[Editor’s Note: this list was originally published in July 2017. It has been updated multiple times with new entries.]
Both on the awards circuit and in the public consciousness, HBO is widely regarded as among the first Hollywood heavyweights to recognize that television, as a medium, had the power to deliver sprawling, large scale stories on a smaller screen. From HBO’s ascent in the late 1990s through its dragon-aided roar across the 2010s, the network’s original series tackled universal stories, stretching across continents and decades.
The network hasn’t been without controversy, though. HBO faced questions about its lack of diversity in flagship series, including “Game of Thrones” and “Girls,” throughout the 2010s. And, unshackled from the restrictions of broadcast TV, the various steps the network took to push the limit of what’s allowed on screen garnered a fair share of pearl-clutching headlines; see “The Sopranos” in the ’90s and “Euphoria” just a few years back. And since the Warner Bros. and Discovery merger, there’s...
Both on the awards circuit and in the public consciousness, HBO is widely regarded as among the first Hollywood heavyweights to recognize that television, as a medium, had the power to deliver sprawling, large scale stories on a smaller screen. From HBO’s ascent in the late 1990s through its dragon-aided roar across the 2010s, the network’s original series tackled universal stories, stretching across continents and decades.
The network hasn’t been without controversy, though. HBO faced questions about its lack of diversity in flagship series, including “Game of Thrones” and “Girls,” throughout the 2010s. And, unshackled from the restrictions of broadcast TV, the various steps the network took to push the limit of what’s allowed on screen garnered a fair share of pearl-clutching headlines; see “The Sopranos” in the ’90s and “Euphoria” just a few years back. And since the Warner Bros. and Discovery merger, there’s...
- 5/7/2024
- by Wilson Chapman
- Indiewire
Mark Duplass and producing partner Mel Eslyn are continuing their Sundance reign with the debut of series “Penelope.”
The entirely independently financed and produced series follows the titular Penelope (Megan Stott), a teen who feels more connected with nature than she does her own family. As Penelope escapes into the wilderness, she seeks to find herself in the coming-of-age indie drama.
Duplass and Eslyn co-created and co-wrote the series, which is seeking a distributor at the festival. CAA is handling sales. The Duplass Brothers formerly debuted adult animated series “Animals,” which premiered at 2016 Sundance in the early days of the festival expanding to include episodics.
The official synopsis reads: Feeling out of place in the modern world, 16-year-old Penelope (Stott) finds herself almost cosmically drawn to nature. With no plan in place, she leaves her family behind for the beguiling wilderness where she begins to establish a different kind of life for herself.
The entirely independently financed and produced series follows the titular Penelope (Megan Stott), a teen who feels more connected with nature than she does her own family. As Penelope escapes into the wilderness, she seeks to find herself in the coming-of-age indie drama.
Duplass and Eslyn co-created and co-wrote the series, which is seeking a distributor at the festival. CAA is handling sales. The Duplass Brothers formerly debuted adult animated series “Animals,” which premiered at 2016 Sundance in the early days of the festival expanding to include episodics.
The official synopsis reads: Feeling out of place in the modern world, 16-year-old Penelope (Stott) finds herself almost cosmically drawn to nature. With no plan in place, she leaves her family behind for the beguiling wilderness where she begins to establish a different kind of life for herself.
- 1/22/2024
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Aidy Bryant is a name that most people associate with her tenure as a cast member on Saturday Night Live. However, her success extends far beyond that. She is an accomplished actor, comedian, and writer who has managed to carve out a successful career for herself. Sadly, as a plus-size woman, Bryant represents a group of performers who are often overlooked in Hollywood. The actor created her own show after being offered offensive roles.
Aidy Bryant as Annie Easton | Allyson Riggs/Hulu Aidy Bryant has faced her fair share of offensive role offers
Aidy Bryant Had To Co-Write Her Show “Shrill” After Getting Offered Ridiculously Offensive Roles https://t.co/AxnPSDbm36
— BuzzFeed (@BuzzFeed) April 19, 2019
Despite her success on SNL, Bryant has faced her fair share of rejection and typecasting in Hollywood. In an interview with Adweek in 2019, she revealed that early on in her career, she was offered offensive roles...
Aidy Bryant as Annie Easton | Allyson Riggs/Hulu Aidy Bryant has faced her fair share of offensive role offers
Aidy Bryant Had To Co-Write Her Show “Shrill” After Getting Offered Ridiculously Offensive Roles https://t.co/AxnPSDbm36
— BuzzFeed (@BuzzFeed) April 19, 2019
Despite her success on SNL, Bryant has faced her fair share of rejection and typecasting in Hollywood. In an interview with Adweek in 2019, she revealed that early on in her career, she was offered offensive roles...
- 4/8/2023
- by Deisy Ventura
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Stephanie Hsu, Michelle Yeoh, and Ke Huy Quan in ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ (Photo Credit: Allyson Riggs / A24)
Everything Everywhere All at Once adds to its awards season tally with three Critics Choice Super Awards wins. The seven-time Oscar winner scored wins in the Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Movie, Best Actor in a Science Fiction/Fantasy Movie (Ke Huy Quan), and Best Actress in a Science Fiction/Fantasy Movie (Michelle Yeoh) categories.
The Boys dominated among the television nominees, earning three awards. Antony Starr won in both the Best Actor in a Superhero Series and Best Villain in a Series categories, while the show was named Best Superhero Series.
The annual Critics Choice Super Awards recognize the best of the superhero, science fiction/fantasy, horror, and action genres.
3Rd Annual Critics Choice Super Awards Film Nominees And Winners
Best Action Movie
Bullet Train
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Winner: Top Gun: Maverick
The...
Everything Everywhere All at Once adds to its awards season tally with three Critics Choice Super Awards wins. The seven-time Oscar winner scored wins in the Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Movie, Best Actor in a Science Fiction/Fantasy Movie (Ke Huy Quan), and Best Actress in a Science Fiction/Fantasy Movie (Michelle Yeoh) categories.
The Boys dominated among the television nominees, earning three awards. Antony Starr won in both the Best Actor in a Superhero Series and Best Villain in a Series categories, while the show was named Best Superhero Series.
The annual Critics Choice Super Awards recognize the best of the superhero, science fiction/fantasy, horror, and action genres.
3Rd Annual Critics Choice Super Awards Film Nominees And Winners
Best Action Movie
Bullet Train
Rrr
Winner: Top Gun: Maverick
The...
- 3/16/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Michelle Yeoh Photo Credit: Courtesy of A24
The 2023 Oscars will be handed out on March 12, 2023, honoring Hollywood’s picks for the best films of the past year with all the glitz and glam we expect. In keeping with another annual tradition, that of trying to predict the Oscar winners, here are our predictions for what/who will win, should win, and for some categories, who/what should have been nominated but was not. Rather than cover all categories, these predictions will focus on just some top ones.
Best Picture – 301 features were eligible for Academy Awards.
The nominees are:
All Quiet On The Western Front, Malte Grunert, Producer
Avatar: The Way Of Water, James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers
The Banshees Of Inisherin, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin and Martin McDonagh, Producers
Elvis, Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Gail Berman, Patrick McCormick and Schuyler Weiss, Producers
Everything Everywhere All At Once, Daniel Kwan,...
The 2023 Oscars will be handed out on March 12, 2023, honoring Hollywood’s picks for the best films of the past year with all the glitz and glam we expect. In keeping with another annual tradition, that of trying to predict the Oscar winners, here are our predictions for what/who will win, should win, and for some categories, who/what should have been nominated but was not. Rather than cover all categories, these predictions will focus on just some top ones.
Best Picture – 301 features were eligible for Academy Awards.
The nominees are:
All Quiet On The Western Front, Malte Grunert, Producer
Avatar: The Way Of Water, James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers
The Banshees Of Inisherin, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin and Martin McDonagh, Producers
Elvis, Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Gail Berman, Patrick McCormick and Schuyler Weiss, Producers
Everything Everywhere All At Once, Daniel Kwan,...
- 3/11/2023
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Stephanie Hsu, Michelle Yeoh, and Ke Huy Quan in ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ (Photo Credit: Allyson Riggs / A24)
Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan became the first Asian actress and actor to win Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role/Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. Everything Everywhere All at Once also scored wins in the Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture categories.
SAG members spread out the wins in the television categories, with The White Lotus the only nominee to earn multiple awards. Additional 29th Annual SAG Awards television winners included Abbott Elementary, 1883, The Bear, Hacks, George & Tammy, and Ozark.
This year’s SAG Awards took place in Los Angeles and streamed live on YouTube on February...
Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan became the first Asian actress and actor to win Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role/Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. Everything Everywhere All at Once also scored wins in the Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture categories.
SAG members spread out the wins in the television categories, with The White Lotus the only nominee to earn multiple awards. Additional 29th Annual SAG Awards television winners included Abbott Elementary, 1883, The Bear, Hacks, George & Tammy, and Ozark.
This year’s SAG Awards took place in Los Angeles and streamed live on YouTube on February...
- 2/27/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages are Davis’ assessment of the current standings of the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any film or performance. Like any organization or body that votes, each individual category is fluid and subject to change. Predictions are updated every Thursday.
Last Updated: Jan. 31, 2023
2023 Oscars Predictions: Best Supporting Actor Everything Everywhere All At Once, Ke Huy Quan, 2022. ph: Allyson Riggs /© A24 / Courtesy Everett Collection
Category Commentary: Barry Keoghan’s shocking triumph over comeback sensation Ke Huy Quan from “Everything Everywhere All at Once” was an eye-raiser at the BAFTAs. Especially even over his co-star Brendan Gleeson.
Although Keoghan isn’t expected to translate to the...
Last Updated: Jan. 31, 2023
2023 Oscars Predictions: Best Supporting Actor Everything Everywhere All At Once, Ke Huy Quan, 2022. ph: Allyson Riggs /© A24 / Courtesy Everett Collection
Category Commentary: Barry Keoghan’s shocking triumph over comeback sensation Ke Huy Quan from “Everything Everywhere All at Once” was an eye-raiser at the BAFTAs. Especially even over his co-star Brendan Gleeson.
Although Keoghan isn’t expected to translate to the...
- 2/23/2023
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Stephanie Hsu, Michelle Yeoh, and Ke Huy Quan in ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ (Photo Credit: Allyson Riggs / A24)
Nominees have been announced for the 95th Oscars and members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences fell in line with most critics groups, awarding Everything Everywhere All At Once the most nominations with 11. The 2023 Academy Awards also recognized All Quiet on the Western Front with nine nominations, making it the eighth feature film to score nominations in both the Best Picture and Best International Feature categories.
The Banshees of Inisherin also picked up nine nominations, including the first-ever Oscar nominations for Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Barry Keoghan, and Kerry Condon. Elvis earned eight nominations, with Austin Butler picking up his first Oscar nomination for channeling the King of Rock and Roll.
The Fabelmans was nominated in seven categories, followed by Tar and Top Gun: Maverick with six.
The...
Nominees have been announced for the 95th Oscars and members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences fell in line with most critics groups, awarding Everything Everywhere All At Once the most nominations with 11. The 2023 Academy Awards also recognized All Quiet on the Western Front with nine nominations, making it the eighth feature film to score nominations in both the Best Picture and Best International Feature categories.
The Banshees of Inisherin also picked up nine nominations, including the first-ever Oscar nominations for Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Barry Keoghan, and Kerry Condon. Elvis earned eight nominations, with Austin Butler picking up his first Oscar nomination for channeling the King of Rock and Roll.
The Fabelmans was nominated in seven categories, followed by Tar and Top Gun: Maverick with six.
The...
- 1/24/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Harry Shum Jr. and Michelle Yeoh in A24’s ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ (Photo credit: Allyson Riggs)
Members of the Critics Choice Association honored the best in films and television of 2022 at the 28th Annual Critics Choice Awards, hosted by Chelsea Handler. Everything Everywhere All At Once went into the night with the most film nominations (14) and Abbott Elementary topped the television nominees with six. And as it turns out, those leaders earned top honors.
Everything Everywhere All at Once picked up five awards including Best Picture, Best Director (Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert), Best Supporting Actor (Ke Huy Quan), Best Original Screenplay (Kwan & Scheinert), and Best Editing (Paul Rogers). Abbott Elementary was named Best Comedy Series, and Sheryl Lee Ralph earned the Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series award.
The final season of Better Call Saul went out with a bang, collecting Best Drama, Best Actor in a...
Members of the Critics Choice Association honored the best in films and television of 2022 at the 28th Annual Critics Choice Awards, hosted by Chelsea Handler. Everything Everywhere All At Once went into the night with the most film nominations (14) and Abbott Elementary topped the television nominees with six. And as it turns out, those leaders earned top honors.
Everything Everywhere All at Once picked up five awards including Best Picture, Best Director (Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert), Best Supporting Actor (Ke Huy Quan), Best Original Screenplay (Kwan & Scheinert), and Best Editing (Paul Rogers). Abbott Elementary was named Best Comedy Series, and Sheryl Lee Ralph earned the Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series award.
The final season of Better Call Saul went out with a bang, collecting Best Drama, Best Actor in a...
- 1/16/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Harry Shum Jr. and Michelle Yeoh in A24’s ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ (Photo credit: Allyson Riggs)
Members of the Critics Choice Association (myself included) showered lots of love on the bizarre yet entertaining Everything Everywhere All At Once. Everything Everywhere topped the list of the 28th Annual Critics Choice Awards film nominees, picking up 14 nominations including Best Picture, Best Comedy, Best Actress (Michelle Yeoh), Best Supporting Actor (Ke Huy Quan), and two in the Best Supporting Actress (Stephanie Hsu and Jamie Lee Curtis) category.
Steven Spielberg’s most personal film to date, The Fabelmans, earned 11 nominations and finds the filmmaker back in the race for Best Director and Best Picture. Michelle Williams earned a Best Actress nomination, and Paul Dano and Judd Hirsch took spots in the Best Supporting Actor category. The film’s lead actor, Gabriel Labelle, is nominated in the Best Young Actor/Actress category.
Babylon had a surprisingly good showing,...
Members of the Critics Choice Association (myself included) showered lots of love on the bizarre yet entertaining Everything Everywhere All At Once. Everything Everywhere topped the list of the 28th Annual Critics Choice Awards film nominees, picking up 14 nominations including Best Picture, Best Comedy, Best Actress (Michelle Yeoh), Best Supporting Actor (Ke Huy Quan), and two in the Best Supporting Actress (Stephanie Hsu and Jamie Lee Curtis) category.
Steven Spielberg’s most personal film to date, The Fabelmans, earned 11 nominations and finds the filmmaker back in the race for Best Director and Best Picture. Michelle Williams earned a Best Actress nomination, and Paul Dano and Judd Hirsch took spots in the Best Supporting Actor category. The film’s lead actor, Gabriel Labelle, is nominated in the Best Young Actor/Actress category.
Babylon had a surprisingly good showing,...
- 12/14/2022
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Next month’s AFI Awards will honour films including the “Avatar” sequel, “Top Gun: Maverick”, “Elvis” and popular television series like “Abbott Elementary”, “Better Call Saul” and “The White Lotus”.
The American Film Institute announced its slate of honorees Friday ahead of its gala luncheon on Jan. 13 in Beverly Hills, California.
Read More: New ‘Avatar: The Way Of Water’ Teaser Features The Weeknd Song ‘Nothing Is Lost (You Give Me Strength)’
The institute selects 10 movies and shows for its ceremony, which honours projects deemed among the best of the year culturally and artistically.
Additional film honorees are: “Everything Everywhere All at Once”, “The Fabelmans”, “Nope”,“She Said”,“Tár”,“The Woman King” and “Women Talking”.
Read More: Michelle Yeoh Receives Honorary Doctorate From The American Film Institute
Stephanie Hsu, Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan in a scene from, “Everything Everywhere All At Once.” — Photo: Allyson Riggs/A24 Films via AP...
The American Film Institute announced its slate of honorees Friday ahead of its gala luncheon on Jan. 13 in Beverly Hills, California.
Read More: New ‘Avatar: The Way Of Water’ Teaser Features The Weeknd Song ‘Nothing Is Lost (You Give Me Strength)’
The institute selects 10 movies and shows for its ceremony, which honours projects deemed among the best of the year culturally and artistically.
Additional film honorees are: “Everything Everywhere All at Once”, “The Fabelmans”, “Nope”,“She Said”,“Tár”,“The Woman King” and “Women Talking”.
Read More: Michelle Yeoh Receives Honorary Doctorate From The American Film Institute
Stephanie Hsu, Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan in a scene from, “Everything Everywhere All At Once.” — Photo: Allyson Riggs/A24 Films via AP...
- 12/10/2022
- by Melissa Romualdi
- ET Canada
Harry Shum Jr. and Michelle Yeoh in A24’s ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ (Photo credit: Allyson Riggs)
Everything Everywhere All At Once tops the list of 2023 Film Independent Spirit Awards nominees, earning eight nominations including Best Feature, Best Director (Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert), Best Lead Performance (Michelle Yeo), Best Breakthrough Performance (Stephanie Hsu), and two in the Best Supporting Performance category. Director Todd Field’s Tár, starring Cate Blanchett as a world-renowned composer whose life is falling apart, followed with seven nominations including ones for Field and Blanchett.
The 2023 awards will mark the first time Film Independent has switched the performance categories to gender-neutral. The 38th Film Independent Spirit Awards also introduces a new category: Best Breakthrough Performance.
“We couldn’t be more honored to celebrate this year’s exciting film nominees,” said Josh Welsh, President of Film Independent. “As the Film Independent Spirit Awards evolve with our changing industry,...
Everything Everywhere All At Once tops the list of 2023 Film Independent Spirit Awards nominees, earning eight nominations including Best Feature, Best Director (Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert), Best Lead Performance (Michelle Yeo), Best Breakthrough Performance (Stephanie Hsu), and two in the Best Supporting Performance category. Director Todd Field’s Tár, starring Cate Blanchett as a world-renowned composer whose life is falling apart, followed with seven nominations including ones for Field and Blanchett.
The 2023 awards will mark the first time Film Independent has switched the performance categories to gender-neutral. The 38th Film Independent Spirit Awards also introduces a new category: Best Breakthrough Performance.
“We couldn’t be more honored to celebrate this year’s exciting film nominees,” said Josh Welsh, President of Film Independent. “As the Film Independent Spirit Awards evolve with our changing industry,...
- 11/23/2022
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Ke Huy Quan, who played Harrison Ford’s 11-year-old sidekick Short Round in 1984’s “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,” is all grown up now and ready to be an Oscar contender.
Quan, 51, has received rousing reviews for his turn as Waymond Wang, the delightfully goofy husband in the Daniels’ whimsical multiverse comedy “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” Along the lines of past hardworking actors who received their big Oscar breaks later in their careers — such as Paul Raci for “Sound of Metal” (2020) and Troy Kotsur for “Coda” (2021) — Quan’s comeback story is one of the season’s bright spots.
Variety’s Awards Circuit Podcast recently sat down with Quan to talk about “Everything Everywhere All At Once,” as well as where his career is going next and more. We began by discussing what he’s been up to in recent years. Listen below:
Quan, who’s also known...
Quan, 51, has received rousing reviews for his turn as Waymond Wang, the delightfully goofy husband in the Daniels’ whimsical multiverse comedy “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” Along the lines of past hardworking actors who received their big Oscar breaks later in their careers — such as Paul Raci for “Sound of Metal” (2020) and Troy Kotsur for “Coda” (2021) — Quan’s comeback story is one of the season’s bright spots.
Variety’s Awards Circuit Podcast recently sat down with Quan to talk about “Everything Everywhere All At Once,” as well as where his career is going next and more. We began by discussing what he’s been up to in recent years. Listen below:
Quan, who’s also known...
- 11/18/2022
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Reputations go a long way in Hollywood, and when you’re seeking Oscar attention, a good one provides a significant edge against the competition. While more than a few contenders in this year’s mix have had previous run-ins with colleagues and journalists, those without that baggage have social media, and the industry, rooting for them.
At the top of the list is Brendan Fraser, one of the best comeback stories in years. In Darren Aronofsky’s “The Whale” (Aronofsky and Fraser are both on the cover of this week’s New York issue of Variety) where he plays a 600-pound man looking to reconnect with his daughter, he delivers an astounding performance. The adaptation of Samuel D. Hunter’s play may face an uphill battle in other major categories, based on reactions so far. However, the star of “The Mummy” (1999) and “Encino Man” (1992) has been able to rise above any criticism,...
At the top of the list is Brendan Fraser, one of the best comeback stories in years. In Darren Aronofsky’s “The Whale” (Aronofsky and Fraser are both on the cover of this week’s New York issue of Variety) where he plays a 600-pound man looking to reconnect with his daughter, he delivers an astounding performance. The adaptation of Samuel D. Hunter’s play may face an uphill battle in other major categories, based on reactions so far. However, the star of “The Mummy” (1999) and “Encino Man” (1992) has been able to rise above any criticism,...
- 10/13/2022
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Orion Lee (left) as “King-Lu” and John Magaro (right) as “Cookie” in director Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow, released by A24 Films. Credit : Allyson Riggs / A24 Films
Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow offers a tale of friendship and American dreams, set in a hardscrabble frontier outpost in early 19th century Oregon territory, place that is less a community than a microcosm of the flaws of capitalism carved out of a green, lush wilderness. Two friends, a quiet, gentle baker known as Cookie (John Magaro) and a talkative, ambitious Chinese immigrant named King-Lu (Orion Lee) hatch a scheme to sell baked goods made with milk pilfered from the area’s first and only cow, the property of the wealthy local bigwig, known as Chief Factor (an excellent Toby Jones), who rules the outpost like the British lord he fancies himself.
There is, of course, a cow, a beautiful brown pedigreed milk cow,...
Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow offers a tale of friendship and American dreams, set in a hardscrabble frontier outpost in early 19th century Oregon territory, place that is less a community than a microcosm of the flaws of capitalism carved out of a green, lush wilderness. Two friends, a quiet, gentle baker known as Cookie (John Magaro) and a talkative, ambitious Chinese immigrant named King-Lu (Orion Lee) hatch a scheme to sell baked goods made with milk pilfered from the area’s first and only cow, the property of the wealthy local bigwig, known as Chief Factor (an excellent Toby Jones), who rules the outpost like the British lord he fancies himself.
There is, of course, a cow, a beautiful brown pedigreed milk cow,...
- 7/13/2020
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
“I’m still here, bitches, and I know everything.”
It’s been nearly a decade since the original “Pretty Little Liars” received the text from their dead best frienemy that kicked off a years-long series of twists, turns and shocking reveals in what would become a runaway hit for Freeform and a singular subject of obsession for its devoted fans. Now, less than two years after that series went off the air, Freeform and series creator I. Marlene King are aiming to show that, like “A” herself, “Pretty Little Liars” still has life, even in death.
“Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists,” the new spinoff premiering Wednesday, is based on an entirely different series of novels by “Pretty Little Liars” author Sara Shepard, but the show cleverly brings its storylines into the world of the original by incorporating two fan-favorite characters as pseudo-mentors to a new generation of beautiful, high-achieving, sometimes manipulative,...
It’s been nearly a decade since the original “Pretty Little Liars” received the text from their dead best frienemy that kicked off a years-long series of twists, turns and shocking reveals in what would become a runaway hit for Freeform and a singular subject of obsession for its devoted fans. Now, less than two years after that series went off the air, Freeform and series creator I. Marlene King are aiming to show that, like “A” herself, “Pretty Little Liars” still has life, even in death.
“Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists,” the new spinoff premiering Wednesday, is based on an entirely different series of novels by “Pretty Little Liars” author Sara Shepard, but the show cleverly brings its storylines into the world of the original by incorporating two fan-favorite characters as pseudo-mentors to a new generation of beautiful, high-achieving, sometimes manipulative,...
- 3/20/2019
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
In Beacon Heights, a seemingly perfect town, a group of three college
friends struggle with the stress of being overachievers. In the aftermath
of the town’s first murder, each Perfectionist hides behind a secret, a
lie and an alibi. (Freeform/Allyson Riggs)Freeform announced new and returning series on Tuesday, including Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists, whose cast includes current General Hospital actress Hayley Erin.
The recently re-branded network continues to build its roster of quality programming that speaks to the young adult consumer who has embraced its authenticity, evident in recent multi-platform hits "grown-ish," "Siren" and the critically acclaimed "The Bold Type." In addition to strong female representation on-screen, the network champions and has built an impressive, inclusive roster behind the scenes. Half of Freeform's episodic directors are female, diverse, or Lgbtq, 60% of series writers are female or diverse, and every original series on the network has a female producer.
friends struggle with the stress of being overachievers. In the aftermath
of the town’s first murder, each Perfectionist hides behind a secret, a
lie and an alibi. (Freeform/Allyson Riggs)Freeform announced new and returning series on Tuesday, including Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists, whose cast includes current General Hospital actress Hayley Erin.
The recently re-branded network continues to build its roster of quality programming that speaks to the young adult consumer who has embraced its authenticity, evident in recent multi-platform hits "grown-ish," "Siren" and the critically acclaimed "The Bold Type." In addition to strong female representation on-screen, the network champions and has built an impressive, inclusive roster behind the scenes. Half of Freeform's episodic directors are female, diverse, or Lgbtq, 60% of series writers are female or diverse, and every original series on the network has a female producer.
- 5/15/2018
- by Roger Newcomb
- We Love Soaps
The magic is gone, at least for now. TNT has cancelled The Librarians TV show after four seasons. On Twitter, executive producer Dean Devlin confirmed that he had just received a call confirming the cancellation. However, a glimmer of hope remains. Devlin said he will, "...immediately begin the process of trying to move the show elsewhere," and asked fans to keep their fingers crossed. A TNT fantasy-adventure drama, The Librarians stars Rebecca Romijn, Christian Kane, Lindy Booth, John Harlan Kim, and John Larroquette, with Noah Wyle recurring as veteran librarian, Flynn Carsen. Like the film franchise, the TV series centers on the ancient organization dedicated to safeguarding an unknowing world from the secret, magical reality hidden all around. The librarians serve as the protectors of the world’s mystical treasures. Read More…...
- 3/9/2018
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
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