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Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVOne of the most exciting things about the shared Emmy nomination for visual-effects supervisor Stephan Fleet and VFX producer Shalena Oxley-Butler of Amazon Prime Video’s “The Boys” was being able to see each other in person again after a year of working remotely, over video conferencing software and email, from different countries.But the tone when the 73rd annual Primetime Emmy nominees finally gather might not be completely celebratory.

EXCLUSIVE: Primetime Emmy winner Keegan-Michael Key has joined the cast of Wonka, the origin tale about Roald Dahl’s famed Willy Wonka character. His role and character details are under wraps.

EXCLUSIVE: New Line’s feature adaptation of Stephen King’s 1975 bestseller Salem’s Lot is expanding its cast with The Assistant actress Makenzie Leigh, Primetime Emmy nominee Bill Camp and Spencer Treat Clark who’ll star opposite of previously announced Lewis Pullman.

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EXCLUSIVE: Kevin Bacon, Simon Helberg and Carrie Preston are joining Primetime Emmy winner Kyra Sedgwick’s second feature directorial Space Oddity from the 2016 Black List script.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVYou better “believe”! “Ted Lasso” continues to pull in numerous awards nominations.Just days after the Television Academy announced the 73rd annual Primetime Emmy Award nominees, where the Apple TV Plus comedy picked up 20 nods and therefore became the most-nominated freshman comedy in that organization’s history, it scooped up five TCA Awards nominations, the most for any series celebrated by the Television Critics Assn.

EXCLUSIVE: Primetime Emmy winner Kyra Sedgwick is set to direct Rebecca Banner’s 2016 Black List screenplay Space Oddity with Kyle Allen, Alexandra Shipp and Madeline Brewer starring. The pic reps Sedgwick’s second feature directorial after Story of a Girl for which she received a DGA nomination. Space Oddity is set to begin production this month in Rhode Island.

The Fast and the Furious franchise star Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges and 3x Primetime Emmy winner Beau Bridges are signed on to star opposite Queen Latifah in the Netflix movie End of the Road. 

Deadline has confirmed that Watchmen Primetime Emmy winner Yahya Abdul-Mateen II will headline Warner Bros. Emergency Contact, an action pic set in the Austin, TX underground music scene. Dwayne Johnson’s Seven Bucks and Beau Flynn’s Flynn Pictures will produce.  Hiram Garcia, and Dany Garcia of Seven Bucks are also producing.

EXCLUSIVE: Twin Peaks Primetime Emmy nominee Sherilyn Fenn has singed with BRS/Gage. Renowned for playing seductive teen Audrey Horne in the 1990 David Lynch ABC noir series.

EXCLUSIVE:  Six-time Primetime Emmy Award nominee Anna Chlumsky has signed with ICM Partners.

Warning: This article contains spoilers about Falcon and the Winter Soldier’s Episode 5 “Truth”.

EXCLUSIVE: Writers Guild Award winner and Primetime Emmy nominee Ryan O’Connell has signed with CAA for representation in all areas.

National Geographic Documentary Films on Monday announced its acquisition of Oscar-nominated director Matthew Heineman’s documentary The First Wave, a ground-level view inside a New York hospital as the city battled the initial explosion of Covid-19.

Naman Ramachandran Hakan Kousetta and Jamie Laurenson are departing U.K./Australia production outfit See-Saw Films to start their own TV production company 60Forty Films.Kousetta and Laurenson are Primetime Emmy winners for short form series “State of the Union.” At See-Saw, Laurenson was head of television, while Kousetta was COO, television.

EXCLUSIVE: Thruline Entertainment has put into development Abby Jimenez’s bestselling novel, The Happy Ever After Playlist, to be adapted as a feature by writer Marisa Coughlan and two-time Primetime Emmy winner director Gail Mancuso.

EXCLUSIVE: Three-time Primetime Emmy Award nominee Jenifer Rice-Genzuk Henry has come aboard to write an untitled basketball feature for Disney+ that Golden State Warriors’ 3-point superstar Steph Curry is in talks to produce.

EXCLUSIVE: Primetime Emmy winner and Golden Globe nominee Ben Mendelsohn has joined FilmNation’s serial killer thriller Misanthrope, the Shailene Woodley serial killer thriller we first told you about during Cannes 2019.

Naman Ramachandran AMC Networks’ streamer Sundance Now has acquired exclusive U.S.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorTwo time Primetime Emmy nominee and SAG Ensemble winner Millie Bobby Brown is reteaming with Netflix on the fantasy film Damsel, following the success of her recent fall hit Enola Holmes with the streamer.Brown will star and executive produce Damsel, which is set to be directed by 28 Weeks Later and Oscar nominated Spanish filmmaker Juan Carlos Fresnadillo off a screenplay by Dan Mazeau (the $302M WW grossing feature Wrath of the Titans

In an unprecedented year for the television industry, due to the still-ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we definitely are expecting a unique telecast for the 2020 Primetime Emmy Awards. This year’s show is hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, returning for his third time, which may very well be the only recognizable part of the evening’s festivities as the event goes digital.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVThe 72nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards winners may be celebrating alone in their own homes during the live but virtual broadcast on Sunday, but some of them won’t have to socially distance from their awards!Trophy presenters “may be visiting some of the winners live,” ABC, which will air the event, announced Friday.

Also Read: 2020 Primetime Emmy Award Winners, by Show and NetworkSee the list of Thursday’s winners below and see the reality and nonfiction winners from Monday night here, the variety winners from Tuesday night here and Wednesday’s winners here.Outstanding Derivative Interactive Program“Big Mouth Guide To Life” (Netflix) Social Life | Part of Jellyfish Group NetflixOutstanding Original Interactive Program“The Messy Truth VR Experience” (Oculus) Magic Labs Media, EAB, RYOT Brie Larson, Producer

Also Read: 2020's Primetime Emmy Award Winners, by Show and Network“[The nominees] are really going to be our partners in this process,” Hudlin said, noting that the show will more or less be at the mercy of 130 different internet connections around the world.“It’s sort of like trying to watch 130 sports matches at the same time. You have so many things coming in and so many things that can stop coming in,” said Stewart.

Also Read: 2020's Primetime Emmy Award Winners, by Show and NetworkSee all of Tuesday’s variety winners below the reality and nonfiction winners from Monday night here.Outstanding Short Form Variety Series“Carpool Karaoke: The Series” (Apple TV) CBS Television Studios, Fulwell 73 Ben Winston, Executive Producer James Corden, Executive Producer David Young, Co-Executive Producer Sheila Rogers, Supervising Producer Diana Miller, Producer Blake Webster, ProducerOutstanding Variety Sketch Series“Sat

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Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorDozens of 2020 Primetime Emmy nominees are celebrating their first-ever nods. They include Cate Blanchett for her work in Mrs.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeOf all the major Primetime Emmy categories, the competition program field has been the most in need of a shakeup. This is a not-so-amazing race that rarely changes — although this year, ironically, “The Amazing Race” won’t be a part of it.For the first time since the category launched in 2003, “The Amazing Race” — which won the competition series Emmy 10 times — won’t be among the nominees, as it didn’t air during the eligibility period.