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Ann Dowd, the Emmy-winning actress who plays Aunt Lydia on The Handmaid’s Tale, is opening up about the time a fan was so scared by seeing her in person that she ran away.

Ann Dowd isn’t really as scary as the characters she plays.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeThe Denver-based TV festival SeriesFest is once again going virtual this year, unveiling a lineup of events that include the world premiere of Peacock’s docuseries “Epstein’s Shadow: Ghislaine Maxwell,” as well as conversations with guests including actors Jennifer Garner and Mark Duplass, and YouTube chief business officer Robert Kyncl, and panels dissecting “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah” and much more.The seventh year of the event, dubbed

Bleecker Street has acquired U.S. rights to Fran Kranz’ Mass, which made its world premiere at Sundance back in January. A fourth quarter theatrical release is currently planned.

Season 4 (new episodes premiere every Wednesday), series protagonist June (Elisabeth Moss) fights back against the powers that be, having sent a plane full of children to safety in Canada, where Emily (Alexis Bledel) is trying to help them. Aunt Lydia, who oversees the handmaids, is as tyrannical as ever — but she’s in hot water over June’s rebellion. In Episode 3, there’s a harrowing sequence in which June is tortured in Lydia’s presence.

Even for a show as harrowing as Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” the fourth season of the series, based on Margaret Atwood‘s famous dystopian novel and cautionary tale, is surprisingly bleak. Granted, a show dealing with an apocalyptically totalitarian society, known as Gilead, that subjects women, known as “Handmaids,” to child-bearing slavery and servitude, isn’t much of a joyride.

fictional dystopia.“It did change it practically because of Covid; we were unable to move people around the way we normally do, and so we were producing the show in a different way,” he said. “But mostly this was the story we were going to tell.

The Handmaid’s Tale has a brand new trailer, less than one month from the season four premiere on Hulu!

Hollywood’s favorite thing to do — but instead suggests what the healing process might look like after living through a nightmare.The first remark to really shake us up comes as the couples are sharing old photos, which their therapists have suggested. Gail hands one to Linda and says, “That’s the last Christmas.” Silence.Later on, while talking about the unfathomable challenge of being the parents of a loathed murderer, Linda painfully confides, “The world mourned 10.

It has been announced that the dystopian smash-hit The Handmaid’s Tale will be returning for a fifth season.

The Handmaid’s Tale has been renewed for season five at Hulu.The news was confirmed at the Disney Investor Day Presentation yesterday (December 10), and will follow season four which is set to air in 2021.The Handmaid’s Tale is based on Margaret Atwood’s novel of the same name, and stars Elisabeth Moss as the main character June.The series also stars Joseph Fiennes, Yvonne Strahovski, Alexis Bledel, Madeleine Brewer, Ann Dowd and Max Minghella.Earlier this year, Moss reflected on the possibility

Hulu has renewed its flagship drama series The Handmaid’s Tale for a fifth season. The announcement was made Thursday by Dana Walden, Chairman of Entertainment, Walt Disney Television, during the Disney Investor Day.

Janet W. Lee In today’s TV news roundup, Showtime unveiled a trailer for the 11th and final season of “Shameless,” and HBO Max announced the guest stars of the fourth season of “Search Party.”HBO Max announced Susan Sarandon, Busy Philipps, Ann Dowd and Griffin Dunne are set to guest star on the fourth season of “Search Party,” which will launch on the streamer in January 2021.

HBO Max has revealed first look images and a new slate of guest stars set to appear in Search Party season four.

The President is Missing, the upcoming Showtime show from Bill Clinton and James Patterson‘s book by the same title, is officially not moving forward.

Bill Clinton and James Patterson’s “The President Is Missing” will not be making it to the small screen, at least not at Showtime.The premium cabler has decided not to move forward with its buzzy pilot which starred David Oyelowo and was based on the book of the same name by Clinton and Patterson, Variety has learned exclusively from Oyelowo’s co-star Ann Dowd.Speaking at a junket for the new Netflix film “Rebecca,” Dowd revealed that a combination of COVID-19 and current political events were

The Handmaid's Tale star Ann Dowd has offered a hint at what's next for her character Aunt Lydia, following the events of season 3.In the third season finale, June (Elisabeth Moss) helped the children to safety in Canada while managing to evade Lydia.Speaking to Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby on This Morning today (June 29), Dowd suggested that Lydia may have to face the consequences in season 4."The Commanders cannot wait to place blame on anyone but themselves, and Lydia of course is

Here’s your very first look at the footage that was filmed for Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale season four, before production was shut down due to the Coronavirus.

Matt Grobar Assistant Editor, AwardslineTonight on YouTube, The Leftovers stars Justin Theroux and Ann Dowd reunited for a panel on the HBO series, as part of the “ATX TV…from the Couch” confab, reflecting on what it was that made the project so special to them.Initially, in the conversation, the pair of acclaimed actors reflected vaguely on the way in which the series resonates with the world we’re living in today.

By Peter White