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    Netflix’s ‘Adolescence’ Earns 13 Emmy Nominations, Including Nod for Owen Cooper

    The show, about a teenager suspected of killing a schoolmate, won three Gotham Television Awards last month and was a hot topic in the weeks after it was released.“Adolescence,” the hit Netflix series turned water-cooler talker about Jamie Miller, a teenage boy who is accused of killing a girl from his school, received 13 Emmy nominations on Tuesday, including one for best limited series or anthology.Stephen Graham, who played the teen’s father, Eddie, received a nod for best lead actor in a limited or anthology series or movie, and Owen Cooper, who played the troubled teen, Jamie, was nominated in the outstanding supporting actor category alongside Ashley Walters, who played a detective. Cooper’s nomination makes him the youngest ever nominee in that category, according to Deadline.Erin Doherty, who played a psychologist in the series, was nominated for outstanding supporting actress alongside Christine Tremarco, who played Jamie’s mother, Manda. Philip Barantini received a directing nomination, and Graham and Jack Thorne, who created and wrote the series, picked up a nod for outstanding writing.The show was released in mid-March and resonated with audiences. It quickly became the most watched show on Netflix in dozens of countries, according to the streamer.“Adolescence” and its themes inspired so much chatter that it reignited discussions in Britain on whether the government should restrict children’s access to smartphones. (A major question in the series concerns the extent to which Jamie may have been radicalized by misogynistic ideas online.) Prime Minister Keir Starmer told the House of Commons that he had watched it with his two children and that action had to be taken to address the “fatal consequences” of young men and boys viewing harmful content on the internet.In June, “Adolescence” won three trophies at the second annual Gotham Television Awards, including one for breakthrough limited series. Graham won for best lead performance in a limited series and Cooper shared a win with Jenny Slate of “Dying for Sex” for best supporting performance.Graham and Cooper’s onscreen bond was a highlight for critics, and there was much discussion around the series’s third episode, in which Doherty’s psychologist interviews Jamie. Cooper told The New York Times in April that he had initially been uncomfortable with the script.“Before every take, I just thought, ‘I’m never, ever going to be able to do this again, so I’m just going to put my all into it,’” he said.In the same interview, Graham said that there were no plans for a sequel. “It’s a stand-alone thing,” he said. “I’m not saying there will be, but if there’s a possibility of a Series 2, we would follow something completely different.”The 77th Primetime Emmy Awards will be held on Sept. 14 in Los Angeles. CBS will broadcast the ceremony. More

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    Emmy Nomination Snubs and Surprises: ‘Squid Game,’ ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ and More

    Some big names (Alfonso Cuarón, Elisabeth Moss) were left off the Emmy nomination list while some underdogs (Jeff Hiller, “Common Side Effects”) sneaked on.Awards shows are handicapped more accurately these days than presidential elections, but here are some at least mildly surprising results gleaned from the Primetime Emmys nominations announced on Tuesday.Snub: ‘Squid Game’Apparently the voters had soured on the bloody South Korean drama, which was nominated for outstanding drama and won for lead actor and director in its first season on Netflix. The second season, which debuted in December, was shut out of the drama series field. (Because of the Emmys’ June-to-May calendar, the recently released final season will be eligible for next year’s awards.) It was the only unexpected result in the major series categories, allowing the Hulu thriller “Paradise” to sneak in.Surprise: Uzo AdubaNetflix’s murder-in-the-White-House comedy “The Residence” did not attract a ton of attention and was quickly canceled after one season. Aduba’s performance as a quirky, bird-watching police consultant was noticed, however, and she made it into the comedy lead-actress field over the former nominees Natasha Lyonne (“Poker Face”) and Selena Gomez (“Only Murders in the Building”).Snub: Alfonso CuarónCuarón, the winner of four Oscars, was thought to be a lock for at least a directing nomination for his spooky limited series “Disclaimer” on Apple TV+. Cuarón was left out, however, as was the series and its lead actor, Kevin Kline. Cate Blanchett picked up a lead-actress nomination.“Common Side Effects” was nominated for outstanding animated program for its first season.Adult SwimSurprise: ‘Common Side Effects’Adult Swims’s lo-fi conspiracy thriller about little people battling Big Pharma, streaming on HBO Max, was an unexpected and very welcome nominee for outstanding animated program, taking a spot expected to go to Amazon Prime Video’s “Invincible” or Netflix’s “Big Mouth.”Snub: ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’Hulu’s adaptation of the dystopian novel by Margaret Atwood never regained the heights of its first season, when it won the award for best drama and its star, Elisabeth Moss, won for best actress. In their sixth and final season, both the show and Moss were left out.Surprise: Jeff HillerIn the third and final season of the melancholy, autobiographical HBO comedy “Somebody, Somewhere,” starring Bridget Everett, Hiller came out of nowhere for a supporting-actor nomination. (Sorry, Tyler James Williams of “Abbott Elementary.”) The show, previously unnominated, also got a nod for comedy writing.Snub: John Mulaney (again)Mulaney keeps trying to tweak the nighttime talk-show format, following up last year’s “John Mulaney Presents: Everybody’s in L.A.” on Netflix with the apparently more permanent “Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney.” Breaking through the Colbert-Kimmel-Stewart gas ceiling in the variety talk series category is a tall order, though. (Also left out, with the category limited to three slots, was the three-time nominee “Late Night With Seth Meyers.”) More

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    Emmy Nominees 2025: See the Complete List

    The 77th Emmy Awards ceremony is planned for Sept. 14. See all the nominees below.Nominees for the 2025 Emmy Awards were announced by Harvey Guillén (“What We Do in the Shadows”) and Brenda Song (“Running Point”) on Tuesday morning.In the drama categories, “The White Lotus,” “Severance” and “The Last of Us” picked up the most nominations — with “Severance” earning 27, the most of any show this year.In the comedy categories, “The Studio,” “Hacks” and “The Bear” came out on top. For limited series, “The Penguin” got 24 nominations and “Adolescence” earned 13.The Emmys ceremony will take place on Sept. 14 at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. It will be broadcast on CBS and streamed on Paramount+.Here is the full list of nominees.Best Drama“Andor” (Disney+)Read our critic’s notebook“The Diplomat” (Netflix)Read our reviewWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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    ‘The Pitt’ Receives 13 Emmy Nominations, Including Noah Wyle’s First Nod Since ‘ER’

    The breakout medical hit received nods for outstanding drama series, lead actor, supporting actress, writing and directing for its first season.“The Pitt,” the realistic emergency medicine drama that debuted this year and became a breakout hit for HBO Max, received 13 nominations for the Primetime Emmy Awards, including for best drama, best lead actor for a drama (Noah Wyle) and best supporting actress for a drama (Katherine LaNasa). The series also received two nominations each in the writing and directing categories.The show’s creator, R. Scott Gemmill, and the executive producer John Wells were nominated for writing and directing the series’s first episode.It was a strong overall showing from HBO Max, which led all networks with 142 nominations. Several of its series received nominations in the double digits, including “The Penguin,” “The White Lotus,” “The Last of Us” and “Hacks.”When it premiered in January, “The Pitt” earned praise from critics, especially for Wyle’s performance as the emotionally scarred but empathic head of a modern emergency room in Pittsburgh. In an unusual development for a scripted hospital drama, some of the show’s most passionate champions were real-life emergency room workers, who praised its verisimilitude on social media.In an interview with The New York Times, Gemmill said that the writers had set out to create the most accurate medical show possible, employing practicing physicians at nearly ever level of the production.“We wanted to differentiate by not cutting corners on the medicine,” Gemmill said. “The drama is always going to be there in the reality of a place like the emergency department.”Season 2 of “The Pitt” is currently in production and is scheduled to premiere next year.Wyle, Gemmill and Wells have previous nominations for another hit medical drama: “ER.” Wyle received five nominations for his performance as Dr. John Carter on the show, in which he appeared from 1994 to 2009, with no wins. Gemmill, a writer and producer of “ER,” received two, and Wells, who worked as a writer, director and executive producer of “ER,” received 11. (The estate of Michael Crichton, the novelist and screenwriter who created “ER,” has sued Warner Bros., Gemmill, Wells and Wyle for breach of contract.)The 77th Primetime Emmy Awards will be held on Sept. 14 in Los Angeles. CBS will broadcast the ceremony. More

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    ‘The Studio’ Ties Emmys Record for Most Comedy Nominations in a Season

    Past winners like “Hacks” and “The Bear” lost some ground this year, making Apple TV+’s Hollywood satire starring Seth Rogen the one to beat.Season 1 of Apple TV+’s star-studded Hollywood satire “The Studio,” starring Seth Rogen as the beleaguered head of a fictional movie studio, became the comedy to beat on Tuesday for the 77th Emmy Awards, receiving 23 nominations.The nominations tie it with Season 2 of “The Bear” for the most-nominated season of a comedy series ever heading into the final voting round, which begins on Aug. 18. The award ceremony is scheduled for Sept. 14.Created by Rogen with his longtime creative partner, Evan Goldberg (along with Peter Huyck, Alex Gregory and Frida Perez), “The Studio” seemed, in many ways, perfectly engineered to succeed. For a comedy, it is exceptionally ambitious and well made — beautifully shot and elaborately choreographed, with most scenes filmed as extended single takes, or “oners” in the insider parlance of the show.The show is also, as befits a series from the comedians behind “Superbad,” “Pineapple Express” and “Sausage Party,” very funny, taking aim at the pettiness of executive strivers, the boundless self-regard of celebrities and the industry threats posed by Big Tech and Wall Street. Rogen’s character must fight to preserve his artistic integrity amid the often humiliating demands of his corporate overlords.“It knows its business well enough to be blisteringly entertaining,” The New York Times’s chief TV critic, James Poniewozik, wrote in his review of the series in March, adding: “When ‘The Studio’ is funny, it is funnier than most anything on TV now.”We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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    ‘Severance’ and ‘The White Lotus’ Dominate the Emmy Acting Nominations

    The buzzy series are the early favorites in the drama category.TV buzz doesn’t always translate into Emmy nominations. But it did this year for “Severance” and “The White Lotus,” which have amassed rabid fandoms that gather online and in real life to dissect and celebrate the dramas.The second season of “Severance,” the mind-bending sci-fi workplace thriller on Apple TV+, earned 27 nominations on Tuesday morning, the most of any show this year. Nine of those went to its cast, including Adam Scott and Britt Lower for best lead actor and actress in a drama.Supporting nods went to Patricia Arquette, Zach Cherry, Tramell Tillman and John Turturro. Guest acting nominations went to Jane Alexander, Gwendoline Christie and Merritt Wever.Season 3 of “The White Lotus,” the darkly comic HBO drama that skewers self-absorbed luxury travelers, earned 23 nominations, including eight for its cast, which is mostly refreshed with each new season. This year, Carrie Coon, Walton Goggins, Jason Isaacs, Parker Posey, Sam Rockwell, Natasha Rothwell and Aimee Lou Wood received supporting acting nominations. Scott Glenn was nominated for best guest actor in a drama.“Severance” and “The White Lotus” were both nominated for best drama. The other contenders are: “Andor,” “The Diplomat,” “The Last of Us,” “Paradise,” “The Pitt” and “Slow Horses.”Originally considered a limited series, “The White Lotus” cleaned up in that category at the 2022 Emmys, winning 10 awards, more than any other show, including best limited series. The show moved to the drama category for its second season.“Severance” and “The White Lotus” were not eligible for Emmys in 2024, and in previous years, they were mostly thwarted in the drama category by the former juggernaut “Succession.” With that series over and last year’s record-breaking drama “Shogun” out of contention this time around, there’s a good chance “Severance” and “The White Lotus” will be duking it out for the night’s biggest haul.The 77th Primetime Emmy Awards will be held on Sept. 14 in Los Angeles. CBS will broadcast the ceremony. More

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    2025 Emmy Award Nominations: First Nominees Are Announced

    The nominees for best talk show and reality series were named, with the slates for the other categories set to be announced later this morning at the Television Academy’s Los Angeles headquarters.The Television Academy began unveiling nominations for the 77th Emmy Awards on Tuesday morning, announcing the contenders for best talk show and reality series. The academy will announce the other categories starting at 11:30 a.m. Eastern.Shows hosted by Jon Stewart (“The Daily Show”), Stephen Colbert (“The Late Show”) and Jimmy Kimmel (“Jimmy Kimmel Live”) will compete for best talk series. Only three series were nominated this year, leaving “Late Night With Seth Meyers” and “Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney” out in the cold.Late-night TV talk series are struggling these days, with ratings, advertising revenue and even the number of shows dropping fast. In 2019, there were as many as six nominees for best talk show, but that’s back when there were many more series up for eligibility.For best competition reality series, “The Traitors,” the Alan Cumming-hosted reality show on Peacock, was nominated once again. The show, which won last year, will face off against “RuPaul’s Drag Race” as well as “Survivor,” “Top Chef” and “The Amazing Race.”Some of the scripted shows considered strong contenders for the biggest categories — like best drama, comedy and limited series, to be announced later — include “Severance,” “The Pitt,” “Adolescence” and “The Studio.”TV series eligible for Emmy consideration had to premiere between June 2024 and May 2025. The prime-time Emmys ceremony will be held on Sept. 14.The nominations are being announced at a moment when the entertainment industry is still locked in a contraction. Media companies are investing much less into new programming than they did during the so-called Peak TV era of a few years ago. The industry is also still recovering from a pair of strikes that effectively shut down the American entertainment world for much of 2023.The number of programs that TV studios submitted for Emmy consideration in the best drama, comedy, limited series and TV movie categories declined modestly from last year — at 267 series overall, compared with 271. But that also represents a 33 percent decline from the number of shows submitted in 2022, when the Peak TV era was thriving.Drama submissions showed signs of life during the latest eligibility period, increasing 17 percent compared with the period a year earlier. The number of comedies fell by 5 percent, and limited series submissions fell off a cliff, declining by a third.Nearly 100 Emmys, many of them in technical categories, will be given out at a pair of ceremonies in early September. The biggest awards — including best drama, comedy and limited series, and all of the major acting categories — will be unveiled during the live prime-time ceremony on CBS in September. The ceremony will be hosted by the comedian Nate Bargatze.This is a developing story. Check back for updates and the list of nominees. More

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    Theater to Stream: Morgan Freeman in ‘Gospel at Colonus’ and More

    Can’t catch the live revival of this retelling of “Oedipus at Colonus”? Stream a version with Freeman and Robert Earl Jones, or four more stage-related shows.‘The Gospel at Colonus’Stream it on YouTube.“The Gospel of Colonus” has built a fervent following over the past four decades or so — its number “How Shall I See You Through My Tears?” even popped up in the cult-favorite movie “Camp” — so expectations are running high for the new revival at Little Island in Manhattan (through July 26). Those not in New York or who couldn’t get a ticket to Shayok Misha Chowdhury’s new staging can check out a production from the American Music Theater Festival in Philadelphia, from 1985, that’s streaming on YouTube. This superlative take on Lee Breuer and Bob Telson’s gospel retelling of Sophocles’ tragedy of Oedipus boasts a powerhouse cast, including Morgan Freeman, Jevetta Steele and Robert Earl Jones (James’s father), who went on to Broadway with the show three years later. The score, which features some of the funkiest, most rousing numbers ever heard in a musical, surges to vivid life. Tip: Blast this at full volume.‘Frozen: The Hit Broadway Musical’Stream it on Disney+.The stage version of the animated megahit movie “Frozen” played just two years on Broadway (a short spell by Disney standards), but this newly available capture of the West End production may well kick-start renewed interest in the United States. For the stage version, Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez expanded their score with a dozen new songs — my favorite is the catchy duet “What Do You Know About Love?” between Anna (Laura Dawkes) and Kristoff (Jammy Kasongo). The movie and the show share a bone structure, but they are different animals, with the show able to spend more time on the complicated bond between the sisters, Anna and Elsa (an excellent Samantha Barks). Michael Grandage’s staging captures the story’s supernatural side well, and, let’s face it: We’re all going to watch Elsa’s eye-popping costume change during “Let It Go” a million times, wondering how they pulled it off.Krista Apple in “A Summer Day” by Jon Fosse.Johanna Austin, AustinArt.org‘A Summer Day’Stream it from the Wilma Theater.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More