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If you're looking for a major shakeup at the 2025 Emmys, don't hold your breath for the comedy acting races to make waves. For the second year in a row, Hacks and The Bear are predicted to extend their streak of domination — led by Jean Smart and Jeremy Allen White, who are both undefeated for playing Deborah Vance and Carmen Berzatto, respectively.

The last time one of those two names wasn't called on Emmy night was in 2023, when Abbott Elementary's Quinta Brunson took home Best Comedy Actress during an off-season for Hacks. Last year, The Bear clawed its way to three of the four main acting prizes and swept both guest star categories (Jon Bernthal and Jamie Lee Curtis). Smart handed the FX series its only acting loss, snagging her third Emmy for Hacks over The Bear's Ayo Edebiri. Can anyone pull off an upset this year? Here's the state...

Exclusive: NBC’s Suits LA will welcome Rick Hoffman later this season, reprising the role of Louis Litt he originated in the mothership series, USA Network’s Suits. Sources close to production confirm he will appear in one episode this season with the potential to return for more if NBC picks up the Aaron Korsh-created legal drama for a second season.

Hoffman is the second actor from Suits to return to the universe following Gabriel Macht, who will appear in three episodes this season. Litt and Macht’s Harvey Spector will not coincide in any episodes, we hear.

Louis Litt is an attorney specializing in corporate finance who provides the series with comedy relief. He’s the character you love to hate because he has a tough outer core but is actually a sensitive softie on the inside. Louis is famous for using the catchphrase “You Just Got Litt Up,...

The best Jean Smart movies and TV shows feature some well-known releases along with some independent gems. After graduating from college, she began her acting career as a theater actor in the 1970s before moving to New York City and seeking bigger, better things. She then began to pick up television roles before she enjoyed her breakout in the TV series Designing Women as Charlene Frazier Stillfield.

Once she left that series, she moved on to smaller roles in made-for-tv movies before she got another big break with her casting on the TV show Frasier as Lana Gardner. Since that time, she began to take on some interesting roles in movies, but her biggest roles have been on television, where she has earned 13 Emmy nominations, winning six times for roles in Frasier, Samantha Who?, and Hacks.

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Jean Smart won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy for her role as stand-up comic Deborah Vance in Hacks. The Max show has been lauded for its writing and performances ever since it debuted in 2021 and it also won the award for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy this year.

Hannah Einbinder and Jean Smart in Hacks | Credits: Max

Smart, who is known for her roles in Frasier, Watchmen, and Babylon, reportedly auditioned for the role back when the Covid-19 restrictions were extremely strict. She mentioned that the soundstage for the audition was extremely scary, with dark plexiglass and a single lightbulb making it resemble an interrogation room.

Jean Smart talks about her scary audition process for her Golden Globe-winning role in Hacks

Actress Jean Smart has been a part of multiple acclaimed shows before. She has won several Emmys for her role in...

Exclusive: Netflix continues its push into close-ended procedurals with Pain & Suffering, an hourlong series in development from Don Todd, creator of the streamer’s 2023 limited series Florida Man.

Described as a new way into a fun episodic crime-solving show, Pain & Suffering centers on a curmudgeonly, misanthropic insurance adjuster whose job is coldly assigning monetary value to human lives, teams up with a homicide cop to look beyond the numbers and become the reluctant solver of overlooked murders.

Todd is writing the script and executive producing. Aaron Kaplan executive produces for Kapital Entertainment, which is the studio. Kevin Marco is the creative executive for Kapital. A rep for Netflix declined comment.

After building its streaming business on serialized, bingeable series, Netflix has been looking to supplement that with original broadcast-style close-ended procedurals, starting with the upcoming Pulse, its first medical procedural.

Kapital also has in the works at Netflix a spiritual...

Jean Smart has won yet another Outstanding Lead Actress Emmy for her role in the comedy-drama Hacks. It is her third consecutive win for the role of Vegas’ legendary stand-up comic Deborah Vance. Smart has also won an Emmy for her role in the ABC sitcom Samantha Who? and two Emmys for guest appearances on Frasier.

Jean Smart in a still from Hacks | Credits: HBO/Max

Smart’s only regret after winning three Emmys for Hacks is the fact that her parents couldn’t see this fun series. She shared that they had been entertained by her role as Lana Gardner in Frasier. Her father Douglas Alexander Smart passed away in 2003 while her mother Kathleen Marie (Kay) Sanders died in 2016.

Jean Smart Only Had One Regret About Her Emmy-Winning Series Hacks Jean Smart in a still from Frasier | Credits: NBC

In the third season of Hacks, Jean Smart‘s Deborah...

Jean Smart won the Emmy for lead comedy actress on Sunday, recognizing her portrayal of Deborah Vance in Season 3 of Max’s “Hacks.”

This is her third time taking home the gold for her “Hacks” role, and her sixth Emmy win overall. In 2008, she won supporting comedy actress for “Samantha Who?”, and she won guest comedy actress for “Frasier” in both 2000 and 2001.

“It’s very humbling, it really is. And I appreciate this because I just don’t get enough attention. I’m serious,” Smart said upon taking the stage to accept the trophy.

“I will never be able to thank you enough for thinking of me with this incredible role. Casey and Sara and everybody at HBO. At Max — I’m sorry. Just what we needed, another network,” she joked.

She went on to honor her agent of more than 30 years, Scott Henderson, who is retiring and “breaking my heart,...

Jean Smart has won the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, reclaiming her title from “Abbott Elementary” creator and star Quinta Brunson after “Hacks” was forced to bow out of competition at the beginning of the year due to production delays pushing back its third season.

Smart used her acceptance speech to have a laugh at the expense of her frequently-renamed employer. She began by thanking “everybody at HBO” before playfully correcting herself and saying “Max.” While “Hacks” is overseen by HBO executives, it has not been branded as an HBO series since Warner Bros.’ flagship streaming service changed its name from HBO Max to Max in 2023.

“Just what we need, another network!” Smart quipped.

This means Smart has now won an Emmy in this category for every season she’s played Vegas comic and showbiz legend Deborah Vance. She also continues to hold the record as...

Melissa McCarthy and Clive Owen are set to star in a new Paramount+ limited series surrounding the JonBenét Ramsey case.

McCarthy and Owen play JonBenét’s parents, Patsy and John Bennett Ramsey, respectively, in the limited series, which explores the tragic unsolved murder of the 6-year-old beauty queen.

Following the Ramsey family, before and after the tragedy as they go through the painful loss of a child while facing intense public scrutiny caused by a media frenzy that captivated an entire nation, the series will explore “the unbreakable partnership of these two complex people – as husband and wife, as mother and father – who had committed themselves and their children to building the narrative of a perfect, privileged life only to have it destroyed one Christmas night in 1996,” per the official logline.

The series, which is currently titled “JonBenét Ramsey,” has received a series order at the streamer and will soon begin production in Calgary,...

“Hacks” could join an exclusive Emmys club this year by winning both Best Comedy Actress and Best Comedy Supporting Actress, an accomplishment only nine shows have achieved in Emmys history.

This hit HBO Max laffer stars Jean Smart as Deborah Vance, a stand-up who tries to reinvent her act with the help of a young comedy writer — Ava Daniels, played by Hannah Einbinder.

Smart is nominated this year for Best Comedy Actress alongside Ayo Edebiri (“The Bear”), Quinta Brunson (“Abbott Elementary”), Kristin Wiig (“Palm Royale”), Maya Rudolph (“Loot”), and Selena Gomez (“Only Murders in the Building”). Meanwhile, Einbinder is nominated for Best Comedy Supporting Actress alongside Meryl Streep (“Only Murders in the Building”), LizaColón-Zayas (“The Bear”), Sheryl Lee Ralph (“Abbott Elementary”), Carol Burnett (“Palm Royale”), and Janelle James (“Abbott Elementary”).

We are predicting that Smart will win the again this year. She previously won Best Comedy Actress for “Hacks” in...

Gold Derby can exclusively reveal that Jean Smart is entering the “Hacks” episode “Yes, And” as her 2024 Emmy Award submission for Best Comedy Actress. The episode aired on May 23 and is the eighth one of the third season of the Max series.

In “Yes, And,” Deborah (Smart) and Ava (Hannah Einbinder) head to Berkeley, where the former is scheduled to receive an honorary doctorate from her alma mater. Things unravel when a supercut of Deborah’s old, problematic material goes viral, forcing a defiant Deborah to confront cancel culture, first by trying to win over the students by doing improv and partying at a frat house. After her test show and doctorate ceremony get canceled, she participates in a student town hall, during which she apologizes for her past jokes and listens. Later back home, Jimmy (Paul W. Downs) delivers the news that Deborah got the late-night show and...

As this slow broadcast network pilot season continues, ABC has ordered its second comedy pilot of the year: “Forgive and Forget,” a multi-camera comedy set to star Emmy-winning “Modern Family” alum Ty Burrell.

Burrell is also on board as an executive producer (through his Desert Whale Prods. shingle) on “Forgive and Forget,” while Eugene Garcia-Cross is writer/exec producer and Robin Shorr is on board as showrunner and exec producer. 20th Television is behind the project, which stars Burrell as Hank, a perennial “life of the party.” According to the logline, Hank gets an unexpected diagnosis, leading him to reconnect with his responsible adult son Ben.

ABC has also ordered the comedy pilot “Shifting Gears,” starring Tim Allen, for this season. That means both of the network’s comedy pilots are multi-camera sitcoms from 20th TV starring veteran ABC stars.

“Forgive and Forget” would rep Burrell’s return to the Alphabet web — where,...

Christina Applegate first graced television screens as a literal baby in an episode of Days of Our Lives. Since then, she has only gone from strength to strength as a performer and producer, earning several awards including a Primetime Emmy for her scene-stealing guest role on Friends, a Theatre World Award for her turn as the titular Sweet Charity on Broadway, a People's Choice Award for her work on Samantha Who?, and a TV Land Award for her breakout role on the classic sitcom Married...with Children. From Kelly Bundy to her most recent role of Jen Harding in the Emmy-nominated Dead to Me, Applegate has been the anchor and heart of many great TV series.

Who plays young Roderick Usher in the new Netflix series The Fall of the House of Usher? That’s Zach Gilford and we’re ready to fill you in on him!

Zach is best known for his work on shows like Friday Night Lights, Good Girls, L.A.’s Finest, and Midnight Mass. He’s also been sen in movies like The Last Stand and The Purge: Anarchy.

Over the years, Zach has kept his personal life very private, but we do know some details!

Keep reading to find out more…

Zach has been married to actress Kiele Sanchez since December 2012. Make sure to check out some gorgeous photos from their wedding.

The couple met while working on the pilot for the TV show Matadors, which did not get picked up. They later worked together again in the movie The Purge: Anarchy and the shows Kingdom and Criminal Minds: Evolution.

Kiele is...

It’s no secret that Christina Applegate is suffering these days. Her multiple sclerosis symptoms make everything difficult. As she told Vanity Fair in May, “With the disease of Ms, it’s never a good day. You just have little shitty days. People are like, ‘Well, why don’t you take more showers?’ Well, because getting in the shower is frightening. You can fall, you can slip, your legs can buckle. Especially because I have a glass shower. It’s frightening to me to get in there. There are just certain things that people take for granted in their lives that I took for granted. Going down the stairs, carrying things—you can’t do that anymore. It f-ing sucks. I can still drive my car short distances. I can bring up food to my kid. Up, never down.”

She continued, “Yeah, and gravity can just pull you down and take everything down with you.

“Poker Face” fan-favorite Natasha Lyonne received a Best Comedy Actress Emmy nomination this year alongside Quinta Brunson (“Abbott Elementary”), Rachel Brosnahan (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”), Christina Applegate (“Dead to Me”) and Jenna Ortega (“Wednesday”). As of this writing, Lyonne is in last place to win at Gold Derby, with less than 3% of our prognosticators backing her. However, the fact that she recently gained the favor of the Television Critics Association proves she should be taken much more seriously. Are we underestimating her at the 2023 Emmys?

Given Lyonne’s status as the very first regular acting Emmy nominee from any Peacock program and her show’s absence from all other major categories, her doubters initially had a leg to stand on, but that isn’t the case anymore. Her TCA Award victory for Individual Achievement in Comedy is an undeniably big deal and gives her many statistical advantages that should cause her competitors and naysayers concern.

Christina Applegate was the guest of honor at Variety TV Fest in Los Angeles on June 7. The actor accepted the TV legacy award at the event, which marked one of her few public appearances since being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (Ms) in 2021. Jean Smart, who portrayed Applegate's onscreen mother in the ABC sitcom "Samantha Who?," presented her with the accolade in front of a crowd that also included stars like Niecy Nash, Elle Fanning, and Kerry Washington. Applegate then delivered an emotional speech addressing the future of her four-decade Hollywood career.

"I miss it so much. I just don't know."

After briefly reflecting on acting alongside Smart, Applegate acknowledged how Ms will affect her ability to get in front of the camera again. Holding back tears, she said, "I hate it so much, but thank you so much for being supportive and understanding as I journey through this new part...

Christina Applegate was very intentional about who stood at the podium last November when she received her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Watching from the crowd with her husband and daughter at her side, Applegate heard remarks from her other family — “Married… With Children” co-stars Katey Sagal and David Faustino, and her “Dead to Me” support system, co-star Linda Cardellini and creator/writer Liz Feldman.

For Applegate, the foursome represents the full breadth of her 40-year career in Hollywood.

“There was no mistake as to who I asked to speak, kind of my beginning and my…,” she hesitates for the moment, editing her thoughts in real time, before she continues, “…my possible end. That was really important to me. It was about where I came from and where I landed.”

She chooses those words carefully — “possible end.” It’s an acknowledgment that her 2021 multiple sclerosis diagnosis has left...

Christina Applegate said that she set more boundaries when it came to her Ms diagnosis and work commitments than she did following her breast cancer diagnosis while starring in Samantha Who?

Speaking to Vanity Fair as part of an interview promoting Dead to Me that and published during the first Emmy-voting window, the actress opened up about the status of the animated Married… With Children project, missing her Netflix series castmates and getting support from fellow actresses like Selma Blair and Jamie-Lynn Sigler.

During the sit-down, she also spoke about the adjustments to her daily life following her diagnosis. That now includes in-home caregivers and a “purgatory” pile of items at the top of her home’s stairs, which are brought down by her non-disabled friends since Ms has affected Applegate’s balance.

While discussing the larger changes in her life and her appreciation that she no longer has to...

The 2023 Screen Actors Guild Award nominations were announced on January 11 in film and television, as voted on by members of the SAG-AFTRA Foundation. Who will prevail in the category of Best Comedy Actress during Netflix’s YouTube ceremony on Sunday, February 26? This year’s five nominees are Christina Applegate (“Dead to Me”), Rachel Brosnahan (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”), Quinta Brunson (“Abbott Elementary”), Jenna Ortega (“Wednesday”) and Jean Smart (“Hacks”).

Scroll down to see Gold Derby’s 2023 SAG Awards TV Predictions for Best Comedy Actress, listed in order of their racetrack odds. Our SAG Awards odds are based on the combined forecasts of thousands of readers, including Experts we’ve polled from major media outlets, Editors who cover awards year-round for this website, Top 24 Users who did the best predicting the winners last time, All-Star Users who had the best prediction scores over the last two years, and the mass of...

Jean Smart has won her second consecutive Emmy for lead actress in a comedy series for her role as legendary Las Vegas comic Deborah Vance in HBO Max’s Hacks.

“Thank you for a second time honoring this show,” Smart said during her on-stage acceptance speech. “I have to tell you, I’m so blown away by our writers who not only matched season 1 but surpassed it, and as we all know, season 2 of a show is kind of a litmus test. This has just been a thrill. She went on to thank our crew and ad because we were on location almost every single day this season “who went above, above, above and beyond and supporting actors who added so much to our show. She went on to thank her fellow cast members Hannah Einbender, who was nomininated in the supporting actreess in a comed series category, and Kaitlin Olson,...

In 1954, Eve Arden made history as the first woman to win a lead acting Emmy for a specific comedy series. She achieved the honor for playing the titular character on “Our Miss Brooks,” who made her living as a high school teacher. While more than a quarter of all Best Comedy Actress-winning characters have been housewives, teaching has proven to be the category’s second most favorable occupation. After Arden, Bea Arthur (“The Golden Girls”) and Melissa McCarthy (“Mike & Molly”) took the 1988 and 2011 prizes, respectively, for portraying educators. Now, “Abbott Elementary” star and first-time Emmy nominee Quinta Brunson has a shot at becoming the fourth member of this group.

Brunson, who also created “Abbott Elementary,” entered the pilot, which aired on ABC in December, as her episode submission. The installment introduces her character, Philadelphia public school teacher Janine Teagues, an optimistic, conscientious molder of second grade minds. A scant budget...

Gold Derby can exclusively reveal that Jean Smart is entering the “Hacks” episode “The Click” as her 2022 Emmy Award submission for Best Comedy Actress. “The Click” aired on May 26 and is the sixth episode of the second season of the HBO Max comedy.

In this installment, after a one-night stand with a younger man, Jason (Devon Sawa), who has no idea who she is, Deborah (Smart) realizes she needs to incorporate more self-deprecating humor into her routine. After a successful run with the new material, she ends her tour to go to Los Angeles to pitch a TV special.

See 2022 Emmy nominations: Complete list of contenders for 74th Primetime Emmys

A 12-time nominee and four-time winner, Smart won this category last year for “Hacks.” With the victory, she joined Betty White as the only people to have won Emmys in the comedy lead, supporting and guest categories. Smart’s other...

If Jean Smart (“Hacks”) claims another Emmy Award this year, as Gold Derby’s racetrack odds overwhelming predict will happen, she would be the first repeat Emmy winner in the Best Comedy Actress category since … do we even need to say it? You likely already know that Julia Louis-Dreyfus (“Veep”) was the last person to claim back-to-back victories in this race. In fact, Jld won six in a row between 2012 and 2017, a record for any acting category at the Emmys.

Taking the “Veep” star out of the equation for a moment, you have to go all the way back to Patricia Heaton (“Everybody Loves Raymond”) in 2000 and 2001 to find a repeat champion in Best Comedy Actress. In between now and then, there were 13 leading ladies who took home one and only one trophy in this category — see the list below. But Smart has an upper hand on all of those other one-timers because she just.

In addition to winning last year’s Emmy race for Best Comedy Actress, Jean Smart (“Hacks”) claimed all of the other major TV awards bestowed by the Screen Actors Guild, Critics Choice, Golden Globes, Television Critics Association and, yes, even Gold Derby. At this stage of the 2022 Emmys derby, Smart is the de facto front-runner to gallup across the finish line yet again, but she’s hardly the only horse in this race. Joining her currently in the Top 7 are Rachel Brosnahan (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”), Quinta Brunson (“Abbott Elementary”), Kaley Cuoco (“The Flight Attendant”), Issa Rae (“Insecure”), Sarah Lancashire (“Julia”) and Selena Gomez (“Only Murders in the Building”).

Scroll down to see Gold Derby’s Comedy Actress Emmy predictions 2022, listed in order of their racetrack odds. Our Emmy odds are based on the combined forecasts of thousands of readers, including Experts we’ve polled from major media outlets, Editors...

Long before the 2021 Emmys ceremony took place, it was essentially a foregone conclusion that “Hacks” star Jean Smart would walk away with the Best Comedy Actress award. Now that she is the category’s reigning champ, she could emulate the likes of Candice Bergen (“Murphy Brown”) and Julia Louis-Dreyfus (“Veep”) by achieving a direct follow-up win for her show’s sophomore season, which is set to premiere on HBO Max in May. Though she won handily last time, she could face more of a challenge this year given that she has two things in common with her biggest competitor Rachel Brosnahan (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”): Both women have taken the prize before, and they both play stand-up comics.

Brosnahan has been nominated three times for Amazon Prime Video’s “Maisel” and triumphed on her first outing in 2018. At the time, that race was notable in that it did not involve Louis-Dreyfus,...

Jean Smart is a legendary actor with a career that spans decades, but she has shockingly never won a SAG Award. This year she aims to change that fact thanks to her dynamite take-no-prisoners role in HBO Max’s “Hacks.” Will she soon be able to add “SAG Award winner” to her impressive list of accomplishments?

It’s odd that Smart hasn’t prevailed with her peers in the actor’s union considering the Emmys have been going gaga over her for years. The actress has racked up an astounding eleven Emmy nominations, winning four times: twice as Guest Comedy Actress for “Frasier,” once as Supporting Comedy Actress for “Samantha Who?,” and finally for Lead Comedy Actress for “Hacks.”

SAG hasn’t fawned over the actress in the same way. These awards don’t have categories for guest performers, so that eliminates several of her notable TV roles from contention.

An emotional Jean Smart paid a moving tribute to her late husband, “friend and soulmate” Richard Gilliland, who passed away in March, as she accepted the Emmy for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy on Sunday.

“I wouldn’t be here without him, without him putting his career on the back burner so I could take advantage of all the opportunities I have found,” she said.

Smart took home her fourth Emmy for a bravura performance as Deborah Vance, an aging caustic and spoiled female comedian in Las Vegas (a la Joan Rivers meets Debbie Reynolds) in the biting, much-nominated freshman HBO Max series. She thanked HBO Max and her team “for working through a pandemic. You’re all so creative and brave.”

The actress, 69, was also in the running tonight for a best supporting Emmy on HBO’s limited series Mare of Easttown in the midst of a fast-moving career...

As expected, “Hacks” star Jean Smart took home the Emmy for Best Comedy Actress during Sunday’s 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards. In doing so, the 11-time nominee became just the second person in history to win an Emmy in the comedy lead, supporting and guest categories — and all for different shows. The only other person to complete the trifecta is the legendary Betty White.

On the HBO Max comedy, Smart portrays Deborah Vance, a comedy pioneer with a long-running Vegas show who reluctantly takes a young writer (newcomer and Emmy nominee Hannah Einbinder) under her wing. It’s an unforgettable and quite possibly career-best performance from Smart, who was also nominated this year for her supporting role as the mother of Kate Winslet’s titular character on the HBO limited series “Mare of Easttown.”

Previously, Smart — who now has four Emmys to her name — scored back-to-back Best Comedy Guest Actress...

Even when Emmy voters are for the most part predictable, they always throw in a couple of surprises. Last year, for instance, “Schitt’s Creek” and “Succession” and “Watchmen” won, as expected, but Zendaya scored a shocking victory in the drama actress category for “Euphoria.” And this year, members of the Television Academy voters already pulled some big surprises at the Creative Arts Emmys, most notably when they named “Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square” the year’s best television movie and gave Claire Foy the Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series award for one flashback scene in “The Crown.”

They’ll no doubt have other surprises up their sleeves on Sunday at the all-vaccinated, all-tested Primetime Emmy Awards. But where? “Ted Lasso” seems like a prohibitive favorite in the comedy categories and “The Crown” the leader in drama, while the nine Emmys already won by “The Queen’s Gambit” may...

Dead To Me actress Christina Applegate has revealed to her Twitter followers that she has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. The Emmy winner, who has appeared in many movies and TV shows since the 1980s made the announcement via a tweet earlier today, revealing that she was diagnosed with the potentially crippling disease a few months ago, and followed up with a second post which ended with a request for privacy.

Hi friends. A few months ago I was diagnosed with Ms. It’s been a strange journey. But I have been so supported by people that I know who also have this condition. It’s been a tough road. But as we all know, the road keeps going. Unless some asshole blocks it.

— christina applegate (@1capplegate) August 10, 2021

As one of my friends that has Ms said “ we wake up and take the indicated action”. And that’s what I do.

Veteran TV actress Christina Applegate took to social media on Tuesday morning to share something personal.

The star has been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis.

“Hi friends. A few months ago I was diagnosed with Ms. It’s been a strange journey,” Applegate wrote in a tweet.

“But I have been so supported by people that I know who also have this condition. It’s been a tough road. But as we all know, the road keeps going. Unless some a—hole blocks it.”

“As one of my friends that has Ms said ‘we wake up and take the indicated action’. And that’s what I do. So now I ask for privacy. As I go through this thing,” the Dead to Me star shared.

The National Multiple Sclerosis Society website describes Ms as "an unpredictable, often disabling disease of the central nervous system that disrupts the flow of information within the brain,...

There may be some turbulence ahead in Kaley Cuoco‘s path to the Emmy. The “Flight Attendant” star still has a comfortable lead in our Best Comedy Actress odds, but someone is taking flight behind her: her HBO Max colleague Jean Smart. Since “Hacks” premiered on the streaming service on May 13, Smart has surged in the rankings and now our Experts are divided between the two as each has 10 backing them to prevail.

The only other person with an Expert pick to win is Lena Waithe (“Master of None”), who sits overall in seventh place, just outside the predicted six. Despite the major support from pundits, Smart — who also has six editors predicting her compared to six for Cuoco — is still in third place overall, behind No. 2 Tracee Ellis Ross (“Black-ish”). She’s ahead of Jane Levy (“Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist”), Allison Janney (“Mom”) and Maya Erskine (“PEN15”). But at this rate,...

Netflix has picked up the series “Florida Man” starring Edgar Ramírez, the streamer announced Monday.

Described as an hourlong series in the spirit of “Body Heat” and “Out of Sight,” “Florida Man” centers on a struggling ex-cop (Ramírez) who is forced to return to his home state of Florida to find a Philly mobster’s runaway girlfriend.

“What should be a quick gig becomes a spiraling journey into buried family secrets, and an increasingly futile attempt to do the right thing in a place where so much is wrong,” Netflix’s description of the series reads.

“Samantha Who?” creator Donald Todd, whose credits also include NBC’s “This Is Us,” ABC’s “Ugly Betty” and Fox’s “Sleepy Hollow,” is creator, showrunner and executive producer on the series. Jason Bateman and Michael Costigan of Aggregate (“Ozark”) also serve as executive producers on the series under their first-look deal with Netflix.

Netflix has given a formal eight-episode series order to Florida Man. Edgar Ramírez, star of the streamer’s popular movie Yes Day, will headline the hourlong series from veteran TV writer producer Donald Todd and Jason Bateman & Michael Costigan’s Aggregate Films.

In Florida Man, created by Todd, when a struggling ex-cop (Ramírez) is forced to return to his home state of Florida to find a Philly mobster’s runaway girlfriend, what should be a quick gig becomes a spiraling journey into buried family secrets and an increasingly futile attempt to do the right thing in a place where so much is wrong. The series is described as a wild odyssey into a sunny place for shady people in the spirit of Body Heat and Elmore Leonard’s Out of Sight.

Todd, who will serve as showrunner, executive produces with Aggregate’s Bateman and Costigan. The project stems from Aggregate’s first-look deal with Netflix.

The Neighborhood will be under new leadership when it returns for its fourth season.

According to Deadline, Jim Reynolds, the creator of the beloved CBS sitcom, has announced he is stepping down as showrunner and executive producer.

Reynolds broke the news to the cast over the weekend. Reynolds previously worked on sitcoms 9Jkl, Samantha Who?, and The Big Bang Theory.

“I am very proud of The Neighborhood and have given everything of myself over the last three years to make this the best show possible,” Reynolds said in a statement to the outlet.

“I am so happy that the show has found such an enthusiastic audience and that it will live on. At this moment, in light of everything going on in the world, I had concluded that I am not the right person to continue to tell these stories. I am excited to see the show thrive and wish everyone involved the very best.

After years of earning nominations at the SAG Awards as part of the ensemble for “The Big Bang Theory,” Kaley Cuoco finally has her first solo bid, in Best TV Comedy Actress for HBO Max’s “The Flight Attendant.” She also scored a nomination for Best TV Comedy Cast as part of the show’s ensemble after earning six consecutive nominations in the category for “Big Bang” from 2012-17.

Cuoco is facing off against some steep competition for this prize. Among them are two recent Emmy winners for “Schitt’s Creek“: Catherine O’Hara and Annie Murphy. Murphy’s only been nominated by this group last year as part of the “Schitt’s” ensemble. O’Hara was nominated for that as well as in this category last year and earned a nom for Limited Series/TV Movie Actress for “Temple Grandin” in 2011. Also nominated are the leading ladies from “Dead to Me,...

For the second consecutive year, Christina Applegate has earned a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for her simultaneously hilarious and heartbreaking performance on Netflix’s “Dead to Me.” Applegate’s turn as Jen Harding on the dark comedy scored her two bids this year for the show’s second season for both Comedy Actress and Comedy Ensemble.

Unlike last year, Applegate is joined in the Best TV Comedy Actress category by her costar Linda Cardellini, who was snubbed for her performance in the first season. Catherine O’Hara (“Schitt’s Creek”), Kaley Cuoco (“The Flight Attendant”) and Annie Murphy (“Schitt’s Creek”) round out the five nominees. Cardellini, Cuoco, and Murphy have all just earned their first individual SAG nominations, though they have each received ensemble bids in the past. O’Hara returns to this race for the second time, and she previously netted a solo nomination for the movie “Temple Grandin” and...

Exclusive: Slam!, a graphic novel series set in the world of all-female roller derby, is being adapted as an animated series for HBO Max.

Pamela Ribon, who co-created the comic with Veronica Fish and co-wrote feature films including Moana and Ralph Breaks the Internet, is adapting her book, with WarnerMedia-owned Rooster Teeth Studios, Boom! Studios and Minnow Mountain.

The half-hour series, set in the fast-paced, hard-hitting, super cheeky, all-female world of banked track roller derby, follows two young women who will have to decide if their budding friendship is stronger than the pull of a team when a win is on the line.

It will be made using a combination of rotoscoped and 3D animation with Craig Staggs and Steph Swope’s Minnow Mountain, the Texas-based studio behind Amazon’s Undone, animating.

The comic book was originally published by Boom! Studios, which is also behind the live-action adaptation R.L. Stine...

“There’s something I have to confess,” Christina Applegate’s Jen Harding shockingly declares in the climactic final seconds of “It’s Not You, It’s Me,” the penultimate Season 2 episode of Netflix’s comedy “Dead to Me” that Applegate has submitted for Emmy Awards consideration. After scoring a somewhat unexpected nomination last year for her turn as a grief-stricken yet delightfully snarky widow, Applegate returns to the Best Comedy Lead Actress line-up this year to try to win the second Emmy of her career.

“It’s Not You, It’s Me” opens as Jen wakes up next to Ben Wood (James Marsden), feeling shocked and instantly remorseful. After she painstakingly pushes Ben away, Jen channels her vulnerability into strength and defiance, and the episode chronicles her day as Jen takes over a city council meeting after they reject her petition for a new stop sign, has heartfelt conversations with both of her sons,...

Remember how Hilary Swank beat Annette Bening twice at the Oscars? Well, she’s got nothing on Jean Smart. The “Watchmen” star is the odds-on favorite to take home the Best Limited/TV Movie Supporting Actress Emmy, and if that happens, it would mark the third time she’s defeated Holland Taylor (“Hollywood“) — all in different categories.

Smart and Taylor have nearly identical nomination records — the former has nine bids; the latter, eight. They’ve already faced off twice with Smart coming out on top both times: She won Best Comedy Guest Actress for “Frasier” in 2000 (her first career nomination) over Taylor, who was nominated for the short-lived AMC series “The Lot”; in 2008, Smart snagged the Best Comedy Supporting Actress statuette for “Samantha Who?” as Taylor was on her third of four nominations for “Two and a Half Men.”

Beating the same person multiple times is far from uncommon at the Emmys,...

Nickelodeon hired Zack Olin to the role of senior vice president of live-action Tuesday.

In the newly-created role, Olin will partner with Shauna Phelan, who serves as senior vice president of live-action scripted content. Together they will oversee scripted series, movies and specials in the company’s scripted division.

Olin will report to Brian Robbins, president of ViacomCBS Kids and Family Entertainment. He will be based in Hollywood.

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In Olin’s previous role at Nickelodeon, he served as a live-action development consultant. Before that, he was at ABC Studios, which he joined in 2011, and where he spent several years as vice president of creative development at ABC Studios, overseeing series like “Grown-ish,” “Speechless,” “The Kids Are Alright” and “The Real O’Neals.”

Prior to that, Olin served as executive director of current programming at ABC Network Entertainment,...

Zack Olin has joined Nickelodeon’s live-action department, which has been headed by Shauna Phelan, SVP, Live-Action Scripted Content.

As SVP, Live Action, at the ViacomCBS-owned network, he has partnered with Phelan to oversee scripted series, movies and specials alongside Phelan. Both report to Brian Robbins, President of ViacomCBS Kids and Family Entertainment.

The appointment formalizes Olin’s relationship with Nickleodeon, having previously served a live-action development consultant for the network. Before that, Olin spent several years at ABC Studios (now ABC Signature) as VP, Creative Development, shepherding series including Grown-ish, Speechless, The Kids Are Alright and The Real O’Neals.

Before joining ABC Studios in 2011, Olin served as Executive Director of Current Programming at ABC Network Entertainment, overseeing series including Happy Endings, Cougar Town, Better Off Ted, Samantha Who? and Body of Proof in addition to overseeing story and animation for the animated release Schoolhouse Rock! Earth.

Olin also...

Lucy and Ethel. Mary and Rhoda. Laverne and Shirley. Patsy and Edina. Abbi and Ilana. Television comedy has boasted plenty of amazing duos over the years, and now you should add another one to the mix: Jen and Judy, the lead characters of Netflix’s “Dead to Me.”

Television Academy members are on board, having included both Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini in the lead comedy actress category this year. That’s an improvement over 2019, when voters only recognized Applegate in the show’s freshman run.

Created by Liz Feldman, “Dead to Me” is a dark comedy that centers on Jen (Applegate), a recent widow who’s befriended by Judy (Cardellini) at a support group. The two become besties, but it all falls apart when Jen learns that Judy was partially involved in her husband’s death. From there, the body count rises — and so do the secrets. Jen and...

As America struggles with police abuses and Hollywood reckons with its depiction of cops, it’s kind of ironic that the two Emmy front-runners for Best Movie/Limited Supporting Actress are women with badges, though Toni Collette‘s detective in “Unbelievable” and Jean Smart‘s superhero-turned-fbi agent in “Watchmen” are among the more nuanced depictions of law enforcement in recent years. They’re both past Emmy winners, so we know the television academy loves them. Can they hold off a crowded field of challenges?

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Based on the combined predictions of thousands of Gold Derby users, Collette gets leading odds of 19/5 with support from 17 of the Expert journalists we’ve surveyed. This would be her second win following her Best Comedy Actress victory in 2009 for “United States of Tara.” And she has already...

Exclusive: Coming off his nine-season run on Suits, Rick Hoffman is returning to the world of corporate intrigue with a recurring role on the upcoming fifth season of Billions, Showtime’s Wall Street drama series starring Paul Giamatti and Damian Lewis. Season 5 is in production in New York and will premiere May 3.

Created by executive producers/showrunners Brian Koppelman and David Levien, along with Andrew Ross Sorkin, in season five of Billions, Bobby Axelrod (Lewis) and Chuck Rhoades (Giamatti) see their vicious rivalry reignited, while new enemies rise and take aim. Social impact pioneer Mike Prince (guest star Corey Stoll) poses a true threat to Axe’s dominance, and Chuck feuds with a formidable district attorney. Taylor Mason (Asia Kate Dillon) is forced back to Axe Capital, where they must fight to protect their employees and their assets. Wendy Rhoades (Maggie Siff) reevaluates her loyalties and forges surprising new alliances...

Series being developed in partnership with Endeavor Content.

Irish author Cecelia Ahern’s upcoming female-centric short story collection Roar is to be turned into a TV series by Nicole Kidman and Per Saari’s Blossom Films, Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories, Ahern’s Greenlight Go Productions, and literary agent and producer Theresa Park.

Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch, creators of Netflix series Glow, are attached as executive producers and showrunners.

The series is being developed in partnership with Endeavor Content, though no networks or streaming platforms were specified for the project.

The Roar story collection, set to be published...

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Garth Ennis’s ultraviolent comic book series, The Boys, is headed to Amazon, starring Karl Urban and run by Supernatural’s Eric Kripke.

Amazon’s small screen streaming lineup is set to add a live-action adaptation of Garth Ennis’s notoriously dark and violent comic book, The Boys. The television project, which has been in development on and off for several years, has finally received its long-awaited greenlight, auspiciously arriving as the creation of Supernatural and Timeless visionary Eric Kripke.

The Boys has an eight-episode order from Amazon, with Kripke serving as showrunner/executive producer, adapting the 2006-2012 comic book series created by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. The series will launch with directors who are experienced in adapting Ennis material in Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, who are credited as co-creators of AMC’s Preacher series. The project will be under the purview of Sony Pictures TV Studios,...

Christina Applegate could soon be married with a child. The actress and her fiancé Martyn Lenoble are expecting, her rep confirms to People exclusively. Applegate, 38, and Lenoble, 41, dated for two years before becoming engaged on Valentine's Day. No date has been set for the wedding. The Samantha Who? actress says her fiancé, a Dutch bass player, helped her recover after undergoing a double mastectomy. "I'm very grateful to Martyn for coming along at a time that he did because he's been my rock through all of this," Applegate told People last year. "He gave me something...

Wow, two Gilmore Girls-related stories in one day. What are the odds? This one's actually less about Gilmore than it is about one of its alums — Melissa McCarthy. The funny lady behind Sookie is guest starring in a January episode of Private Practice, sources confirm to me exclusively. According to a Pp insider, McCarthy's character is pregnant and a patient of midwifery expert Dell (Chris Lowell). McCarthy has kept busy since Gilmore went off the air three years ago. In addition to her regular gig on the now-canceled Samantha Who?, she just wrapped a supporting role in the Katherine Heigl...