How “The Penguin” Production Designer Kalina Ivanov Helped Bring Gotham Back to New York City

Production designer Kalina Ivanov was destined to be part of the HBO spin-off series The Penguin from creator Lauren LeFranc, which stars Colin Farrell as the title character, Oz Cobb, reprising his role from Matt Reeves’ The Batman and remaining, once again, utterly unrecognizable.

“The very first movie I saw in the theater after Covid stopped being Covid was The Batman,

“Shōgun” Shows Up Big at Emmys, “The Bear” Gobbles Up 11

The last Emmys were a mere eight months ago due to scheduling delays in 2023, but last night’s gathering of TV’s biggest and brightest stars featured many of the same smiling faces and a new cadre of talented folks getting their turn to hoist up the gold.

Some of those new faces belonged to the Shōgun team, which nabbed outstanding drama, lead actor for star and producer Hiroyuki Sanada,

Eye on the Emmys: “3 Body Problem” Cinematographer Martin Ahlgren on Lensing Series’ Wildest Set Piece

*Ahead of the 2024 Emmy Awards on September 15, we’re looking back at our interviews with some of this year’s nominees. Martin Ahlgren is nominated for Outstanding Cinematograph for a One Hour Series for episode 5, “Judgement Day.”

The scope of 3 Body Problem is planetary. Adapted by Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, alongside Alexander Woo, Netflix’s ambitious sci-fi series presents a grand depiction of a war between humanity and aliens.

Picking Apart the Pickwick Triplets With “Only Murders in the Building” Emmy-Nom’d Editors Shelly Westerman and Payton Koch

Only Murders in the Building editors Shelly Westerman, ACE and Payton Koch were nominated for Emmys this year for Outstanding Picture Editing For A Single-Camera Comedy Series for the eighth episode of season three, “Sitzprobe,” with pressure mounting on the show-within-the-show on a critical rehearsal day. It’s one of the funniest episodes in a very, very funny series, with Steven Martin in peak neuroses mode while Meryl Streep, guest starring this season as the mysterious Loretta Durkin,

“Ahsoka” Emmy-Winning Costume Designers Elissa Alcala & Devon Patterson on Carrying on a Cosmic Legacy

The late Shawna Trpcic, costume designer for Ahsoka, was posthumously awarded an Emmy this past weekend at the 76th Creative Arts Emmy Winners for Outstanding Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes, alongside her assistant costume designer Elissa Alcala and costume supervisor Devon Patterson, who won for the finale, “Part Eight: The Jedi, the Witch, and the Warlord.” It was an emotional win for Alcala and Patterson, who, like Trpcic, are Star Wars fans and highly regarded and now freshly minted Emmy winners.

Eye on the Emmys: “The Bear” Emmy-Winning Sound Team on Capturing the Chaos of the Kitchen

*After the 76th Creative Arts Emmy Winners, announced on September 8, and ahead of the 2024 Prime Time Emmy Awards on September 15, we’re looking back at our interviews with some of this year’s nominees. Costume

The Bear’s Re-recording mixer Steve “Major” Giammaria, ADR mixer Patrick Christensen, foley mixer Ryan Collinson, and production mixer Scott D. Smith recently won for Oustanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series (Half-Hour) for the episode “Forks.”

Eye on the Emmys: Outfitting Feudal Japan with Emmy-Winning “Shōgun” Costume Designer Carlos Rosario: Part Two

*After the 76th Creative Arts Emmy Winners, announced on September 8, and ahead of the 2024 Prime Time Emmy Awards on September 15, we’re looking back at our interviews with some of this year’s nominees. Costume designer Carlos Rosario won for Outstanding Period Costumes for a Series for Shōgun, episode 6, “Ladies of the Willow World.” He won alongside his colleagues Carole Griffin, costume supervisor, and assistant costume designers Kenichi Tanaka, Paula Plachy, and Kristen Bond. 

“Women in Blue” Cinematographer Sarasvati Herrera on Lensing Apple TV+’s Gripping New Thriller

The Apple TV+ series Women in Blue (Las Azules) is torn from the history books of Mexico during a time when the first female police officers joined the ranks. Created by Pablo Aramendi and Fernando Rovzar, the ten-episode crime thriller follows four women – María (Bárbara Mori), Gabina (Amorita Rasgado), Ángeles (Ximena Sariñana), and Valentina (Natalia Téllez) – on a psychological whodunit as they to catch a serial killer terrorizing the neighborhood. 

Eye on the Emmys: Emmy-Winning “Shōgun” Editors Aika Miyake and Maria Gonzales on Mariko’s Heroic Journey

*After the 76th Creative Arts Emmy Winners were announced on September 8 and ahead of the 2024 Prime Time Emmy Awards on September 15, we’re looking back at our interviews with some of this year’s nominees. Editors Maria Gonzales and Aika Miyake won the Emmy for Outstanding Picture Editing for a Drama Series for the season finale, “A Dream of a Dream.” 

The first season of Justin Marks and Rachel Kondo’s masterful Shōgun was an expertly paced slow-burn drama that plunged viewers into 17th-century Japan with a passionate obsession with the rigors and wonders of the period and location.

Eye on the Emmys: Outfitting Feudal Japan with Emmy-Winning “Shōgun” Costume Designer Carlos Rosario: Part One

*After the 76th Creative Arts Emmy Winners, announced on September 8, and ahead of the 2024 Prime Time Emmy Awards on September 15, we’re looking back at our interviews with some of this year’s nominees. Costume designer Carlos Rosario won for Outstanding Period Costumes for a Series for Shōgun, episode 6, “Ladies of the Willow World.” He won alongside his colleagues Carole Griffin, costume supervisor, and assistant costume designers Kenichi Tanaka, Paula Plachy, and Kristen Bond.

Eye on the Emmys: “True Detective: Night Country” Writer/Director Issa López Delivers a Chilling New Season

*Ahead of the 2024 Emmy Awards on September 15, we’re looking back at our interviews with some of this year’s nominees. Issa Lopez notched three nominations this year—for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series, Outstanding Directing, and Outstanding Writing (for episode 6.) 

Issa López loves to challenge herself. The writer/director, best known for the mystical 2017 feature Tigers Are Not Afraid, believes your comfort zone is the last place to find stories worth telling.

Eye on the Emmys: “Abbott Elementary” Hair & Makeup Maestros Moira Frazier and Constance Foe

*Ahead of the 2024 Emmy Awards on September 15, we’re looking back at our interviews with some of this year’s nominees. Hair Department Head Moira Frazier is nominated for Outstanding Contemporary Hairstyling for season 3’s 12th episode, “Mother Day.” This story was originally published on June 10, 2024.

As school is starting again for millions of kids across the country, let us spare a moment to reflect on the fire looks our teachers were serving last year—or in this case,

“The Perfect Couple” Cinematographer Shane Hurlbut on Framing Netflix’s Sun-Soaked Nantucket Noir

“It was one of the most stress-free jobs I’d ever done,” cinematographer Shane Hurlbut tells The Credits during a video call about the Netflix murder mystery The Perfect Couple. Based on a book of the same name by Elin Hilderbrand, the mini-series is created by Jenna Lamia and stars Nicole Kidman and Liv Schreiber as husband and wife living in a breathtaking beachfront property on the tiny island of Nantucket.

A New “The Penguin” Teaser Reveals Gotham’s Mean Streets

In a moody new teaser for HBO Max’s The Penguin, we’re taken back to the gritty, grimy streets of Gotham as envisioned by Matt Reeves in his excellent 2022 film The Batman, which introduced Robert Pattinson as the new Caped Crusader and which included a standout performance from Colin Farrell as Oswald Cobblepot, the rotund gangster better known as the Penguin.

The teaser makes it clear that The Penguin exists in a dark,

New “Agatha All Along” Teaser Connects Marvel’s Latest Disney+ Series to “WandaVision,” its First

With Agatha All Along, Marvel Studios’ latest Disney+ series is directly connected to its very first—the stunning period piece WandaVision, which tracked Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen)’s witchy work in resurrecting her lost love, Vision (Paul Bettany) by mesmerizing an entire town in New Jersey. Wanda’s sweet, bubbly neighbor Agatha (Kathryn Hahn) seemed another piece in Wanda’s dimensional chess match, easily moved and manipulated. Yet for fans of WandaVision,

“Terminator Zero” Sneak Peek Unveils High Stakes Action on the Highway

Netflix has released a nearly two-minute sneak peek at a scene from its upcoming animated series Terminator Zero, an eight-episode expansion to the iconic sci-fi franchise.

The sneak peek is a highway standoff in which a soldier sent back from the future to protect scientist Malcolm Lee (voiced by André Holland) rams her truck into what appears to be a worker on the bridge, smashing him and the car behind him over the railing.

A Symphony of Success: Emmy Nominees Talk VFX, Composing, and Editing

We had the pleasure of hosting two panels this year—check out our first panel here— ahead of the 2024 Emmy Awards, which will be held live on ABC on Sunday, September 15, from 8-11 ET. For our second panel, our Emmy nominees came from a wide-ranging group of shows—Lessons in Chemistry‘s ace director Millicent Shelton, nominated for directing episode 6, “Poirot,” Shōgun‘

The Rewards of the Craft: Emmy Nominees on the Joys & Challenges of Television

We had the pleasure of hosting two panels this year—check out our second panel here— ahead of the 2024 Emmy Awards, which will be held live on ABC on Sunday, September 15, from 8-11 ET. Like last year, we sat down with some nominees from some great, disparate, challenging shows. In our first panel, Planet Earth III composers Jacob Shea and Sara Barone (nominated for episode 6,

“Emily in Paris” Star Ashley Park on ‘brat summer’, Her Singing Chops, and Season 4’s Stakes

As the first five episodes of season four of the hit series Emily in Paris dropped on Netflix on August 15, fans were eager to delve back into the world of Emily (Lily Collins) and Mindy (Ashley Park) as they navigate messy relationships, major career changes, and general adulthood woes, in Paris. 

At the conclusion of season three, Mindy was dating her former high school crush (and real-life boyfriend) Nicolas (Paul Forman) and also found out she had been accepted to the Eurovision competition with her former boyfriend,

“The Daily Show’s” Emmy-Nominated Director David Paul Meyer on Jon Stewart’s Return

Last year’s Emmy winner for Best Talk Series, The Daily Show’s director David Paul Meyer snagged four nods this year, including directing the much-heralded episode, “Jon Stewart Returns to The Daily Show,” when Stewart returned to the show this February to cover this especially tumultuous Presidential election season. Starting his stint at the beginning of Trevor Noah’s reign as host in 2015, Meyer’s relationship with him goes back to 2008,