Emmy Magazine Features
With its impressive slate of new series, EPIX intends to catapult into television’s top rung. The network has cast no less than a British knight — Sir Ben Kingsley — to lead one of its dramas and a dashing unknown, Jack Bannon, to reveal the Dark Knight’s backstory in another.
As FX’s Pose returns for season two, its cast and creators reflect on a TV success that few others could have foreseen: a drama set in New York’s LGBTQ ballroom scene, with the largest cast of trans actors ever in a scripted series. It’s a thrill not only for the trans community, but for anyone committed to inclusion and holding onto hope.
Noah Wyle explores emotion and empathy for the topical drama The Red Line.
When Gretchen Carlson dared to challenge Fox News’s Roger Ailes, she not only inspired other women to expose his sexual harassment — she sparked his departure. Now, in Showtime’s The Loudest Voice, Naomi Watts and Russell Crowe reveal the behind-the-scenes drama at the nation’s most-watched news network.
With never-before-seen archival footage and new interviews from the likes of Monica Lewinsky, the A&E docuseries The Clinton Affair explores the investigation of a president. And in the light of the #MeToo movement, the ‘90s scandal takes on new tones.
A heart-to-heart about God comes full circle, as a Muslim — Ramy Youssef — and a Christian — Jerrod Carmichael — join forces on Ramy, a comedy that cleaves racial and religious taboos.
What could bring Julia Roberts back to television… and persuade Sam Esmail to take on another series? Amazon’s Homecoming, a psychological thriller that explores the manipulation of memory and its moral cost.
Vida, Tanya Saracho’s tale of class, gender, race and family in L.A.’s Boyle Heights drew critical raves in season one.
Social issues meet entertainment head-on in the work of Danny Strong, the writer-producer-director behind Fox’s new Proven Innocent as well as five seasons of Empire.
Turning Catch-22 — with its free-form narrative — into a linear, limited series could be seen as a mission of madness. But, in the view of George Clooney & Company, the senseless military mindset at the heart of Joseph Heller’s novel was ripe for review.
When they met — bang! — it was fireworks. And for years, the collaboration of choreographer Bob Fosse and dancer Gwen Verdon created sparks on stage and screen. While their marriage didn’t last, their friendship did.