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Antonia Blyth Deputy Editor, AwardsLineSPOILER ALERT: This story includes details about “Honestly”, Season 5, Episode 4 of NBC’s This Is Us.Tuesday night’s episode “Honestly” may have been your last dose of This Is Us until the new year, but it certainly served up enough Pearson family revelations to keep us going during the break.Amid the backdrop of a young Jack (Milo Ventimiglia) and Rebecca (Mandy Moore)’s clashing parenting styles (she: lead with love and understanding; he: win, never quit and don’t coddle), we learned more about the evolution of Kevin (Justin Hartley)’s issues, which loomed larger than ever in the present day as he battled criticism at work. Meanwhile, adult Randall (Sterling K.

Antonia Blyth Deputy Editor, AwardsLineSPOILER ALERT: The following contains spoilers for the HBO Max series The Murders at White House Farm.In August of 1985, the British nation was glued to the gruesome story of the Bamber family murders. For weeks that summer, the papers ranted about Sheila, the crazed, immoral 28-year-old daughter who had, they said, shot dead her own twin six-year-old sons and her wealthy parents as they slept in their Essex farmhouse.

Antonia Blyth Deputy Editor, AwardsLineFollowing her supporting actress Emmy win for FX limited series Mrs. America, Uzo Aduba took the opportunity to pay tribute to the late great Ruth Bader Ginsburg, calling her recent passing, “absolutely devastating”.Speaking in the Emmys virtual press room on Sunday night, following her second Emmy win (her first was in 2015 for Orange is the New Black), Aduba said she wanted to thank Bader Ginsburg for all that she did.“It’s important to put into context the time in which these women are existing,” she said.

Antonia Blyth Deputy Editor, AwardsLineOn Saturday night Cherry Jones took home her third Emmy award, this time for her guest role of Nan Pierce in the “Tern Haven” episode of HBO’s Succession.Jones’ character heads up the powerful Pierce family, who own a fictional newspaper called The New York Mail. Thus far, the show centered on the rise and fall of media mogul Logan Roy (Brian Cox) and his family has received 23 nominations and five wins.

Antonia Blyth Deputy Editor, AwardsLineOn Saturday night Ron Cephas Jones took home a second Emmy for his guest turn in NBC mega-hit This is Us, and it’s been a family affair, since Jones’ daughter Jasmine Cephas Jones also won an Emmy Thursday night, for her work on Quibi’s #FreeRayshawn, making them the first ever father-daughter winners in Emmy history.Speaking in the virtual backstage press room, Ron Cephas Jones said, “As a parent that’s the most fulfilling that I could ever feel at the moment. Winning another Emmy is the icing on the cake, but to see my daughter progress and move into this place where she’s earned an Emmy is beyond words and I tear up every time I think about it to be honest with you.

Antonia Blyth Deputy Editor, AwardsLineMaya Rudolph has gone from zero to two Emmys in just three days. On Saturday night she snagged her second trophy of the week-long Creative Arts Emmys virtual ceremony—this time for her turn as Kamala Harris in Saturday Night Live, hosted by Eddie Murphy.

Antonia Blyth Deputy Editor, AwardsLineWith two films premiering at the Venice film festival, Vanessa Kirby’s star rises still higher this year. Since her Emmy-nominated, BAFTA-winning turn as Princess Margaret in Netflix’s The Crown, Kirby has continued to carve out a career that ranges from the stages of the National Theatre, the Royal Court Theatre and Off Broadway, to action blockbuster Mission: Impossible – Fallout, in which she plays The White Widow opposite Tom Cruise—a role she is about to reprise.At Venice, Kirby stars in Kornél Mundruczó’s Pieces of a Woman, opposite Shia LaBeouf.

Antonia Blyth Deputy Editor, AwardsLineWilliam Jackson Harper’s role of Chidi ultimately formed the backbone of all that is good in The Good Place, and perhaps in our real world, too. Through multiple left-field twists, Jackson Harper brought loveable humor, humanity and an inspiring moral compass to his tightly-wound ethics professor character, earning an Emmy nomination in the show’s fourth and final season, which ended in January.

Antonia Blyth Deputy Editor, AwardsLinePlaying a role in Netflix limited series Hollywood has not only been “truly, one of the happiest jobs” ever for Holland Taylor, and the source of her well-deserved eighth Emmy nomination, but she also found herself personally very moved by the series’ revisionist history. In Ryan Murphy and co-creator Ian Brennan’s version of 1940’s tinsel town, racial and gender biases are challenged and beaten, and Taylor’s studio exec Ellen Kincaid is a key agent of that change.

Antonia Blyth Deputy Editor, AwardsLineHaving recently wrapped its fourth season, NBC’s This is Us continues to engage Emmy voters with its nuanced vision of family life in contemporary America, bagging an impressive five nominations for this year’s awards.Created by Dan Fogelman, the decades-spanning series follows several generations of the Pearson family.

Antonia Blyth Deputy Editor, AwardsLineDespite many more high-profile, starry productions, one of Netflix’s most talked-about shows this year was arguably its most low-key. Inspired by Deborah Feldman’s bestselling memoir of the same name, the four-part Unorthodox tells the story of Esther “Esty” Shapiro (played by newcomer Shira Haas), a 19-year-old Hasidic Jewish woman living in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Antonia Blyth Deputy Editor, AwardsLineIn The Morning Show, Jennifer Aniston plays a kind of angel to Billy Crudup’s devil. Aniston’s Alex Levy, an utterly dedicated and focused television news anchor, holds tight to a good-person identity, so she’s floored when co-anchor Mitch Kessler (Steve Carell) is outed for sexual misconduct, and she’s forced to question her own failure to see what was hidden in plain sight.

Antonia Blyth Deputy Editor, AwardsLineWhile taping of the Friends reunion special for HBO Max has been delayed once again by the COVID-19 pandemic, Jennifer Aniston remains resolutely optimistic.Speaking to Deadline via phone after the news broke, she said, “It’s going to be super. You know what? This has also given us more time to make it even more exciting and more fun than it would have been.

Antonia Blyth Deputy Editor, AwardsLineFans of Starz’ time-traveling love story Outlander will be intrigued. According to the show’s EP, Maril Davis, “something fun and new” will happen to the characters of Brianna and Roger in the upcoming new Season 6.Speaking during a PaleyFest panel discussion, Davis did not elaborate further on the exact nature of this new storyline, but said of the new season: “Jamie and Claire, their love deepens, Roger and Brianna, they have their own journey… and Caitlin (O’Ryan) who plays Lizzie has a great story, and she’s such a great actress.”Davis’ fellow EP Matthew B.

Antonia Blyth Deputy Editor, AwardsLineWith four Emmy nominations announced on Tuesday, BBC/ Hulu limited series Normal People got its just desserts—almost. Although one of its two leads, Paul Mescal, received an acting nom, Daisy Edgar-Jones did not.

Antonia Blyth Deputy Editor, AwardsLineDead To Me creator Liz Feldman recently announced that the show’s upcoming third season will be its last. Celebrating four Emmy nominations following Tuesday’s announcement, Feldman told Deadline the idea for how the show would end came to her in a flash during production on Season 2.“I always knew from the inception of the show that I didn’t want it to be a long long-running show,” she said.

Antonia Blyth Deputy Editor, AwardsLineWhen Apple TV+ hit The Morning Show had its Season 2 production stopped by COVID-19, no one rested on their laurels. According to Emmy nominee Mark Duplass, who played beleaguered producer Chip Black, the show is in rewrites to reflect the current global situation—something they also did in Season 1 as a response to #MeToo.“We shot two episodes before we shut down due to the pandemic,” he told Deadline following the Emmy nominations announcement on Tuesday, “but I know that they’re also rewriting, which is crazy because that’s what happened in the first season.

Antonia Blyth Deputy Editor, AwardsLineBased on a Pulitzer Prize-winning article by ProPublica and the Marshall project, and an episode of the podcast This American life, limited series Unbelievable follows the true story of a group of sexual assault survivors and the two detectives (Merrit Wever and Toni Collette) who track down their attacker. Danielle Macdonald’s portrayal of key witness Amber Stevenson expertly conveys the unexpected aspects of trauma response, in that many people dissociate and are apparently fine instead of breaking down.

Antonia Blyth Deputy Editor, AwardsLineBased on a Pulitzer Prize-winning article by T. Christian Miller of ProPublica and Ken Armstrong of The Marshall Project, and an episode of the podcast This American Life, Netflix’s limited series Unbelievable follows the true story of teenager Marie Adler, played by Kaitlyn Dever, as she tries to report being raped in her home, only to find herself disbelieved, denied, and even prosecuted for lying.

Antonia Blyth Deputy Editor, AwardsLineThere’s something odd about Normal People. It is, ostensibly, a show about two teenagers who fall in love, then navigate a very typical series of bust-ups and reconciliations.

Antonia Blyth Deputy Editor, AwardsLineBefore taking the lead in Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher’s Netflix comedy, Never Have I Ever, the now 18-year-old Maitreyi Ramakrishnan had done absolutely no television work at all, or even much acting of any kind. And yet she’s taken viewers by storm with her portrayal of Devi, a confident-but-dorky, extrovert-but-cerebral teen dealing with her father’s death, a strained relationship with her mother, and a burning crush on the hottest boy in school.Ramakrishnan was rehearsing her high school theatre production of Chicago at home in Mississauga, Ontario, when she saw Kaling’s open call audition on Twitter, and decided to go for it.