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16-07-2025
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‘Awards Magnet': Our instant 2025 Emmy reactions
The Emmy nominations are in and you'd better believe that the Gold Derby team has thoughts. On the latest Awards Magnet episode, deputy editor Ethan Alter and senior editors Denton Davidson and Marcus James Dixon are hear to sift through the big snubs and surprises that are a part of any Emmys announcement day. First a topline recap: Severance was the big winner — of the nominations anyway. The Apple TV+ show's sophomore season scored 27 nominations, a near-record eclipsed only by the 32 nominations recieved by Game of Thrones. Speaking of HBO series, The Penguin was the second-most-lauded series with 24 nominations, followed by The Studio at 23. Those are also the most-nominated series in their particular genre: Drama, Limited and Comedy. More from Gold Derby Emmys 2025 nominations: Best prediction scores by Gold Derby experts, editors, and users 'Grateful' first-time nominee Katherine LaNasa can't wait to see Jessica Williams, Jean Smart, and Julianne Nicholson at the Emmys Meanwhile, the biggest snub has to be Netflix's Squid Game, which came up empty for its second season after Season 1 became the first Korean-language series nominated for Best Drama Series. The Handmaid's Tale star Elisabeth Moss also missed out on a final season nod — the show's only nomination was for guest actress Cherry Jones. As for surprises, all three Gold Derby editors were caught off guard by Uzo Aduba's out-of-nowhere nomination for the canceled Netflix comedy, The Residence. We also didn't see the Black Mirror resurgence coming as the sci-fi series scored 10 nominations for its most recent season. Finally, the trio makes some personal picks for their favorite surprises and least favorite snubs. Expect to hear some love for The Traitors, Interview With the Vampire and the late, great Somebody Somewhere. Email your questions to slugfests@ Best of Gold Derby Everything to know about 'The Pitt' Season 2, including the departure of Tracy Ifeachor's Dr. Collins Everything to know about 'Too Much,' Lena Dunham's Netflix TV show starring Megan Stalter that's kinda, sorta 'based on a true story' Cristin Milioti, Amanda Seyfried, Michelle Williams, and the best of our Emmy Limited Series/Movie Actress interviews Click here to read the full article. Solve the daily Crossword
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13-06-2025
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‘The Bear' star Abby Elliott used her own birth experience to inform the standout Season 3 episode ‘Ice Chips'
Abby Elliott had known Natalie 'Sugar' Berzatto would give birth during the third season of The Bear for a while. So when it came time for Elliott to give birth to her son in June 2023, she was prepared to go the extra mile. More from GoldDerby Roy Wood Jr. on how 'Lonely Flowers' became his most personal special to date 'He feels like he's the smartest guy there': 'Abbott Elementary's' William Stanford Davis on Mr. Johnson's 'veneer' of 'mystery' 'The Shining' at 45: How Stanley Kubrick's Stephen King adaptation became the Razzies biggest regret 'I knew that the contractions would be a part of the episode, so when I had my actual labor with my second child, with my son, I had my mom in the delivery room with me, and she recorded my contractions,' Elliott says during the latest episode of Awards Magnet. 'So I could go back and watch them for acting purposes.' For Elliott, the immersive approach to preparation was critical. She wanted to make sure Natalie's contractions felt as real as possible, sharp and painful shocks that arrived quickly and broke up the tension of Natalie's conversations with her estranged mother, Donna (Jamie Lee Curtis). 'You're in excruciating pain, and then you're kind of like, 'OK, now, what do we do?'' she says. 'But then, having Donna there made for such drama.' 'Ice Chips,' Elliott's standout episode from The Bear Season 3, was written by co-showrunner Joanna Calo and directed by creator and co-showrunner Christopher Storer. The episode is essentially a two-hander between Elliott and Curtis, an Emmy Award winner for her performance in Season 2 of The Bear, where their characters try to find common ground after years of strife and difficulty. 'Jamie's just unbelievable. She's just so warm and nurturing. But also, I'm terrified of her, because she's so intimidating and incredible,' Elliott says of her screen partner. 'When you work with her, she feels like such a good friend, and then she snaps into Donna once that wig is on. She gets into it — like she is Donna. So all the hugging and the nurturing stuff that she has done as Jamie kind of goes out the window a little because she wants you to really feel the moment.' Elliott says she and Curtis ran through the episode's main sequence — basically a 20-minute scene — just once. 'If there was a lull or something didn't go as planned, we just kind of rolled with it,' she says of the show's improvisational nature. 'If one of us forgot a beat, I could always go to a contraction. It all just felt authentic. They need each other in this moment.' 'Ice Chips' ends without a significant resolution for Natalie and Donna; the baby is born (and the birth is not shown on screen) while Donna sits in the hospital waiting room. 'In this moment, there was a connection,' Elliott says of where the characters ended up and what lies ahead for their relationship. 'But Donna, with these traits — whether you want to call them borderline alcoholic, bipolar — that doesn't go away. You know she's trying, she's there, but it's still not perfect after this. And that's what I think Chris does so brilliantly with the show. It isn't wrapped up in a bow. Life isn't like that. It continues. And you can have this beautiful moment and some deep connection, and then return to being the people you are.' The Bear returns for its fourth season on June 25, where Natalie's child will presumably impact not just her life, but her relationship with Carmy (Emmy Award winner Jeremy Allen White). Through the first three seasons, Natalie has often bounced between being a sister for Carmy and being his surrogate mother as the older sibling. Elliott says the dynamic is invariably forced to change due to Natalie's new responsibilities as a parent. 'Natalie has wanted to step into that role of oldest sibling after Michael's death,' she says. 'With Carm, it's like this constant push and pull between deeply wanting to help him, and just dreading that she's going to be disappointed by him constantly. And I think that just with every season — and with him continuing to be in his patterns and in his head like that — it just escalates more and more for her. So now that Natalie has a child to take care of, there is a little bit of throwing your hands up in the air at Carm. Just like, 'OK, I can't help you!' And then, you know, immediately saying, 'Oh no, but I do need you so badly. You're the only one left.' So I think it's just the constant struggle.' The Bear streams on Hulu. Email your questions to slugfests@ Best of GoldDerby Inside 'The Daily Show': The team behind the satirical news series on politics, puppies, punchlines — and staying sane Dakota Fanning said 'yes' to 'The Perfect Couple' the moment she heard Nicole Kidman was involved, without knowing anything else about the show 'Slow Horses' star Rosalind Eleazar gets real about her MI5 outcast Louisa Guy: 'She's really not OK' Click here to read the full article.
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28-05-2025
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‘Hacks' EP and star Paul W. Downs on Deborah's shocking choice: ‘It is the most pivotal episode of the series so far'
Hacks, "A Slippery Slope." Not to be hyperbolic, but Thursday's episode of Hacks might be its most important one yet. "It is the most pivotal episode of the series so far," co-creator, co-showrunner, director, and star Paul W. Downs says on the latest episode of Awards Magnet. More from GoldDerby 'Solo Leveling' takes top prize at 2025 Anime Awards Cannes 2025: Why Oscars could be next for Palme d'Or winner Jafar Panahi's 'It Was Just an Accident' 'Lilo & Stitch': Director Chris Sanders reveals the iconic blue alien's surprising original design (exclusive art) In "A Slippery Slope," written by Downs and fellow creators and showrunners Lucia Aniello and Jen Statsky, the repercussions of network head Bob Lipka (Tony Goldwyn) doing Deborah (Jean Smart) a "favor" the previous episode by firing Winnie (Helen Hunt) start to build when Bob asks Deborah to have scandal-ridden movie star Ethan Sommers (Eric Balfour) on her show. After Deborah acquiesces when she's asked to cut her joke about his secret Snapchat, a peeved Ava (Hannah Einbinder) spills all to her old On the Contrary boss Lewis (Aristotle Athari), who decides to do an exposé on the coverup and refuses to kill it despite Ava's pleas. Bob tells Deborah to fire Ava because he needs give a head on a platter to the board. Just when it seems like Deborah will do just that and let Ava down again — she sends Ava on a fake assignment at the Oscars, Ava's badge is deactivated when she returns to the studio — she instead pulls a first: by putting someone else first for once. During her monologue on her post-Oscars show, Deborah announces that she won't fire her head writer and "creative partner" and "someone I love" as asked, and that this will be her final Late Night show, because she won't cave to corporate pressure. It is a slippery slope, and she says she's drawing the line — a nod to the title of the pilot, "There Is No Line." "It's really the first time Deborah chooses a relationship over her career, chooses it puts Ava first," Downs says. "And also it allowed us in this episode to really address a lot of the stuff that we meditate on in the season, around the changes in the television industry." SEE Hacks stars and EPs break down Deborah's promise: 'That's the thing that Ava is constantly dealing with' One of the themes of Season 4 has been art versus commerce. By dropping Deborah and Ava, independent creatives, into the corporate world, they not only have a boss to answer to now, but shareholders, advertisers, and disruptive tech that constantly shift the goalposts. "This is a business, and I get that," Deborah says in her monologue. "And there are good people on the business side who are trying to navigate the difficult intersection of art and commerce. But thanks to Wall Street and big tech disrupting our industry, it's gone too far. It's not enough to be No. 1 anymore or to make a profit or to even make you laugh. I might be a capitalist pig myself, but first and foremost, I'm a comedian. And I care more about making this show the right way than I do about making shareholders happy." "As she says at the end of the day, 'I'm a comedian and I'm here to make people laugh,' and that is the thing that she loves to do and wants to do," Down says. "She says the dream changed because as much as this has been the dream, to do the dream today when our industry has been so disrupted by tech and just being a part of publicly traded conglomerates that have shareholders to answer to. ... This industry has been a profitable industry for a century. This was not a broken industry because people want entertainment, they want stories. Since the dawn of language, we've wanted stories, and for it to be disrupted in the way that it's been disrupted is really a shame because it's not just enough to make a profit." And it's "impossible" to make a profit, Downs continues, "if you don't push down on all of the people, all the crews, all of the creatives, all the people that make those stories." While Hacks and Deborah's speech is about the entertainment industry, Downs believes it's a mutual feeling across any industry "where corporate greed has impacted the way in which people make things." Downs, Aniello, and Statsky spent a great deal of time on the monologue as they also wanted to explore what it means to get your dream in 70s and the glass cliff, the phenomenon whereby underrepresented groups are put in leadership positions during crises. "What it's like to finally give a woman an opportunity to do something at a time when things have really changed or it's higher risk because the the potential for failure is even greater?" he says. "We were able to, I think, put in Deborah's mouth a lot of the stuff that we think about in this industry, that it's not just enough sometimes to make people laugh." Jake Giles Netter/Max The episode is also a big one for Jimmy (Downs), as the pressures of his new job — starting his own company with Kayla (Megan Stalter), who's being poached by her dad — begin compounding. "We really think of Jimmy and Kayla as sort of this bizarro version of Deborah and Ava. They are their own duo, but we always try and dovetail their stories and have them reflect the larger themes that we're dealing with in the season," Downs says. "And so this season, it's one thing if you work at a management company and have deal with the culture there or deal with the downward pressure if it is again a publicly traded company, but now they're starting their own. So there's all the pressures of being a startup, being a sort of this fledgling management company, but also he's dealing with the stress of Deborah and Ava having the grist they have in the beginning of the season." Like Deborah and Ava, Jimmy and Kayla also have completely different management styles. "She goes guerrilla mode, he leads with love, but this was such a fun episode because Jimmy was on a real emotional roller coaster." Jimmy and Kayla frantically search for Dance Mom (Julianne Nicholson), whom they find passed out from a bender on the streets of Wisteria Lane. Dance Mom insists on doing cocaine to straighten out before her Late Night performance and demands that Jimmy "boof it." A hilarious tug-of-war ensues over Dance Mom's eight ball-loaded purse. "We do a lot of alts, so there's not a lot of time to sit and rehearse, but that was one scene that, because there was so much physical comedy in it, it was so choreographed between, like, running to the door, cutting the coke, getting her out of the ice bucket," Downs says. "And obviously resets are so tricky with cocaine and ice water and all that stuff that we did rehearse that scene the night before. And so there was not really a lot of room for improvisation because it was very, very choreographed. "People had to knock on the door at the right time. We had to get her into the couch at the right time. She had to knock into a cart." One thing Downs did improvise was Jimmy angrily putting the purse on his shoulder as he walked out the room. "You know, I had to take the purse and then why not wear it out?" he says. "There was a little bit of discovery on the day, and that was one of those moments." SEE 'No one ever asks me to do comedy': Julianne Nicholson explains how she became Dance Mom on Hacks After Dance Mom manages to perform, Jimmy reaches his breaking point, and just like Ava in the sixth episode, he drives off the studio lot (in a golf cart). But the nice guy that he is, he doesn't break the studio gate. After the ultimatum from Bob, Deborah goes to Jimmy's house to apologize for not showing enough appreciation for all he does, and to clue him in something. Before Deborah goes on for her monologue, she has a brief chat with Jimmy, and it's still murky what her big plan is. "It was really tricky because you don't want to tip it one way or the other. You don't wanna like overly be mustache-twirly and make it seem like she's definitely done something sinister and you don't want it to seem like, 'OK, we're about to blow up the show, we're in cahoots in some way.' So it was very, very tricky cause we didn't want to push the misdirect. We wanted to make it a little bit neutral, and so there were a bunch of different versions of it," Downs says. "We did try a bunch because I was very aware. I think the way that I played it when I was thinking about it was I was playing it as if [Ava] was fired because I, knowing the truth of the scenario and what she was about to do, it was very hard not to be like, 'Poof, OK, you're about to go on television [and quit].'" At the end of the episode, Bob tells Deborah that she can't do anything because that the network has an 18-month non-compete on her. The reveal after that doozy of an episode could've served as the season finale — and it nearly was. "It was the finale initially," Downs shares. "We considered it going out on the static [when the feed is cut] that it's like, 'Well, what happened there?' We also considered going out on, 'We own you, we have a non-compete.' ... But then we thought, why are we delaying that?" "That" being what transpires in the season finale. The Season 4 finale of Hacks premieres Thursday, May 29 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Max. Email your questions to slugfests@ Best of GoldDerby 'The Pitt' star Tracy Ifeachor thinks about Collins and Robby's backstory 'all the time': 'It just didn't work out because it's not the right time' How Eddie Redmayne crafted his 'deeply unflappable' assassin on 'The Day of the Jackal' TV composers roundtable: 'Adolescence,' 'Day of the Jackal,' 'Interview With the Vampire,' 'Your Friends and Neighbors' Click here to read the full article.
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27-05-2025
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‘Awards Magnet': Our updated Emmy predictions — for the last time together
With just one week left to go in the 2024-25 Emmy cycle, Awards Magnet hosts Christopher Rosen and Joyce Eng are here with another round of predictions — for the final time together. Sadly, this is Chris' last episode of Awards Magnet — an end of an era! — but he's going out with a bang with a new set of predictions. He's back on The Four Seasons train, but has forsaken one of his favorites from Hacks despite this week's major episode. This week also marked the end of the first season of The Studio and saw the release of The Bear Season 4 trailer. Season 4 is eligible next year, of course, but hope springs eternal for those who feel a good fourth season will boost Season 3's Emmy chances. More from GoldDerby Summer streaming guide: The 25 TV shows you need to watch 'The Last of Us' Season 2 finale: [Spoiler] dies, and a tease of what's to come in Season 3 'Solo Leveling' takes top prize at 2025 Anime Awards SEE Awards Magnet: Hacks, The Studio, and 2 Emmy-worthy episodes On the drama front, The Last of Us wraps up its second season on Sunday. If you know the game, you can kind of figure out how the season will conclude. The show is in third place in the Best Drama Series odds, behind Severance and The Pitt, but it has more in common with the latter than the former in many ways. Meanwhile, after a terrific flashback episode last week, Pedro Pascal feels right back in the hunt. While his category placement is still TBD, he has fallen to fourth place in the Best Drama Actor odds since his character Joel was killed in the second episode. Plus: What if Sam Rockwell were snubbed for The White Lotus? Email your questions to slugfests@ Best of GoldDerby 'The Pitt' star Tracy Ifeachor thinks about Collins and Robby's backstory 'all the time': 'It just didn't work out because it's not the right time' How Eddie Redmayne crafted his 'deeply unflappable' assassin on 'The Day of the Jackal' TV composers roundtable: 'Adolescence,' 'Day of the Jackal,' 'Interview With the Vampire,' 'Your Friends and Neighbors' Click here to read the full article.
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09-05-2025
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‘Awards Magnet': ‘Hacks,' ‘The Studio,' and 2 Emmy-worthy episodes
It's a great week to be a fan of Hacks and The Studio. Awards Magnet hosts Christopher Rosen and Joyce Eng are here to discuss the comedies' big episodes this week and how/if they affect their Emmy prospects. On Hacks, Deborah (Jean Smart) and Ava (Hannah Einbinder) — spoiler alert! — finally reconcile after the former concedes she was wrong about the direction of her late-night show and begs Ava not to quit, promising she won't let her down. Whether she does or not remains to be seen, but the episode, titled "Mrs. Table," is a great showcase for Einbinder's comedic and dramatic chops, as Ava has a breakdown that includes tossing a branzino at a window and driving her car through a gate. Should this be her Emmy submission? And will it be enough to win? More from GoldDerby 'Hacks' stars and EPs break down Deborah's promise: 'That's the thing that Ava is constantly dealing with' 2025 ACM Awards winners list: Lainey Wilson, Chris Stapleton, Ella Langley win major trophies 'Wicked' leads the 2025 Golden Trailer Awards with 15 nominations for film, while 'The Last of Us' tops TV SEE Awards Magnet: The Four Seasons enters Emmy season and category moves You can get an extra dose of Hacks this week on The Studio. Set at the Golden Globes, Smart and Hacks creators Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, and Jen Statsky are among the numerous cameos in the episode, which includes Adam Scott, Quinta Brunson, Aaron Sorkin, Zoë Kravitz, and Ted Sarandos. For anyone who's been low on The Studio's middle run of episodes, this wild installment is a booster shot in the arm and would also made a good submission for Ike Barinholtz, whose Sal Saperstein becomes the man of the Globes, much to the chagrin of Matt (Seth Rogen). But with so many potential guest nominees, how and who will The Studio submit? Plus: Did Kaitlyn Dever make the right move going guest for The Last of Us? Email your questions to slugfests@ Best of GoldDerby 'I've never been on a show that got this kind of recognition': Katherine LaNasa on 'The Pitt's' success and Dana's 'existential crisis' How Charlie Cox characterizes Matt Murdock through action scenes in 'Daredevil: Born Again' 'Agatha All Along' star Joe Locke on learning from Kathryn Hahn, musical theater goals, and the 'Heartstopper' movie with Kit Connor Click here to read the full article.
