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  • Regina King In Shock Over Best Supporting Actress Win At Emmys, Taraji P. Henson Presents Award

    Regina King might not have expected her award at the Emmys, but her friend, Taraji P. Henson sure knew how to tip her off.

    In the annual awards ceremony that was held last Sunday, Taraji P. Henson and Terrence Howard served as presenters for the Best Supporting Actress in a Limited Series/Movie honor. It was apparent that Henson could not contain her excitement before revealing King as the winner.

    In a backstage interview with ET, King spoke fondly about her friendship with Henson. She also revealed that Henson’s premature reaction gave the idea that it was her name she’d be calling out.

    “I was stunned,” King said. “Because that’s my girl, when she gasped, that’s when my heart started beating fast. She’s gotta be doing that for me, it’s gotta be me! And I had no idea she was gonna be doing that category!”

    Despite Henson’s giveaway, King’s reaction to her well-deserved win was sincere and priceless. Henson’s reaction to King’s win was equally memorable —  she caught her friend in a tight embrace and cheered her on before she began her speech.

    “I should have brought one of these papers all the comedy people had! I was not expecting this,” said King while accepting the award.

    “I’m just going to listen to all the love that surrounds me,” King also added.

    King, who was up against Kathy Bates, Sarah Paulson, and Angela Bassett for American Horror Story: Freak Show; Mo’Nique for Bessie, and Zoe Kazan for Olive Kitteridge, won for her role in the ABC crime drama, American Crime. This was King’s first Emmy nomination and win.

    “It feels a bit surreal. I’m still digesting,” Regina told ET’s Kevin Frazier backstage. “I really wasn’t expecting it so, it’s so special that Taraji gave it to me.”

    King’s son, Ian, served as her date to the awards ceremony. In her speech, she lovingly addressed her son who was sitting in the audience, and gushed about her role as his mother.

    “The fact that I get to share this night with you, the best date in the house. You make being a mother my greatest accomplishment. Cheers,” Regina King said.

  • Allison Janney Brings Much Younger Boyfriend To Emmys, And Everybody Is Talking About It

    Allison Janney may have made history at the 2015 Emmys, but people are talking about an entirely different trophy.

    The 55-year-old actress took her boyfriend Philip Joncas, 35, to the esteemed television awards ceremony last Sunday, and immediately turned heads with their open displays of affection throughout the evening.

    Janney received the honor for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role on the CBS hit show, Mom. Her 7th Emmy, she is currently the third most honored star in the history of the organization. In last year’s ceremonies, Joncas was also by her side when she received the same award. One of the most memorable moments of the evening was when Joncas unabashedly put his arm around Janney and planted a loving kiss on her lips when the presenter announced her name.

    Janney looked amazing in her body tight, backless, embroidered Labourjoisie gown, which perfectly showed off her toned figure. She credited Joncas for keeping her in shape. “I’ve been doing the Pilates, and I have three dogs that I hike with and a boyfriend who loves to work out so that helps,” Janney said backstage. Janney and Joncas, who have been going out for a year now, have been captured several times holding hands, kissing, and snuggling. The cameras caught Joncas sweetly kissing her on the cheek at the Critics’ Choice Television Awards last June. After the awards, Janney also tweeted a picture of them standing outside the Staples Center, which is next to the Microsoft Theater, where the Emmys were held. The barefoot Janney had her stilettos in her hands while Joncas carried a McDonald’s paper bag.

    “Such a great night! So grateful for #Emmy #7!!!!!!! Now if we could just find a ride home!” Janney wrote.

    In her speech, Allison Janney expressed how she felt humbled by all the professional accolades. On the other hand, she doesn’t seem to mind showing her adoration for her hunky boyfriend as well as being the receiving end of his affection.

  • Jill Soloway: ‘We Have a Trans Civil Rights Problem’

    Jill Soloway won her first Emmy on Sunday, for Outstanding Directing on a Comedy Series for the hit Amazon original show Transparent. And she used her acceptance speech to call for action on transgender rights.

    “We don’t have a trans tipping point yet,” she said. “We have a trans civil rights problem, so go to transequality.org and vote to pass the trans equality bill. Thank you,” said Soloway.

    The bill, which was introduced this summer, would explicitly prohibit discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation in employment, housing, education, credit, public accommodations, jury service, and federally funded programs.

    Watch Soloway’s speech below:

    It was a big night for Transparent as Jeffrey Tambor took the Best Lead Actor Emmy for his work on the series.

    Transparent‘s second season will land on Amazon Prime Video in December. It’s been a big success for Amazon – both critically and in terms of popularity. The studio has already greenlit a third season – months before the second season even premieres.

  • Sarah Hyland Leans on Friends Following Breakup With Matt Prokop

    Sarah Hyland has split from her boyfriend of five years, Matt Prokop.

    The Modern Family star’s rep confirmed the breakup Tuesday, but did not give any further details about the split, according to The Los Angeles Times. Other reports say the breakup was amicable and the 23-year-old actress is “doing fine,” thank you very much.

    “It didn’t work out,” a source told Us Weekly, “She’s young. They decided they would be better off as friends.”

    Hyland and her 24-year-old former boyfriend met at a High School Musical 3: Senior Year audition in 2008. The couple costarred together in the 2011 TV movie Geek Charming.

    No word on the custody of their dog, Barkley Bixby.

    Hyland appeared Monday at the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards on her own but seemed happy as a clam. She posted a beautiful photo of herself on Instagram with the caption: “This sums up the #emmys2014 for me. Thank you to those who voted for us!!! I can’t believe we won!!!! #emmys #modernfamily”

    And why wouldn’t she look happy-happy? After all, Modern Family won several Emmys, including its fifth win for best comedy series, tying Frasier for the most wins in that category.

    After the show, the actress and her costars celebrated their big night. She posted a photo with Sofia Vergara at one of the parties.

    The actress seems to be well-supported by her Team Sarah. On Tuesday she hit the Town with her good friends, posting an Instagram photo, captioned: “Very happy to have spent the night with my friends who happen to be the greatest team ever! @allanface @gualazz1 @ahellerpr”

    Hyland may have been feeling the breakup blues on Thursday, with two cryptic posts:

    Looks like she knows what to do to battle those breakup blues — girls night out with Glee‘s Jenna Ushkowitz!

    ❤️️

  • Sarah Silverman: Barefoot And Stoned At The Emmys?

    Comedienne Sarah Sliverman looked stunning as she walked the red carpet of the Emmy Awards held last Monday, wearing a cleavage-revealing green gown. However, it was the contents of her elegant clutch that got people buzzing.

    While being interviewed by E! News’s Giuliana Rancic during the channel’s coverage of the Emmys red carpet, Silverman was asked by the host to show what was in her clutch bag. She complied with the request and brought out a vaporizer pen that she said was filled with “liquid pot”.

    Her odd behavior when she won and accepted an Emmy for writing the HBO comedy special Sarah Silverman: We Are Miracles only encouraged speculation that she had used her vape pen during the show. First, she ran up the stage barefoot to accept her award, then gave a speech that contained the statement, “We’re all just made of molecules and we’re hurtling through space right now.”

    However, Silverman denied that she had a few puffs before the show. Backstage, after winning her Emmy, she was asked by reporters about her vape pen. “I had pot for later in my purse. It’s legal and I don’t drink. I like to have a puff as a treat at appropriate times,” she explained.

    She confirmed this later in the night for TMZ when she said, “I like to have a little pop-a-roonie end of night, when all is said and done, because I’m a grown woman.”

    Despite Silverman’s insistence that she was sober during her speech, other actors enjoyed her antics. Anna Kendrick showed her support for Silverman by tweeting, “Live your life girl!” She also tweeted, “Girl, you might be drunk but you look FLY” #JRoberts.

    Vaporizer pens work by heating up a concentrated marijuana oil enough so that it vaporizes and can be inhaled directly. They are said to be less harmful on the lungs and are discreet ways of consuming marijuana. Silverman reportedly has a prescription for marijuana in California, making her consumption of it legal.

  • Gwen Stefani Made A Flub At The Emmys, But What Happened To Her Face?

    Rocker Gwen Stefani of No Doubt made a mess when she presented an award to Stephen Colbert at the 2014 Emmy Awards last Monday, but the star is joining in the fun made at her expense.

    On the final episode of Chelsea Lately on Tuesday, Stefani made fun of her Emmys mistake when she introduced the show’s last musical number. She introduced talk show host Chelsea Handler as “Chelsea Hammer,” which got the audience laughing in their seats. The joke was in reference to her mispronunciation of Colbert’s name as “Col-bort” at the Emmys.

    Colbert didn’t seem to be bothered by the flub, and even joked about it himself. “(She’s) evidently not a huge fan of the show. But I’m a huge fan of hers. I want to get her abs. That’s what I aspire to,” he said. When the Emmy-winning show The Colbert Report aired on Tuesday night, he and show runners displayed a sense of humor when they spelled Colbert’s name as “Colbore” in the show’s opening credits.

    The subtle joke was a nod to Stefani’s name flub. After she made her mistake on Monday night, her co-presenter Adam Levine reportedly teased her onstage. Jimmy Fallon also couldn’t resist using the incident as an excuse to interrupt Colbert’s acceptance speech to joke about their impending late night talk show rivalry.

    Voices on the Internet are reportedly likening Stefani’s mistake to John Travolta’s flub at the Oscars earlier this year when he mispronounced Idina Menzel’s name as “Adele Dazeem”.

    But Stefani’s mistake wasn’t the only thing on netizens’ minds during the Emmys. Tweets speculating on whether the 44-year-old rocker had work done on her face have cropped up online, saying she was “unrecognizable”. Stefani had also attended the MTV Video Music Awards for the first time since 2005 the night before the Emmys, and her looks elicited the same reaction.

  • Julia Louis-Dreyfus Engages In 11-Second Lip-Lock Before Accepting Emmy Award

    For the third year in a row, Julia Louis-Dreyfus brought home the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. This is no surprise to most of us who have loved her since Elaine Benes in Seinfeld, or those who remember her from SNL before that.

    Officially America’s new queen of television comedy, Louis-Dreyfus now broke the record previously held by -none other than- Lucille Ball, by being nominated 15 times for acting in comedies. (JLD has three other nominations as a producer). She also made history for being the first actress to ever win five Emmys for three different series.

    More surprising than her Emmy award for her role as Veep’s Selina Meyer was the gag she and her co-presenter Bryan Cranston planned, and executed, which concluded in an intensely passionate kiss.

    The Breaking Bad actor was co-presenting with Louis-Dreyfus earlier in the telecast where he mentioned the time he played her love interest in an episode of Seinfeld. He guest starred as a joke-loving dentist who once kissed her character Elaine. Louis-Dreyfus claimed not to remember the episode.

    As a reminder, he later cut the actress off on her way up to receive her Emmy with an 11-second kiss.

    “Well, I think it’s not a question of why, but more a question of why not?” Cranston later jokingly remarked.

    Reporters backstage also learned how Louis-Dreyfus carefully planned the gag:

    “…I asked my husband if he was OK with that and he said sure and Bryan checked with his wife and she said sure. … Obviously, I might not have won. That was very stiff competition. So we worked it so that the presenting stuff would hopefully have worked on its own.”

    Elsewhere on Twitter, VP Joe Biden was quick to send his congratulations for Louis-Dreyfus’ win too:

    “Congrats @OfficialJLD. A fellow Veep with a great sense of humor, and a good friend. #Emmys,”

    The comedianne however, was quick to correct his slip. “Actually I’m the president now. But thx!” she tweetted back, as a reminder that Meyer has been promoted to the Oval Office at the close of this latest season.

  • Kathy Bates Remembers Robin Williams At Emmys

    The Emmys were all about remembering Robin Williams and almost everyone who stepped on stage to present or receive an award took a minute to recall a fond memory of Williams.

    Kathy Bates was no different and when she went on stage to receive her award, she had planned to dedicate it to Robin Williams. She was too nervous to do it on stage, but was able to share a memory of Williams backstage with US Weekly.

    “I really wanted to say, ‘I won this time. This is for you,’” Bates said, before recalling a run-in with the comedian that had a huge impact on her.

    “When I won my first major award for Misery—a Golden Globe—it was before cell phones, and I was waiting at a pay phone to call my mother afterward. And I didn’t have a quarter,” Bates said backstage, after her surprise win in the Outstanding Supporting Actress for a Miniseries or a Movie category for American Horror Story: Coven. “I turned around and asked if anyone had a quarter to call my mom. Robin stepped up and said, ‘Here’s a quarter.’ I never forgot that kindness.”

    She recalled another incident when she lost to Judi Dench at the Oscars in 1998, an award that Williams presented. “He came to me on the commercial break and said, ‘I really wish I could have read your name. Are you okay? I know what it’s like to lose,’” she shared.

    Several other celebrities shared similar stories about Williams and his amazing kindness and ability to make people laugh.

    Billy Crystal, a longtime friend and colleague of Williams, also honored Williams’s memory at the awards show with a special memorial segment that brought many people to tears.

    Williams passed away earlier this month from suicide. He had suffered from anxiety and depression for years.

  • Tumbleweeds For Netflix Shows During Monday’s Emmys

    Tumbleweeds For Netflix Shows During Monday’s Emmys

    Netflix originals accumulated a total of thirty-one Emmy nominations last month, but Monday night’s ceremony didn’t amount to much for them. They did manage to snag seven awards in the Creative Arts session, but those were given before the Primetime ceremony, and don’t get nearly the attention.

    Orange is the New Black’s Uzo Aduba won Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series. The show also won for Outstanding Casting for a Comedy Series and Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Comedy Series. House of Cards only managed an award for Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series (One Hour).

    Documentary The Square won Outstanding Picture Editing for Nonfiction Programming, Outstanding Cinematography for Nonfiction Programming, and Outstanding Direction for Nonfiction Programming.

    In total, House of Cards had thirteen nominations while Orange is the New Black had twelve, The Square had four, Derek had one, and Brave Miss World had one.

    It was a tough year with a lot of great competition, especially in drama. Nobody would want to have to compete against Breaking Bad, let alone in its amazing final season. At least that will be gone next year.

    Netflix made history at the Emmys last year with the first awards for web-first shows. That’s old news at this point. Still, thirty-one nominations and seven wins is pretty good for year two. There’s also the fact that two of the shows that were nominated last year – Arrested Development and Hemlock Grove – hadn’t returned in time to be part of this year’s honors.

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  • Bryan Cranston And Aaron Paul Star In An Emmy Video

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    Welp, here it is, our two favorite television actors in the last seven years making a little tongue-in-cheek joke about History Channel’s reality TV-show Pawn Stars.

    Though they don’t return as their iconic characters – Jesse Pinkman and Walter White – both Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul reunite with their dynamic acting chemistry, and it’s just as good as you’d imagine. Julia Louis-Dreyfus (the third Emmy winner in this little clip) also stars in the skit.

    Cranston plays a decked out Elvis-glasses-wearing stereotypical southern business man named Buzz Jackson while Paul works as his saggy overall-wearing trucker hat partner (or son?) Randy Jackson. They both run a business that isn’t so much an illegal empire of manufacturing and distributing blue crystal meth, but instead, a little pawnshop called Barely Legal. Louis-Dreyfus (playing herself), recently made a drunken impulse buy for a private island triggered by Celine Dion envy and needs to drum up some dough by trying to sell her 1996 Emmy (for playing Elaine on Seinfeld) for Best Supporting Actor. Both goofballs, Cranston and Paul, make nods to both the Emmys and Breaking Bad, but we won’t spoil that for you, just watch the damn thing.

    The comedic short from Audi sets up for next Monday’s Emmy Awards – it was produced by PMK-BNC and written and directed by Paulilu, the same guys who made the Dollar Shave Club’s viral launch video and last year’s Spock vs. Spock Audi ad starring Zachary Quinto and Leonard Nimoy.

    “We knew we had a great concept, a winning team and a client, Audi, who understood the value of this type of content,” says Joseph Assad, executive producer at PMK-BNC. “We flew in face of convention by putting out a video at six minutes, but with the high-caliber acting and the quality of the idea, we knew we could push some boundaries.”

    There’s an episode of Pawn Stars where a man named David actually tried selling Ronald Dunbar & General Johnson’s Best Rhythm & Blues Song – 1970 “Patches” Grammy Award. David ended up selling the thing for $2,350.

    “Well hello there mamasita.”

  • Debra Messing Will Be An Emmy Presenter

    Debra Messing Will Be An Emmy Presenter

    Debra Messing has been added to the list of presenters at the 66th annual Emmy Awards.

    She will join Andy Samberg and Viola Davis in the second round of presenters.

    Other stars who will presenting awards at the show will be Allison Janney, who stars in CBS’s Mom, as well as Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele from Comedy Central’s Key & Peele.

    Lucy Liu from Elementary will also be presenting.

    That’s not all that Debra Messing is working on right now.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkN7P08_oYM

    She is set to star in a new fall comedy series called The Mysteries of Laura. She will play the role of Laura, a respected homicide detective, who is trying to find that illusive balance between work and family. She is a single mother to twin boys who are more than a hand full.

    Most remember Debra Messing from Will & Grace, but she has had many roles since then. She most recently played Julia Houston on the TV series Smash, and before that, she had a few parts in some TV movies and bit parts in Law & Order.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QoTBjdUyK4

    She also had a successful run as Molly Kagan on The Good Wife. Debra Messing is such a great talent and will be so good in her new show, The Mysteries of Laura. She always adds so much to every show that she appears in.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9esQURFN0No

    The Mysteries of Laura, with Debra Messing in the driver’s seat, will premiere on Wednesday, Sept. 17 at 8/7c on NBC with a sneak preview of what’s to come in the show.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z52cA_ZCri4

    Seth Meyers will be hosting this year’s Emmys. The grand ceremony will air live on Monday, August 25th at 8 p.m. ET/ 5 p.m. PT on NBC.

    Good luck to Debra Messing as she partakes in this year’s Emmy ceremony. It should be a lot of fun with Seth Myers hosting, as well as all of the great presenters they have this year!

    Image via Wikimedia Commons

  • Jim Parsons Up For Emmy Amid Exit Rumors

    Jim Parsons Up For Emmy Amid Exit Rumors

    Jim Parsons is up for an Emmy again this year, and by all accounts, that thing is as good as his. He has been nominated six times, taking home the Emmy three of those times so far. The first in 2010, then in 2011, and 2013.

    All those nominations for Jim Parsons’ work on the incredibly popular show, The Big Bang Theory, have him feeling surprised and honored.

    “I’m a little floored, I’ll be honest. The very first thing that hit me, and it took a while to sink in was, how lucky am I that I was a part of two different projects that have both been deemed mentionable, if you will, by the peers for this year.”

    The Big Bang Theory is also up for (and has practically already won) the Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series. One of Jim Parsons’ co-stars and his onscreen love, Mayim Bailik, is up for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.

    Jim Parsons has also been nominated for an Emmy for his role as Tommy Boatwright in The Normal Heart on HBO. This could be a really big year for Parsons!

    All this Emmy news comes at a rather turbulent time for Jim Parsons and the rest of The Big Bang Theory cast. Talk of contract negotiations being stalled and rumors of Jim Parsons leaving The Big Bang Theory are running rampant. Rumors began with Jim Parsons’ character, Sheldon Cooper, appearing to exit the story line as last season ended.

    They continue as contracts for leading stars Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting, and Johnny Galecki remain in limbo for the coming seasons.

    However, CBS Chairman of Entertainment Nina Tassler says there’s no reason to worry just yet.

    “We’re feeling very confident that everything will work out,” she said last Thursday.

    “These deals manage to get done somehow miraculously year after year,” she added.

    I hope she’s right. I mean, if Jim Parson goes, The Big Bang Theory would fall apart. That’s my opinion, but what is the show without Sheldon Cooper? Just Leonard and Penny. And we all know how that story will likely end, and most of us don’t care because we watch The Big Bang Theory for Sheldon and Amy Farrah Fowler.

    Hopefully this will all be settled soon and fans of Jim Parsons can stop wringing their hands and get on with life knowing that come September 22nd on CBS, The Big Bang Theory will premiere with all of our favorite nerds intact.

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  • Between Two Ferns’ Obama Bit Gets Emmy Nod

    Thursday’s Emmy nominations, though dominated by HBO (per usual), featured a striking number of nods for Netflix, whose hit series House of Cards and Orange Is The New Black garnered 13 and 12 nominations, respectively. One nomination for Rick Gervais’ Derek and five for two Netflix original documentaries brought the grand total to 31 nominations – something that must absolutely thrill Reed Hastings, Ted Sarandos, and company.

    But Netflix wasn’t the internet’s only representative in the Emmy noms. Funny or Die, along with executive producers Zach Galifianakis, Scott Aukerman, BJ Porter, and Mike Farah, received a nomination for Between Two Ferns in the Outstanding Short-Format Live-Action Entertainment Program category – all thanks to their episode featuring President Barack Obama. You know the one:

    It’ll be up against Adult Swim’s Childrens Hospital, a Parks and Rec In Europe short, The Soup‘s True Detective parody, and the Super Bowl XLVIII Halftime Show (Bruno Mars). I’d say it has a pretty good shot at taking home the trophy.

    Other than showing the world that he could expertly pull off a fat joke, Obama sat down with Zach Galifianakis on Between Two Ferns to spur signups for the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance exchanges as the signup period was ticking down. The White House made a calculated decision to reach out to the younger crowd by throwing them an (admittedly pretty funny) elevated sales pitch – and it worked.

    “I can assure you that the Funny or Die video will be one of the reasons we get young Americans to HealthCare.gov–one of the reasons we get young Americans to enroll in health insurance programs, but not the only one,” said (former) White House Press Secretary Jay Carney.

    And now, it could also win an Emmy.

    Image via Funny or Die, screenshot

  • Netflix Originals Net 31 Emmy Nominations

    Netflix Originals Net 31 Emmy Nominations

    Last year, Netflix originals combined for fourteen Emmy nominations. This year, the number has more than doubled with thirty-one, including thirteen for House of Cards and twelve for Orange is the New Black.

    The nominations are as follows.

    House of Cards: Outstanding Lead Actress in Drama Series (Robin Wright); Outstanding Lead Actor in A Drama Series (Kevin Spacey); Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series (Kate Mara); Outstanding Guest Actor In a Drama Series (Reg E. Cathey); Outstanding Writing For a Drama Series (Beau Willimon); Outstanding Writing For a Drama series (Carl Franklin); Outstanding Drama Series; Outstanding Casting For a Drama Series; Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series; Outstanding Music Composition For A Series (Original Dramatic Score – Jeff Beal); Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing For A Drama Series (Byron Smith); Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Comedy or Drama Series; Outstanding Art Direction for a Contemporary or Fantasy Series (Single-Camera)

    Orange is the New Black: Outstanding Lead Actress In A Comedy Series (Taylor Schilling); Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Comedy Series (Kate Mulgrew); Outstanding Guest Actress In a Comedy Series (Natasha Lyonne, Uzo Aduba, and Laverne Cox); Outstanding Writing For A Comedy Series; Outstanding Directing For a Comedy Series; Outstanding Comedy Series; Outstanding Casting For Comedy Series; Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing For A Comedy Series (William Turro, Michael S. Stern, and Shannon Mary Mitchell)

    Derek: Outstanding Lead Actor In A Comedy Series (Ricky Gervais)

    Brave Miss World: Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking

    The Square: Outstanding Cinematography For Nonfiction Programming; Outstanding Directing For Nonfiction Programming; Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special; Outstanding Picture Editing For Nonfication Programming

    So the tally is:

    House of Cards: 13
    Orange: 12
    Derek: 1
    The Square: 4
    Brave Miss World: 1

    Last year, Netflix originals got three awards – all for House of Cards (Director, casting, and cinematography). House of Cards has some pretty stiff competition again this year as shows like Breaking Bad, True Detective, and Game of Thrones are all in the mix.

    Orange is the New Black was not eligible last year, as it was released too late. As expected, the show has added a great deal to Netflix’s presence this year. Hemlock Grove was present for Netflix in last year’s nominations, as was Arrested Development. This year’s Hemlock Grove season doesn’t even debut until Friday, and who knows when we’ll get another season of Arrested.

    You can get a look at this year’s full nominee list here.

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  • House Of Cards: Season 2 Premiere Date Announced

    The House Of Cards season 2 premiere date has finally been announced, and fans of the show will be excited to hear that it is not too far off. One of the first Netflix originals, House Of Cards became an Emmy winning show after its first season, gaining a lot of popularity with Netflix users.

    The binge-watching favorite is back, and in a matter of months fans will be able to feast their eyes on the power-hungry character of Frank Underwood, played by Kevin Spacey. House of Cards will return to Netflix with its full 13 episode season on February 14.

    In addition to Kevin Spacey, the show features a top-notch cast including Robin Wright, Kate Mara and more. The first season of the critically acclaimed show was nominated for nine Emmys, including acting nominations for both Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright.

    House Of Cards features a Congressman (Spacey), who works with his equally conniving wife (Wright), to exact revenge on the people who betrayed him. The second season will feature the couple continuing their rise to power, as threats build up on multiple fronts. At the same time, Zoe Barnes (Mara), an ambitious reporter, will continue to get closer to the truth about his crimes.

    As it did with the first season, Netflix will present the entire season of House Of Cards at once, allowing for fans to binge-watch, a practice that is becoming more popular with shows such as House Of Cards, and several others.

    A new teaser trailer was also presented that reveals the date, and with no sound, simply shows Robin Wright’s character smoking a cigarette. Much is left to the imagination of the fans of the show, allowing for people to get even more excited about the upcoming season that premieres on Valentine’s Day.

    House Of Cards is a political drama that has gained a lot of attention over the past year, as fans continue to spread the word, and convince other people to get hooked on the popular show.

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  • Derek Hough And Nina Dobrev Are Now Dating

    I’m sorry ladies, but Derek Hough, the four-time winning Dancing With The Stars pro dancer and choreographer, is actually now off the market. The media has not really seen Hough publicly involved with anyone in a while since Shannon Elizabeth, the American Pie star who partnered with Hough in season six of Dancing With The Stars. Now, it has been confirmed that Derek Hough and Vampire Diaries star Nina Dobrev are now dating (Source: Life and Style Magazine).

    Nina Dobrev (born as Nina Constantinova Dobreva) is a Bulgarian-born model who moved to Canada at a young age (Source: IMDb), where she became interested in the performing arts (dance, theatre, and acting). Dobrev is currently known for her roles as Elena Gilbert and Katherine Pierce in the CW show The Vampire Diaries.

    Rumors of the couple’s involvement with one another started when a tweet from Dobrev’s Twitter account @ninadobrevj (shown below) expressed her happiness for Hough’s Emmy win.

    A tweet later published by Derek exclaimed “You’re the best babe” in response to another tweet that Dobrev posted praising Hough for his win during this year’s Emmys.

    According to Life and Style Magazine, the couple was set up by Derek’s sister Julianne, who originally was another pro-dancer on Dancing With The Stars, but left early on to set her sights on a country music career (Source: TV Guide).

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  • Ellen Pompeo Slams 2013 Emmys For Lack Of Diversity

    This year’s 65th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards made a lot of headlines over the past few days, including various highlights, such as: Glee star Cory Monteith’s tribute, the really short Emmy acceptance speech by Merritt Wever, and Edie Falco’s tribute to James Gandolfini. Another aspect to this year’s Emmys that is attracting attention is Grey’s Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo’s comments regarding the well-known awards show.

    On Monday, September 23rd (one day after the Emmys were broadcasted), according to USA Today, Pompeo stated that she was “really disappointed by Sunday’s telecast.” Pompeo also made the following remark:

    “I didn’t see any diversity in the Emmys at all. The Emmys felt so dated to me. That dance number was embarrassing. Did you see one person of color in that dance number?”

    In the dance number that Pompeo referred to (provided below), do note that the dancers’ ethnicities are actually hard to determine due to their costumes and how fast they moved during the performance. The “Choreography” section dance number was created by various well-known dance choreographers from the popular dance reality shows So You Think You Can Dance and Dancing With The Stars.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rTHm8R5jLo

    In a YouTube interview with Pompeo (shown below), she talks about the headline show that she stars in (Grey’s Anatomy) and makes the statement “I’m extremely proud of our very, very diverse cast which represents the world that I walk around in every day.” This is true because many of the cast of doctors, nurses, and interns during the show are of various ethnicities.

    According to the Twitterverse, the opinion about the diversity of the Emmys is fairly mixed:

    Do you agree with Pompeo’s remarks about this past Sunday’s Emmys? Please let us know your reaction below in this post’s comments section.

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  • Game of Thrones Actors Hint About New Season

    The finale of Season 3 of “Game of Thrones” was perhaps the most shocking season ending of a TV show since Season 4 of “Dexter”. At the Emmy’s this past Sunday, actors from the extremely popular HBO series hinted that the upcoming season will be filled with even more drama and surprises.

    “I’m just going to say: The stakes are higher than they ever have been, and it’s getting better and better and better,” stated Lena Heady, who plays Cersei Lannister.

    One of the big appeals of “Game of Thrones” is the political intrigue that results from the show’s feudalist/warring nature. With the stakes being higher than ever, viewers can expect bigger shake-ups in the political landscape of Westeros. However, despite the brief lull in tensions last season, Cersei and Tyrion will not be finding mutual ground anytime soon: “That’s pretty much gone, any sense of that. It’s pretty effed up,” said Heady.

    Peter Dinklage, who plays Tyrion Lannister, also took some time to give some thoughts toward the upcoming season. In speaking about his character’s relationship with Cersei, Dinklage stated “Anybody who’s read the books know that that relationship disintegrates quickly, but there’s a lot of fun in that.” Tyrion’s relationship with Sansa, on the other-hand, will seemingly fare slightly better: “It’s respectful. It’s not filled with passion.”

    The passionate relationship on the show currently belongs to Jon Snow, who is played by Kit Harington. The Night Watchmen’s relationship with wildling Ygritte will continue its steamy beginnings, with Harington promising “plenty of sex”: “Me and Rose, who plays Ygritte, we’re as close to a love story as you get in the show.” When speaking about love in “Game of Thrones” in general, though, Harington was not optimistic: “Love? In ‘Game of Thrones’? Really? You think they’d be that nice?!”

    Harington’s character, Jon Snow, was last seen in Season 3 being attacked by an Eagle and shot at by his love-interest Ygritte. In Season 4, Snow will be wearing the memories of this encounter: “My face is not OK. It’s far from OK! I have to have scars this season… I’m asking to keep one of [the scars]. In the books he’s got a scar that runs (down his face), and so [one] side is going to disappear, but on [one] side I’m gonna have a scar. I thought that would look quite sexy. They’re quite sexy if done in the right way.”

    Unfortunately for the show, the Sunday was not a terribly successful night at the Emmy’s – “Game of Thrones” only won 2 awards out of its 17 nominations. The big winner of the night was “Breaking Bad”, finally winning Best Drama. And if George R.R. Martin is any type of prophet, “Game of Thrones” will lose to “Breaking Bad” again next year: “There’s no way in hell that anyone is going to defeat ‘Breaking Bad’ next year, when their last season is the one in contention.”

    While the statement by Martin may be true, it doesn’t mean “Game of Thrones” is out of the running forever. Martin still has to finish the series, so there will be more years of awesomeness to come. We fans just have to hope that Martin speeds up his writing – something us book readers know will never happen.

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  • Edie Falco Pays Tribute To James Gandolfini

    Edie Falco gave an incredibly emotional speech as a tribute to James Gandolfini, the man who played her husband on The Sopranos for six seasons. She got teary-eyed after not too long and audiences were able to tell that it was a very hard thing for her to do. Gandolfini passed away suddenly on June 19 of this year. He suffered a heart attack at the age of 51.

    This year, the Emmys decided to take a bit of a different approach to the tribute to those who have passed in the last year section that is typically present in award shows. This year, Gandolfini as well as Cory Monteith, the Glee star, and a few others were given their own tributes and were presented by friends of theirs. Each of them gave very moving speeches and the other people that received special tributes were producer Gary David Goldberg, Jean Stapleton and Jonathan Winters. according to US Weekly.

    Falco’s was especially emotional and it was easy to tell that their relationship extended far past their on-screen marriage and see that they were very close friends. She spoke very highly of him and his character throughout her speech, saying things like “You can ask anybody that knew him, if you needed anything at all, ever, Jim was there to take care of it before you even had a chance to ask.”

    It was hard for audiences watching at home not to feel emotional as well, as Falco broke down in tears. Anyone who watched him on The Sopranos, or was familiar with his work, knew how special of an actor he was.

    This year’s Emmy Awards was very concerned with remembering those that we have lost in the past year, and the somber tone carried throughout. There was even a special tribute given to Librace, in which Elton John played one of his songs and talked about how he has influenced him. Michael Douglas also won an Emmy for his portrayal of Liberace in the HBO film, Behind The Candelabra. Gandolfini played Tony Soprano on the popular HBO series, which earned him three Emmys, according to E Online. Falco’s tribute went into great detail when talking about who he was as a person and such an inspiration to her. Edie Falco can be currently seen on Nurse Jackie, which airs on Showtime and will return in January. Gandolfini also finished one last film before he died called Enough Said with Julia Louis-Dreyfus and is due to come out in theaters soon.

    As Falco mentioned, we all knew Gandolfini as an actor, but she was lucky enough to have gotten to know him as a friend. He will be forever missed in the hearts of his fans and especially his friends.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbrokhVhG-Y

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  • Breaking Bad: On the Emmys Win and Upcoming Finale

    Sunday night was a huge night for the AMC hit series “Breaking Bad.” Not only did the next-to-the-last episode air on AMC, the cast and crew behind the show was in Los Angeles for the 2013 Emmy Awards where they just happened to snag the Emmy for outstanding drama series.

    While “Breaking Bad” has been on TV since 2008 and has had two other previous Emmy nominations, this is the first time the show has won for best drama series. The timing couldn’t be better, since “Breaking Bad” is preparing to wrap up its five-season run on AMC on Sunday.

    Bryan Cranston, who plays meth mastermind Walter White on the series, has won three Emmys for best actor in the past, and was ecstatic over the show winning the award for best drama series. “This is an answer to a wish and a prayer,” Cranston said. “I’ve been blessed in the past, and this show has been nominated in the past, but what I really wanted was what we got: to celebrate the entire writing crew and cast. This is for all the crew that has worked so hard for us the past six years. This is the culmination of everything. This is one hell of a party, and what a way to go out.”

    What a way to go out indeed, Mr. White. And speaking of going out, to prepare fans for the show ending, a “Breaking Bad” marathon will air starting Wednesday, so clear out those DVRs or get ready to call in sick. Cranston spoke on the series finale during an interview with Ryan Seacrest on the red carpet on Sunday.

    “The ending is perfect,” Cranston said of the series finale. “Unapologetic. It is perfect Breaking Bad.” And what might be a bit of a clue in what the Sunday night finale holds for fans, when Cranston was asked about the plans announced for the spin-off “Better Call Saul,” Cranston said, “We have to see if anyone survives the holocaust.”

    How do you think “Breaking Bad” ends? Add your comments below.

    Read below for some celebratory comments cast members of “Breaking Bad” made on Twitter. Also, it’s worth noting that Aaron Paul stayed in character for his Tweet, so don’t scroll down if you’re easily offended (and if you follow “Breaking Bad” to the point that you’re reading an article on how they did in the Emmys, you probably won’t be):

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  • Jim Parsons Gets The Emmy For Best Actor In A Comedy

    Jim Parsons won the award for Best Actor In A Comedy Series again last night during the presentation of the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards. Since shows like 30 Rock and Arrested Development have ended, their nominees will not have any more chances to win the award. This marks the third time that Parsons has won an Emmy for his role on the show.

    Parsons plays Sheldon Cooper on The Big Bang Theory, a very popular show with both critics and audiences. He beat out some tough competition this year in order to get his third award, including Alec Baldwin for his role as Jack Donaghy on 30 Rock and Louis C.K. who essentially plays himself in a sitcom called Louie especially, which have both won over audiences. The other nominated actors were Don Cheadle for House of Lies, Jason Bateman for Arrested Development, and Matt Leblanc for Episodes.

    He got emotional during his speech, and the openly gay actor even gave a special thank you to his boyfriend, Todd Spiewak. He gave a really heartfelt speech, and the camera panned over to his co-stars in the audience who were all fighting back tears. After rattling off the names of his costars, family, and manager, Parsons gave one last shout-out to his love of more than 10 years, mentions US Weekly. He humbly spoke into the mic when saying, “Thanks to my favorite person on the planet, Todd Spiewak,” during his touching speech. The couple have been together for more than a decade.

    The Big Bang Theory is a show that follows the adventures of Sheldon and his geeky friends, while it is currently the most popular comedy on TV, according to the Los Angeles Times. The show also stars Kaley Cuoco and Johnny Galecki. Last season was also its highest rated season to date, earning the series a total of seven Emmy nominations, including one for Best Comedy Series and Best Supporting Actress, which Mayim Bialik lost to Merritt Wever from Nurse Jackie.

    The series is getting ready to head into its seventh season and will premiere on Thursday, September 26.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTenqttokbo

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