While the team behind Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland's Rick and Morty celebrate its second Emmys win in as many years for Outstanding Animated Program (and keeps the wheels turning on the fifth and sixth seasons), there's the matter of merchandising the fourth season To celebrate the home release of the most recent season on[...]
Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland's Rick and Morty has had an interesting Emmys run this year, Obviously, the biggest news is that the Adult Swim series made it two years in a row when it comes to winning the award for Outstanding Animated Program Then came the animated duo's guest appearance during the Emmy Awards[...]
Speaking with Variety after the show's Emmys haul, Lindelof once again threw cold water on his direct involvement but was also willing to invoke a sacred pop culture deity/ex-magical chocolate factory owner to make his point about the "pseudo-sequel remix's" possible future.[caption id="attachment_1219225" align="aligncenter" width="600"] WATCHMEN (HBO) - 2019 Peabody Awards Acceptance[/caption]"This was the story[...]
Eleven Emmy Award wins isn't too bad of a way for Damon Lindelof's pseudo-sequel "remix" of the comic book classic Watchmen to wrap its "life cycle" as a series (even if there are additional seasons). The HBO series would earn the honor of being the first comic-book adaptation to walk away with the kind of […]
HBO's Last Week Tonight continues its dominance winning Outstanding Talk Series at the 72nd Emmy Awards. Hardly a loss for words, host John Oliver recorded his acceptance speech dressing comfortably and reflecting the work that went into continuing the show under difficult circumstances during the pandemic. "Thank you so much to the Academy for sending […]
The last time we checked in on George R.R. Martin and Ryan Condal's House of the Dragon, unconfirmed reports surfaced that casting was underway for the Game of Thrones prequel series (and as well as a possible future storyline detail, but more on that in a moment). Well, there's nothing better than a whole bunch of […]
Of the 26 total nominations received, Watchmen would walk away with 11 Emmys in total by the time the dust settled on the virtual ceremony The win-tally included Outstanding Limited Series, Regina King for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or[...]
Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland's Rick and Morty had its moment in the sun Friday night, making it two years in a row that the Adult Swim series walked away with Emmy award for Outstanding Animated Program at the virtual Creative Arts Emmys 2020 awards ceremony Directed by Jacob Hair and written by Jeff Loveness[...]
On Friday night, Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland's Rick and Morty made it two years in a row, scoring another win for Outstanding Animated Program at the virtual Creative Arts Emmys 2020 awards ceremony Following up last year's score for "Pickle Rick," this year saw "The Vat of Acid Episode" walk away with the prize Directed[...]
Welcome back for another edition of BCTV Sunday Slices, on what is a very special day across the television landscape: The Emmys To no one's surprise, this year's ceremony is being done virtually- which means it will end up being something innovative and groundbreaking, or a bunch of famous people telling the same "look how[...]
Looks like that's two-for-two for Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland's Rick and Morty, scoring a win for Outstanding Animated Program at the virtual Creative Arts Emmys 2020 awards ceremony on Friday night Following up on last year's award-winning "Pickle Rick," this year saw "The Vat of Acid Episode" walk away with the gold. Directed by Jacob Hair[...]
All eligible entries are screened by a panel of professionals, with winners determined through an evaluation process that includes an open discussion of each consideration's body of work as well as a "thorough review of the merits of awarding the Emmy."[caption id="attachment_1260427" align="aligncenter" width="600"] A scene from Archer season 10 (Image: FX Networks)[/caption]Over the course[...]
While fans of Netflix's Ozark are busy working up the It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia/Charlie conspiracy board as they try to figure out where things go from here now that the dust has settled on the third season, one thing's become crystal clear: the answers will become much clearer when the series returns for its final […]
With Derek Waters and Jeremy Konner's Drunk History having secured three Emmy nominations for its sixth season work (Outstanding Variety Sketch Series, Outstanding Costumes for a Reality/Variety/Competition Series, and Outstanding Production Design for a Reality/Variety/Competition Series) and finding itself in the midst of awards voting season, Wednesday was an odd bit of timing to find […]
As series go, Disney+'s The Mandalorian has been having a pretty good run of things, and two people who fans can thank in large part for that are series creator/director Jon Favreau and executive producer/director Dave Filoni. With the series rumored to be dropping a teaser soon (ahead of a reported October premiere), the second […]
Aside from having the high honor of being our favorite reality competition host (sorry, Alton Brown), this year Nailed It! host and comedian Nicole Byer became the first Black woman to be nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Competition Program. Speaking with Variety and iHeart via their The Big […]
As we're sure you know by now, we've been tracking the growing "Emmys Burn War" between It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia co-stars (as well as wife and husband) Kaitlin Olson and Rob McElhenney over the past week or so It started when Olson celebrated her Emmy nomination for Outstanding Actress: Short Form Comedy/Drama with a backhanded[...]
While Damon Lindelof has received much of the upfront attention (and deservedly so) for the success of his "remix" pseudo-sequel to The-Writer-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, David Gibbons, and John Higgins' comic book classic Watchmen, he's never missed an opportunity to give much of the credit to his writers' room: Cord Jefferson, Stacy Osei-Kuffour, Christal Henry, Lila Byock, Carly Wray, […]
HBO's Watchmen creator Damon Lindelof, series star Regina King (Angela aka Sister Night), and the entire team behind the "remix" pseudo-sequel to The-Writer-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, David Gibbons, and John Higgins' comic book classic are having a pretty good week. The ground-breaking series not only took the title for most nominations, but saw those nods include the series overall […]
We're not looking to throw any "bad luck mojo" at Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland's Rick and Morty, but the show's been having a really good run of "goodness" lately. During the "How They Do It: 'Rick and Morty'" panel with Harmon and stars Chris Parnell, Sarah Chalke, and Spencer Grammer at Comic-Con@Home, we had some […]
