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The Russians have infiltrated another election, this time the Television Critics Association. The 2018 TCA Awards were handed out last night and the final season of FX’s The Americans took home three honors: Program of the Year, Outstanding Achievement in Drama and the individual drama prize for star Keri Russell. It capped off a lovefest the TCA has had with …

The 2018 Emmys will be full of exciting and competitive races once the nominations are announced on July 12th but none will be more interesting than the potential for Bill Hader and Donald Glover to go head to head in up to FIVE different categories. Both are assured nominations for Actor in a Comedy Series – Hader for HBO’s Barry …

In the first Emmy podcast of the 2017-2018 television season I am joined by a familiar voice – Vox.com’s critic-at-large Todd VanDerWerff. The first hour of this 90-minute podcast focuses heavily on the Outstanding Drama race which sees the return of Game of Thrones after taking a year off and now going up against last year’s winner The Handmaid’s Tale. …

Episode 3 of FX’s Feud: Bette and Joan began digging into something we’ve all been waiting for, the 35th Academy Awards, where Bette Davis earned a Best Actress nomination for What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? while her co-star Joan Crawford was snubbed. The behind the scenes drama before and after that is the stuff of Hollywood legend, which the …

The FX limited series The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story was chosen as the Program of the Year by the Television Critics Association tonight where it also picked up wins in the Miniseries category and for Sarah Paulson in Individual Achievement in Drama. FX also scored the Outstanding Achievement in Drama for The Americans, that show’s second …

It was a good morning for FX and HBO as the two networks took the lion’s share of nominations from the 32nd Television Critics Association with 11 and 12, respectively. The People vs. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story grabbed four of those FX nominations (two for Individual Achievement in Drama – for Sarah Paulson and Courtney B. Vance, Achievement in Movies, …

In the first Emmy prediction podcast of the 2014/2015 season (I know, I know…), Awardswatch Emmy Experts Chris Pepper and Jonathan Boehle and myself, Erik Anderson, are honored to have AW alum and Vox.com Culture Editor Todd VanDerWerff join us as we deconstruct the Emmy submission ballots released last week and figure out if Orange is the New Black will …

The Broadcast Television Journalists Association (BTJA) announced nominations for the 5th annual Critics’ Choice Television Awards with HBO, FX and Comedy Central coming out as big winners today. Comedy Central’s Inside Amy Schumer nabbed three mentions while Broad City also got three, including one for Best Comedy Series. Also on the Comedy side, Amazon’s Transparent (which won two Golden Globes this …

Orange is the New Black and Fargo cleaned up at the AW Emmys with the Netflix dramedy winning 4 awards (including New Series, Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series and Directing of a Comedy Episode) and winding up in the top 5 of Program of the Year, the only comedy to do so. Still, it lost out to Veep for …

As the Emmy award season approaches, I thought it would be interesting to delve into the Emmy history of the FX network which has both opened up the Emmy game to basic cable networks in a way that was never thought possible before the early 2000s, but has also endured a number of surprising, and frustrating, award snubs. The FX …