Last year, Jimmy Kimmel threw his Emmy support behind Stephen Colbert after CBS axed The Late Show. The ABC host put up a billboard in LA, saying, "I'm voting for Stephen." It clearly helped as Colbert picked up his first Emmy for Outstanding Talk Series last September as host of the…

UPDATED with latest: With the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences setting its dates for the 2027 and 2028 Oscars (the latter the ceremony’s 100th anniversary), the rest of the awards docket for those two years is falling into place. After the Oscars announcement, SAG-AFTRA’s Actor…

If you’re going to create a TV honor called the Legacy Award, this is a perfect way to start. The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences said Tuesday that the seminal sitcom I Love Lucy with receive its inaugural honor celebrating a television program that's made a profound and generational…

EXCLUSIVE: Taylor Swift went behind the scenes on working with The Eras Tour: The Final Show director Glenn Weiss to preserve the essence of the last stop on her recent historic, career-defining tour during an intimate event with Emmy voters recently. The music mogul made an appearance at the…

Editor’s note: In 1980, Merrill Markoe became the head writer for The David Letterman Show, which won a Daytime Emmy. She then went on to share three Primetime Emmy wins for her work as the original head writer on Late Night with David Letterman. And before all that, in 1978, she was part of Mary Tyle…

The road to creating Widow’s Bay, Apple TV’s newest comedy sensation that has landed 19 Emmy nominations in its debut season, has been a long one for creator/showrunner/executive producer Katie Dippold. In fact, from the first drafts to its premiere at…

Until recently, an octopus was not the most obvious choice to co-star with Sally Field. Looking at her career thus far, one might immediately think of her alongside Julia Roberts and Shirley MacLaine in Steel Magnolias, or those Oscar-winning turns opposite Beau Bridges in Norma Rae and with…

Pretty soon TV viewers will see Mariska Hargitay in a role she's never played before, and it's one-night-only – host of the Primetime Emmy Awards. You might not immediately think of her as a comedian, but then neither does she, she tells Deadline. This fall, Hargitay returns for an astounding…

There was "a great deal of turbulence," Dan Harmon acknowledged, following co-creator and star Justin Roiland's 2023 ouster from Adult Swim’s Rick and Morty ahead of Season 7, amid domestic violence charges (which were ultimately dropped) and other allegations of misconduct. But it feels now, that…

For Debora Cahn, getting to create and run her own Netflix hit series was simple. First, get jobs and spend years writing and producing on iconic shows like The West Wing, Homeland and Grey’s Anatomy. Cahn is creator, showrunner and executive…

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. There must be something in the air. Although the Primetime Emmys are a few weeks away, you might not be crazy to think they are actually happening this weekend as networks…

The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office still hasn’t decided if it will seek the death penalty against Nick Reiner for the alleged murder of his parents on the first day of Hanukkah last year. However, Nathan Hochman’s team certainly upped the ante Wednesday with a new indictment and new…