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Exclusive: Betsy Brandt is set to executive produce and star in the newly greenlit Lifetime movie The Bad Orphan. Chloe Coco Chapman will make her television debut alongside Brandt and additional cast members Mark Taylor (Reacher) and Eve Edwards (The Good Doctor).

From writer Doris Egan, the psychological drama centers on Jessica (Brandt) and Karl (Taylor), loving parents to Rhiannon (Edwards), who after years of trying to add to their family are elated to adopt Gabby (Chapman), an 8-year-old orphan born with personal challenges. Their ideas of a perfect family come into question when they discover that Gabby is a troubled little girl, and the family begins to believe things aren’t what they seem.

As the unsettling behavior of their “child” worsens and lies are uncovered, cracks in the family dynamic form with Jessica increasingly becoming concerned that adopted daughter Gabby is a threat to their family.

The Chopping Block is one of the first upgrades players can construct for their Workbenches in Valheim. Workbench upgrades are key parts of player progression in Valheim; after placing them, players gain access to additional crafting recipes and the chance to upgrade their items even further. In addition, the Chopping Block upgrade is relatively cheap, making it a worthwhile investment for players in the early game as it gives them access to more crafting recipes in exchange for a relatively small amount of collected resources.

Once players have found the best place to build a base in Valheim, they should be able to establish a firm foundation for long-term survival. Again, the Workbench is key, as it provides a central point where players can begin construction, and it can be gradually upgraded throughout the game. To upgrade the Workbench with a Chopping Block, players need to gather 10 Wood and 10 Flint.

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Flint is an essential early-game resource for Valheim players, but depending on world seed and spawn locations, it can be difficult to find. Flint is used to craft flint weapons, which are one step above basic stone tools and are a crucial part of player progression in Valheim. It can also be used to build upgrades for Valheim’s workbenches, allowing players to access more complex crafting recipes. However, given the scarcity of some resources in Valheim, players will need to know how and where to gather significant stockpiles of this useful resource.

Once players have established a solid foothold by following some basic Valheim survival tips, they can start exploring the world and searching for Flint. To find Flint, players need to search near bodies of water of any size,...

Every day brings a brand new Wordle word for fans to solve and today is no different. For the last year and a half, Wordle has been providing fans with a daily puzzle to solve during their day. With such simple gameplay and an excellent start with social media, Wordle continues to be a staple in many people's daily routines.

For those wondering what will happen when the game runs out of new words, there are still a massive amount of five-letter words that Wordle hasn't used yet so the game should continue on for some time. Even if the word bank gets spent, repeating words should easily fit into the gameplay without too much disruption.

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Exclusive: Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated actor, director, producer Rob Morrow has signed with More/Medavoy Management.

Morrow is best known for his portrayal of Dr. Joe Fleishman on the critically acclaimed, long-running series Northern Exposure, as well as his role as Don Eppes on Numb3rs.

Morrow is currently shooting a recurring role in Super Pumped for Showtime and can be seen in a continuation of his multi-season recurring role as Adam Dequillio opposite Paul Giamatti and Damian Lewis in Billions. He also will recur in Starz’s series Shining Vale, starring Courtney Cox and Greg Kinnear, and appears in an upcoming episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Behind the camera, Morrow has served as Executive Producer and director of nine out of ten episodes of the second season of the BET series, Games People Play. His past directing credits include The Fosters, Necessary Roughness, NCIS: New Orleans, HBO’s Oz, and...

Jean Hale, who tussled with James Coburn’s character in the spy spoof In Like Flint and portrayed the hatcheck-girl accomplice of David Wayne’s Mad Hatter on TV’s Batman, has died. She was 82.

Hale died Aug. 3 of natural causes in Santa Monica, her family announced Monday.

She was married to Emmy winner Dabney Coleman — the two met while studying acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York — from 1961 until their 1984 divorce.

The glamourous Salt Lake City native appeared in other films including Taggart (1964), The Oscar (1966) and The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (1967) and on television ...

Jean Hale, who tussled with James Coburn’s character in the spy spoof In Like Flint and portrayed the hatcheck-girl accomplice of David Wayne’s Mad Hatter on TV’s Batman, has died. She was 82.

Hale died Aug. 3 of natural causes in Santa Monica, her family announced Monday.

She was married to Emmy winner Dabney Coleman — the two met while studying acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York — from 1961 until their 1984 divorce.

The glamourous Salt Lake City native appeared in other films including Taggart (1964), The Oscar (1966) and The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (1967) and on television ...

Grammy winner Jill Scott and 7th Heaven alum Barry Watson are set to star in a TV-movie series reboot of Highway to Heaven, the 1980s drama that famously starred Michael Landon as a helpful angel.

Scott will star as Angela, an angel who comes down to Earth to help people in crisis, while Watson will play Bruce, a junior high school principal who becomes aware of Angela’s true identity.

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Exclusive: An updated version of Highway to Heaven is coming to the small screen. Lifetime has greenlighted event movie series Highway To Heaven, a modern take on the classic Michael Landon TV series, starring Grammy winner Jill Scott (First Wives Club) in a gender-switching lead role, and Barry Watson (The Loudest Voice). Scott also serves as an executive producer.

Scott stars as new angel Angela who comes down to Earth to help people in crisis. Landon played the male version of the character in the original series, the angel Jonathan, who was sent to Earth to help people in need. Watson portrays Junior High School principal Bruce to whom Angela reveals her true identity.

Cast also includes Ben Daon (The Astronauts), Robert Moloney and Ashley Ross (A Series of Unfortunate Events).

In cooperation with Cindy Landon and the Michael Landon Estate, the movies are inspired by...

Exclusive: Cargo Film & Releasing has acquired sales rights to The Conductor and Father of the Cyborgs, a pair of documentary features premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival in June.

Directed by Bernadette Wegenstein, and produced by Annette Porter of Nylon Films, The Conductor tells the overdue story of world-renowned conductor Marin Alsop, who was the first woman to serve as music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, as well as the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra and the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. After years of overcoming various obstacles and proving naysayers wrong, we see how Marin was able to succeed against all odds, and break the glass ceiling for women conductors around the world. The film notably utilizes stirring musical segments conducted by Alsop herself, to accentuate the highs and lows of her life, and reflect for the audience her inner world.

Marking the directorial debut of award-winning filmmaker David Burke,...

Exclusive: Sony Pictures Entertainment will make strides towards more sustainable productions as it seeks to rid single-use plastic and cut a quarter of its greenhouse gas emissions across business functions by 2025.

The newly announced steps add to Sony’s Road to Zero initiative, the company’s plan to reach a zero environmental footprint from business affairs by 2050. Road to Zero will also expand its Sustainable Production program, which outlines the entertainment giant’s eco-friendly best practices, to North America, South America and Europe productions.

“We’re setting an even higher bar for the next five years, building on our progress and expanding our efforts to reduce the impact of content creation internationally while eliminating single use plastics,” said John Rego, VP Sustainability at Sony Pictures Entertainment.

Come fall 2020, single-use plastics will be a thing of the past as Spe will take steps to replace the disposable with the recyclable, like...

U.S. documentary specialists Cargo Film & Releasing have snapped up world rights to an Alec Baldwin-narrated feature documentary investigating the water poisoning crisis in Flint, Michigan. (Watch a trailer for the film above.)

Directed by British “You’ve Been Trumped” filmmaker Anthony Baxter, and co-produced with the BBC, the film, which is being shopped to buyers virtually attending the Cannes market, is billed as the untold story of what happened to Flint after news coverage of the scandal died down. Flint was made famous by documentarian Michael Moore, who grew up there and featured the city’s journey with General Motors in his critically acclaimed film “Roger & Me.”

Flint’s troubles began in 2011 after the state took control of its finances following a major deficit. To cut costs, the city announced a new pipeline to deliver its water, but when that project was delayed, Flint River became a provisional water source.

Exclusive: Judy Greer has joined the cast of Universal Pictures’ Flint Strong, in what we hear is a key role.

Rachel Morrison, who made history as the first female Dp to be nominated for an Oscar on Mudbound and was also the cinematographer on the $1.3 billion grossing three-time Oscar winner Black Panther, is making her feature directorial debut on Flint Strong. Oscar winner Barry Jenkins wrote the script adapted from the 2015 boxing documentary T-rex made by Zackary Canepari and Drea Cooper.

The documentary T-rex follows 17-year-old Claressa “T-rex” Shields, a Flint Michigan native whose dreams of becoming the first woman in history to win an Olympic gold medal in Boxing are realized at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Universal acquired Shields’ life rights and rights to the documentary in 2016. Greer joins Ryan Destiny (Fox’s Star and Freeform’s grown-ish) who is starring as Claressa “T-rex” Shields, and Ice Cube...

Over the past three years, cinematographer Rachel Morrison shot three features — Mudbound, Black Panther, and Seberg — along with commercials and shorts. She also directed the pilot and second episode of Hightown, a television series set in Cape Cod that premieres May 17 on Starz. This year Morrison started directing her first feature, Flint Strong, a biopic about Claressa Shields starring Ryan Destiny and Ice Cube, from a script by Barry Jenkins. On March 13, Morrison posted the following on Instagram: I started this morning scouting an amazing set by @keenkenzie that we were due to shoot next week. Then as […]...

Over the past three years, cinematographer Rachel Morrison shot three features — Mudbound, Black Panther, and Seberg — along with commercials and shorts. She also directed the pilot and second episode of Hightown, a television series set in Cape Cod that premieres May 17 on Starz. This year Morrison started directing her first feature, Flint Strong, a biopic about Claressa Shields starring Ryan Destiny and Ice Cube, from a script by Barry Jenkins. On March 13, Morrison posted the following on Instagram: I started this morning scouting an amazing set by @keenkenzie that we were due to shoot next week. Then as […]...

Atlas Entertainment is expanding into literary management with the launch of Atlas Literary following the acquisition of HertzbergMedia.

Alex Hertzberg will lead the new division as CEO as they focus on literary creators with unique artistic identities and brands.

“Atlas Entertainment has since its inception had the good fortune to manage some of the worlds most talented creative voices both in front of the camera and musically. These relationships have always enhanced Atlas’ content creation in the motion picture, television and music mediums. We are excited to establish similar relationships in the literary arena,” said Atlas Entertainment’s Charles Roven. “We are thrilled to have Alex, with his depth of experience and stellar clients, as our partner in this new venture. This division is the perfect companion to Atlas Entertainment and Atlas Artists and our unified ability to create holistic content”

“Atlas Entertainment and Atlas Artists teams operate with the...

World premieres include Julian Jarrold’s biopic ’Sulphur And White’ and Anthony Baxter’s documentary ‘Flint’.

The Glasgow Film Festival has revealed the full programme for its 16th edition, which will run from February 26 to March 8.

The line-up features nine world premieres throughout the programme, including Julian Jarrold’s biopic Sulphur And White, starring Mark Stanley as real-life mountaineer and charity campaigner David Tait who faced long-buried childhood trauma.

The festival will also debut documentaries Flint, from Scottish director Anthony Baxter (You’ve Been Trumped) about the Michigan city’s toxic water scandal; and Robbie Fraser’s Pictures From Afghanistan,...

In what marks the company’s first Latin American project, Alec Baldwin’s El Dorado Pictures has boarded Chilean filmmaker Francisca Alegria’s debut feature, “The Cow Who Sang a Song About the Future.” The multi-Emmy-winning actor and his El Dorado partner Casey Bader will serve as executive producers of the film, slated to start principal photography in Valdivia, Chile by April next year.

Alegria’s first feature is based on her acclaimed short “The Whole Sky Fit in the Dead Cow’s Eye,” winner of the best international fiction short award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2017.

“Francisca Alegria is creating a unique and engaging story set in a world of magical realism and stunning art. We are excited to join her in this process,” said Baldwin.

He added: “Her filmmaking style is original and powerful­­­­­­ and she certainly has a dynamic and promising career ahead.”

For El Dorado,...

Awards contenders “Just Mercy” and “Ford v Ferrari” have been selected for showings at the Hamptons International Film Festival.

Legal drama “Just Mercy,” starring Michael B. Jordan, will be the opening night film on Oct. 10 at Guild Hall. “Just Mercy” is based on the case of Walter McMillan, an African-American death-row prisoner who was exonerated in 1993 after being convicted five years earlier for a 1986 murder in Alabama. Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, took on McMillan’s cause in 1988 in his first case as an attorney.

Jordan stars as Stevenson while Jamie Foxx portrays McMillan in the Warner Bros.’ film. The cast includes Brie Larson, Tim Blake Nelson, Rafe Spall, Rob Morgan and O’Shea Jackson, Jr. Destin Daniel Cretton directed from his adaptation of Stevenson’s memoir. “Just Mercy” will premiere at the Toronto Intl. Film Festival and open in limited release on Dec.

Exclusive: Pastor, author and filmmaker T.D. Jakes has signed on as an executive producer of Lifetime’s upcoming foster care film I Am Somebody’s Child: The Regina Louise Story. Moved by Regina Louise and her harrowing story navigating the broken system, the network says Jakes joined the movie as an Ep to bring additional attention to the need for foster care reform.

In addition, Lifetime has partnered with several youth and adoption organizations on a PSA that will air during the movie’s April 20 premiere on Lifetime. You can watch it and a trailer for the film below.

I Am Somebody’s Child: The Regina Louise Story, based on Louise’s books Somebody...

“Barry” and “Bob’s Burgers” led the way with three Writers Guild of America nominations each, followed by two each for “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “Succession” and “The Simpsons.”

HBO’s dark comedy “Barry,” starring Bill Hader as a troubled hitman, scored nominations for top comedy series, top new series and top comedy episode with the debut segment “Chapter One: Make Your Mark,” which Hader directed. Hader and Henry Winkler won Emmys in September for their roles in the series, which has been renewed for a second season.

Fox’s “Bob’s Burgers” was nominated for three episodes in the animated category — “Boywatch,” “Just One of the Boyz 4 Now for Now” and “Mo Mommy Mo Problems.” The series is in its ninth season and a “Bob’s Burgers” movie is due out the summer of 2020.

Hulu’s dystopian “The Handmaid’s Tale” was nominated in the top drama series and...

ReFrame and IMDbPro have awarded 62 television and streaming series their first-ever ReFrame Stamp for Television, Variety has learned exclusively.

The ReFrame Stamp was created by ReFrame, a coalition of industry professionals founded by Women in Film and the Sundance Institute, to recognize projects that have demonstrated success in gender-balanced hiring. Productions that receive the stamp are those that hire female-identifying people in four out of eight critical areas of production, including writing, directing, showrunning, producing, lead acting roles, season regular acting roles, department heads and crew members. Those series must reflect diversity across all of the season, not just specific episodes. The data was collected with IMDbPro.

The inaugural round of recipients include all five of Shonda Rhimes’ shows, Frankie Shaw’s “Smilf,” Issa Rae’s “Insecure,” Tanya Saracho’s “Vida,” “Broad City” from Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson and Amy Sherman-Palladino’s “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” among others. Over...

Terrence J (Think Like A Man) and Sleepy Hollow alum Lyndie Greenwood are set for recurring roles in the upcoming third season of Fox’s music drama series Star.

Terrence J will play Ryan French, a celebrity host who has a big following, but he wants to use his platform to effect social change. Greenwood will portray Megan Jetter, stunning and sophisticated, friendly yet fearless, she is a lawyer who just set up her own firm back in town. After a failed marriage, there is a stiffness beneath her warmth. Business is business.

Co-created by Lee Daniels and Tom Donaghy, Star follows three talented singers – running from their pasts and desperate for a new start – with ambitions of stardom, as they navigate the cutthroat music business.

The large ensemble cast includes Queen Latifah, Brandy Norwood, Jude Demorest, Ryan Destiny, Brittany O’Grady, Amiyah Scott, Quincy Brown, Miss Lawrence, William Levy,...

An episode of television that’s an homage to a TV series just won an award for being a movie; not only for being a movie, but for being the best movie in a field of, well, at least five.

Saturday night, “Black Mirror: USS Callister” took home the Emmy for Outstanding TV Movie, beating out well-reviewed films like Jennifer Fox’s “The Tale,” Barry Levinson’s “Paterno,” and Bruce Beresford’s “Flint.”

This is the second year in a row an episode of Charlie Brooker’s Netflix series has triumphed in the TV Movie category, and the third year a non-movie has won, given “Sherlock’s” victory for a “TV special” in 2016. This fact alone should be enough of a tip-off something has gone wrong here; after all, even if sequels that don’t rhyme with “The Toddfather: Fart Flu” actually won Oscars, this isn’t the Oscars. It’s the Emmys.

“Black Mirror: USS Callister” has won the Emmy for Outstanding TV Movie, making it two years in a row the Netflix anthology series has submitted an episode as a movie and won the category.

“USS Callister” is the feature-length first episode of “Black Mirror” Season 4. Written by series creator Charlie Brooker and William Bridges, the movie tracks Robert Daly (Jesse Plemons), the Chief Technical Officer of a video game company by day and Captain of the USS Callister by night — inside the game he created. Soon, his virtual colleagues start to show signs of life, and the science-fiction adventure takes off from there.

“USS Callister” is nominated for seven Emmys, including writing, editing, and Plemons is up for lead actor. It’s won three Emmys in 2018 so far, including TV Movie, Sound Editing, and Single-Camera Picture Editing. Last year, “Black Mirror: San Junipero” won two Emmys — for Outstanding TV Movie and Writing.

“Black Mirror” is the defending Emmy champ for Best TV Movie, having won in 2017 for its standalone episode “San Junipero.” Now Gold Derby contributor Riley Chow is expecting the anthology series to triumph once again. “I think you’re going to have a lot of Emmy voters who are just catching up on [the previous] season now,” he explains, “or maybe haven’t even seen or heard of these other [nominees].” Chow recently joined fellow contributors Amanda Spears and myself to dissect the category, which will be presented at the Creative Arts ceremony a week before the primetime telecast. Watch our entire slugfest above.

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When the acclaimed episode “San Junipero” won the top prize last year it also claimed the award for Best Movie/Mini Writing (Charlie Brooker), which was its only other nomination. This...

My heart is absolutely broken. I loved Craig.

It is so rare that someone with such immeasurable talent also has such an incredible soul. For everything he accomplished, there was no ego, no pretense — just complete passion and positive energy.

I have collaborated with a number of different people over the years, but my friendship and work relationship with Craig spanned over decades. We collaborated with one on another on “Chicago,” “Hairspray,” “Steel Magnolias” and “The Wiz,” not to mention the Emmy-nominated “Flint” project. He always had such an incredible and precise view of what he wanted but at the same time was so synergistic.

Before diversity and inclusion was a talking point, Craig (along with Neil Meron) always broke the barriers and made room for everyone. His vision had no boundaries. He was so supportive of me from the first time he and Neil and Rob [Marshall] cast me in...

If “Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert” wins for Outstanding Variety Special (Live) this year, it would be the ultimate tribute to executive producer Craig Zadan, who died this week at the age of 69, following complications due to shoulder replacement surgery. Zadan and producing partner Neil Meron have been behind countless TV movies and events, films, and Broadway musicals over the years — and their productions have received countless Academy Award, Primetime Emmy Award, and Tony Award nominations.

“Craig’s distinguished career as a passionate and consummate producer is eclipsed only by his genuine love for the thousands of actors, directors, writers, musicians, designers, and technicians he worked with over the years,” NBC Entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt said. “His absence will be felt in our hearts and throughout our business.”

Zadan’s credits go back to “Footloose,” and also include the Academy Award-winning “Chicago,” CBS’ “Gypsy,” starring Bette Midler, the Brandyy...

Craig Zadan, the prolific producer known for his touch with stage, TV and film musicals including NBC’s recent return to live event productions and three Academy Awards telecasts, has died. He was 69.

Zadan died Monday night at his Hollywood Hills home of complications from a recent shoulder replacement surgery, NBC Entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt announced Tuesday.

“We are stunned that the man behind so many incredible film, theater, and television productions — several of them joyous musicals — was taken away so suddenly,” Greenblatt said. “Craig’s distinguished career as a passionate and consummate producer is eclipsed only by his genuine love for the thousands of actors, directors, writers, musicians, designers, and technicians he worked with over the years. His absence will be felt in our hearts and throughout our business.”

Zadan had a long producing partnership with Neil Meron in Storyline Entertainment, which was recently renamed Zadan/Meron Productions. The two...

Now that the Best TV Movie category has jumped ship from the Primetime Emmys to the Creative Arts Emmys, it’s time to update your predictions at Gold Derby. In our predictions center you can make your picks for the 26 Emmy categories that will be presented live on NBC on September 17, as well as 25 different races that’ll be handed out the prior weekend at two Creative Arts events.

See Darren Criss and Jesse Plemons are vying to be the second youngest Best Limited Series/TV Movie Actor Emmy champ

This year’s nominees for Best TV Movie are “Black Mirror: USS Callister” (Netflix), “Fahrenheit 451” (HBO), “Flint” (Lifetime), “Paterno” (HBO) and “The Tale” (HBO). The winner will be announced Saturday, September 8, where trophies will be presented for scripted programming including comedy, drama, limited series and animation. On Sunday, September 9, categories related to documentary, reality and variety programming will be awarded.

With more and more movie stars transitioning to television, the number of previous Oscar winners in contention at the Emmys continues to grow. Several Academy Award champs number among the 2018 Emmy nominees that were announced on Thursday, July 12.

One of the most recent Oscar victors in the Emmy lineup is Allison Janney, who won Best Supporting Actress earlier this year for playing an acid-tongued mother in “I, Tonya.” Now she contends for Best Comedy Actress for her small-screen role as another flawed matriarch in “Mom,” which has already brought her two Emmys in the supporting category (2014 and 2015). Janney is a perennial favorite of the TV academy, with 14 total nominations and 5 additional wins.

Janney’s predecessor in the Oscar Supporting Actress category, Viola Davis (“Fences” in 2016), missed out on a Best Drama Actress nom for “How to Get Away with Murder” this year. But she nonetheless showed up in Best Drama...

Some of the biggest surprises in the 2018 Emmy nominations, which were announced on July 12, were in the races for movies and miniseries. We thought “Twin Peaks” would clean up, but while it swept Creative Arts categories and earned top noms for its writing and directing, it was snubbed for Best Limited Series and in all acting categories — no Kyle MacLachlan or Laura Dern! Our forum posters were also shocked by the absence of Al Pacino (“Paterno”) for Best Movie/Mini Actor, and they’re up in arms over Evan Peters‘s latest snub for “American Horror Story: Cult.”

But there were bright rays of hope. Our derbyites appreciated the surprise nominations for Regina King and especially Adina Porter (“Ahs: Cult”).

Read some of our forum posters’ reactions below and then be sure to join the discussion to give us your thoughts. And check out the complete list of nominations here.

As everyone looks to the major nominees for star-studded battles, let’s not forget that many familiar faces are popping up left and right in some less-publicized Emmy categories. The majority of these winners will be announced at the Creative Arts Emmys in two separate ceremonies on September 8 and 9, eight days before the primetime telecast on September 17.

The Best Narrator category is chock full of celebrities. Sir David Attenborough (“Blue Planet II”) competes against Charles Dance (“Savage Kingdom”), Morgan Freeman (“March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step”), Carl Reiner, and Liev Schreiber (“24/7”).

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Reiner is the only previous winner in the bunch, with 9 total victories including two for “Caesar’s Hour,” five for “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” one for “The Sid Caesar, Imogene Coco, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris Special,...

FX’s “Y: The Last Man” pilot has set its main cast.

Diane Lane has signed on to star in the drama series pilot, which is simply titled “Y,” along with Barry Keoghan, Imogen Poots, Lashana Lynch, Juliana Canfield and Marin Ireland.

Based on DC Comics’ acclaimed series by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra, the project traverses a post-apocalyptic world in which a cataclysmic event has decimated every male mammal save for one lone human. The new world order of women will explore gender, race, class and survival.

Keoghan will play Yorick Brown, the main character from the graphic novels on which the show is based. He is described as a young man quick to use humor to deflect from his problems who may be the lone male survivor of a worldwide plague.

Keoghan is known for his roles in films like Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Killing of a Sacred Deer...

This year’s Primetime Emmy Awards nominations are set to be unveiled Thursday, after another noisy season of campaigning with plenty of drama to go around. There are several new series looking for the embrace of the Television Academy, and still more returning after hiatuses long and short. What kind of a mixture will we be looking at on final ballots?

Here’s one final stab at guessing the major categories.

Drama Series

“The Americans” (FX)

“The Crown” (Netflix)

“Game of Thrones” (HBO)

“The Handmaid’s Tale” (Hulu)

“Stranger Things” (Netflix)

“This Is Us” (NBC)

“Westworld” (HBO)

Netflix is battling to find room for one of its new programs, like “Mindhunter” or “Ozark,” but return bids for “The Crown” and “Stranger Things” are more likely. The only new series that has a fighting shot otherwise is AMC’s “Killing Eve,” a binge-watching hit with a dedicated fanbase. In all likelihood,...

Outstanding Comedy Series: “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Atlanta,” “black-ish,” “Silicon Valley,” “Barry,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “Glow” Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series: Rachel Brosnahan, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”; Tracee Ellis Ross, “black-ish”; Allison Janney, “Mom”; Debra Messing, “Will & Grace”; Alison Brie, “Glow”; Pamela Adlon, “Better Things” Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series: Donald Glover, “Atlanta”; Anthony Anderson, “black-ish”; William H. Macy, “Shameless”; Bill Hader, “Barry”; Larry David, “Curb Your Enthusiasm”; Eric McCormack, “Will & Grace” Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series: Kate McKinnon, “Saturday Night Live”; Alex Borstein, “Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”; Megan Mullally, “Will & Grace”; Zazie Beetz, “Atlanta”; Rita Moreno, “One Day at a Time”; D’Arcy Carden, “The Good Place” Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series: Alec Baldwin, “Saturday Night Live”; Henry Winkler, “Barry”; Tony Shalhoub, “Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”; Titus Burgess, “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”; Louie Anderson, “Baskets”; Brian Tyree Henry, “Atlanta” Outstanding Drama Series: “The Handmaid’s Tale,...

Is David Lynch just too damn weird for Emmy voters?

That’s a question that could be answered by Emmy nominations in the limited series and television movie categories, where Lynch’s return to “Twin Peaks” on Showtime is both a monumental achievement and one of the strangest things ever put on television.

Among the top contenders in the limited series category, the 18-episode “Twin Peaks” is longest piece of work by more than six hours — and it’s also so bizarre that it makes the last season of “Westworld” look like a model of concise storytelling. There’s a real question as to whether Lynch’s flights of fancy will be embraced or scorned by voters.

Among the other contenders, FX’s Ryan Murphy is always a major presence in these categories, with his big entry this year not the post-election edition of “American Horror Story” but the second...

“There’s a lot more competition this year,” states contributing writer Amanda Spears about the Emmy race for Best Limited Series. Unlike the last two years, there isn’t a “Big Little Lies” (2017) or “American Crime Story: The People vs. O.J. Simpson” (2016) that’s “so far above the others that it’s going to sweep.” Instead, “this is going to be one of those years where somebody in fifth or sixth [place] could win.” Spears hashed out the odds with fellow contributors Zach Laws and Riley Chow in a recent slugfest (watch the video above), which also covered the races for Best TV Movie, Best Movie/Mini Writing and Best Movie/Mini Directing.

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Chow is placing his bet on “The Assassination of Gianni Versace,” the second installment in Ryan Murphy‘s “American Crime Story” franchise. “You get past ‘American Crime Story’ this year,...

“Project Runway” has been stuck on the Emmy runway for far too long.

It’s been nominated for Best Reality-Competition Program consecutively for the 13 years since it debuted on TV, but it’s been forced to step back year after year for winners in that category with slicker production values and heart-swelling songs (“The Voice” won 4 times), etc. Victories by “The Voice” are particularly noteworthy since they occurred over the past 5 years; the last 3 victories were consecutive.

Now “The Voice” seems unstoppable much like “Amazing Race” once outran all rivals in the old days. Over the past 15 years of this category’s existence, those two programs have hogged the winners’ circle with only one exception: “Top Chef” had the secret recipe for a shockeroo in 2010.

But that means more upsets are possible – so the Emmy hopes of “Project Runway” remain alive. It’s already won two Emmys in other categories in the past.

At this year’s Emmys, Lifetime is hoping voters drink up its Best TV Movie contender “Flint,” which chronicles the ongoing water crisis in that poisoned Michigan town. Starring Queen Latifah, who also produced the film, “Flint” tells the story of a local woman named Iza Banks who’s dealing with the town’s lead in the water supply. The Writers Guild Awards already rewarded the project for Barbara Stepansky‘s script based on the Time Magazine cover story “The Poisoning of an American City,” so might the Emmys follow suit?

SEEEmmys 2018 exclusive: Lifetime categories for ‘Cocaine Godmother,’ ‘Flint,’ ‘Project Runway,’ ‘UnREAL’ and more

Awards groups are suckers for these kinds of civilian activist projects, as they usually come from a place of passion and allow the performers to express a whole range of emotion. Think Julia Roberts winning an Oscar for investigating a similar story in “Erin Brockovich” (2000) or...

“How could you not want to tackle that?” says producer Neil Meron about taking on the story of the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, in the Lifetime original movie “Flint.” The film follows a “group of women who actually were the whistle-blowers” who helped expose the dangerously high levels of lead in the drinking water due to government cost-cutting. “They were soccer moms or just people with families that were economically challenged, and then having this put upon them inspired them to action.” Watch Meron discuss “Flint” in our exclusive video interview above.

Meron and his producing partner Craig Zadan have “taken on some social and political issues” in their work in the past. That includes “Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story” (1995) about a lesbian’s legal fight after being discharged from the military, and the controversial “The Reagans” (2003), about Ronald Reagan‘s family and presidency. “We do like...

She’s won an Oscar. She’s won a Tony. Can she now win an Emmy? Catherine Zeta-Jones is on the 2018 Emmy ballot for Lifetime’s telefilm “Cocaine Godmother: The Griselda Blanco Story,” in which she portrays a real-life drug dealer in the trafficking industry. A year ago the idea of Zeta-Jones coming to television seemed far-fetched, but then she took on the iconic role of Olivia de Havilland in Ryan Murphy‘s “Feud: Bette and Joan.” Zeta-Jones didn’t earn any Emmy love for that project, but might she receive a nomination for “Cocaine Godmother”?

Zeta-Jones prevailed at the Oscars for Best Supporting Actress for “Chicago” (2002), while her Tony came for Best Actress in a Musical for “A Little Night Music” (2010). Should she win an Emmy, she’d join the esteemed triple crown of acting club that includes such legends as Maggie Smith, Jessica Lange and Al Pacino. It...

Media company A+E Networks has delivered its 2018 Emmy Fyc mega-mailer to the TV academy membership highlighting many of its original programs across a trio of networks: A&E, Lifetime and History. Among the 25 total shows included on DVDs are A&E’s reigning Emmy champ “Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath,” Lifetime’s WGA-winning TV movie “Flint” and History’s drama series “Knightfall.” A link is also provided for Emmy voters to view more submissions at its online screening room. Get the full details below, including which specific episodes have been included on DVD.

SEELeah Remini talks backstage about sharing her Creative Arts Emmy win with ‘brave’ Scientology victims [Full Transcript]

A&E Disc One

Structured reality program “Live Pd” — episode “Live Pd-87”

Informational series “Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath” — episode “The ‘Perfect’ Scientology Family”

A&E Disc Two

Documentary/nonfiction series “Marcia Clark Investigates The First 48” — episode “Drew Peterson...

Constance Zimmer believes that bringing in a female suitor for season three of “UnReal” created a dynamic “that we haven’t seen before” between her character, the tough-as-nails producer Quinn, and her protege Rachel (Shiri Appleby). In its first two seasons this satirical behind-the-scenes look at a reality dating competition series featured bachelors searching for love among casts of eligible women. This year the sexes were flipped, with determined career woman Serena Wolcott (Caitlin FitzGerald) sifting through a variety of men. “It made both of them very aware of how much they take down women, even though that’s not their goal,” Zimmer explains. The two had to ask themselves, “How do you manipulate and empower a woman at the same time?” Watch our exclusive video interview with Zimmer above.

See Emmys 2018 exclusive: Lifetime categories for ‘Cocaine Grandmothers,’ ‘Flint,’ ‘Project Runway,’ ‘UnReal’ and more

Early on Serena takes the advice...

Emmy voters often love Oscar winning movie stars like Nicole Kidman (“Big Little Lies”), Jessica Lange (“American Horror Story”), and many more. And this year could see more Oscar champs claim TV’s biggest prize, including Al Pacino (“Paterno”) and Penelope Cruz (“The Assassination of Gianni Versace”). But as television programming continues to expand with cable and streaming the small screen has become a playground for Oscar favorites behind the camera as well. So how many this year will make the cut?

David Fincher has been nominated for two Oscars for Best Director (“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” and “The Social Network”), and he’s already an Emmy winner for directing the premiere episode of “House of Cards.” But while that political drama sits out this Emmy cycle (its sixth and final season won’t premiere until later this year), Fincher has another Netflix series in the running: “Mindhunter,...

In a Gold Derby exclusive, we have learned the category placements of the key Emmy Awards contenders for Lifetime. The cable network has returning drama contender “UnREAL (starring Shiri Appleby and Constance Zimmer), TV movies “Cocaine Godmother” (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and “Flint” (Queen Latifah) plus Emmy-winning reality show “Project Runway” among their 2018 contenders.

SEECan Catherine Zeta-Jones join Triple Crown of acting thanks to Lifetime’s ‘Cocaine Godmother’?

Below, the list of Lifetime lead and supporting submissions for their drama series and telefilms. More names might be added by the network before final Emmy paperwork deadlines. Also note that performers not included on this list may well be submitted by their personal reps.

“Cocaine Godmother”

TV Movie

Movie/Limited Series Actress – Catherine Zeta-Jones

“Faith Under Fire”

TV Movie

Movie/Limited Series Actress – Toni Braxton

“Flint”

TV Movie

Movie/Limited Series Actress – Betsy Brandt, Marin Ireland, Jill Scott

Movie/Limited Series Supporting Actress...

This is simply a bizarre Emmy category this year with notable performances from a ton of projects that earned mixed reviews at best. Laura Dern “should” get in for a film that debuted at Sundance before HBO acquired it, “The Tale,” as should Jessica Biel for “The Sinner,” but everyone else? Their chances are tenuous at best. [Posted April 3]

Frontrunners

Jessica Biel, “The Sinner”

Laura Dern, “The Tale”

Michelle Dockery, “Godless”

Queen Latifah, “Flint”

Elisabeth Moss, “Top of the Lake: China Girl”

Carey Mulligan, “Collateral”

Almost there

Hayley Atwell, “Howards End”

Edie Falco, “The Menendez Murders”

Dakota Fanning, “The Alienist”

Sarah Paulson, “American Horror Story: Cult”

Outstanding Comedy Series

Outstanding Comedy Series

Outstanding Limited Series

Outstanding Reality-Competition Series...

Winners of the 2018 Writers Guild of America Awards were revealed on Feb. 11 in ceremonies held simultaneously in Los Angeles and New York. As only screenplays written under the guild’s guidelines or those of several international partners are eligible for consideration, these kudos, which are celebrating their 70th anniversary, have not been the most reliable barometer of the Oscars.

Indeed, one of this year’s leading contenders for Best Original Screenplay at the Oscars — Martin McDonagh for “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” — was ruled out of the running by the guild. However, that WGA race does include four of the other Academy Awards nominees — “The Big Sick,” “Get Out,” “Lady Bird” and “The Shape of Water.” It is rounded out by “I, Tonya.” Jordan Peele won for “Get Out” edging out Greta Gerwig, who had been predicted to win for “Lady Bird.”

All five of the Oscar contenders for Best...

“Feud: Bette and Joan” may finally shed its bridesmaid status. Ryan Murphy and his writing team on the FX anthology series will win Best Long Form Original at Sunday’s Writers Guild Awards, per our latest predictions, for the show’s first big victory all season. “Feud” has 2/13 odds to take home the prize, ahead of “Godless” (16/1 odds), “American Horror Story: Cult” (40/1 odds), “Manhunt: Unabomber” (66/1 odds) and “Flint” (80/1 odds).

Outside of a handful of makeup and hairstyling awards, “Feud” has come up short at all the major awards shows, having the misfortune of going up against the behemoth that is “Big Little Lies.” It lost all the limited series prizes to the HBO hit when going head-to-head, while its lead stars Jessica Lange, Susan Sarandon, and supporting players Alfred Molina, Stanley Tucci, Jackie Hoffman and Judy Davis have fallen to “Big Little Lies”‘ Nicole Kidman, Alexander Skarsgard and Laura Dern,...

Sneak Peek new images from the "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." episode "Past Life", written by DJ Doyle and directed by Eric Laneuville, airing February 2, 2018 on ABC:

"...'S.H.I.E.L.D.' has one final chance to return to our timeline, but their actions may have deadly consequences..."

Episode guest stars include Jeff Ward as 'Deke', Eve Harlow as 'Tess', Dominic Rains as 'Kasius', Florence Faivre as 'Sinara', Joel Stoffer as 'Enoch', Max E. Williams as 'Tye', Coy Stewart as 'Flint', Tunisha Hubbard as 'Ava', Ryan R. Moos as 'Kree' doctor, Luke Massy as 'Hek-Sel' and Jay Hunter as 'Kree' watch commander.

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