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It’s a good time to be an Alan Rudolph fan. Last fall, Shout! Studios released a gorgeous restoration of Rudolph’s unjustly maligned satire “Breakfast of Champions,” and this month Rudolph enters the Criterion Collection with a new 4K Uhd edition of his deliriously romantic and unclassifiable “Choose Me.”

A hypnotic noir-inflected fever dream following the intersecting love stories of a group of strangers who frequent the same smoky bar, “Choose Me” is vintage Rudolph: hyper-stylized, hilarious, and concerned with universal ideas expressed in the most idiosyncratic possible manner.

When Rudolph came to write and direct “Choose Me” in 1984, he was at a crossroads in his career, having made two excellent but unpopular movies (“Welcome to L.A.” and “Remember My Name”) outside the system and two studio pictures (“Roadie” and “Endangered Species”) on which Rudolph felt suffocated after his liberating apprenticeship as an assistant director under Robert Altman on “The Long Goodbye” and “Nashville.

Starz has announced the movie and TV titles that will be available on the service in March. The Starz March 2025 schedule includes the premiere of Power Book III: Raising Kanan Season 4 and a selection of films celebrating Women’s History Month.

The Starz app expands in March with an exciting mix of films, including Fast X, Reagan, The Killer’s Game, Never Let Go, Bagman, White Bird, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever and more.

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Power Book III: Raising Kanan Season 4

In Season Three, Kanan Stark finally stopped living in the shadow of his mother and assumed control of his life, taking matters into his own hands by orchestrating the deaths of Ronnie and Detective Howard. In season four, slates have seemingly have been wiped clean for Kanan, Raq and the rest of the Thomas family. Kanan’s drug business has hit its stride.

X-Men ’97 took the world by storm with its debut, smashing together a slew of X-Men stories and delivering a first season that fans can’t help but watch again and again. However, the supposed engineer behind the show, Beau DeMayo, has found himself fired from the job, and there also seems to be some restructuring going on the part of Disney to make the show less in line with what DeMayo had in mind.

A scene from X-Men ‘97 (image credit: Marvel)

Perhaps owing to this, a report has pegged the premiere date of the sophomore season of the show in 2026, which indicates that Marvel fans will be without any sort of proper X-Men content for the better part of a year and a half.

X-Men ’97 will be heading into some pretty intense storylines in it’s Season 2 X-Men ’97 delivered big time with an emotionally resonant and...

We will update this article throughout the season, along with all our predictions, so make sure to keep checking IndieWire for the latest news from the 2023 Emmys race. The nomination round of voting takes place from June 15 to June 26, with the official Emmy nominations announced Wednesday, July 12. Afterward, final voting commences August 17 and ends the night of August 28. The 75th annual Primetime Emmy Awards will now take place Monday, January 15, live on Fox at 8:00 p.m. Et/ 5:00 p.m. Pt.

See our previous thoughts on what to expect at the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards here.

The State of the Race

While the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series Emmy race still feels pretty unpredictable going into final voting, it does not seem like standings have changed much since Emmy nominations were announced. The biggest question is are Emmy voters going to pull the trigger and award “The Bear” star Ayo Edebiri now,...

’Savages!’ is one of three projects to secure funding from Swiss canton’s cash rebate scheme.

My Life As A Courgette director Claude Barras’ animated feature Savages! is among the first three projects to be supported by the Swiss canton of Valais through the Valais Film Commission’s (Vfc) new automatic cash rebate scheme.

Stop-motion animation Savages! centres on 11-year-old urban girl Kéria who lives with her father in a small town in the Sarawak province on the island of Borneo and has been told by him that her late mother was eaten by a panther.

The $14.8m (CHF13m...

In a competitive situation, Apple Original Films has nabbed “Outcome,” the new dark comedy directed by Jonah Hill, which is in talks to star Keanu Reeves and Hill. The movie will be produced by Apple Studios.

Reeves plays Reef, a damaged Hollywood star who goes on a long journey of the soul after he is confronted with a mysterious video clip from his past. The script was written by Hill and Ezra Woods and produced by Hill and Matt Dines under their Strong Baby banner. This will be Hill’s second narrative feature after “Mid90s,” which he made for A24 and Scott Rudin.

Last year, Netflix released Hill’s documentary feature “Stutz,” about the life and work of Dr. Phil Stutz, Hill’s therapist. Hill’s last two on-screen performances were also for Netflix – he appeared in Kenya Barris’ somewhat controversial “You People” earlier this year and in 2021 co-starred in...

Sheryl Lee Ralph has delivered one rousing acceptance speech after another, all awards season long.

But the newly crowned Emmy, Critics Choice and Golden Globe-winner saved something special for Essence’s 16th annual Black Women in Hollywood luncheon on Thursday afternoon.

Presented the award by her “Abbott Elementary” co-star and creator — and 2022 Essence Black Women in Hollywood honoree — Quinta Brunson, Ralph whipped the audience into a frenzy with a 13-minute speech that ranged from an subdued, yet soul-stirring rendition of “Endangered Species” to an impassioned rallying cry to remember who paved the way for where Black women in the industry have come from and where we’re going.

“I have joy. I have happiness. I have love that I get to share with all of you. Just looking at you, and looking at you, I tell you this all the time,” she said, turning briefly to Brunson.

“The fight to get all of you here,...

Wayne Shorter, the legendary, Grammy-winning saxophonist who — in addition to his own renowned albums and work with jazz supergroup Weather Report — collaborated with the likes of Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Steely Dan, and Joni Mitchell, has died at the age of 89.

The venerated musician died Thursday morning, March 2, in Los Angeles, Shorter’s rep confirmed to Rolling Stone. No cause of death was provided. His longtime label Blue Note said in a statement Thursday, “Visionary composer, saxophonist, visual artist, devout Buddhist, devoted husband, father, and grandfather Wayne Shorter has passed...

Kenya Barris’ “You People” opened to promising figures over the weekend.

According to Netflix’s figures, the star-studded comedy featuring Jonah Hill, Eddie Murphy, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Lauren London quickly rose in the ranks during the Jan. 23-29 viewing window becoming Netflix’s No. 1 film with 55.65 million hours viewed following its Jan. 27 premiere.

In another take on the classic “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” story, the film follows the ensuing culture clash that takes place when two LA millennials from different backgrounds fall in love and face the ultimate relationship test: meeting the parents. Hill and Barris both wrote the movie.

Also worth noting on the film side, “All Quiet on the Western Front” saw an increase of more than 190 in viewership over the prior week following its nine Academy Award nominations. The German war drama scored 8.17 million hours viewed and was in the top 10 in 33 countries.

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You People is the upcoming Netflix comedy starring Jonah Hill, Lauren London and Eddie Murphy. It is directed by Kenya Barris and written by Kenya Barris and Jonah Hill.

A movie about dialogues… which are terriffic. This movie bears the brand of its scriptwriters Kenya Barris and Jonah Hill who know how to make a rowdy comedy that is very rowdy and does not offend anyone… or offending people who take themselves a little too seriously.

This is a charming, amusing and intelligent comedy with dialogues that are daring, sophisticated (or not)… the first part.

About the Movie

This movie, which deep down is about what is politically correct that in You People, think that everything, really, is truly stupid. A delicious prank that mocks established things and what we have been told we should say in order to (quote as they say in the movie) to be “cool”.

This...

You People, Kenya Barris' feature directorial debut, is a modern take on the romantic comedy. Ezra has given up on his hopes of finding love, but a chance encounter with Amira changes everything. The couple falls in love, and Ezra proposes. However, the happiness of their engagement is clouded by the realization that they need to introduce their parents to each other.

You People tackles more than the usual disapproving parents, with the couple facing numerous obstacles including race, religion, societal expectations, generational differences, and more. You People has a star-studded cast featuring Jonah Hill, Eddie Murphy, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, David Duchovny, Nia Long, Lauren London, Sam Jay, and Travis Bennett. The movie is co-written by Hill and Barris.

Related: Netflix's Renewal Policy Reveals A Lot About Canceled Shows

Screen Rant spoke with Jay and Bennett about what they wanted to bring to their roles in You People. Jay also...

You People, Kenya Barris' feature directorial debut, is a modern take on the romantic comedy. Ezra has given up on his hopes of finding love, but a chance encounter with Amira changes everything. The couple falls in love, and Ezra proposes. However, the happiness of their engagement is clouded by the realization that they need to introduce their parents to each other.

You People tackles more than the usual disapproving parents, with the couple facing numerous obstacles including race, religion, societal expectations, generational differences, and more. You People has a star-studded cast featuring Jonah Hill, Eddie Murphy, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, David Duchovny, Nia Long, Lauren London, Sam Jay, and Travis Bennet. The movie is co-written by Hill and Barris.

Related: Netflix's Renewal Policy Reveals A Lot About Canceled Shows

Screen Rant spoke with Jay and Bennett about what they wanted to bring to their roles in You People. Jay also...

Rihanna isn’t the only musical act to look forward to at this year’s Super Bowl.

“Abbott Elementary” star and Emmy winner Sheryl Lee Ralph is officially booked as part of Super Bowl Lvii’s pregame entertainment.

Singing “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” the multihyphenate performer will be joined on the program by country star Chris Stapleton singing the national anthem and singer, songwriter and producer Babyface singing “America the Beautiful.”

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In addition to earning an Emmy for her performance as the devoted, veteran elementary school teacher Barbara Howard on “Abbott Elementary,” Ralph is also a Golden Globe nominee and Critics Choice winner. The ABC sitcom from Quinta Brunson brought the performer back into the spotlight after three decades of work across mediums – and the Super Bowl is hardly the...

In an adorable new TikTok shared by Sheryl Lee Ralph's son, Etienne Maurice, the Emmy winner receives congratulatory flowers from none other than Beyoncé. "Saved the best for last," Maurice wrote in the caption alongside the Sept. 17 video.

His caption references the many other bouquets Ralph has received since taking home her first Emmy. She won the honor for outstanding supporting actress in a comedy series for her role on Quinta Brunson's acclaimed "Abbott Elementary." As only the second Black woman to win an Emmy in the category title, after Jackée Harry in 1987, her win was historic.

Her powerful acceptance speech also helped drive home her win's significance. After taking to the stage to receive the award, Ralph began by singing "Endangered Species" by Dianne Reeves, which contains the lyrics "I am an endangered species. But I sing no victim's song. I am a woman, I am an artist.

When Sheryl Lee Ralph first read Quinta Brunson’s pilot script to “Abbott Elementary,” she knew exactly which character she wanted to play: Ava Coleman, the inappropriate principal who only seems to have her own best interests at heart.

But Brunson had another idea. “She was just short of [saying,] ‘Oh, hell no!’” Ralph says. “She said, ‘We need a queen for Barbara Howard. And you are that queen!’ And I was just like, ‘Baby, if you put it that way, How do I say no? What else do I need to know about that? I’m going to be the queen. I love it. Yes, I’m ready.’”

Janelle James wound up being cast as Ava, and landed an Emmy nomination this year for the role. But tapping Ralph to play Barbara, the no-nonsense, seen-it-all veteran teacher in “Abbott Elementary,” also turned out to be the right move. On Monday night,...

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Sheryl Lee Ralph is still singing and receiving standing ovations.

Fresh off her Emmy win Monday night, the Abbott Elementary star turned up to the Elizabeth Taylor Ball to End AIDS at West Hollywood Park on Thursday night to accept her second trophy of the week. This one came her way for three decades of activist work in fighting the AIDS epidemic through her Diva Foundation, which has the historic shine of mounting the longest-running annual HIV/AIDS and health awareness benefit concerts in the United States. Decked out in a red gown and supported by her two children and Abbott co-star Lisa Ann Walter, Ralph made her way to the stage to triumphant applause.

Upon taking her spot at the podium under the lights and in front of 300 guests, including honoree Colin Farrell (who detailed his powerful bond with Taylor) and guests Paris Jackson,...

It’s Tuesday morning, less than 24 hours after she’s won an Emmy, and Quinta Brunson’s voice is hoarse. The days of pre-award festivities leading up to the Sept. 12 ceremony were frantic, starting with Variety’s Showrunners Dinner. Then came the Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony in downtown Los Angeles, the Governors Gala and Disney’s post-Emmy celebration, which spilled into the next day. Something had to give.

Yet when the “Abbott Elementary” creator and star sits down for an in-depth interview with Variety, her creative voice is clear and strong.

On the morning after the Emmys, she’s back on Warner Bros.’ Burbank lot, about to take part in a table read and start production on a new episode of the hit ABC comedy. Before the grind resumes, however, Brunson stops by the studio commissary’s executive dining room for breakfast and a quick conversation about the Wbtv comedy...

Jennifer Coolidge left reporters lost for words when they asked a question about her dating life.

After The White Lotus star took the Emmys 2022 stage on Monday (12 September) evening to claim her award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, she went backstage for press interviews.

Speaking to Access, the 61-year-old actor was asked: “If you could shoot your shot with anybody, who would it be?”

With a straight face, Coolidge answered: “Well, I was very excited about somebody – I can’t say their name – but I found out today he’s dead.”

The two stunned interviewers reacted awkwardly with an audible, “Oh”.

Since being shared on Twitter, the clip has gone viral, with adoring fans praising Coolidge for her “iconic” remark.

“She embodies humour. She doesn’t even have to try,” one tweeted.

Iconic. https://t.co/TaSvjPL7dM

— Pj. (@pjscaggs) September 13, 2022

“The delivery of that line. She is a genius,...

After over four decades in the industry, Sheryl Lee Ralph finally got her well-deserved flowers Monday night with her first-ever Emmy win. The "Abbott Elementary" star is the 2022 outstanding supporting actress in a comedy series winner for her role as no-nonsense veteran teacher Barbara Howard in Quinta Brunson's critically acclaimed, record-breaking ABC sitcom - an overdue feat that makes Ralph only the second Black woman in Emmys history to secure the category title (Jackée Harry was the first in 1987).

Ralph made her victory an even more show-stopping moment through her emotional acceptance speech on Sept. 12, tearfully singing "Endangered Species" by Dianne Reeves - a powerful anthem she said she's been turning to for years. "I am an endangered species," she belted out loudly and proudly to the audience. "But I sing no victim's song. I am a woman, I am an artist. And I know where my voice belongs." Indeed,...

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During the 2022 Emmys on Monday evening, Twitter users showered their favorite stars and shows with praise — and one show, and one actress, stood out from the crowd.

According to data compiled by Twitter on Monday evening in the U.S., Sheryl Lee Ralph — who won best supporting actress in a comedy series for her work in Abbott Elementary — was mentioned more than 150,000 times on Twitter, making her the most tweeted-about Emmy nominee for the night.

Ralph’s moving acceptance speech began with the actress singing a verse from Dianne Reeves’ “Endangered Species.” Ralph, a first-time Emmy winner, then told the crowd, “To anyone who has ever, ever had a dream and thought your dream wasn’t, wouldn’t, couldn’t come true, I am here to tell you that this is what believing looks like — this is what striving looks like. And don’t you ever,...

Sheryl Lee Ralph may have won the Emmy for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy, but the victory has her feeling nothing but drama. After her emotional acceptance speech, during which she sang “Endangered Species” by Dianne Reeves, the actress — who took home the statue for her portrayal of Barbara Howard on Abbott Elementary — opened up a few veins when she talked to the media backstage at the 74th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards. Ralph, an original cast member of Dreamgirls, says she’s been dreaming about being in Hollywood since she was a child. “I’m a little five-year-old girl who watched TV on Sunday Night when Tinkerbell came up and went around the [magic castle] putting stars around everywhere [on The Wonderful World of Disney],” she shared with reporters. “I remember saying, ‘I’m going to Hollywood, I’m going to be an actress, and I’m going to drive a Mustang!

Fans were surprised by Olivia Newton-John and Norm Macdonald’s absence from the Emmys 2022’s In Memoriam segment.

The Australian actor and singer, best known for her leading role as Sandy in Grease, died in August of this year from breast cancer. She was 73.

While Newton-John was mostly a film actor, she appeared in a number of television shows, including Australian singing series Kommotion, 1993’s drama series Snowy River: The McGregor Saga, and the one-season 2008 show Sordid Lives: The Series.

Meanwhile, viewers were confused by Canadian comedian Norm Macdonald’s absence from the night’s tributes.

However, the Saturday Night Live alum passed away in 2021 and was honoured during last year’s award ceremony. This year he received three posthumous nominations for his Netflix special Nothing Special, which was partly why fans were shocked not to see him in the in memorial segment – unaware that he was celebrated last year.

The 74th Primetime Emmy Awards went down Monday with with some pretty familiar faces in the winners circle, one killer speech and a whole lotta incomprehensible producing choices. Gold Derby editors and Experts Christopher Rosen and Joyce Eng are here with their thoughts on the show and all the winners.

“Ted Lasso,” “Succession” and “The White Lotus” nabbed the series awards, and in hindsight it all makes sense. They were all the nomination leaders in their respective genres — 20 each for “Ted” and “The White Lotus” and 25 for “Succession.” But after “Ted” was blanked at the Creative Arts Awards last weekend and with “Abbott Elementary” on the rise, the prospect of 0-20 was on the table. Instead, the Apple TV+ hit picked up another four trophies: repeat wins in Best Comedy Series, Best Comedy Actor (Jason Sudeikis) and Best Comedy Supporting Actor (Brett Goldstein) and its first victory in Best Comedy Directing.

Early in the 2022 Primetime Emmy Awards telecast, host Kenan Thompson joked, “Tonight, we celebrate the hundreds and hundreds of shows that were produced last year, and then we give awards to five of them.” Like a number of the Saturday Night Live vet’s zingers throughout the night, the line had the ring of truth to it. The easiest way to win an Emmy is to have already won an Emmy, and the last few Emmy ceremonies were rendered tedious by a handful of shows hoovering up every trophy in sight.

The Emmys always have an uphill battle: the least glamorous, the least surprising, and the least inviting of award shows. The Grammys can always claim to be Music’s Biggest Night, just because it’s on TV, and the Oscars are the Oscars — but Emmy Night is always full of TV stars playing their real-life selves, which means it’s a bit less than television. Call it TV’s Least TV Night. So why do network executives keep trying to turn the Emmys into the glitzy awards gala it’s fated to never be?...

The 2022 Emmy Awards have drawn to a close, after an especially big night for the cast and crew of HBO’s The White Lotus.

The wealth satire won awards in five categories, honouring stars Murray Bartlett and Jennifer Coolidge for their acting and creator Mike White for his writing and directing.

Coolidge should also have taken home the award for best speech of the night, telling the crowd that a preparatory lavender bath before the ceremony had bloated her like a balloon and made it difficult for her to speak.

Succession, meanwhile, won the top gong for Best Drama. While accepting the award, its creator, British writer Jesse Armstrong took the opportunity onstage to make a poorly received comparison between the show and King Charles III’s ascent to the throne following the death of Queen Elizabeth II – “Big week for successions,” he quipped.

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The 2022 Emmys saw a galaxy of stars gather in Los Angeles to celebrate the best in television.

Actor and Saturday Night Live comedian Kenan Thompson oversaw proceedings at the Microsoft Theater, bringing wit and charm to the role despite some lacklustre sketches.

The tight three-hour telecast produced plenty of memorable moments. Here are the biggest talking points from the 2022 Emmys:

The White Lotus reigns supreme

The night’s biggest winner was The White Lotus. The razor-sharp social satire won Outstanding Limited Series as well as two awards for creator Mike White. It also gave Murray Bartlett and Jennifer Coolidge their first Emmys with supporting actor nods. Coolidge delivered one of the night’s most entertaining speeches, culminating in her bursting into dance when they tried to play her off. White, meanwhile, referred to his time on reality show Survivor when he jokingly pleaded: “Don’t vote me off the island!

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If you’re an award show producer, you probably go into the job knowing that “triumph” is close to impossible. It’s a tough gig. But when you’re done and people look back, is it better to be remembered in infamy or forgotten in monotony?

Nearly six months after March’s Academy Awards, I still laugh nervously when somebody mentions the Oscars telecast, which was a badly conceived show until Will Smith elevated it to a pantheon of notoriety. But hey, at least I remember the 94th Academy Awards!

Nearly three hours after Monday (September 12) night’s 74th Primetime Emmy Awards, I barely remember the telecast at all. But hey, at least it wasn’t a catastrophe?

Maybe halfway through the evening, the telecast was at a tipping point: The first 90 minutes of the show were a mixed bag. But which award show isn’t?...

The clock, as Zedd and Alessia Cara like to say, was ticking.

Jason Sudeikis noticed it — how could he not, when shortly after his cast and producers gathered on stage to accept their second consecutive Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series, he turned to thank the Academy and uttered the immortal words: “Wait, we just got here! And we’re down to 30 seconds.”

But it wasn’t just winners crowned near the end of Monday’s brisk and bizarre ceremony that faced the teleprompter’s wrath. Matthew Macfadyen took note of the night’s swift dismissal music by raising his golden statue slightly and smiling in wistful remembrance of an honor lost as he was still receiving it. “There it goes,” he said, before squeezing in a few more loved ones’ first names.

Yet the worst of it was reserved for one of the 2022 Emmys’ most anticipated victors: Jennifer Coolidge, whose...

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The 2022 Emmy Awards were handed out Monday night. If you missed the telecast, check out some of the best and worst moments below.

Kenan Thompson Jokes About Netflix Concerns, Oscars Drama, Hollywood Diversity in Monologue

Kenan Thompson poked fun at a number of timely topics, from Netflix’s stock issues to Hollywood diversity to the controversial 2022 Oscars telecast, during his monologue as host of the Emmys. He joked that he’s from Saturday Night Live, but some viewers might know him from his self-titled NBC sitcom — “Just not enough of you to keep us from getting canceled.” Thompson later said about some key nominees, “Stranger Things was hard to watch because it’s so scary, Squid Game was hard to watch because it’s so violent, and Yellowjackets was hard to watch because it’s on Showtime.” He said Squid Game was about people struggling to make money.

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At the 74th annual Emmy Awards, there were just as many winners from the global majority honored for their achievements behind the camera as in front of it.

To be clear: Out of 25 competitive categories presented live during the Primetime Emmys telecast, seven awards went to people of color, or to programs fronted by them. (The other 18 went to The White Lotus, Mike White and other whites.) The Geena Davis Institute for Gender in Media also received this year’s Governors Award for its data-driven work in promoting inclusion in the television industry.

For the second time in Emmys history (the first was in 2017), both lead performer statuettes in drama went to actors from the global majority: repeat winner Zendaya for Euphoria and Lee Jung-jae for Squid Game. The Korean superstar is the first Asian actor to win in his category and just...

Emmy producers told “The Hollywood Reporter” that they were going for a ceremony that wouldn’t be “mean,” that wouldn’t have a host doing “a hatchet job” on members of the industry. While host Kenan Thompson fulfilled that goal, it didn’t make for a more interesting show. Instead what we got was a ceremony that was light on laughs and devoid of any kind of structure or sense. Despite being occasionally punctuated by moments of joy and triumph, this year’s Emmy show was like a ship lost in a fog of bad ideas.

Confusion dominated the evening, beginning with the ceremony’s opening production number, a series of modern dances set to remixes of classic TV theme songs, which seemed more appropriate for “America’s Got Talent” than for a ceremony honoring the finest work in television. This was followed by a series of platitudes about hard work and perseverance from Oprah Winfrey,...

The moment Sheryl Lee Ralph opened her mouth and let loose the first jaw-dropping note of Dianne Reeves’ “Endangered Species,” it was an Emmys speech for the ages. Quaking with emotion and palpably overcome, Ralph’s acceptance for her best supporting actress trophy was as impassioned as it was memorable — especially, perhaps, because she didn’t have to recite a litany of names before the timer ran out. Instead, a simple ticker of people Ralph wished to mention scrolled by in a chyron as she lifted her Emmy to the sky in triumph.

With most nominees appearing to submit names ahead of time in case they should win, the most memorable speeches of the night were freer to go off-script and embrace their moment, in the moment. After Ralph’s gorgeous display of joy, Lizzo’s surprise reality series win was capped with a tearful speech that didn’t have...

The 2022 Primetime Emmy Awards are in the books, with 25 categories bestowed live on NBC in a ceremony hosted by Kenan Thompson. Some of the winners gave insanely funny acceptance speeches while others were incredibly heartfelt and moving and Sheryl Lee Ralph gave one for the ages. With the ceremony now in our collective rearview mirror, let’s take a look at the six best speeches from this year’s broadcast. Be sure to vote in our poll below to tell us who You think gave the best Emmy Awards acceptance speech.

Comedy Supporting Actress: Sheryl Lee Ralph, “Abbott Elementary”

Ralph gave a legendary speech worthy of someone who was getting her first major accolade in her five-decade long career. She was so shocked that it took her a bit to actually get up and get on stage. As she looked out at the audience in the Microsoft Theater, she absorbed...

Successionwriter Jesse Armstrong drew audible winces from the crowd at the 2022 Emmys ceremony on Monday night (12 September) with his comments about King Charles III.

The British screenwriter made the remarks while accepting the award for Outstanding Drama Series for his ferocious dynasty show, Succession.

“Big week for successions,” he said on stage. “New King in the UK, this for us. Evidently a little bit more voting for us than Prince Charles. I’m not saying we’re more legitimate in our position than he is, we’ll leave that to other people.”

Armstrong’s words were met with uncomfortable sounds from the audience at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, with Succession star Brian Cox, who was also on stage, chiming in with the advice: “Keep it royalist! Keep it royalist!”

Following the death of the Queen, aged 96, last week, Charles III automatically succeeded the throne, at the age of 73. In his first speech,...

Jimmy Kimmel is facing heavy criticism online after gatecrashing Quinta Brunson’s Emmys acceptance speech.

Brunson won an Emmy Award for her writing on the comedy series Abbott Elementary.

She was introduced by actor Will Arnett, who dragged Kimmel onstage as part of a bit – the host pretended to have passed out after drinking too many skinny margaritas upon losing in his own category.

However, instead of getting off the stage to let Brunson have her moment, Kimmel remained sprawled out on stage while she gave her speech.

Brunson tried to move the talk show host, shaking him and saying, “Jimmy, wake up, I won,” but he remained where he was, leading many to accuse him of stealing the winner’s spotlight.

“Jimmy Kimmel should have left the stage during Quinta’s speech. Highly disrespectful,” journalist Philip Lewis wrote on Twitter.

Jimmy Kimmel should have left the stage during Quinta’s speech.

Here’s one more For Your Consideration piece before you turn your focus to Oscar season: the best and worst moments from the 2022 Emmys. Would you consider Sheryl Lee Ralph’s time onstage one of the highlights of the night? Were you as puzzled as we were when Lizzo called Ted Lasso’s Brett Goldstein a really big girl? And where the heck was Marcia Brady?

Let’s get more specific.

Emmys TV Review: NBC Plays It Too Safe With Lightweight Show

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Having Oprah Winfrey hand out the first award of the night. You just knew it was the right decision because Michael Keaton, who won for Dopesick, immediately quipped, “Don’t you have 90 of these?”

The presenting trio of Martin Short, Steve Martin and Selena Gomez. The zingers were savage (like Short confusing Martin with Angela Lansbury) and suggested that maybe NBC should have considered more stage time...

Have the speeches at tonight's Emmys seemed better than usual? Between Lizzo cheering her support for the women of "Watch Out For the Big Grrrls" to Jennifer Coolidge dancing to the wrap-up music to Sheryl Lee Ralph's showstopping, sob-inducing acceptance for "Abbott Elementary," the 74th Emmy Awards have been a great night for winners letting their personalities show. It turns out, there's a simple reason people seem a little more at ease: A new supplementary text has been added to the bottom of the screen during speeches, allowing recipients to stop worrying so much about forgetting names.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, each nominee was given the chance to share up to 350 characters with which they could add to their thank you message in case they win. Their messages, which the outlet notes still need to be PG, have been scrolling past on chyrons as actors and artists accept their awards.

Fans were surprised by Olivia Newton-John and Norm Macdonald’s absence from the Emmys 2022’s In Memoriam segment.

The Australian actor and singer, best known for her leading role as Sandy in Grease, died in August of this year from breast cancer. She was 73.

While Newton-John was mostly a film actor, she appeared in a number of televison shows, including Australian singing series Kommotion, 1993’s drama series Snowy River: The McGregor Saga, and the one-season 2008 show Sordid Lives: The Series.

Meanwhile, viewers were confused by Canadian comedian Norm Macdonald’s absence from the night’s tributes.

However, the Saturday Night Live alum passed away in 2021 and was honoured during last year’s award ceremony. This year he received three posthumous nominations for his Netflix special Nothing Special, which was partly why fans were shocked not to see him in the in memorial segment – unaware that he was celebrated last year.

Kenan and Kel reunited at the Emmy Awards on Monday (12 September).

Kenan Thompson was hosting the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards when he introduced his 1990s Kenan & Kel sitcom partner, Kel Mitchell.

Thompson was filming a bartending skit with Kumail Nanjiani when he came across a man slumped face down on the bar.

The man, of course, turned out to be Mitchell who raised his head and asked: ‘Can I get a Good Burger?’

Good Burger was the eponymous, fictional restaurant from the 1997 film starring the comedy duo based on the comedy sketch of the same name on the Nickelodeon series All That.

“Truly warms my millennial heart to know that Kenan and Kel remain friends all these years later,” writer Aisha Harris tweeted in reaction to the moment.

Truly warms my millennial heart to know that Kenan and Kel remain friends all these years later

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Sheryl Lee Ralph is now an Emmy winner! The comedian won in the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series category, beating out her “Abbott Elementary” co-star, Janelle James, as well as Alex Borstein (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”), Hannah Einbinder (“Hacks”), Kate McKinnon (“Saturday Night Live”), and “Ted Lasso‘”s Sarah Niles, Juno Temple and Hannah Waddingham.

Ralph serenaded the crowd while accepting her award – her first Primetime Emmy Award in a career spanning over five decades – onstage at the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles during the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards. Singing Dianne Reeves’ “Endangered Species,” Ralph delivered a statement with her song before motivating the audience with a beautiful speech filled with hope and gratitude.

“To anyone that has ever, ever had a dream and though your dream, wasn’t, wouldn’t, couldn’t, come true, I am here to tell you that is what believing looks like,” Ralph said,...

After Sheryl Lee Ralph was announced as the Emmy Award winner for her role as Barbara Howard on "Abbott Elementary," she took to the stage and immediately began singing her face off — belting out the song "Endangered Species" by Dianne Reeves. As she held out a perfect note, completely enrapturing the audience, cheers erupted from the Emmy attendees, and probably everyone watching at home from their couches too. Thanks to the success and popularity of "Abbott Elementary," a world of people are learning about Ralph's undeniable talent for the very first time, but make no mistake, Ralph is not a newcomer.

"I am here to tell you that this is what believing looks like, this is what striving looks like, and don't you ever, ever give up on you," she said in her acceptance speech. It's a fitting statement from a woman who landed her breakthrough role as Deena Jones...

“I am a woman, I am an artist, and I know where my voice belongs”, Sheryl Lee Ralph sang onstage Monday, performing a few lines from Dianne Reeves’ “Endangered Species” after winning the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.

Ralph appeared to be in a state of shock when her name was announced as winner for Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, needing to be escorted onto the stage by her fellow Abbott castmates.

When she got there, she took a few more seconds before she broke into the song to kick off her acceptance speech.

After she sang, she said: “To anyone who has ever, ever, had a dream and thought your dream wasn’t, couldn’t wouldn’t come true, I am here to tell you that this is what believing looks like, this is what striving looks like, and don’t you ever, ever give up.

The 2022 Emmys are here at last, with this year’s event seeing TV stars from around the world gather in Los Angeles at the Microsoft Theater to celebrate the best in television.

On Monday (12 September) night’s awards show, Sam Jay – real name Samaria Johnson – appeared alongside Emmys host Kenan Thompson to DJ the event and announce the night’s winners.

The 40-year-old actor and comedian is best known for her writing on Saturday Night Live.

She’s also known for co-starring in and co-creating the HBO comedy series Pause with Sam Jay and Peacock’s comedy show Bust Down.

The ceremony has already drawn strong reactions from fans, with some mocking its “atrocious” opening dance sequence to Friends and Law and Order: Svu theme songs.

And host Thompson wasted no time cracking a joke about Leonardo DiCaprio’s relationship history.

Abbott Elementary star Sheryl Lee Ralph also stunned...

Sheryl Lee Ralph has anointed Dianne Reeves’s classic deep-cut, “Endangered Species,” the song of champions. Taking the stage at the 2022 Emmy Awards to accept the award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, the Abbott Elementary star broke out into an acapella performance of the track.

“I am an endangered species/But I sing no victim’s song,” she belted in an operatic, soulful tone. “I am a woman I am an artist/And I know where my voice belongs.”

Sheryl Lee Ralph just gave the most moving acceptance speech in #Emmys history.

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Sheryl Lee Ralph took home the Emmy for best supporting actress in a comedy series at the ceremony on Sept. 12, and the legendary actor brought the house down with her emotional acceptance speech. When the award was first announced, Ralph stayed in her seat for a moment, shocked. When she eventually took the stage - helped by her castmates - she started to sing the song "Endangered Species" by Dianne Reeves. "I am an endangered species," she sang loudly and proudly. "But I sing no victim's song. I am a woman, I am an artist. And I know where my voice belongs."

Ralph then spoke, saying, "To anyone who has ever, ever had a dream and thought that your dream wasn't, wouldn't, couldn't come true, I am here to tell you that this is what believing looks like. This is what striving looks like,...

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Sheryl Lee Ralph took home the Emmy for best supporting actress in a comedy series during Monday night’s 2022 Emmys and made history.

The Abbott Elementary actress was nominated alongside co-star Janelle James as well as Alex Borstein (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), Hannah Einbinder (Hacks), Kate McKinnon (Saturday Night Live), Sarah Niles (Ted Lasso), Juno Temple (Ted Lasso) and Hannah Waddingham (Ted Lasso).

When taking the stage, an emotional Ralph was at a loss for words but began singing a verse from Dianne Reeves’ “Endangered Species” as the audience gave her a standing ovation.

Ralph continued, “To anyone who has ever, ever had a dream and thought your dream wasn’t, wouldn’t, couldn’t come true, I am here to tell you that this is what believing looks like — this is what striving looks like. And don’t you ever, ever give up on you,...

Sheryl Lee Ralph delighted fans after winning the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series at Microsoft Theater on Monday, 12 September.

Ralph won the award for her role as Barbara Howard, a veteran teacher on ABC’s Abbott Elementary.

The actor, singer, author and activist looked stunned when the news of her win was announced and had to be helped to the stage.

When she arrived on the stage, Howard belted out the lyrics to “Endangered Species” by US jazz singer Dianne Reeves.

She then went on to say: “This is what not giving up on yourself looks like.” She also thanked Abbott Elementary creator Quinta Brunson for being in her corner.

“Sheryl Lee Ralph just gave the most moving acceptance speech in #Emmys history,” Netflix social manager Jarett Wieselman wrote alongside a clip of Ralph’s rendition.

Sheryl Lee Ralph just gave the most moving acceptance speech in #Emmys history.

Sheryl Lee Ralph just won her first Emmy in a 45-year career — and chances are her acceptance speech will be the one that everyone remembers and is talking about. Ralph won Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her work as Barbara Howard in Abbott Elementary. And she delivered quite the moving speech — and no, we’re not just talking about her showing off her vocals with “Endangered Species” by Dianne Reeves. “To anyone who has ever, ever had a dream and thought your dream wasn’t, wouldn’t, couldn’t come true, I am here to tell you that this is what believing looks like,” she said. “This is what striving looks like. And don’t you ever, ever give up on you because if you get a Quinta Brunson in your corner, if you get a husband like mine in you corner, if you get children like...

Sheryl Lee Ralph has proved that the Television Academy is hot for teacher and making history in the process, with a win for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her portrayal of straight-laced, veteran kindergarten teacher Barbara Howard on ABC’s hit series “Abbott Elementary.”

Ralph is only the second Black woman in history to take home the top prize in the category, some 35 years since Jackée Harry was first victorious for her performance as Sandra Clark in the second season of “227.”

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“To anyone who has ever, ever had a dream, and thought your dream wasn’t, wouldn’t, couldn’t come true, I am here to tell you this is what believing looks like,” Ralph said during her acceptance speech. After, of course, she finished a jaw-dropping a...