Emmy Magazine Features
The ABC comedy gives props to public school teachers, while Quinta Brunson and staff convey the lessons and the laughs.
One early '70s re-creation deserves another. Celebrate the achievements depicted in Paramount+'s The Offer with emmy's salute to the "Do-ers" who made The Godfather a reality.
When production was set to resume on FX's The Old Man after its pandemic shutdown, star Jeff Bridges learned he had lymphoma. But his cancer treatment wasn't as bad, he says, as the Covid that followed. Bridges recovered and completed the series, about an ex–CIA agent who's pulled back into the fold. And he came back in the style imprinted on him by his father, actor Lloyd Bridges: approach the work with joy.
With killer workouts and amazing hair and makeup, Lily James and Sebastian Stan were physically transformed for the Hulu show. But finding the humanity beneath the celebrity was key to their portrayals of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee.
The man behind 1883 and Yellowstone is up before dawn, branding cattle, while turning out script after script. From his Texas ranches, Taylor Sheridan is doing Hollywood his way — with energy, empathy and poetry on the page.
Fans of true crime — like Renée Zellweger — can't get enough of that soda-slurping slayer, Pam Hupp. The star got so hooked on the podcast, she jumped into the NBC show, The Thing About Pam.
The days of extras and "Italian dudes" taking roles from Indigenous actors are, thankfully, fading. "It's nice to look back and say, 'this wasn't right' — and to take our representation back," says Kiowa Gordon, a star of AMC's new Dark Winds. With its substantial indigenous cast and crew, and its attention to authenticity, the series sends a gust of change through the industry — while delivering viewers a jolt of Navajo noir.
The actor discusses his portrayal of Holocaust survivor Harry Haft in the HBO telefilm The Survivor.
Don't expect that familiar, dusty landscape in EPIX's Billy the Kid. For their new take on the famed outlaw, producers made a "pre-Western," a muddy world that's "raw and real and visceral and wild."
With her astonishing output of television, Ava DuVernay has set a new standard for breadth and quality in the medium. And while she's learning to delegate, don't expect her to ease up on that famed attention to detail.
The cast members of The CW's Kung Fu applaud their show's representation of Asian-American culture. Says actor Tony Chung: "Our show is the exposure our community needs to bring a familiarity to the Asian-American profile."
He'd had the idea for years, Steve Martin says, before finally sharing it one day over lunch: three New Yorkers with an interest in true crime stumble upon a murder in their building. With his longtime buddy Martin Short and new pal, Selena Gomez, a hit Hulu series took form.