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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘Étoile' vs. ‘The Residence': How to cancel a show without derailing its Emmy chances
Talk about an Emmy buzzkill. When Prime Video officially pulled the plug on Étoile on June 6, the announcement sent ripples through the entertainment industry. While the cancellation of a freshman series is hardly uncommon, it was the timing of the news, not the decision itself, that may have ended the show's Emmy aspirations. More from Gold Derby Zoë Kravitz and Meghann Fahy are the year's biggest Emmy surprises: Poll 'The Pitt,' 'The Studio,' and 'Adolescence' have taken the lead in this pivotal Emmy category Just one week before Emmy voting began, Étoile was poised for awards consideration. The ballet dramedy marked the return of Amy Sherman-Palladino and Dan Palladino (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Gilmore Girls). The Palladinos are no strangers to Emmy gold, with 10 wins and 24 nominations between them. While Étoile hadn't toped the streamers charts, it was quietly building momentum and Amazon originally committed to two seasons. FYC events were scheduled, and cast appearances had been lined up. The campaign machine appeared to be just getting into full swing. Then came the surprising announcement, right in the middle of FYC season, and any momentum the show had seemed to have accumulated came to a halt. In fact, cast members including Yanic Truesdale, Taïs Vinolo, and Ivan du Pontavice were en route to the SCAD Lacoste Film Festival in France when the news broke, and the team had to shift gears. Truesdale, who played Michel in Gilmore Girls, admitted he was disappointed by the cancellation, telling Deadline, 'I was very excited to see the second season because knowing Amy and Dan's writing, they set things in the first season, and then the second season, once everything is established, is really, when they start to fly with the material,' he said. Though Amazon continued to support the series with billboards and trade ads, the narrative shift was hard to ignore. A cancellation, particularly one announced before nominations are even secured, sends an unintentional message: this show is done. In an increasingly crowded awards landscape, perception is everything. Had Étoile been allowed to complete its Emmy campaign with even the illusion of future seasons, it might have captured more than two nominations it received in choreography and cinematography — perhaps in production design, costumes, or direction. Compare that to Netflix's The Residence. Also shuttered after a single season, The Residence managed to sidestep the same buzzkill with the streamer strategically timing its announcement. Netflix waited until July 2, after Emmy voting had closed. That crucial difference allowed the show to sustain its campaign energy and gave its cast and crew plausible hope. The result? The show landed four nods, including a surprise Best Comedy Actress nomination for Uzo Aduba — an outcome that may have played out very differently if the cancellation news had dropped a few weeks earlier. A similar situation unfolded in 2021 with Lovecraft Country, which received 18 Emmy nominations for its first season. HBO announced the show's cancellation in July — after voting had ended. Despite the end of the road, the delay in announcing it preserved the show's award-season momentum. This contrast highlights just how sensitive Emmy campaigns are to timing. Now, the industry is watching closely to see how Thursday's shocking news that The Late Show With Stephen Colbert has been canceled just two days after receiving an Emmy nomination will affect voters. Once again, it raises the question at the heart of awards season strategy: When it comes to cancellation, does timing make the difference between an Emmy win and a campaign that fades away? Best of Gold Derby 'Five new life forms from distant planets': Everything to know about 'Alien: Earth' as new trailer drops 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' Click here to read the full article. Solve the daily Crossword
Los Angeles Times
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
To the TV shows and actors that didn't get an Emmy nomination: I salute you
I first want to say congratulations to all the 2025 Emmy nominees. I have quite possibly written something nice about most of you, and nothing (too) bad about any of you, and to those I never mentioned at all, it was simply a matter of not having the time or space to write about everybody and everything. No criticism should be inferred. I will be happy whoever wins, because, as much as I think that awards for any sort of creative work are bunk, winning is nice and comes with tangible benefits. And you have done something, sometime in your career, to merit recognition. But to you who weren't nominated, all you makers of television the Academy has overlooked, it's worth saying, given all the energy, professional and amateur, that goes into fretting over who's been picked and who's been 'snubbed' — quotes necessary, there being no cabal dedicated to denying anyone an Emmy — that your lack of official recognition is essentially meaningless. All that might be extrapolated from 'qui est in, qui est out,' to quote the old Serge Gainsbourg song, is the narrow range of interest the nominations represent, year after year. The 2025 nominees, notwithstanding a few outliers, all come from a handful of shows, many making return appearances, repeating a pattern one sees year after year. The reasonable inference is that the voters don't watch much television at all. That isn't true of every Academy voter, of course, but all we know in the end is who was nominated, not who might have been nominated if five votes had gone another way, or who, though not even close to being nominated, nevertheless had their champions within the electorate. And I'm on record as a fan of many of these actors and shows. But many series and the people who make them are unlikely to ever be considered, belonging to the wrong sort of genre, or on the wrong sort of network, or lack word-of-mouth cachet, or are too marginal or weird or have no FYC promotional budget. It is true too that voters in all sorts of elections can be lazy in their choices. That's been many of us at some time. So, as we head down the road to the ceremony — Sept. 14 on CBS — when all but one contender in each category will become Emmy losers, I salute you, the un-nominated. Getting a show on the air, however good, is hard work, and though talent is, of course, variable, no one sets out to make bad TV. I might not have loved your show, but I respect the effort. (Nor am I so foolish as to believe I could do any better.) This is not damning with faint praise — every show has its fans, and it's the mix of high, middle and low programming that gives the medium its flavor and makes it a friend to millions. Non-prestigious television, unstudded with stars, may be as exciting and original as the Big Thing Emmy handicappers regard as a sure thing, even more so. Awards are beside the point.
Time of India
02-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
‘The Boys' final season wraps filming; Creator bids emotional farewell to set
"The Boys" creator and showrunner Eric Kripke announced the end of filming for the fifth and final season of the superhero dramedy on Amazon Prime in a heartfelt Instagram post on Tuesday night. 'This is the last time I'll ever be on this set,' Kripke remarked. 'It'll be torn down soon. It's bittersweet, but my primary feeling is gratitude. We have the best cast, the best crew, the most fun story to write, and something that is impossible to predict: the right timing. You wait your whole career to have maybe two of those things, if you're lucky. We got all of them. To ['The Boys'] family: thank you, I love you all. To the fans: thanks for watching; can't wait for you to see the grand finale. That's a wrap.' First published in 2019, "The Boys" is based on the comic series by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. It centers on a group of vigilantes—some super, some not—who band together to defeat dishonest superheroes who abuse their abilities for selfish ends. Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty, Jessie T. Usher, Laz Alonso, Chace Crawford, Tomer Capone, Karen Fukuhara, and Nathan Mitchell are among the cast members of the show. Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like [Click Here] 2025 Top Trending local enterprise accounting software Esseps Learn More Undo by Taboola by Taboola One Emmy Award for outstanding stunt coordination for a series of dramas was given to "The Boys" in 2023 for the four seasons that accompanied it. The program has received seven Emmy nominations. According to an FYC panel in December 2024 about 'The Boys' Season 5, Kripke said he loved the creative freedom that comes with writing a show's last season. Kripke remarked, "It's really fun when it's the end." 'It's hard, and it hasn't hit me yet about the emotion of it. But just from a story point of view, you don't have to keep storylines going into a season beyond that, which really lets you blow the doors off it in a really exciting way.'
New York Post
16-06-2025
- Health
- New York Post
Eric Dane reveals he has ‘one functioning arm,' daughter had to rescue him from drowning due to ALS diagnosis
Eric Dane is revealing the devastating effects of his ALS diagnosis. The 'Grey's Anatomy' alum, 52, spoke about his health battle on 'Good Morning America' Monday in his first interview since his diagnosis, telling Diane Sawyer that he now has only 'one functioning arm.' 'My left side is functioning, my right side has completely stopped working,' Dane explained. '[My left arm] is going. I feel like maybe a couple more months and I won't have my left hand either. It's sobering.' 9 Eric Dane during his interview with Diane Sawyer on 'Good Morning America.' ABC 9 Diane Sawyer interviewing Eric Dane. ABC Dane revealed that he started having symptoms of the neurodegenerative disease that affects muscle movement a year and a half ago when he had weakness in his right hand. He underwent nine months of testing before getting his diagnosis in April. 'I didn't really think anything of it at the time,' Dane told Sawyer, 79. 'I thought maybe I'd been texting too much or my hand was fatigued, but a few weeks later I noticed it got a little worse.' 9 Eric Dane has lost control of his right arm due to ALS. ABC 9 Eric Dane at the 'Euphoria' FYC event in Los Angeles in April 2022. Matt Baron/Shutterstock 'So I went and saw a hand specialist, who sent me to another hand specialist,' he recalled. 'I went and saw a neurologist and the neurologist sent me to another neurologist and said, 'This is way above my pay grade.'' 'I will never forget those three letters,' Dane said of receiving his ALS diagnosis. 'It's on me the second I wake up. It's not a dream.' 9 Eric Dane on 'Grey's Anatomy' in 2008. ABC The 'Marley & Me' star also recounted the time that he lost functionality in his legs while he was snorkeling, which led to one of his daughters having to rescue him. 'She dragged me back to the boat,' said Dane. 'I was like, breaking down in tears. I made sure she got back to the water with her friend and continued on with the snorkeling. I was just heart broken.' 9 Eric Dane with his wife Rebecca Gayheart and their daughters at the 16th Annual Chrysalis Butterfly Ball in June 2017. Matt Winkelmeyer Dane shares two daughters, Billie Beatrice, 15, and Georgia Geraldine, 13, with his wife Rebecca Gayheart. The couple got married in 2004. Gayheart, 53, filed for divorce in 2018, but in March, just one month before Dane revealed his diagnosis, she dismissed the divorce. 9 Eric Dane with his wife and two daughters in August 2022. rebeccagayheartdane/Instagram 9 Eric Dane with his daughters Billie Beatrice Dane and Georgia Geraldine Dane at the 'Bad Boys: Ride or Die' premiere in May 2024. FilmMagic Dane noted Gayheart's support on 'GMA' and said that he talks to her everyday as got choked up. 'We have managed to become better friends and better parents,' he shared. 'She is probably my biggest champion and my most stalwart supporter. And I lean on her.' 9 Eric Dane, Rebecca Gayheart at the 2015 Baby2Baby Gala. Stefanie Keenan Dane went on to say, 'I'm fighting as much as I can. There's so much about it that's out of my control. I'm angry because, you know, my father was taken from me when I was young and now there's a very good chance I'm going to be taken from my girls while they're very young.' 'At the end of the day, all I want to do is spend time with my family and work a little bit if I can,' he added. 'They're loved. They know it.' Despite his ALS battle, Dane is continuing to film 'Euphoria' Season 3. He has played Cal Jacobs on the HBO series since 2019.
Time of India
16-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Billy Bob Thornton says Demi Moore forgot they worked together before 'Landman' reunion
(Picture Courtesy: Facebook) Actor Billy Bob Thornton, who shares screen space with Demi Moore in 'Landman', shared that his co-star Moore could not recollect working with him on the set of Indecent Proposal over 34 years ago, reported People. The Television Academy in North Hollywood hosted a buzzworthy FYC event for 'Landman' earlier this month. The TV drama created by Taylor Sheridan exploded on Paramount+ in November 2024, becoming the platform's biggest premiere in two years. Starring Billy Bob Thornton and Demi Moore, 'Landman' dives deep into the gritty, high-stakes world of the Texas oil industry, drawing inspiration from the acclaimed Boomtown podcast, as per the outlet. The ensemble cast included John Hamm, Andy Garcia, Jacob Lofland, and Ali Larter. 'Landman' is quickly becoming a cornerstone of Sheridan's storytelling legacy. Thornton revealed more about his multifaceted character, Tommy Norris, during a recent event for the program. He also discussed navigating Hollywood on his own terms, shared that Moore worked with her before reuniting for 'Landman' but she didn't remember it. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Buy Brass Idols - Handmade Brass Statues for Home & Gifting Luxeartisanship Buy Now Undo When the moderator, Stacey Wilson Hunt, asked Moore how she met Thornton, the 62-year-old actress acknowledged to being reminded by her co-star. "She didn't remember me," Thornton revealed. The two first met while working together on the 1993 drama directed by Adrian Lyne. However, Thornton played a small part in the film, so the two became more acquainted years later, reported People. "We got to know each other because I did three movies with Bruce [Willis]," he added. "And you brought the kids to set all the time. So over the years we've known each other." Thornton and Bruce Willis' first film together was Armageddon in 1998. Since then, the duo has starred in Bandits (2001) and The Astronaut Farmer (2006). Moore married Willis in 1987, but they ended up divorcing in 2000. The pair share three daughters together, although Willis went on to welcome two more with his current wife and model, Emma Heming. 'Landman' was primarily shot in the Fort Worth area of Texas, a location familiar to Sheridan. He's used the region as a backdrop for several of his other series as well, including 1883, Yellowstone, and Lawmen: Bass Reeves, reported People.
