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Due for a Comeback: The 'Super Emmy'
Time for the Return
of the 'Super Emmy'
OPINION
Sep 12, 2024 8:23 AM CDT

Time for the Return of the 'Super Emmy'

An award pitting winners against winners might be useful as TV categories blur, writes Brian Lowry

(Newser) - What makes a TV series a comedy? What makes it a drama? These questions have become more complicated with the "blurring of lines in TV's categorical designations," media critic Brian Lowry writes at the New York Times . He offers up a bit of Emmys history while making...

Succession Scores 27 Emmy Nominations
3 HBO Shows Score
74 Emmy Nominations
Jul 12, 2023 12:40 PM CDT

3 HBO Shows Score 74 Emmy Nominations

'Succession' leads the way with 27

(Newser) - HBO dominated Wednesday morning's Emmy nominations, with the elite trio of Succession, The White Lotus, and The Last of Us combining for a whopping 74—though the news comes against the backdrop of the ongoing writers strike and the looming possibility that actors may join them in as little...

Succession Finale Drew Show's Biggest Numbers
HBO: 2.9M Watched
Succession Finale
May 31, 2023 1:42 PM CDT

HBO: 2.9M Watched Succession Finale

Delayed views will boost the number even higher

(Newser) - HBO said 2.9 people million watched the series finale of Succession on Sunday night, reports the AP . That beat the first-night viewing record of 2.75 million for an episode that aired on April 30, earlier in the final season of the family drama about a media company. The...

Get Ready to Say Goodbye to the Roy Family

Jesse Armstrong, creator of HBO's 'Succession,' confirms upcoming 4th season will be show's last

(Newser) - When Game of Thrones ended, there was a good amount of murmuring over whether HBO could find another audience-pleasing series to latch onto as an anchor. Turns out the cable network found one such mooring in Succession, its Emmy-winning show about the conniving, back-stabbing, super-rich Roy family, starring Brian Cox...

Jeremy Strong on New Yorker Profile: 'I Felt Foolish'

'Succession' actor is speaking out on the commotion, calls article a 'profound betrayal'

(Newser) - Update: Jeremy Strong has stayed mum since last year's polarizing New Yorker profile on him, which portrayed the Succession star as an extremely serious actor considered by some to be "self-indulgent." Now, the 43-year-old actor is speaking out, telling Vanity Fair that the article "felt like...

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