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Elsbeth Tascioni has been around for three series now. Carrie Preston introduced the most upbeat litigator of all time with the finesse of a drunken master on “The Good Wife” (winning an Emmy Award for her guest appearance) and reprised the role on the spinoff series “The Good Fight.” Now, the character gets her own CBS series with “Elsbeth,” from “The Good Wife” and “The Good Fight” creators Michelle King and Robert King, in which her defense attorney acts as an oddball crime solver while acting as a legal observer for an NYPD consent decree.
Elsbeth Tascioni has been around for three series now. Carrie Preston introduced the most upbeat litigator of all time with the finesse of a drunken master on “The Good Wife” (winning an Emmy Award for her guest appearance) and reprised the role on the spinoff series “The Good Fight.” Now, the character gets her own CBS series with “Elsbeth,” from “The Good Wife” and “The Good Fight” creators Michelle King and Robert King, in which her defense attorney acts as an oddball crime solver while acting as a legal observer for an NYPD consent decree.
- 5/10/2024
- by Sarah Shachat
- Indiewire
AMC Networks’ plans to submit the zombie spinoff “The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live” as a limited series for the Emmys have been killed.
The cable network had announced plans to submit the six-episode spinoff, created by Scott M. Gimple, Danai Gurira, and Andrew Lincoln, for outstanding limited or anthology series at the Primetime Emmys. However, Variety has learned exclusively from two sources with direct knowledge that the show is ineligible to submit in the category.
In 2021, the Television Academy defined what constitutes a limited or anthology series, stating that the story must be resolved within its season without any ongoing storylines. This criteria affected past winners, such as the second season of “The White Lotus,” which was required to compete as a drama due to Jennifer Coolidge’s recurring character. According to the Academy’s ruling at the time, “the reappearance in a subsequent ‘season’ of one character...
The cable network had announced plans to submit the six-episode spinoff, created by Scott M. Gimple, Danai Gurira, and Andrew Lincoln, for outstanding limited or anthology series at the Primetime Emmys. However, Variety has learned exclusively from two sources with direct knowledge that the show is ineligible to submit in the category.
In 2021, the Television Academy defined what constitutes a limited or anthology series, stating that the story must be resolved within its season without any ongoing storylines. This criteria affected past winners, such as the second season of “The White Lotus,” which was required to compete as a drama due to Jennifer Coolidge’s recurring character. According to the Academy’s ruling at the time, “the reappearance in a subsequent ‘season’ of one character...
- 4/29/2024
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Takisha Sturdivant and Ande Yung, “Girls5eva’s” hair and makeup department heads, had never worked together before Season 2 of the Peacock comedy, but they quickly became in sync. “This is the first time working with Takisha and I have to say it was so much fun. We had such a great time, but with performances, with this cast, it’s hard not to. They were fantastic,” Yung tells Gold Derby in an interview with Sturdivant (watch the exclusive video interview above). “We started talking before we even started shooting. We’re both very easygoing, I would say… I think we’re both professionals, we know what we’re doing, we have a vision, and we just went for it.”
Yung, who had previously worked on “30 Rock,” joined in Season 2 — “After I watched Season 1, I was like, ‘I am in! I can’t wait to get my hands on this and just do this,...
Yung, who had previously worked on “30 Rock,” joined in Season 2 — “After I watched Season 1, I was like, ‘I am in! I can’t wait to get my hands on this and just do this,...
- 5/26/2022
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
For the first season of the Apple TV+ series “Dickinson,” creator Alena Smith and her team were given a Peabody Award in part for the delightful way the comedy uses the life of Emily Dickinson (played by Hailee Steinfeld) to discuss modern issues like identity and equality. But despite the successful debut, Smith and the “Dickinson” team did not rest on their laurels.
“Season 2 was so absolutely different tonally and each character grew quite a bit from Season 1,” star Jane Krakowski, who plays Mrs. Dickinson on the show, told Gold Derby in an interview this year. “Initially, that was a bit like, ‘Can you explain why they made these changes?’ [Alena] had answers for every bit of it and guided our characters where they were going to start Season 2. I think Season 2 is better than Season 1 because of it.”
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Set in the months before the Civil War,...
“Season 2 was so absolutely different tonally and each character grew quite a bit from Season 1,” star Jane Krakowski, who plays Mrs. Dickinson on the show, told Gold Derby in an interview this year. “Initially, that was a bit like, ‘Can you explain why they made these changes?’ [Alena] had answers for every bit of it and guided our characters where they were going to start Season 2. I think Season 2 is better than Season 1 because of it.”
See over 460 video interviews with 2021 Emmy contenders
Set in the months before the Civil War,...
- 6/23/2021
- by Christopher Rosen
- Gold Derby
Everything was more evolved in Season 2 of “Dickinson,” from the conflicts and interpersonal drama between the characters to the musical landscape to the hair and makeup.
“In Season 1 it was a little bit more of an introduction to the world. There was a cleanliness, there was a cleanness, it was simple,” makeup department head Ande Yung tells Gold Derby in a new interview. “It was getting to the root of all our characters’ stories. In Season 2, there was a lot of richness — I feel like the sets, the wardrobe, the hair, the makeup, started to lend themselves to more of a rich palette.”
“We got to play, we got to add a little bit more,” she says.
SEEHailee Steinfeld interview: ‘Dickinson’
Yung and hairstylist Suzy Mazzarese-Allison worked together on both Season 1 and Season 2 of the Apple TV+ period drama, providing makeup and hair flourishes that help the series toe the...
“In Season 1 it was a little bit more of an introduction to the world. There was a cleanliness, there was a cleanness, it was simple,” makeup department head Ande Yung tells Gold Derby in a new interview. “It was getting to the root of all our characters’ stories. In Season 2, there was a lot of richness — I feel like the sets, the wardrobe, the hair, the makeup, started to lend themselves to more of a rich palette.”
“We got to play, we got to add a little bit more,” she says.
SEEHailee Steinfeld interview: ‘Dickinson’
Yung and hairstylist Suzy Mazzarese-Allison worked together on both Season 1 and Season 2 of the Apple TV+ period drama, providing makeup and hair flourishes that help the series toe the...
- 5/13/2021
- by Christopher Rosen
- Gold Derby
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