Emmy Magazine Features
When Hannah Gadsby was asked about filming her very personal stand-up show, she resisted. But the Netflix special became a global sensation.
At L.A.’s Geffen Playhouse, television actors who also relish live theater can test themselves in new ways — and show themselves to audiences in a whole new light.
With its new subscription service and the gripping drama See — set in a sensory-challenged future — Apple asserts its place in streaming entertainment.
Peaky Blinders — the drama named for British gangsters who sewed razor blades into the peaks of their caps — is the little British show that’s gone big.
Networks that delight are the domain of Discovery’s Kathleen Finch, who is hailed by colleagues for her creative cross-promotions.
Strange requests (like, Can you do Groucho on helium?) are all in a day’s work for a voice actor. But as Rob Paulsen makes plain in Voice Lessons, he wouldn’t have it any other way.
An upstart streaming service looks to upset ESPN in the fight for major-league sports rights.
After 25 years behind a desk, Conan O’Brien had to reckon with his status as late night’s elder statesman. So he ditched the desk — and the band. His new format and new projects are suiting him just fine, and so is the sporty wardrobe.
“We didn’t know how to go on,” Jill Soloway says of the dilemma facing cast and crew on her ground- breaking Amazon series. But “the idea of music came to us,” and Transparent’s musical finale took shape. Says star Judith Light: “It made us feel alive.”
The newest Ken Burns opus, Country Music, explores the duality of a very American genre — from the rockin’ sounds of the roadhouse to the righteous tones of church and home.
For her fellow Sharp Objects cast members, performing with the elegant, intelligent Patricia Clarkson can be a master class in dramatic risk.
Who would dare try to produce Catherine the Great? Such a project was “too complicated… too grand to get financed,” scoffed Helen Mirren, who once tossed out the wild idea of playing the empress. Now she’s doing just that in an opulent miniseries (that she’s also executive- producing), shot in the palaces of Russia.