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Right out of the box Lucia Aniello experienced what riding the right horse at the Emmys was like. She became one of the few women to win both Comedy Directing and Writing Emmys, for the first season of Hacks. And the Emmy love doesn’t stop there. After a…

A column covering conversations and events on the awards circuit. If it seems like we have been in an Emmy cycle with no end, you wouldn’t be far from wrong. But we are just about at the finish line as ballots are now in the hands (or laptops) of some…

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,"…

A bunch of Hacks lead the winners at the 2024 Dorian TV Awards, which was revealed today by GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics. The Emmy-laden Max series took four prizes — including Best TV Comedy and Jean Smart for Best TV Performance, Comedy — followed by AMC’s Anne Rice’s Interview with…

From social media to the big screen, Meg Stalter is peeling back her many layers as she marks her first starring role in Cora Bora. The Ohio-born actress recently opened up about her “sweet and rewarding” part in writer Rhianon Jones and director Hannah Pearl Utt‘s new comedy-drama, which premiered at…

On Wednesday morning the hit Max comedy show Hacks celebrated a total of 17 Emmy nominations — among them, Best Comedy Series, Lead Comedy Actress for Jean Smart, Comedy Supporting Actress for Hannah Einbinder and Comedy Supporting Actor for showrunner and star Paul W. Downs. Related…

Shōgun and Hacks were among the big winners Friday at the 40th Annual The Television Critics Association Awards. The TCA Awards honor outstanding programming from the 2023-2024 television season. The winners were selected by the TCA's membership of more than 230 TV journalists from across the United…

For veteran editor Janet Weinberg, who joined Hacks for Season 3, the introduction to her work on the series was unusual, given that the first episode of this new chapter wound up in the cutting room for about a year and a half. While work on Episode 1 commenced in the fall of 2022, she wound up…

Deadline’s TV Talk podcast is back for another season taking listeners all the way to the 76th Emmy Awards ceremony September 15. Strap in. Hold on, we're doing this again already? Yep. In this year of two Emmy Awards, Deadline's TV Talk podcast has returned to get into the small-screen…

Deborah Vance is coming back for more. Max has renewed comedy series Hacks, starring Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder, for a fourth season. The news comes hours after the finale of the third season – titled “Bulletproof” – dropped on the Warner Bros. Discovery streaming…

It is three o'clock in the morning at a blackjack table inside Las Vegas's sprawling Caesar's Palace casino. A woman in town on business has just turned a $150 bankroll into $800, and she moves to retire to the nearby bar to buy her work family, whose fortunes at the same table have varied, a…

Jeff Daniels and Diane Lane rarely put in anything less than stellar performances, but the Emmy winner and Oscar nominee are rarely as good as they are in Netflix’s adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s A Man in Full. In a fortnight that has seen the premieres of Hulu's Lily Gladstone and Riley Keough starring Un…