Emmy Magazine Features
Batwoman is making history as the first television series with a gay superhero. Star Ruby Rose made her own hero’s journey to get there.
Sacha Baron Cohen learned from his mockumentary Borat that by disappearing into characters, he could get people to reveal themselves. But what he learned making Showtime’s Who Is America? exceeded all his expectations.
When members of MPTF’s NextGen Board work to spread the word and support this entertainment industry institution, they’re giving back to the industry that has given them so much.
Tasked with writing a spec script for the spy thriller Killing Eve, Chapman University grad students heeded their prof, who said: Come up with a story you want to see… and have fun! One student took the advice literally, creating dialogue while skateboarding. Read their scenes here.
With two long-running series on her résumé, four grown sons and a deep commitment to volunteer work, Patricia Heaton has earned some downtime. But reflection over her empty nest led, inevitably, back to television and a CBS series about a woman pursuing the career of her dreams.
To tell a quintessential tale of the city of angels, the director of Wonder Woman, Patty Jenkins, reteamed with leading man Chris Pine. Together they embarked on TNT's I Am the Night, an exploration of crime, class and race, and — fortunately for Pine — a deep dive into apple pie.
“As girls, we’re receiving messages that there’s one way to have value,” Aidy Bryant says, “and it is to be beautiful.” In her Hulu series Shrill, she signals other ways.
Life on the set of Good Girls suits its three stars just fine.
In L.A. or Vietnam, director Ken Olin is at home behind the camera for NBC’s favorite family drama.
The comedy of Hasan Minhaj has caused discomfort in some circles, “but the one thing I’m responsible for,” he says, “is telling the truth.”
To portray the brave scientists fighting Ebola, cast members of Nat Geo’s The Hot Zone had to face some grueling conditions. Fortunately that didn’t include any fatal pathogens.
Nine students in the Chapman University M.F.A. program were tasked to write a spec script for Killing Eve.
From the emmy article Their Killing Season.