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A list of the 10 best TV performances of the year could be filled exclusively with actors from Succession, Reservation Dogs and Beef, the top three shows shared by both of our Best of 2023 lists. But what fun would that be? You already know that Sarah Snook and Devery Jacobs and Steven Yeun are great. Or you should.

That’s why, when Angie and I set out to do this list, we started with the simple rule: “Nothing from either of our Top 10 lists.” Those performances and those shows have been celebrated amply, and we wanted to cover as many of the year’s standouts as possible.

Oh, and if it seems like most of our favorite performances of the year were from women? You don’t know the half of it. Had we had more time or space, we would have loved to write about Aunjanue Ellis (Justified: City Primeval...

While Hollywood writers are back at work, media companies have suspended negotiations with striking actors over a new contract. Even if talks resume and a settlement were to happen soon, however, it would likely be early 2024 before the two dozen or so dramas and comedies that normally premiere in the fall make it back onto screens.

As luck would have it, though, the era of peak streaming provides a nearly limitless array of series to watch. Below are a handful of new or recent lesser-known shows, many of them from outside the United States, on smaller streaming platforms (and one over-the-air network) that can help viewers fill in gaps in their viewing schedules while waiting for homegrown favorites to return. One bonus: None of the shows below are produced by companies against whom Hollywood’s unions are or were striking this year. Unless noted, all the streamers below offer seven-day...

Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any individual contender. As other formal (and informal) polls suggest, competitions are fluid and subject to change based on buzz and events. Predictions are updated every Thursday.

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Weekly Commentary: Quinta Brunson is the front-runner to win her first acting Emmy for her charming turn as Janine Teagues, the optimistic 2nd-grade teacher from ABC’s hit mockumentary.

As they’ve discussed the inspirations for their comedy Sisters (or SisterS as it’s stylized in promotional materials), co-creators and stars Sarah Goldberg and Susan Stanley have mentioned women like Sharon Horgan, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, and Michaela Coel, and anyone who watches the IFC series will see the similarities right away. Just like Bad Sisters, Fleabag, and I May Destroy You, the new show uses the brutal truths of women’s lives to tell a dark, funny story in a formally daring way. It’s equally telling, however, that Goldberg and Stanley have also name-checked Sarah Kane, the cult favorite British playwright whose violent, dreamlike images express the dangers of being alive. If Kane had written a comedy, then it might have been one like Sisters, which threads feral images into domestic hijinks and splashes zany characters with blood.

Since the writers strike began, I’ve seen an uptick in repostings of the season 3 Barry scene in which a streaming service executive (Elizabeth Perkins) attempts to explain to Sarah Goldberg’s Sally why her newly released show is being canceled. The sequence, which places the blame on a nefarious algorithm, hits home as more than just an accurately observed piece of absurdity because of how good Goldberg is at playing both the ridiculousness and the plausibility of the moment.

I get happy whenever the scene gets passed around because although Barry is far from underrated or insufficiently acclaimed, if any element of the brooding Hollywood hitman comedy has failed to receive its proper due, it’s Goldberg. Sure, she has a single Emmy nomination, but that doesn’t feel like enough for a performance that has often anchored the entire series. That’s very much been the case in...

SisterS is coming soon to IFC. The new dark comedy series comes from real-life best friends Sarah Goldberg and Susan Stanley. The duo stars in the six-episode series.

Also starring Harki Bhambra, Liam Carney, Frank Laverty, Donal Logue, Rory Nolan, Darragh Shannon, Pat Shortt, and Sophie Thompson, the series follows a woman who travels to Ireland to find her birth father after her mother’s death has led to a shocking discovery.

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Ryan Murphy is reteaming with one of his award-winning Pose stars for the latest edition of American Horror Story.

Michaela Jaé Rodriguez has joined Season 12 of the FX horror anthology series, our sister site Deadline reports. No character details for her role are currently available.

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Coproductions Calling For A+E

A+E Networks has made two high-profile appointments in London as part of an initiative to expand its international coproduction activities.

Ninder Billing is appointed VP of unscripted co-productions international. Alexandra Finlay is appointed VP scripted co-productions international. Both report to Patrick Vien, group MD, A+E International.

Billing was previously creative director at Darlow Smithson Productions, leading the premium factual slate focusing on streamer, international and U.K. terrestrial unscripted output and securing six new unscripted series. Prior to Dsp, she was head of specialist factual at The Garden where she launched and oversaw BAFTA-nominated “Operation Live” for Channel 5, “Police Tapes” for ITV and “The Unshockable Dr Ronx” for the BBC.

Finlay spent her previous five years at Shaftesbury as VP creative and co-productions, where her credits include the upcoming comedy drama “SisterS” for IFC/Sundance, Crave and Rte by Sarah Goldberg and Susan Stanley.

United States of Al vet Parker Young is moving to the great outdoors: The actor will star opposite Michaela McManus (The Village) in the ABC drama pilot Criminal Nature, our sister site Deadline reports.

The project is described as “a propulsive, soapy procedural set in the stunning world of National Parks,” per ABC. “The story revolves around the tangled, messy lives of the agents who work for the Isb — an elite law enforcement unit responsible for solving all serious crimes that occur in our country’s 81,000 square miles of protected land.” Young will play Clay, the cop ex-boyfriend of McManus’ character Audrey.

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Sarah Goldberg is moving from the Los Angeles of Barry to an intercontinental comedy at IFC.

Goldberg, an Emmy nominee for season two of Barry, and Susan Stanley have scored a green light at IFC for a dark comedy series titled Sisters. The two, long-time friends former classmates at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, will star in and write the six-episode series. They’ll play women from Canada and Ireland who discover they’re half sisters and set out on a road trip to find their alcoholic father. The series will air on the IFC cable channel and stream on Sundance Now.

“We are thrilled to be making Sisters, a character-driven comedic drama about how the absence of a parent in childhood can affect life in your thirties, and the macabre humour that can come with trauma,” Goldberg and Stanley said in a statement.

AMC Networks’ IFC has given a thumbs-up to SisterS, a new original comedy-drama series from Sarah Goldberg (Barry) and Susan Stanley (Hotel Amenities). The series has been in development with Peer Pressure, Shaftesbury, RTÉ and Declan Lowney. Lowney will direct the first three episodes of the six episode, half-hour series.

SisterS is a dark comedy-drama about two women, born continents apart, in Canada and in Ireland, who discover they are half-sisters and embark on a road trip to find their alcoholic father. The project marks the writing debuts of the real-life best friends Goldberg and Stanley, who will also star.

An Irish-Canadian co-production, the IFC original series is produced by Peer Pressure and Shaftesbury, in association with Mermade and Gaze Pictures. AMC Networks’ IFC and streaming service Sundance Now hold the US rights to the series, Crave in Canada, and RTÉ in Ireland. Fremantle will distribute...

IFC has greenlit “Sisters,” a half-hour dark comedy from Sarah Goldberg and Susan Stanley.

The six-episode series follows two women (Goldberg and Stanley), one born in Canada and the other in Ireland, who discover they are half-sisters and embark on a road trip to find their alcoholic father. Goldberg and Stanley, real-life best friends, co-created the series.

“Sisters” was developed by Peer Pressure, Shaftesbury, RTÉ and Declan Lowney, who is set to direct the first three episodes. Peer Pressure and Shaftesbury produce in association with Mermade and Gaze Pictures. The rights to the series are held by Sundance Now in the U.S., Crave in Canada and RTÉ in Ireland. Fremantle will distribute the series in all other territories. Filming is currently underway on location in Ireland and will conclude in late June.

Goldberg is best known for starring as Sally Reed in HBO’s “Barry.” She also played Lolly...