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Emmys 2021: How to watch online, and who’s nominated

2021-09-19T11:05:33-04:00

The 73rd Emmy Awards will be held on September 19th. | Getty Images

The 73rd annual Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony is tonight at 8PM ET (5PM PT), and streaming platforms like Apple TV Plus, Netflix and HBO Max are poised to win big. Cedric the Entertainer will host the show, which will be broadcast live from outside the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, to accommodate social distancing, which also means the audience will be limited to nominees and their guests.

Where DO I WATCH THE EMMYS?

This year, CBS will broadcast the Emmys, so you can watch on your local CBS affiliate. The show will also stream live on CBS' Paramount Plus streaming app. You can sign up for a free trial of Paramount Plus to check it out …

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Disney Plus won its first Emmy awards last night, thanks to The Mandalorian

2020-09-17T11:03:57-04:00

The Mandalorian was one of the first shows to premiere on Disney's streaming service when it launched in November 2019, and now it's the reason Disney Plus won its first Emmy awards.

The streamer won five Creative Emmys last night for various visual and audio effects seen in a number of Mandalorian episodes. The Mandalorian won awards for Outstanding Special Visual Effects, Outstanding Cinematography for a Single Camera Series, Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series, Outstanding Sound Editing for a Comedy or Drama Series, and Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Program. The event can be watched on the Creative Arts …

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Amazon will reportedly pay Fleabag creator tens of millions of dollars for three-year deal

2019-09-24T13:23:21-04:00

Fleabag creator, writer, and star Phoebe Waller-Bridge has signed an exclusive overall deal with Amazon Prime Video, Deadline reports. The deal is reportedly for three years and valued in the "mid-eight-figure range," Deadline is reporting, indicating tens of millions of dollars.

The announcement comes just after an incredibly successful Emmys weekend for Waller-Bridge. Fleabag won three of the night's most coveted awards in the comedy categories, including Best Comedy, Best Actress in a Comedy Series, and Best Writing for a Comedy Series. Waller-Bridge's other series, Killing Eve, which airs on BBC America, also picked up a few awards. The …

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HBO won Emmys night, but the future belongs to streaming platforms

2019-09-23T12:44:05-04:00

Last night's Emmy Awards was nothing new. HBO, Amazon, and Netflix took home many awards at TV's most prestigious event. Yet the most interesting part of the evening wasn't necessarily who won, but the commercials for major streaming services that played between acceptance speeches, a signal of how stretched out TV is about to become.

The ads were louder this year. The Emmys, airing this year on Fox, were full of commercial spots for Apple TV Plus, Disney+, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, and Netflix. There were a few scattered promotions for standard broadcast networks, including commercials for new series like Prodigal Son and network favorites …

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Emmys 2019: the complete list of winners

2019-09-22T23:06:31-04:00

The television Academy paid its final adieu to Game of Thrones tonight, honoring the cast with a standing ovation - but not necessarily in awards.

Game of Thrones' final season was practically shut out at the main Emmy's telecast. The show did take home the award for Best Drama Series, and Peter Dinklage won the award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama for his role as Tyrion Lannister. Those two wins at tonight's telecast, combined with the 10 awards the show won at the Creative Arts Emmys last week, means Game of Thrones ties its previous record for most wins for a single season of television. The show previously won 12 awards for its fi …

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Emmys 2019: how to watch the awards ceremony online

2019-09-22T12:00:00-04:00

The 71st annual Emmy Awards ceremony is tonight at 8PM ET (5PM PT). If you want to watch the talent pack into the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, CA, the pre-show coverage on the red carpet begins an hour earlier, at 7PM ET (4PM PT).

Will your favorite TV shows, actors, and writers take home an award? In order to be the first to find out, you'll have to watch along. For everything you want to know about the Emmys, we'll get into it below.

Who's hosting the Emmys?

Technically, there will be no hosts. But, there will be a slate of previous Emmy Award-winning actors, and currently nominated actors, presenting awards throughout the three-hour …

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HBO dominated the 2019 Emmy nominations, thanks to Game of Thrones

2019-07-16T15:36:25-04:00

After Netflix beat out HBO last year for total Emmy nominations, HBO returned to its usual dominant position in 2019, earning a whopping 137 total Emmy nominations, thanks to Game of Thrones' final season.

The network secured a total of 32 nominations for Game of Thrones, breaking the previous record held by NYPD Blue (26 nominations in 1994). HBO's other 105 nominations this year came from series like Barry (17 nominations) and Chernobyl (19 nominations). HBO also earned nearly three times as many nominations as the four traditional networks (ABC, NBC, Fox, and CBS) combined.

There's no denying that Game of Thrones is a rare cultural jugg …

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Netflix’s stock bump aside, Emmy wins don’t have much financial value

2018-09-19T14:25:51-04:00

The 70th Primetime Emmy Awards had barely finished before complaints about them started to appear: despite the diversity on show in the nominations, it was a depressingly limited slate of winners (on-screen, at least). The hosts seemed bored throughout the whole thing. The ratings were low. The wedding proposal was lame and awkward. As is the case seemingly every year, no one but the winners seemed entirely happy with what had happened, leading to a simple question: What is an Emmy actually worth, anyway?

A day after the ceremony, one answer to that question presented itself when Netflix's stock rose 4.9 percent after the company took 23 aw …

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Hollywood had a breakdown trying to justify itself at the 2018 Emmys

2018-09-18T15:26:03-04:00

There have now been 70 Emmy Awards ceremonies. That was made abundantly clear throughout this year's telecast, with jokes like, "Things were very different back [in 1949, when the awards launched] - gas was 17 cents a gallon, a new home cost $7,000, and we all agreed that Nazis were bad." Certainly over the course of those 70 years, the Academy has made some embarrassing decisions. The Wire never won an Emmy, for example. Neither did Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Star Trek: The Next Generation, or Hannibal. Two and a Half Men, meanwhile, won nine of them. The first Emmy Awards gave one of its six trophies to a ventriloquist! And that's all befor …

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The 2018 Emmys broke diversity records — quietly, with no one watching

2018-09-18T13:14:37-04:00

Tiffany Haddish (left) and Angela Bassett at the Emmys last night. | Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images

Last night, the biggest winner of the Emmys, sweeping up five awards, was The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. The director, cast, and show all won Emmys, edging out the cast and creators of diverse shows like Insecure, Killing Eve, black-ish, and Atlanta. #EmmysSoWhite reappeared on social media last night, and it wasn't just because James Corden cited it as a recycled joke. People of color were winning awards and the Emmys still made history twice, but it simply wasn't captured on prime time.

Only three people of color were awarded Emmys last night: Regina King (Seven Seconds) for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series, Thandie Newton (Westwo …

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