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The Pitt Leads Emmy Nominations As Mariska Hargitay Hosts For First Time
HBO Max's medical drama walked into the 78th Emmys with 25 nods, and Hacks broke a comedy record before a single trophy was handed out.
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Catherine O'Hara's Onscreen Kids Choke Up At The Emmys
Macaulay Culkin, Annie Murphy and Dan Levy paid tribute to the late Catherine O'Hara at the 2026 Emmys, calling her their onscreen mother and recalling her generosity, humour and instinct for the unexpected.
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Kate O'Flynn Wins Best Supporting Actress Comedy Emmy For Widow's Bay
Kate O'Flynn won her first Emmy for playing Patricia in Apple TV's Widow's Bay, beating Hacks stars Hannah Einbinder and Meg Stalter along with co-star Dale Dickey at the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards.
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Netflix To Stream Lee Chang-Dong's Full Filmography Worldwide
Netflix is rolling out Lee Chang-dong's back catalogue globally after Possible Love won the Silver Lion at Venice, with Secret Sunshine, Oasis, Poetry and more joining the platform across markets through the autumn.
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Icelyn Details Alleged Encounter With Rapper Boosie Amid Denial
A woman identified as Icelyn has posted new videos detailing her alleged encounter with rapper Boosie, days after fan footage showed them together at a hotel. Boosie denies touching her.
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Gina Rodriguez To Direct Boxing Drama With Justin Baldoni Producing
Gina Rodriguez will direct her first theatrical feature, a boxing drama called House of Guerrero, with former Jane the Virgin co-star Justin Baldoni producing through his Wayfarer Studios.
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Sally Field Becomes Oldest Winner In Emmy's Lead Actress Category
Sally Field won the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series for Remarkably Bright Creatures, breaking Jessica Tandy's 1988 record, before speaking about Canada and her friendship with Dolly Parton.
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Konyak-Language Film Angh Bets On TIFF Slot For Oscar Run
Angh, a Konyak-language film set in 1960s Nagaland, premieres in competition at TIFF this week. Distributor Gaurav Dhingra says a win there means an automatic Oscar berth, and India release plans will follow the film's festival momentum.
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Matthew Rhys Wins Two Lead Acting Emmys In A Single Night
Matthew Rhys made Emmy history with a double lead-acting win at the 78th Primetime Emmys, while Widow's Bay, The Pitt and Jean Smart's Hacks run dominated a night hosted by Mariska Hargitay.
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Hiro Murai Becomes First Asian Director To Win Comedy Directing Emmy
Hiro Murai won Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series for Widow's Bay's premiere episode, making history as the first Asian director in the category and the third ever across all Emmy categories.
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Michael J. Fox Gets A Standing Ovation At The Emmys
Michael J. Fox accepted the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award at the 2026 Emmys, arriving in a wheelchair thirty-five years after his Parkinson's diagnosis, with wife Tracy Pollan by his side.
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Apple TV Tops HBO Max And Netflix At The Emmys For The First Time
Apple TV finished Monday's Emmys with 28 wins, more than HBO Max and Netflix combined with second place, powered by a record-breaking sweep for freshman comedy Widow's Bay and a strong night for Pluribus.
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Matthew Rhys Becomes First Actor To Win Lead Emmys In All Three Genres
Matthew Rhys won two lead-acting Emmys in a single ceremony for Widow's Bay and The Beast in Me, becoming the first performer ever to claim the top acting prize across comedy, drama and limited series.
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US Ambassador Sergio Gor Offers Prayers At Lalbaugcha Raja Pandal
US Ambassador to India Sergio Gor visited the Lalbaugcha Raja pandal on Ganesh Chaturthi, telling ANI he was honoured to be invited and that the vibrancy was hard to put into words.
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Widow's Bay Breaks Emmy Comedy Record With Fourteen Wins
Apple TV's horror-comedy Widow's Bay won 14 Emmys this season, the most any comedy has ever collected in a single year, edging out Hacks for the top prize.
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Matthew Rhys Breaks Emmys Jinx On Double Lead Acting Nominees
Matthew Rhys won lead actor in comedy for Widow's Bay and lead actor in a limited series for The Beast in Me on the same night, a first in Emmys history, according to Variety and TheWrap.
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Taylor Swift Cameos As Rookie Detective In Emmys SVU Sketch
Taylor Swift turned up on the Emmys broadcast in a pre-taped Law & Order: SVU parody with host Mariska Hargitay, cracking the case of her own no-show before watching the Chiefs-Broncos game with Tom Cruise.
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Jean Smart Ties All-Time Emmy Record With Fifth Hacks Win
Jean Smart won Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for Hacks' fifth and final season, her eighth Emmy overall, tying the record held by Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Cloris Leachman.
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Bill Conti To Score Sylvester Stallone's Memoir Audiobook
Sylvester Stallone has announced that Bill Conti, who composed the Rocky score, will provide original music for the audiobook edition of his memoir The Steps, out September 29.
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Harry And Meghan Switch Archie, Lilibet To New School
Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet started at a different school this week, just two days after their first term began, with security teams reportedly unable to manage the commute safely.
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Ben Affleck Almost Shelved Animals Over A Spike Lee Clash
Ben Affleck says he pulled the plug on his Netflix thriller Animals just two weeks before filming, fearing it looked too close to Spike Lee's Highest 2 Lowest, before reviving it with a reshuffled cast.
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FX's Adults Season 2 Viewership Climbs 40% Over Season One
FX's twentysomething comedy Adults has posted a 40% viewership jump for Season 2, with international audiences doubling and its Rotten Tomatoes score leaping from 77% to 100%, per Disney's internal streaming data.
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Zach Cregger's Resident Evil Needs Zero Homework From Fans
Zach Cregger's Resident Evil reboot drops viewers into a single snowy night with no game knowledge required, starring a transformed Austin Abrams and stunts built from real crane rigs, not just VFX.
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Ben Platt And Russell Tovey Board Industry's Final Season
Ben Platt and Russell Tovey have joined the fifth and final season of HBO/BBC's Industry, now filming in the UK, as a venture capitalist and a political aide respectively, in an ensemble that keeps growing.
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Kody And Robyn Brown Are Out On Sister Wives Season 21
Kody Brown and his last remaining wife, Robyn, will not appear in Sister Wives Season 21, TLC confirmed in the trailer. His three ex-wives reacted with confusion and surprise.
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Emmy Awards 2026 Ceremony Streams Live In India At 5:30 AM
The 78th Emmy Awards go live on JioHotstar at 5:30 am IST on September 15, hosted by Mariska Hargitay, with HBO's The Pitt leading nominations ahead of Hacks and Widow's Bay.
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Netflix And Sega Team Up For Crazy Taxi Movie, New Sonic Series
Netflix and Sega have announced a multi-title partnership covering a Crazy Taxi feature film, a new animated Sonic series for younger viewers, and a live-action adaptation of RGG Studio's Stranger Than Heaven.
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Bad Robot's Jon Cohen Becomes President Of Wonderlab Studio
Jon Cohen leaves his head of film post at Bad Robot to run Wonderlab, the new production company from Final Destination: Bloodlines directors Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein, under their fresh Sony deal.
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Sondheim's Sunday In The Park With George Loses Its London Run
The Barbican's starry revival of Sunday in the Park With George is off after Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey exited within weeks of each other. Producers Empire Street Productions now eye a 2028 restart.
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Susanne Bier Wants Practical Magic 2 Seen In Theatres
Susanne Bier says Practical Magic 2 is built for cinemas, not couches, arguing that laughing and crying alongside strangers is something a phone screen simply cannot replicate.
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