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      Jean Smart Wins a Third Emmy for ‘Hacks’

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      Jean Smart has just won a third Emmy for her starring turn in the Max series “Hacks,” the gleefully sardonic half-hour sitcom set in the rarefied, ruthless world of stand-up comedy.It is her sixth Emmy overall.“It’s very humbling. It really is. I appreciate this,” Smart said in a low voice, as she accepted the trophy. Then she went in for the punchline. “Because I don’t get enough attention. I’m serious.”Smart beat out a roster of actresses including Quinta Brunson, the creator and star of “Abbott Elementary,” who won the award in the previous Emmy ceremony, in January; and Ayo Edebiri of FX’s “The Bear,” who moved into the lead actress category after winning best supporting actress in January. Also nominated were Selena Gomez, for “Only Murders in the Building,” and the former “S.N.L.” co-stars Maya Rudolph, for “Loot,” and Kristen Wiig, for “Palm Royale.”As Deborah Vance, a celebrated comedian enjoying a late-career triumph, Smart, 72, is able to play smart, sexy, callous, vulnerable and very, very funny. In this latest season, she executes a mercenary plan to achieve something typically denied to women: a host gig on a major late-night show.In May, Smart told The New York Times, “I’ve always been part way to between leading lady and a character actress.” Who could doubt her leading-lady chops now? More

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      Emmy Awards Winners: Updating List

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      The list of winners for the 76th Emmy Awards.[Follow live updates of the Emmy Awards here.]The 76th Emmy Awards is now underway at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles and is being broadcast live on ABC. The father-son duo Eugene and Dan Levy, of “Schitt’s Creek” fame, are hosting.Because of the writers’ and actors’ strikes last year, this is actually the second Emmys ceremony of 2024: The first one took place in January after it was postponed from last September.“The Bear” is up for the most awards in the comedy category, with its 23 nominations alone breaking a record for a comedy (“30 Rock” previously held the record for 15 years). Because of the eligibility period, these nominations are for Season 2 of “The Bear,” not the third season, which came out this summer. For drama, “Shogun” has the most nods.New shows including “Palm Royale” and “Mr. & Mrs. Smith,” as well as the limited series “Baby Reindeer,” also have a chance to end the evening with multiple statuettes.At the Creative Arts Emmys, held last weekend, the songwriting duo Benj Pasek and Justin Paul reached EGOT status after winning in the outstanding original music and lyrics category for their song “Which of the Pickwick Triplets Did It?” from “Only Murders in the Building.”These are this year’s Emmy winners so far.Best Actor, ComedyJeremy Allen White in “The Bear.”FXWe 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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      Emmy Hosts Eugene and Daniel Levy Open Ceremony With Playful Jokes

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      Eugene and Dan Levy, the father-and-son acting duo best known for the sitcom “Schitt’s Creek,” opened the Emmy Awards on Sunday with playful digs at the changing television industry and its audience, calling the ceremony “broadcast TV’s biggest night for honoring movie stars on streaming services.”“The creators of ‘Shogun’ actually had their scripts translated into Japanese, rewritten and then translated back into English subtitles that you missed because you were also on your phone watching Sabrina Carpenter eat a hot wing,” joked Dan Levy, referring to one of one of the top contenders for best drama series.The Levys’ rapport is self-deprecating and inoffensive — a fitting mix for prime-time television.“I wouldn’t actually even call us hosts — we’re more like actors acting like hosts,” Dan Levy said.The actors drew their own accolades from the Television Academy as creators and stars of “Schitt’s Creek,” which earned them both acting Emmys. In 2020, Dan Levy became the first performer to collect four Emmys during a prime-time telecast — for writing, directing, best supporting actor and for best comedy.The hosts poked at one of the most nominated shows, “The Bear,” after some in the industry have questioned whether it qualifies a comedy.“In the true spirit of ‘The Bear,’ we will not make any jokes,” Eugene Levy said. More

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      Liza Colón-Zayas Wins Her First Emmy for ‘The Bear’

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      Liza Colón-Zayas, a celebrated Off Broadway actress who found a breakout television role as Tina in FX’s “The Bear,” has won her first Emmy.Accepting the award, a shocked Colón-Zayas said that her husband, the actor David Zayas, had told her to write a speech. “I didn’t,” she said, overawed. Tina, the sous chef of restaurant at the center of the show, is a maternal figure in the kitchen and a woman coming to know her own worth. While the show’s most recent season included an episode entirely focused on Tina (and co-starring her husband, David Zayas), this win is for her work in Season 2, in which Tina refines her culinary skills and discovers that what she has thought of as a job may actually be a calling.Colón-Zayas was a surprise winner as Hannah Einbinder of “Hacks” and Meryl Streep of “Only Murders in the Building” were favored. The other nominees were Sheryl Lee Ralph of “Abbott Elementary,” a past winner; Ralph’s “Abbott” co-star Janelle James; and the legendary comedian Carol Burnett, nominated for her turn in “Palm Royale.” Colón-Zayas celebrated these other nominees and ended in an emotional speech exhorting the audience to vote. More

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      How to Watch the Emmy Awards

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      The Emmys are on Sunday night at 8 p.m. Eastern, two hours after the red carpet festivities begin.It has been only eight months since the strike-delayed Emmys ceremony in January, and now it is time for the television industry to toast itself once again.For the first time in the 75-year history of the Emmys, there will be two awards shows in the same calendar year. Here’s how to watch on Sunday:What time does the show start?The ceremony begins at 8 p.m. Eastern (5 p.m. Pacific) and will be held at the Peacock Theater in downtown Los Angeles. Unlike the Oscars, the Emmys usually finish on schedule, in about three hours.Where can I watch?ABC is broadcasting the ceremony, making it simple to watch for anyone with access to network television. Online options are a bit trickier. There are plenty of streaming services that have ABC, including YouTube TV or Fubo, but you will need a subscription to those distributors.The Emmys will eventually stream on Hulu, but with a significant catch: The ceremony will not be available until Monday.What’s eligible?Shows that premiered from June 2023 to May 2024. This is why the second season of “The Bear,” which premiered last year, is nominated for Sunday’s event, rather than the third season, which debuted three months ago.“Shogun” (25) and “The Bear” (23) lead the list of nominees.Who’s hosting?The father-and-son duo of Dan and Eugene Levy, the creators of “Schitt’s Creek.” The Levys are familiar faces to award show viewers: “Schitt’s Creek” won big at the Emmys in September 2020, held virtually because of the pandemic, and Dan Levy became the first performer to collect four Emmys during a prime-time telecast (for writing, directing, best supporting actor and best comedy).When is the red carpet?The cable network E! will air a red carpet show that begins at 6 p.m. Eastern and will be hosted by Laverne Cox, the comedian Heather McMahan and the E! host Keltie Knight.ABC has a red carpet show of its own; it begins at 7 p.m. Eastern and will be hosted by the veteran anchor Robin Roberts and the ABC News correspondent Will Reeve. More

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      How to Watch and Stream the Emmy Awards: Time, Hosts and More

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      The Emmys are on Sunday night at 8 p.m. Eastern, two hours after the red carpet festivities begin.It has been only eight months since the strike-delayed Emmys ceremony in January, and now it is time for the television industry to toast itself once again.For the first time in the 75-year history of the Emmys, there will be two awards shows in the same calendar year. Here’s how to watch on Sunday:What time does the show start?The ceremony begins at 8 p.m. Eastern (5 p.m. Pacific) and will be held at the Peacock Theater in downtown Los Angeles. Unlike the Oscars, the Emmys usually finish on schedule, in about three hours.Where can I watch?ABC is broadcasting the ceremony, making it simple to watch for anyone with access to network television. Online options are a bit trickier. There are plenty of streaming services that have ABC, including YouTube TV or Fubo, but you will need a subscription to those distributors.The Emmys will eventually stream on Hulu, but with a significant catch: The ceremony will not be available until Monday.What’s eligible?Shows that premiered from June 2023 to May 2024. This is why the second season of “The Bear,” which premiered last year, is nominated for Sunday’s event, rather than the third season, which debuted three months ago.“Shogun” (25) and “The Bear” (23) lead the list of nominees.Who’s hosting?The father-and-son duo of Dan and Eugene Levy, the creators of “Schitt’s Creek.” The Levys are familiar faces to award show viewers: “Schitt’s Creek” won big at the Emmys in September 2020, held virtually because of the pandemic, and Dan Levy became the first performer to collect four Emmys during a prime-time telecast (for writing, directing, best supporting actor and best comedy).When is the red carpet?The cable network E! will air a red carpet show that begins at 6 p.m. Eastern and will be hosted by Laverne Cox, the comedian Heather McMahan and the E! host Keltie Knight.ABC has a red carpet show of its own; it begins at 7 p.m. Eastern and will be hosted by the veteran anchor Robin Roberts and the ABC News correspondent Will Reeve. More

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      How a TV Critic Navigates an Age of Endless Content

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      James Poniewozik, The New York Times’s chief television critic, discusses the state of modern television and the struggle to watch it all.Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together.James Poniewozik has a tough job: He gets paid to watch TV.“There’s a lot to keep up with,” Mr. Poniewozik, 56, the chief television critic for The New York Times, said in an interview. “But much of the time it is really interesting.”For nearly three decades, he has written about dramas, comedies, presidential debates, court hearings, interactive art installations and anything else that plays out on the small screen. Mr. Poniewozik began writing about television as a media columnist for Salon and later became the TV and media critic for Time magazine. He joined The Times in 2015, focusing his coverage on the intersection of TV, culture and society at large.Ahead of TV’s biggest night — the Emmy Awards — on Sunday, Mr. Poniewozik shared the TV trends he’s watching and how he decides what shows to cover in the seemingly infinite modern TV landscape. These are edited excerpts.Fourteen percent of American adults say they get their news from TikTok, up from 3 percent in 2020. Is TV still a force to be reckoned with?TikTok has certainly become more influential. But I was struck while covering the presidential debate between Biden and Trump that it was possibly the most politically consequential TV broadcast ever: Because of one or two hours of TV, a candidate for president changed. All of the reasons Biden dropped out were present before the debate, but once you had tens of millions of people focused on one performance at one time, it became an unstoppable force.How do you weigh how many people will watch a show against its quality when deciding what to review or cover?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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      Was James Earl Jones an EGOT Winner? It’s Complicated.

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      The actor won just about every award he could — but his Oscar was an honorary one. Is that enough for an EGOT?When James Earl Jones died on Monday, some headlines called the prolific actor — known for his deep, mellifluous voice — an EGOT winner. But whether he’s really in the elite club isn’t so clear.Jones performed in scores of plays, some 120 movies and on nearly 90 television shows. And he was rewarded with Emmys, Tonys, a Grammy, an Obie (for Off Broadway productions), a National Medal of Arts, Kennedy Center honors and an honorary Academy Award.James Earl Jones with the Tony Award he won in 1969 for Best Dramatic Actor in “The Great White Hope,” with Lauren Bacall, who presented it to him.Bettmann Archive, via Getty ImagesBut the honorary Oscar might not be enough for the exclusive EGOT club — the playful acronym for winning an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony. There has long been a debate over whether honorary or noncompetitive awards count toward EGOT status.Back in 2011, Jones won the honorary Oscar, a lifetime achievement award that comes with the famous Oscar trophy and has been given to the likes of Mel Brooks, Sophia Loren, Spike Lee and other Hollywood luminaries. Not enough, The Los Angeles Times proclaimed.“While Jones already has an Emmy, a Grammy and a Tony, to complete the EGOT cycle, winners have to actually win each award, and honorary awards do not count,” according to the newspaper.James Earl Jones holds up the two Emmy Awards he won in 1991.ReutersAccording to Billboard, “most EGOT experts don’t count noncompetitive awards” because “the whole point is to have won the awards in competition.”The New York Times has noted in its reporting on EGOT recipients that “there are hazy areas of eligibility, such as lifetime achievement awards.”Only 21 people have won a competitive EGOT. The list includes Rita Moreno, Audrey Hepburn, Mel Brooks, Whoopi Goldberg, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Viola Davis and Elton John.Even if an honorary win doesn’t quite count, Jones still finds himself in good company. Other honorary EGOT winners include Barbra Streisand, Harry Belafonte, Quincy Jones and Liza Minnelli. More