Prestige Junkie
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Hiro Murai on ‘Widow’s Bay’ and Its Ouija Board Magic
Plus: ‘Spider-Man’ director Destin Daniel Cretton’s bittersweet weekend
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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
Latest Prestige Junkie stories
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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
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Former ‘Pain in the Ass’ Tony Kaye is Back, Vito Schnabel is Jacked, in Big Tribeca Bet
After sparring over ‘American History X,’ and with help from Kevin Durant and Olivier Sarkozy, the embattled filmmaker makes (another) comeback bid
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🎧 Jason Segel’s Midlife Comedy Crisis (On Purpose)
The former ‘How I Met Your Mother’ star says ‘Shrinking’ is ‘what the whole search has been about.’ Plus: Christopher Rosen joins me to survey the Emmy race
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‘Shrinking’ & the Traum-Com; the Warm, Funny ‘Adolescence’ Team (Really!)
Co-creator Bill Lawrence and the cast of the Apple TV+ hopeful explain their secret sauce. Plus: Stephen Graham & Jack Thorne
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🎧 Questlove, Sly Stone & the Anxiety of Success
A childhood memory, a haunting bass line, and a documentary years in the making about a brilliant and troubled artist: ‘I became hyper-obsessed’
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Exclusive: ‘Hacks’ Just Dropped 30 Emmy Submissions — I Got the List
The comedy series incumbent will compete in 20 different categories, with Deborah to Dance Mom on the ballot as they gun for ‘The Bear’ record
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🎧 Palme Today, Oscar Tomorrow?
I break down post-Cannes Film Fest buzz with Chris Feil. Plus, ‘Severance’ star Britt Lower & creator Dan Erickson take me inside the dystopian drama
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Oscar Buzz from Cannes; Eddie Redmayne Tells Me How to Disappear
The ‘Day of the Jackal’ star and the makeup and costume pros who transformed him reveal all
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🎧 Tony Gilroy & Diego Luna: How to Survive Hollywood’s Worst Moment
‘Andor’ is an exception in a ‘terrible time in the business’, but also filled with hope. Plus: Richard Rushfield predicts an indie renaissance
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Canapés & Camaraderie: In Praise of FYC Events in Tough Times
My awards from a whirlwind of fun events (really!) in L.A.
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‘Andor’: My Awe Over a (Pricey) TV Galaxy Far, Far Away
A preview of my Tony Gilroy interview as I pay homage to his expensive, audacious Star Wars epic — the last gasp of streaming’s go-for-broke era
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🎧 ‘Étoile’ Star Luke Kirby on His Second Dance with ‘Maisel’ Creators
Lenny Bruce to Lincoln Center, the actor goes where the Palladinos lead him. Plus: I talk to Tyler Coates about the Emmy landscape and what could disrupt it
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Cannibal Queens to Cancer Sex: Creators on Risk & Ambition in the Algo Age
Teams behind ‘Yellowjackets’, ‘American Primeval’ and ‘Dying for Sex’ on the wild stories behind their buzzy shows — and what gives them hope
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First Twins. Now Quintuplets? Cynthia Erivo’s ‘Poker Face’ Turn(s)
The ‘Wicked’ diva follows similar acts by Pattinson, De Niro, Michael B. & Pugh. Plus: the Globes’ pod nod, and an Ankler shoutout on ‘The Studio’
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🎧 ‘Matlock’ Star Kathy Bates: ‘It’s a Huge Gift at the End of My Career’
The star and her showrunner, Jennie Snyder Urman, unpack their close collab on the hit CBS procedural — and the secret weapon of a Southern accent
Prestige Junkie from Katey Rich tracks the intersection of awards, culture and industry power — the breakthroughs, contenders, campaigns and conversations shaping film and TV.