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,

“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,

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,

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.

“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,

“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,

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.

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.

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,

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.

“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?

“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,

HBO Reveals First Look at “The Last of Us,” New “Game of Thrones” Spinoff & More

HBO has dropped a new trailer that gives us our first look at some of their most eagerly awaited upcoming series, both returning and brand new. These include season three of The White Lotus, season two of The Last of Us, and the series premiere of the latest Game of Thrones spinoff, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, an adaptation from George R.

“Squid Game” Season 2 Teaser Reveals Premiere Date, Series to End With Season 3

We know when Squid Game will return to Netflix…and when it will end.

Netflix’s biggest series of all time is finally returning for season two on December 26. This is a boon time for streaming, with people still home for the holidays. Squid Game executive producer, writer, and director Hwang Dong-hyuk also revealed that the series’ third season will premiere in 2025 and will be its last.

“Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-Jae),

Twin Forces: “The Acolyte” Director Hanelle M. Culpepper on Crafting Amandla Stenberg’s Dual Roles

When she helmed the first episode of Star Trek: Picard in 2020, director Hanelle M. Culpepper made history as the first woman to launch a Star Trek series. She went on to win the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series for that project. This, along with her work on shows like Westworld, The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, Kung Fu,

“House of the Dragon” Showrunner Ryan Condal on the the Women Vying for Power in Westeros

For those who haven’t watched House of the Dragon since its debut in 2022, the show is based on George R.R. Martin’s book Fire and Blood. The story chronicles the early days of the Targaryen dynasty in the time of Aegon the Conqueror, a forefather to the much-beloved Game of Thrones heroine Daenerys. The new series has developed its own enthusiastic fandom, one that was thrilled to see the premiere of new weekly episodes as of June 16th of this year. 

The Second “Dune: Prophecy” Trailer Teases the Founding of a Secretive, Immensely Powerful Sisterhood

“You wish to serve the great houses and shape the flow of power; you first must exert power over yourself.”

This is how the second teaser for HBO’s Dune: Prophecy begins, with Emily Watson’s Valya Harkonnen explaining the power dynamics of a time 10,000 years before the events depicted in Denis Villeneuve’s Dune films before the Great Houses were influenced by the Bene Gesserit, a powerful, secretive sisterhood that factored so hugely in Frank Herbert’s original novel and Villeneuve’s films.