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 Fans Have Taken Over, From ‘Obsession’ to ‘Heated Rivalry’
When an audience no one saw coming suddenly shows up, Hollywood has one choice: Embrace it
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Connor Storrie, ‘Reggie Dinkins’ & 8 Last-Chance Emmy Underdogs to Love
Nominations voting ends tonight. These are our favorite dark-horse picks
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Matthew Rhys, Jason Segel and an Emmy Actor Race Going Sideways
Plus: Director Colin Hanks on John Candy and capturing the real story behind the comedy legend
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Matthew Rhys’ ‘Widow’s Bay’ Character is ‘Braver Than You Think’
The star, and show creator Katie Dippold, on being trapped in TV’s funniest haunted house and how it happened
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🎧 Michael Urie’s ‘Shrinking’ Surprise — and the Emmy Loss He Loved
The actor, who broke out on ‘Ugly Betty,’ tells me about the ‘magical chemistry’ that makes the series
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JFK Jr., Carolyn & Jackie: How ‘Love Story’ Escaped TV’s Pilot Trap
I talk to creator Connor Hines and director Max Winkler. Plus: my read on the true meaning of Spielberg’s ‘Disclosure Day’
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🎧 Who Has the Best Nicolas Cage Stories? The ‘Spider-Noir’ Cast
Co-showrunner Oren Uziel and his actors on the genre-bending superhero comedy and its ‘larger than life’ star
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‘Stranger Things’ for Seniors? ‘The Boroughs’ Is Netflix’s Answer
Creators Will Matthews and Jeffrey Addiss on their bold gambit of a sci-fi drama with big stars and a hint of Spielberg
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Jimmy Kimmel’s Still Fighting for Late Night
My chat with ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ E.P. Molly McNearney on Trump, Colbert and what’s left: ‘Tell the truth and be funny’
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Lisa Kudrow’s ‘Comeback’ vs. the AI Hellscape
Michael Patrick King tells me about the fears that spurred HBO’s revival in TV’s spring wave of old characters made new
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🎧 Jason Bateman Has Seen It All — And Probably Directed It, Too
The ‘Black Rabbit’ star and, yes, director, tells me what he’s learned through decades of shifting models and audiences
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🎧 Dakota Fanning Refused the Female Rivalry Trap on ‘All Her Fault’
The actress on how the series defied stereotypes and sharing a production company with her sister, Elle
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YouTube Is Still Waiting for Its Emmy Moment. Is This the Year?
I interviewed four creators on Friday and saw signs the breakthrough is almost here: ‘My eyes have been opened!’
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🎧 Colman Domingo Is Everywhere, So Please Be On Time
From ‘Disclosure Day’ to directing on ‘The Four Seasons’ — the Emmy winner wants you to miss him. Just not yet
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Inside ‘Task’ & Brad Ingelsby’s Delco Crime Universe
The creator on his ‘Heat’-inspired drama and its specific sense of place in Pennsylvania: ‘It’s not leaving me’
Prestige Junkie from Katey Rich tracks the intersection of awards, culture and industry power — the breakthroughs, contenders, campaigns and conversations shaping film and TV.