Two years ago, Ron Cephas Jones was part of Emmy history when the four guest acting categories went to Black actors for the first time. And he could enter the record books again as our odds are forecasting a second guest sweep by Black performers.
Jones is predicted to win Best Drama Guest Actor again for “This Is Us,” the same show for which he prevailed in 2018. Cicely Tyson is the favorite in Best Drama Guest Actress as she seeks her fifth bid for “How to Get Away with Murder.” On the comedy side, Eddie Murphy (“Saturday Night Live”) and Maya Rudolph (“The Good Place”) are out in front.
In 2018, Jones won alongside Samira Wiley (“The Handmaid’s Tale”) in drama guest actress, Tiffany Haddish (“Saturday Night Live”) in comedy guest actress and Katt Williams (“Atlanta”) in comedy guest actor.
The guest categories have all crowned multiple Black winners before, but...
Jones is predicted to win Best Drama Guest Actor again for “This Is Us,” the same show for which he prevailed in 2018. Cicely Tyson is the favorite in Best Drama Guest Actress as she seeks her fifth bid for “How to Get Away with Murder.” On the comedy side, Eddie Murphy (“Saturday Night Live”) and Maya Rudolph (“The Good Place”) are out in front.
In 2018, Jones won alongside Samira Wiley (“The Handmaid’s Tale”) in drama guest actress, Tiffany Haddish (“Saturday Night Live”) in comedy guest actress and Katt Williams (“Atlanta”) in comedy guest actor.
The guest categories have all crowned multiple Black winners before, but...
- 7/13/2020
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
“Saturday Night Live” has won the Emmy for Best Music and Lyrics three times, more than any other series. This year it could win again, and it actually has multiple chances to do so. There are five songs from the late night sketch comedy series on the ballot. Which do you think most deserves the title? Scroll down to watch all five tunes, and then vote in our poll at the bottom of this post.
“SNL” has become a perennial favorite in the songwriting category. In addition to its three wins, it has nine other nominations, bringing its total to 12, which is also the most of any series in Emmy history. But it didn’t get its first nomination until 2007, when the viral “Dick in a Box” claimed the award. That launched an era of nominated comedy songs from the series, which won again in 2011 (“Justin Timberlake Monologue”) and 2018 (“Come...
“SNL” has become a perennial favorite in the songwriting category. In addition to its three wins, it has nine other nominations, bringing its total to 12, which is also the most of any series in Emmy history. But it didn’t get its first nomination until 2007, when the viral “Dick in a Box” claimed the award. That launched an era of nominated comedy songs from the series, which won again in 2011 (“Justin Timberlake Monologue”) and 2018 (“Come...
- 7/7/2020
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Spoiler Alert: The following podcast contains spoilers about season 3 of Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
The one motif that rings throughout season 3 of Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is that the production literally struck up the band. From the first episode’s massive Uso show, to a Latin Miami dance slow dance, to a swimming pool ballet that Midge wrecks, and all the Shy Baldwin love songs in between, season 3 was a wall-to-wall musical.
“We wanted Midge in season 3 to be be swept up; a huge observer of a big hot young star’s journey,” the series EP/director and writer Dan Palladino tells Deadline’s Crew Call.
“We wanted her to see fame,” adds creator/EP/director/writer Amy Sherman-Palladino.
“…And the effects of fame,” says Dan Palladino.
Season 3 in particular, “allowed us to indulge in our inner MGM, Gene Kelly, Arthur Freed moments; everything in the...
The one motif that rings throughout season 3 of Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is that the production literally struck up the band. From the first episode’s massive Uso show, to a Latin Miami dance slow dance, to a swimming pool ballet that Midge wrecks, and all the Shy Baldwin love songs in between, season 3 was a wall-to-wall musical.
“We wanted Midge in season 3 to be be swept up; a huge observer of a big hot young star’s journey,” the series EP/director and writer Dan Palladino tells Deadline’s Crew Call.
“We wanted her to see fame,” adds creator/EP/director/writer Amy Sherman-Palladino.
“…And the effects of fame,” says Dan Palladino.
Season 3 in particular, “allowed us to indulge in our inner MGM, Gene Kelly, Arthur Freed moments; everything in the...
- 7/6/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Had “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” been pitched in the era it depicts (the 1950s), creator Amy Sherman-Palladino suspects network executives would have loved the idea of a character that, when their marriage falls apart, finds a voice within standup comedy — save for one small detail: “They would say, ‘No one would believe that — make the woman a man,’” she says.
“Ambitious” may never have fit the description of the perfect mid-century housewife, but the aversion toward outspoken women on TV has lingered long past the ’50s. A collective uproar against not just sexual harassment, but also the lack of diversity, women’s roles and gender parity in the entertainment industry and beyond has boosted the demand for unapologetic female voices both before and behind the camera.
“The ironic thing about ‘Maisel’ is, the series dropped right as the #MeToo movement was happening, and I looked like Nostradamus,” says Sherman-Palladino. “I...
“Ambitious” may never have fit the description of the perfect mid-century housewife, but the aversion toward outspoken women on TV has lingered long past the ’50s. A collective uproar against not just sexual harassment, but also the lack of diversity, women’s roles and gender parity in the entertainment industry and beyond has boosted the demand for unapologetic female voices both before and behind the camera.
“The ironic thing about ‘Maisel’ is, the series dropped right as the #MeToo movement was happening, and I looked like Nostradamus,” says Sherman-Palladino. “I...
- 7/6/2020
- by Carita Rizzo
- Variety Film + TV
Thank you once more to Tom Mizer, one half of the songwriting team Mizer & Moore (The Marvelous Mrs Maisel), who has blessed us with funny, insightful guest blogs from the set, his childhood, and writing rooms all day! - Nathaniel
by Tom Mizer
I was raised on Barbra Streisand. My mother adored her. She owned The Way We Were and Yentl on VHS. She vacuumed to the “Guilty” album. Every birthday, she joyously opened Bab’s anual release like a Dickens’ orphan getting her yearly pair of shoes. And I was, step by step, initiated into the catechism of Our Lady of Funny Girl.
So when I met her...Barbra, not my mother...it was brief but epic. And ridiculous. And wonderful. And bittersweet. Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present, “Meeting Streisand: A Miniature Comic Tragedy in 3 Acts.”
Prologue: Tom is performing in a small Off-Broadway show. (His acting career...
by Tom Mizer
I was raised on Barbra Streisand. My mother adored her. She owned The Way We Were and Yentl on VHS. She vacuumed to the “Guilty” album. Every birthday, she joyously opened Bab’s anual release like a Dickens’ orphan getting her yearly pair of shoes. And I was, step by step, initiated into the catechism of Our Lady of Funny Girl.
So when I met her...Barbra, not my mother...it was brief but epic. And ridiculous. And wonderful. And bittersweet. Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present, “Meeting Streisand: A Miniature Comic Tragedy in 3 Acts.”
Prologue: Tom is performing in a small Off-Broadway show. (His acting career...
- 7/1/2020
- by GUEST CONTRIBUTOR
- FilmExperience
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