For a competition series like The Traitors, it’s important for cinematographers Siggi Rosen-Rawlings and Matt Wright to keep the players as immersed in the game as possible. While the players compete in a series of challenges and conspire with each other to root out the traitors, the pair is hard at work…

The first winners of the 76th Emmy Awards were revealed today as the Television Academy unveiled its honorees in the juried categories spanning animation, costume, innovation in emerging media programming and motion design. Netflix toon series Blue Eye Samurai was the lone multiple honoree, and it…

With his Emmy-nominated Netflix special The Old Man and the Pool, Mike Birbiglia digs deep into our sense of mortality and meaning, while literally lying on stage in true confessional comedic style and going out with a 'bang'. Birbiglia has honed his career out of deep honesty and the importance of…

On FX's hit comedy-drama series The Bear, Lionel Boyce plays Marcus Brooks, a humble pastry chef trying to balance the hardships within his life with the hectic environment of the restaurant. While Season 2 maintains the fast-paced, high-adrenaline storylines that the series is known for, the first few…

When Tom Hollander took on the role of Truman Capote in Season 2 of Ryan Murphy's Anthology Series, Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, it wasn't the first time he'd contemplated playing the famously acerbic New York writer—some years ago he had auditioned for a different version of the role. Now, in portraying…

The 2024 People’s Choice Country Awards nominations are out, and Zach Bryan, Beyoncé, Kacey Musgraves, and Shaboozey lead the list. Beyoncé’s first country album has her up for 12 awards, including the People’s Artist of 2024, Female Artist of 2024, and Social Country Star. The singer also scored…

UPDATED with latest: The Oscars, strike-delayed Writers Guild Awards and the 2023-24 awards season are history, and it’s time to look at what’s ahead trophy show-wise. Here is a list of awards shows, events and the like ahead as we cruise into Emmy season and look ahead to Cannes, the fall film…

With Shōgun, the epic drama series from FX based on James Clavell's epic 1975 novel, veteran Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada's work pushed past any subtitle barriers to earn the show a massive worldwide following that includes 25 Emmy nominations. Sanada stars as Lord Toranaga, the ultimate strategist…

As Agnes van Rhijn in The Gilded Age, Christine Baranski embodies a New York matriarch bound by stringent class division and societal contest—something the show's creator Julian Fellowes so famously explored within the British aristocracy in Downton Abbey. Baranski conveys both generations of painful…

Production designer Ben Norman has been working as a designer of reality show challenges for a few years, though never on a competition quite on the scale of Squid Game: The Challenge. To be fair, there hasn’t really been a reality competition on the scale of the Netflix series before, which brings…

As she began her work on Hacks, it became quickly apparent to costume designer Kathleen Felix-Hager that perfecting the look of Deborah Vance was an immediate priority. "I'm really proud of the collaboration between Jean [Smart] and I, and Paul [W. Downs] and Lucia [Aniello] in creating this character,"…

It’s always sunny these days for Rob McElhenney, who is celebrating six Emmy nominations for Welcome to Wrexham including for Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program –after seeing the series win five Emmys in January for Season 1. Those wins include a first…