Interview

Hair/Makeup

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,

By Kelle Long  |  September 9, 2024

Interview

Cinematographer

“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.

By Daron James  |  September 6, 2024
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,

By The Credits  |  September 3, 2024
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,

By The Credits  |  September 3, 2024
“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.

By The Credits  |  August 27, 2024

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Composer, Director, Special/Visual Effects

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

By Bryan Abrams  |  August 26, 2024

Interview

Composer, Editor, Producer

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,

By Bryan Abrams  |  August 26, 2024

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Actor

“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,

By Andria Moore  |  August 22, 2024
“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,

By Su Fang Tham  |  August 22, 2024

Interview

“The Bear” Emmy-Nominated Sound Team on Capturing the Chaos of the Kitchen

The first thing you might notice in Season 2 of Christopher Storer’s hit drama The Bear is how well you can hear chef-owner Carmen (Jeremy Allen White) and his team of kitchen underdogs as they set to work reopening their Chicago restaurant. Restaurant kitchens, especially those still under construction, as the Bear’s is for most of the season, are not quiet places. But no matter how prevalent the sledgehammers and steel cookware may be on screen,

By Susannah Edelbaum  |  August 21, 2024
First “Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos” Trailer Unveils the Making of a Mob Masterpiece

Bada bing—the first trailer for Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney’s two-part documentary Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos has arrived.

Gibney, the director behind previous stellar HBO docs Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief and The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, sets his sights on one of the most beloved television series of all time, a bonafide cultural phenomenon that ushered in a new era of darker,

By The Credits  |  August 20, 2024
Michaela Coel Creating Follow-up Series to “I May Destroy You” for HBO & BBC

One of the most talented creators of her generation is returning to HBO with a brand-new series.

I May Destroy You creator and star Michaela Coel has set First Day On Earth at HBO, a ten-episode drama that will follow British novelist Henri (Coel) as she struggles to shake up her life and embarks on a journey to get unstuck.

“Work has dried up, [and] her relationship is going nowhere.

By The Credits  |  August 19, 2024
“Terminator Zero” Sneak Peek Reveals Netflix’s Anime Expansion of Iconic Sci-Fi Franchise

Netflix has dropped the first trailer for its upcoming animated series Terminator Zero, and eight-episode anime series that boasts a stellar voice cast and offers an intriguing expansion to the iconic sci-fi franchise.

Terminator Zero is part of the same universe as the film series but will introduce us to new characters. Partly set in 2022 during a raging war between the few human survivors of the machine apocalypse and partly set in 1997,

By The Credits  |  August 15, 2024

Interview

Graphic Designer

“Manhunt”: A Visual Journey Through Time with Graphic Designer Gina Alessi

Manhunt graphic designer Gina Alessi had a significant assignment when she was brought on board Apple TV+’s stellar limited series about the hunt for John Wilkes Booth (Anthony Boyle) in the aftermath of Abraham Lincoln’s (Hamish Linklater) assassination—among other historical recreations, Alessi was tasked with making sure Abraham Lincoln’s deathbed at the Petersen House next to the Ford Theater, down to the pattern on the blanket, was period perfect. It was not an insignificant challenge,

By Bryan Abrams  |  August 15, 2024
Sauron’s Dark Plans Emerge in “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” Season 2 Trailer

The Dark Lord reigns supreme in the second trailer for season two of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.

Season two finds our Middle-earth heroes facing the most formidable threat imaginable. You know his name, but he’s been disguising it for years; first he was Halbrand (Charlie Vickers), now he’s an elf named Annatar, but the name that Lord of the Rings fans know and all Middle-earth fears is Sauron.

By The Credits  |  August 14, 2024
Something Witchy This Way Comes in First Trailer for Marvel’s “Agatha All Along”

Marvel has unleashed the trailer for the return of Kathryn Hahn’s Agatha Harkness in Agatha All Along.

Hahn returns as the outwardly bubbly Agatha Harkness, one of Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) and Paul Bettany (Vision)’s seemingly perfect neighbors in WandaVision, but who turns out to be the series’ big bad, the witch next door. WandaVision showrunner Jac Schaeffer leads the new series in the same role and serves as director of the pilot episode.

By The Credits  |  August 12, 2024
Michelle Pfeiffer Set to Lead “Yellowstone” Sequel Series

Three-time Oscar nominee Michelle Pfeiffer is entering the Yellowstone-verse.

The celebrated actress is set to star in the Yellowstone sequel in creator Taylor Sheridan’s growing narrative empire. Pfeiffer will lead a new series set in the present day, a continuation of Sheridan’s flagship series. It’s not the only spinoff coming—there’s also a prequel series in the works set in 1944.

Pfeiffer will lead and executive produce the sequel series,

By The Credits  |  August 8, 2024
Daemon Targaryen’s Visions at The Weirwood Tree Change Everything in “House of the Dragon” Season 2 Finale

It was arguably the most crucial—and brutally delayed—alliance forged in the narratively rich if dragon-delayed season two finale of House of the Dragon—Daemon Targaryen (Matt Smith) finally and truly bent the knee to his queen, Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D’Arcy), and delivered her the massed armies of the Riverlands. At long last, Daemon said that Rhaenyra was his brother, King Viserys’ (Paddy Considine) chosen successor, a truth he had refused to accept for years.

By The Credits  |  August 8, 2024
“Disclaimer” Teaser Reveals Alfonso Cuarón’s Star-Studded Limited Series

Apple TV+ has released the first teaser for Disclaimer, the star-studded limited series written and directed by five-time Oscar-winner Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity, Roma). Cuarón’s series is based on Renée Knight’s bestselling novel and follows the journalist Catherine Ravenscroft (another Osar-winner in Cate Blanchett), a well-respected journo whose career was made uncovering the shadowy deeds of others. What happens when Ravenscroft is sent a novel by a mysterious author who seems to have turned the journalist into the main character?

By The Credits  |  August 7, 2024
“John Wick: Chapter 4” Sequel Series in The Works From Keanu Reeves & Chad Stahelski

The John Wick universe is set to expand.

Lionsgate is developing a new John Wick series with star Keanu Reeves and director Chad Stahelski producing and Stahelski directing the pilot episode. John Wick: Under the High Table‘s script comes from The Old Man co-creator Robert Levine and will pick up where John Wick: Chapter 4 left off. 

Deadline scoops that Under the High Table will explore the assort assassins,

By The Credits  |  August 5, 2024