry Needed a Rest. Then He Read ‘Dope Thief’
The Oscar nominee and ‘Atlanta’ alum on finding his own way into the dark material: ‘Yeah, I can relate to this’
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‘Andor,’ ‘The Last of Us’ & Sci-Fi Shows That Went Political This Year
How some of the best confront a strange new universe, not that far, far away
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Reunited on TV: Tina Fey, Luke Kirby, Walton Goggins on the Joy of a ‘Fun Hang’
Part 4 in my week’s series: I talk to the stars crafting ‘new combinations on the Boggle board’ with old pals on-screen and off this season
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Stealing the Show: The Oners That Ruled the Small Screen
My 5-part look at TV’s big trends of the year continues with a breakdown of the year’s best shots. Plus: Lesley Goldberg on Emmy underdog ‘Overcompensating’
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🎧 Franklin Leonard on Why Hollywood is Running Scared
The Black List founder tells me why risks have become so subversive in the industry. Plus, a chat with the team behind ABC’s ‘High Potential’
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They Love L.A.: The Shows That Brought Hollywood Back to the Small Screen
My 5-part look at TV’s big trends of the year today examines Emmy hopefuls that let the City of Angels play itself once more
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The TV Year of Billionaires Puppeteering the President
All week, I’ll dive deep on the most prominent trends of Emmy season. First up, how wealth influences power on TV. Plus: Martin Scorsese talks ‘The Saints’
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🎧 Paul Giamatti & Charlie Brooker on Their Emotional ‘Black Mirror’ Moment
The Emmy winners collaborated for the first time with the episode ‘Eulogy.’ Says Giamatti of the dystopian anthology series: ‘It’s one for the ages’
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🎧 Jenny Slate Wanted to Know Everything Before ‘Dying for Sex’
The actress isn’t afraid of uncomfortable questions: ‘It’s a waste of time to make assumptions’
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Rachel Bloom’s Wild DIY Emmy Campaign: No Billboards, Just Belief
The Emmy winner’s Netflix special wasn’t submitted by the streamer, so she’s taking matters into her own hands. Plus: Inside the craft of ‘The Traitors’
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🎧 ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ to Gaslit? Ellen Pompeo’s Un-Meredith Moment
The ‘Good American Family’ actress tells me why Hulu’s limited series ‘scared’ her after 20 years on the hit ABC series
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Seth Meyers & the ‘Late Night’ Team on Trump 2.0, No Punches Pulled
Emboldened, they tell me how they make smart comedy in an insane news cycle: ‘The only way forward is forward’
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🎧 ‘Forever’ Began at Northwestern: Mara Brock Akil & Karen Pittman
I talk to the longtime pals about their groundbreaking Judy Blume Netflix series: ‘I don’t think we’ve seen that perspective on Black family’
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🎧 Secrets, Sexy, Messy: Elizabeth Banks & Jessica Biel’s Twisted Sisters
The actresses and team behind Prime Video’s ‘The Better Sister’ tell me about the show’s unhinged twists and choice ’90s needle drops
Prestige Junkie from Katey Rich tracks the intersection of awards, culture and industry power — the breakthroughs, contenders, campaigns and conversations shaping film and TV.