FX’s The Americans is spying no less than four nominations — including Program of the Year and best new drama — for this year’s Television Critics Association Awards, to be handed out Aug. 3 in Beverly Hills.
AMC’s Breaking Bad follows with three total nods, while HBO’s Game of Thrones and BBC America’s Orphan Black …READ MORE
The shows that have won the best drama Emmy for the past five years, AMC’s Mad Men and Showtime’s Homeland, both have been going through up-and-down seasons recently. That is not expected to affect the awards juggernauts’ nomination chances, but it does open the door to an upset come September from likely contenders Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones or Downton Abbey. READ MORE & VIEW GALLERY
Several cancelled series enjoyed some time in the Tony spotlight Sunday night — to uproarious effect.
Newly-unemployed Broadway vets Megan Hilty and Andrew Rannells — whose respective small screen breaks, Smash and The New Normal, were axed last month by NBC — joined host Neil Patrick Harris on stage to literally sing …READ MORE & WATCH VIDEO
True confession time: I’m not much of a Broadway theater expert — unless you consider the fact that I recapped two seasons of Smash. (“Wait, that just makes you a masochist,” you say.)
But who can resist the charms of Neil Patrick Harris Hosting the 2013 Tony Awards? READ MORE
Life in Pine Valley and Llanview is quieting down a little faster than expected.
Both All My Children and One Life to Live will halt production 11 days earlier than planned, as a result of …READ MORE
With two of last year’s nominees (Saturday Night Live’s Kristen Wiig and Desperate Housewives’ late Kathryn Joosten) out of the running, and a third (Nurse Jackie’s Merritt Wever) looking less like a long shot than a no shot, the field is wide open. Even if The Big Bang Theory’s Mayim Bialik, and Modern Family’s Sofia Vergara and Julie Bowen (2012’s winner), are again nominated, that still leaves three slots open — or two if Emmy raises another glass to Arrested Development’s intoxicating Jessica Walter. READ MORE & VIEW GALLERY
For the past three years, the men of ABC’s Modern Family dominated this category — and there’s every reason to believe Ed O’Neill, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Ty Burrell and Eric Stonestreet will hear their respective names announced come nominations day on July 18. That leaves two open slots and a myriad of options, including past nominees Max Greenfield and Bill Hader, and the long-overdue Simon Helberg. READ MORE & VIEW GALLERY
The big question going into the nominations is, can Julia Louis-Dreyfus be beat? Having picked up her third statuette in 2012 — her first for Veep — the Emmy darling is going into this year’s contest as the odds-on favorite. But she’ll face stiff competition from Golden Globe-winning It girl Lena Dunham, not to mention the long-long overdue Amy Poehler. READ MORE
Let’s be honest: For years, this category had been more or less a toss-up between The Big Bang Theory‘s Jim Parsons and 30 Rock‘s Alec Baldwin, right? Right. But then, outta nowhere, Two and a Half Men survivor Jon Cryer stole the prize out from under both of ‘em in 2012. So now, as the trio face an increasingly formidable threat …READ MORE & VIEW GALLERY
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