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12 hours ago
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Matlock Duo Sing Us a Li'l Something, Rave That ‘Everyone' Now Wants to Appear on the CBS Hit — WATCH
Matlock co-stars Skye P. Marshall and Jason Ritter make a bit of beautiful music together at the top of the TVLine red carpet video above. After harmonizing a few bars and then amazingly speaking in totally perfect unison, the on-screen exes got to revisiting some of the freshman CBS hit's biggest twists. More from TVLine In NCIS: Origins Season 2, Will Gibbs Go From 'Probie' to Assertive Agent? EP Previews 'Honest' Evolution Ahead FBI: International Co-Creator Reacts to Cancellation, Believes It 'Had Nothing to Do With the Quality' of Spinoff Matlock Season 2 Video: Stars Preview 'Storms Colliding' for Dad-to-Be Billy, 'So Much Trouble' for Sarah When Olympia in Season 1's antepenultimate hour confronted 'Matlock' with the litany of lies told by one Madeline Kingston, 'It was like going into the ring with Tyson,' Marshall says of the instantly iconic two-hander with the Kathy Bates. 'There were no other actors, it was just me and Kathy Bates in the room,' the actress tells TVLine West Coast Bureau Chief Dave Nemetz in the video above. 'I just had to breathe outside of that [office] door, and every time I walked in was very much, 'Don't try to nail it, just be honest. Just listen to what she's saying and respond wholeheartedly.'' As Marshall notes, 'It's the not acting, that's what makes great performances.' Matlock Boss Talks Finale's Big Reveal, If [Spoiler] Will Be Back for Season 2 View List Ritter then steps up to survey Julian's 'incredibly complicated relationship' with his father, Senior, who 1) passed Julian over for a promotion to partner 2) years after tasking him with stealing a legal document that was damning for Welbrexa, Jacobson Moore's Big Pharma client. 'As much as Senior drives him crazy, as much as he's been hurt by Senior, I think there's a part of [Julian] that still would love Senior to say, 'I'm proud of you, son,' one time,' Ritter posits. But will that longing for approval get in the way of Julian possibly allying with Olympia and Matty to pin the Welbrexa cover-up on Senior in Season 2? 'It's going to be fascinating seeing what happens next season,' Ritter ventures. 'I can't wait to see what the writers come up with.' To hear Marshall tell it, scores of other actors also would love to wield the Matlock writers' words, coming off the not-a-reboot's success as the TV season's most-watched new program. Whereas everyone, when the show was first announced in spring 2024, mocked the need for a 'reboot' of the late-1980s Andy Griffith courtroom drama, 'Now everyone's like, 'Can I please get on Matlock?!' says Marshall. 'Matlock means something completely different now, in such a short time,' she attests. Showrunner Jennie Snyder Urman 'flipped' the script on everyone, while executive producer Eric Christian Olsen, who had rights to Matlock and brought them to Urman, 'hit a lottery,' Marshall marvels. 'He built a universe for us and brought all of us together. I feel like we're the Avengers!' Want scoop on , or for any other TV show? Shoot an email to InsideLine@ and your question may be answered via Matt's Inside Line! Best of TVLine Yellowjackets' Tawny Cypress Talks Episode 4's Tai/Van Reunion: 'We're All Worried About Taissa' Vampire Diaries Turns 10: How Real-Life Plot Twists Shaped Everything From the Love Triangle to the Final Death Vampire Diaries' Biggest Twists Revisited (and Explained)
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2 days ago
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Kathy Bates, Minha Kim, Elisabeth Moss, and the best of our Emmy Drama Actress interviews
Over the past two months of Emmy campaigning, Gold Derby has spoken with several contenders in all categories. Now with voting underway ahead of the July 15 unveiling of the nominees, we have compiled 16 interviews for stars vying for Best Drama Actress, including: Annaleigh Ashford (Happy Face), Kathy Bates (Matlock), Morfydd Clark (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power), Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton), Tawny Cypress (Yellowjackets), Emma D'Arcy (House of the Dragon), Shanola Hampton (Found), Minha Kim (Pachinko), Ali Larter (Landman), Britt Lower (Severance), Melanie Lynskey (Yellowjackets), Helen Mirren (1923), Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid's Tale), Niecy Nash-Betts (Grotesquerie), Sophie Nélisse (Yellowjackets), and Carrie Preston (Elsbeth). Read on for highlights from each interviews and links to watch our full video Q&As. More from Gold Derby An 'honored' Denis Villeneuve will direct the next James Bond movie: 'To me, he's sacred territory' 'I was taken with the idea of a spy show': How 'Talamasca: The Secret Order' showrunners expand Anne Rice's Immortal Universe in new AMC series For the Paramount+ series, Ashford plays Melissa Reed, the daughter of Dennis Quaid's Keith Hunter Jesperson, aka the Happy Face Killer, who's in prison for murdering eight women. "My mom is actually the true crime aficionado in the family," she explains. "So, I called her right before I read the script, and she gave me the lowdown. But the podcast is quite extraordinary. Not only do you get to hear Melissa's journey, but you also get to hear her navigate her conscience, her relationships with the people in her family, and also the relationships that she has to the victims' families. What was the most interesting to me about the real Melissa is how she's become an advocate for people who've been touched by the trauma of crime." Watch our complete interview with Annaleigh Ashford. For the CBS legal series, the title character is a smart, savvy, 70-something lawyer who takes a job at a firm to ostensibly pay off her late husband's debts, but is actually seeking evidence of a coverup of the opioid issues that contributed to her daughter's death. 'Even though I've had a long career and people know who I am, I was feeling a little bit invisible,' says Bates. 'But more than that, I wasn't challenged by the work in the same way. I hate to say I was losing interest in what I love to do, but you really need to find something that you really love to do. And it was a miracle to find something this well-written, this exciting, this unusual, and this deep.' Watch our complete interview with Kathy Bates. For the Prime Video series, Clark plays Galadriel, an elf who in this time period has been tricked by the evil Sauron (Charlie Vickers) and now will stop at nothing to destroy him. "It was amazing for me to be back with Charlie but him giving a completely different performance," says Clark. "It was really exciting for me as an actor to be able to see this craft of Charlie's" in his new guise as Annatar, the Lord of Gifts. "I could barely recognize him. ... Charlie's such a lovely person that it was really quite incredible for me to be frightened of him." Watch our complete video interview with Morfydd Clark. The third season of the Netflix series ended with Nicola Coughlan's Penelope Featherington marrying Luke Newton's Colin Bridgerton. At the beginning of those episodes, Penelope has "sort of given up on herself," Coughlan explains, and "she's kind of accepted her fate [and] given up on the idea of love, which is something that has driven her since the beginning." But when Colin comes back into Penelope's life, everything changes. "I loved the charting of the whole season and the way that there was something so compelling in each episode," she says. Watch our complete video interview with Nicola Coughlan. By the beginning of the Showtime drama's third season, Taissa (Cypress) has completely blown up her life. Having become the first state senator to "impeach herself" before taking office, she has destroyed any chance she had at a political career. "I always thought that Taissa was a narcissist. Everything she says comes from an 'I' perspective. You can go back to Season 1 — everything she says, even when she is trying to get rid of her wife in Season 1, she's like, 'I don't know what I'm gonna do.'... So I knew that about her, and so I took that even further," Cypress shares. "I was like, 'Oh, this is narcissism to the nth degree where she has completely created this other thing that she can blame that's not her.'" Watch our complete interview with Tawny Cypress. For the HBO series, D'Arcy plays Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen, who experienced some truly epic moments during Season 2 of the Game of Thrones prequel, including meeting up with Alicent Hightower (Olivia Cooke) in secret and watching as Daemon Targaryen (Matt Smith) finally pledged his loyalty to his queen. They say, "It was a favorite scene of mine. Getting to act with Liv is one of the great privileges in my life. But as a result of such scarcity, there was quite a lot of pressure on it. You have two big, knotty dialogue scenes in which to house the whole of that relationship. It felt to me like we were being asked to achieve an epic scale within quite small, narrow parameters. It's very silly as well, because it's a high stakes environment, and I'm wearing a wimple. [Laughs] I'd say that's more work for Olivia than it was for me, because she would have been the one looking at me." Read our complete interview with Emma D'Arcy. For Hampton's Gabi Mosely, the second season of the Peacock series was a quest for penance. And although her team at Mosley & Associates eventually forgave her for keeping her kidnapper Hugh Evans, aka Sir (Mark-Paul Gosselaar), imprisoned in her basement — and lying to them about it — she has yet to be able to give herself the same grace. "Even after all the good she does, the one thing that Gabi is a master at is torturing herself," the actress says. There's "a lot of work that she still has to do. Healing is a process; it takes years. We are used to seeing characters tied up in a nice little bow, but that's not real life. And what we're trying to do, in a lot of ways, is show that process and how long it can be, so that people watching it can be like, 'OK, I'm still in my stuff too. I don't have to be finished.'" Read our complete interview with Shanola Hampton. Kim stars as Sunja, who is introduced in Season 1 for the Apple TV+ series as a young woman in Japanese-occupied Korea who falls pregnant after an affair with married businessman Hansu (Lee). She eventually marries pastor Isak (Steve Sanghyun Noh) and they move to Japan to start anew. "She's still young. She's 35 years old. I am 30 years old right now, and I'm still a baby, but in that era, it's a different thing. I had to convey how she suffered," she explains. "I had to talk about it a lot with the directors and Soo, and with our makeup department to make very subtle wrinkles, a very subtle like eyeshadow to make her look exhausted. I talked a lot with the actors as well, like how could I have to walk, and I had to search a lot of things that made a voice different when they got old." Watch our complete interview with Minha Kim. The Paramount+ series stars Billy Bob Thornton as Tommy Norris, the right-hand man for a powerful West Texas oil executive (Jon Hamm). Larter plays Tommy's ex-wife, Angela, who is first introduced during a FaceTime call while vacationing with her new husband. It doesn't take long for her to make her way back to Texas. Larter was immediately drawn to working with creator Taylor Sheridan, who "loves his women to be emotional roller coasters. That to me, as an actress, is so exciting because I'm trying to hold it together for my family and figure out how I'm going to piece this together." She adds, "I love getting to play this woman who lays it all on the line. She wears everything on her sleeve. It's really exciting to get to play somebody that powerful." Read our complete interview with Ali Larter. The second season of the Apple TV+ series is about a near-future, retro-tinged dystopia where people could separate their work selves from their personal lives. The team behind the show, including Lower, joined our recent group discussion, where she discussed her approach to playing the innie and outie versions of her character. "For me, I use a lot of analogies. They sound like different music in my head. I use music a lot when I'm getting ready in the morning," Lower explains. "I'm also informed by how my costars are behaving with me, how the scene is written, how it's directed. There's a lot of inspiration once you get to set by the elements around you that are shifted slightly based on where you're at. Obviously when I'm Helena posing as Helly, Helena had a similar job to myself as an actor, which was to blend into this family that she is encountering for the first time. And she's having to do the same kind of role as we do as actors, which is to assume an identity and to move around like that person. And I think it was something we worked really closely on with [director] Ben [Stiller]. We were trying to figure out what things slip through. When is her acting not so good? And when is she able to tap into that part of her, that inner-rebel that she's maybe abandoned from childhood or has maybe never had full access to. Especially in [Episode] 204 ['Woe's Hollow'], she gets a kick out of playing against Milchick and getting to be the one in the classroom who's disrupting. Well, not the classroom, but the campfire." Watch our complete interview with Britt Lower. Season 3 of the Showtime series saw Lynskey's character, Shauna, delve into darker, more chaotic territory — a turn the actress found exhilarating. "It was fun because it felt like what the character has been building to," Lynskey explains. "From the beginning, I had the information that she's really trying to repress this side of herself. It's been fun when I've been able to let it out in little bursts. In [the first two] seasons there were little moments where it came out — but it went so wild this season. It was fun." Watch our complete interview with Melanie Lynskey. The Emmy and Oscar winner stars as Cara Dutton opposite Harrison Ford for the Paramount+ western series created by Taylor Sheridan. She says, 'Both Harrison and I, for the first time in our lives, had to commit without reading a single word of the characters or the story or anything. Because Taylor said he likes to write for the actor that he's got, he likes to write knowing who he's writing for, which I thought was very interesting.' But for Sheridan, she was willing to take the chance. 'We knew the history of Taylor's writing, And you know what? What a remarkable, brilliant, extraordinary talent he is. So we took a leap into the dark.' Watch our complete interview with Helen Mirren. The star, executive producer, and director were in the same physical place by the end, but the eight years between the series premiere and finale of the Emmy-winning Hulu adaptation of Margaret Atwood's seminal novel saw a huge evolution for both her and her character. "As an actor at the end, and as a director as well because they're so intertwined, it was so meta," Moss says. "I hadn't been back to the Waterford house in however many years it has been since June had been there. But I know how that felt, and I was able to then carry it into the scene. There [were] a lot of amazing memories, and there [were] also a lot of complicated memories of being very cold and it being very late at night and things like that — not quite as complicated as June's memories." Watch our complete interview with Elisabeth Moss. The FX series from Ryan Murphy begins with Nash-Betts' Det. Lois Tryon investigating several horrific murders in a small town, but viewers are soon thrown for a loop. "I will probably be working with Ryan until the day they throw dirt on my face," she says. "I love Ryan Murphy. I love him as a partner. I love him as a creator. I was so interested to see what was next, what was going on in his mind. And when I read that script — oh my gosh!" Watch our complete interview with Niecy Nash-Betts. The Season 3 finale for Showtime left fans with another cliffhanger — Natalie (Sophie Thatcher) calling for help from a mountaintop as Shauna (Nélisse) takes her throne as the Antler Queen. "I remember reading it and being like, 'This is so sick!' We were so excited, and I really wish that all of the cast could watch the finale together because it's such an important moment for us," says Nélisse. "When it ends with Natalie on the mountain, I was screaming out loud. We weren't there when she was shooting that scene, but I knew exactly how she was going to act it out, and I was like, 'This is going to leave people with their jaws just dropped on the floor.'" Read our complete interview with Sophie Nelisse. Preston has portrayed Elsbeth Tascioni — a delightfully unpredictable attorney — for more than 15 years. What began as a recurring Emmy-winning character on The Good Wife evolved into a fan-favorite performance that continued on The Good Fight and now leads her own CBS series, Elsbeth, heading into its third season. 'I love Elsbeth's curiosity and her wonder and her positive attitude,' she says. 'It takes discipline to approach the world that way. It's infectious. I love getting inside of that mindset every day because it really helps me in my life.' Watch our complete interview with Carrie Preston. Best of Gold Derby Lee Jung-jae, Adam Scott, Noah Wyle, and the best of our Emmy Drama Actor interviews Everything to know about 'The Pitt' Season 2 Adam Brody, Seth Rogen, Jason Segel, and the best of our Emmy Comedy Actor interviews Click here to read the full article.
Time of India
2 days ago
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- Time of India
Why Kathy Bates' Matlock reboot deserves to crash the Emmys 2025
Forget everything you think you know about Matlock. The 2024 reboot is not just a nostalgic cash grab. It is a whip-smart, socially aware courtroom drama starring Kathy freaking Bates as Madeline Matlock, a sharp-tongued, steel-spined legal juggernaut who is out here giving Gen Z and Boomers alike a masterclass in justice. Why Kathy Bates' Matlock reboot deserves to crash the Emmys 2025 | Credit: Prime Video Not your grandpa's Matlock, this one bites back The show retools the vintage CBS drama with more sass, sharper commentary, and that unmistakable Bates brilliance. And yes, she absolutely eats every scene. While award shows tend to ghost network procedurals, Matlock makes a fierce case for why that outdated Emmy snobbery needs to go. Kathy Bates is not just acting, she's educating Let us be real. Kathy Bates could read a grocery list and still have us in tears. But in Matlock, she is doing way more than delivering closing arguments. She is tackling ageism, corporate corruption, and the flaws in the American legal system, all while wearing sensible shoes and zero patience for nonsense. Kathy Bates could read a grocery list and still have us in tears. | Credit: Prime Video TV editors like Debra Birnbaum believe Bates' performance might finally force Emmy voters to rethink their procedural bias, and honestly, it is about time. This is not just another role. It is an Emmy-worthy statement about power, purpose, and experience. A courtroom drama that slaps in 2025? Yes, please. Procedural dramas usually get dismissed as formulaic background noise, but Matlock brings sophistication and soul. Every case feels current, layered, and surprisingly emotional. The show's writing team has cracked the code: stay true to the original but wrap it in today's moral chaos. From toxic CEOs to broken institutions, Matlock gets its hands dirty in all the right ways, and keeps viewers hooked without the usual bells and whistles of streaming budgets. | Credit: Prime Video From toxic CEOs to broken institutions, Matlock gets its hands dirty in all the right ways, and keeps viewers hooked without the usual bells and whistles of streaming budgets. Between its sharp writing, diverse supporting cast, and Kathy Bates dominating like a courtroom Beyoncé, Matlock is not just Emmy-worthy, it is Emmy necessary. If voters want to prove they are paying attention to powerful television beyond the streaming bubble, they better say 'yes, Your Honour.'
Yahoo
5 days ago
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Emmys Acting Contenders: From Pedro Pascal and Diego Luna to Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, Who Was Officially Submitted
With Emmy nominations voting officially underway, the Television Academy's ballots are offering insight into which performances could break through when nominations are unveiled on July 15. While submission totals in several key categories are down — reflecting the industry's ongoing post-strike recovery — the races remain competitive and dynamic, with marquee names and fresh talent jockeying for recognition. The lead actor and actress categories in drama are notably tighter this year. Only 77 actors and 75 actresses were submitted — down slightly from 2024 (81 and 67) and a sharp decline from 2022's highs (134 and 114). As a result, each category will have only five nominees unless ties boost the field to six. More from Variety Sam Rockwell on Choosing His 'White Lotus' Leopard Underwear and Why 'Sinners' Made Him Believe Hollywood Will Survive Emmy Voting Opens With 600 Program Series Submissions, 3% Drop From 2024 Janelle James on Seeing 'Sinners' Three Times and Changing Ava's Line in 'Abbott Elementary' Finale: 'I Know This B-. I'm Protecting Her' The drama actor race includes a trio of Latino contenders making waves: Diego Luna for 'Andor,' Pedro Pascal for 'The Last of Us,' and Ramón Rodríguez for 'Will Trent.' They'll face off against a rising generation, including Bella Ramsey for 'The Last of Us' and Lovie Simone for 'Forever.' Veteran Kathy Bates is also in the mix for her role in 'Matlock,' potentially becoming the oldest nominee ever in the category. In comedy, the lead fields failed to cross the 80-submission benchmark required for six nominees, meaning both categories will top out at five. With only 51 actors and 47 actresses submitted — down from 55 each last year — it's going to be harder than ever to hear an actor's name called. Previous Emmy winners Steve Martin and Martin Short ('Only Murders in the Building'), Ted Danson ('Man on the Inside'), and Jeremy Allen White ('The Bear') lead the charge, while newcomers from freshman shows such as Seth Rogen ('The Studio') and Benito Skinner ('Overcompensating') add fresh takes to the race. On the comedy actress side, three-time Emmy winner Jean Smart is back for HBO Max's 'Hacks,' competing against Emmy regulars such as Quinta Brunson ('Abbott Elementary'), Natasha Lyonne ('Poker Face') and Uzo Aduba ('The Residence'). There's also an opportunity to recognize critically acclaimed shows that were unfortunately cancelled such as Stephanie Hsu ('Laid') and Mayan Lopez ('Lopez vs. Lopez'). The guest acting categories in both comedy and drama are crowded and dynamic, featuring a mix of prestige and self-submissions. In guest comedy actress (74 submissions), 'Saturday Night Live' hosts such as Ariana Grande could land nods, along with Cynthia Erivo for 'Poker Face,' creating a 'Wicked' face-off in the category. But don't count out under-the-radar names like Emily Arlook in Netflix's 'Nobody Wants This' and Nicole Sullivan from Prime Video's 'Running Point.' Guest comedy actor includes 97 submissions, a stacked lineup featuring last year's winner Jon Bernthal in 'The Bear,' plus auteur-style cameos from Ron Howard and Martin Scorsese in 'The Studio.' The trend of major directors turning to prestige comedy continues to blur traditional boundaries (but it's cool nonetheless). Season 50 of 'SNL' finds all 20 hosts submitted for consideration, in addition to former cast members and guest including: Maya Rudolph and Jim Gaffigan (as Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walz on Jean Smart's emcee night), Dana Carvey and Andy Samberg (for playing President Joe Biden and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff in Nate Bargatze's episode) and Mike Myers (for his hilarious impression of Elon Musk during the Lady Gaga episode). On the drama side, guest actor and actress categories drew 87 and 77 submissions, respectively. 'The Last of Us' remains a dominant force, with Jeffrey Wright and Kaitlyn Dever in strong positions. Notably, Danny Arroyo submitted himself for his performance in 'Wild West Chronicles,' representing a grassroots campaign that speaks to the democratization of the Emmy entry process. Each of the four guest categories will yield six nominees. Despite the merging of limited series and TV movie performances, the lead acting races in these categories are shrinking. Just 48 actors and 53 actresses were submitted — compared to 70 and 92 in 2024 — meaning only five nominees will be selected from each category. Among the most prominent contenders are Paul Giamatti for 'Black Mirror' and Cate Blanchett for 'Disclaimer.' Meanwhile, rising names like Lola Pettigrew for 'Say Nothing' and the duo of Cooper Koch and Nicholas Alexander Chavez for 'Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story' could break through and redefine the category's generational reach. The drama supporting actor and actress races saw an uptick in submissions, but falling just short of giving us eight nominees: 233 and 227 names are on the ballot, respectively (up from 217 and 196 in 2024), yielding seven nominees. Apple TV+'s 'Severance' (featuring Patricia Arquette, John Turturro and Tramell Tillman) and HBO Max's 'The White Lotus' (with Sam Rockwell, Carrie Coon and Leslie Bibb) are both poised to dominate those categories. Comedy supporting races also increased slightly, with 163 actor and 141 actress submissions (compared to 147 and 132 last year). This will result in seven nominees in each category, after giving six last year. Veterans like Harrison Ford ('Shrinking') is aiming for a redemption nod after his high-profile snub for Season 1, while Linda Lavin ('Mid-Century Modern') could earn a posthumous nom — which would put her in a small group of previous recipients. In the limited series category, supporting actor and actress entries decreased to 124 and 105 (from 161 and 137, respectively, last year). Each will yield six nominees, with Netflix's 'Adolescence' potentially securing up to four spots between both categories especially Owen Cooper and Erin Doherty. Other dark horse possibilities include Peter Sarsgaard ('Presumed Innoncent') and Taraji P. Henson for 'Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist.' The short form performance category — gender-neutral and often overlooked on Creative Arts nights — features 27 submissions this year. Among the most notable are J.K. Simmons for 'Die Hart: Hart to Kill,' Desi Lydic for 'The Daily Show: Desi Lydic Foxsplains' and Tom Segura for 'Bad Thoughts.' As streaming platforms and social content expand their scope, this category continues to serve as a bellwether for innovation in form and format. The post-strike rebound has created an unusual Emmy cycle, where beloved titles from multiple years overlap, making the 2025 nomination slate one of the more unpredictable to project. Variety's Emmy predictions and analysis pages will be updated throughout the voting window. Best of Variety New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week 'Harry Potter' TV Show Cast Guide: Who's Who in Hogwarts? 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Newsweek
20-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Newsweek
The Emmy Race Is On—Here's Who's Leading
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Emmy nominations won't be announced until July 15, but the campaigns are in full swing. (June in Los Angeles is basically one big "For Your Consideration" event every single day.) The big question is, who will be nominated? From Kathy Bates in Matlock to Adam Brody in Nobody Wants This and literally the entire cast of The White Lotus, Newsweek has had so many potential nominees on the Parting Shot Podcast with H. Alan Scott. So make sure you're subscribed to never miss some of the best chats in entertainment news. Emmy nomination season is here, with Severance, The Bear, and The White Lotus leading the prediction pack. Expect a mix of returning favorites and buzzy newcomers—and a few inevitable snubs. Emmy nomination season is here, with Severance, The Bear, and The White Lotus leading the prediction pack. Expect a mix of returning favorites and buzzy newcomers—and a few inevitable snubs. Getty Images DRAMA CATEGORIES: CAN ANYONE STOP SEVERANCE? Severance is likely to be a big contender, but don't count out new entries like The Pitt and Paradise. In the acting categories, Noah Wyle (The Pitt) and Kathy Bates (Matlock) are likely winners. Everyone has been talking about them all season, and both of their shows are brand new and very buzz worthy. But don't count out Sterling K. Brown (Paradise) or even Gary Oldman (Slow Horses). Other names that would be nice to see in the mix are Jon Hamm for Your Friends & Neighbors and Melanie Lynskey for Yellowjackets. Also, Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid's Tale) and Penn Badgley (You) should get some recognition for the finales of their respective shows. But the one series you can expect to be all over the drama categories: The White Lotus. Expect most of the cast, including Carrie Coon, Walton Goggins, Aimee Lou Wood and Parker Posey, to get nominated. Will they win? Unlikely, considering the less than thrilled reaction to the season, but they will certainly be recognized. COMEDY CATEGORIES: WILL GHOSTS FINALLY GET RECOGNIZED? Ghosts has consistently been a hit in the CBS' lineup, and yet it has never received much love from the Emmys. (Which is crazy considering that CBS announced earlier this year a two-season renewal for the hit comedy, a rarity these days for any show, let alone a network sitcom.) Asher Grodman, who plays Trevor on the series and is one of the potential nominees from the show, talked about this on a recent episode of the Parting Shot Podcast. It's seriously about time this incredible ensemble cast gets some Emmys love. Besides Ghosts, expect lots of mentions of new entries like The Studio and Nobody Wants This to be among the Emmy nominees. In addition to these new entries, past winners like Hacks, The Bear and Abbott Elementary will likely pick up multiple nominations. While it's no surprise that Jean Smart from Hacks will be nominated (and likely win), this could be Hannah Einbinder's year to finally win in the Supporting category. She had a stand-out season this year, and her name is the one that keeps coming up in many of these FYC conversations happening in Hollywood. Another show that deserves more attention is Mid-Century Modern. The entire cast is worthy of nominations, but Nathan Lane and Matt Bomer are the most likely to pick up nominations. Also, don't count out the love people have for Linda Lavin, who died while the show was still in production. Other worthy contenders in the comedy categories include Sharon Horgan's Bad Sisters and Wendi McLendon-Covey's incredible performance on St. Denis Medical. (It's one of the funniest shows from last year and she's yet to ever get any Emmys love. It's her time.) It would also be incredible to see Somebody Somewhere finally get some love. Bridget Everett's small town comedy ended this year, but it had so much heart and humor that hopefully its small but loud fanbase are screaming loud enough to help it finally pick up a nod. TV MOVIE AND LIMITED SERIES CATEGORIES: HAS ADOLESCENCE KILLED THE MONSTERS? Going into awards season, for a long time it seemed like Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story was going to dominate all categories. Then Adolescence debuted and everyone couldn't stop talking about it. At this point, it doesn't look like anything is going to stop Adolescence's momentum. That said, you can expect Monsters to pick up nominations for literally everyone involved, including Nicholas Alexander Chavez, Cooper Koch, Javier Bardem, Chloë Sevigny and Ryan Murphy. But there's one person from Monsters who really deserves some recognition: Leslie Grossman. She's been consistent in so many of Murphy's projects and always delivers, but she especially delivered in Monsters. Another one to watch out for is Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy. Renée Zellweger's return as Bridget Jones was a hit for Peacock and well, when it comes to awards, nobody ignores Zellweger. (We couldn't either, we made her our cover story when the film premiered.) Expect the two-time Oscar winner to be a first-time Emmy winner. Another is Jesse Armstrong's Mountainhead. This all-star cast will almost certainly pick up nominations, but there's one member of the cast who truly deserves a nomination: Cory Michael Smith. His performance is literally haunting and we chatted with him about it on the Parting Shot Podcast. The Emmy nominations will be announced on July 15, and the 77th annual Emmy Awards will air on CBS on September 14. Subscribe to the Parting Shot Podcast with H. 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