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Your 2025 Emmys Host: Nate Bargatze


Nate Bargatze
Scores a
Big-Time Gig
Apr 17, 2025 3:30 AM CDT

Nate Bargatze Scores a Big-Time Gig

Comedian has a huge draw right now, will host the 2025 Emmys

(Newser) - The 77th Emmy Awards are coming up Sept. 14, and the host of the ceremony will be stand-up comedian Nate Bargatze, CBS News announced Wednesday. Bargatze was the top-earning comedian of the year in 2024, selling more than 1.2 million tickets, and is one of the most popular...

These Are Your Emmy Winners
Here Are Your
Emmy Winners
Sep 15, 2024 10:37 PM CDT

Here Are Your Emmy Winners

Shogun, Hacks win top series awards, The Bear also makes out well

(Newser) - Hacks won the comedy series at Sunday's Emmy Awards, topping The Bear, which took home several of the night's honors, the AP reports. Shogun won the best drama series win, collecting a whopping 18 Emmys for its first season, just one of several historic wins. Hiroyuki Sanada won...

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...

In a Big First, a Dad-Son Team Is Hosting the Emmys

Schitt's Creek co-stars Eugene Levy, Dan Levy say they're 'thrilled' at the honor

(Newser) - The 76th Primetime Emmy Awards are around the corner, and buzz has been circulating on who would be tapped to host the show. Now, the big reveal, per Vanity Fair : It's going to be Eugene Levy and Dan Levy, the dad-son duo who've also worked as co-stars on...

Here Are Your Emmy Nominees
Here Are Your Emmy Nominees
Jul 17, 2024 11:38 AM CDT

Here Are Your Emmy Nominees

The Bear, Shogun load up, making it a banner season for FX

(Newser) - The Bear went on a tear at Wednesday's Emmy nominations with a comedy-series record 23, and Shogun led all nominees with 25 in a dominant year across categories for FX, reports the AP . Nominations for the acclaimed culinary phenomenon The Bear included best comedy series and best actor in...

Dick Van Dyke, 98, Just Made Emmy History

Actor picked is oldest Daytime Emmy winner ever for his guest star role on 'Days of Our Lives'

(Newser) - Dick Van Dyke has won a historic Daytime Emmy at age 98. The actor was honored Friday night as guest performer in a daytime drama series for his part as amnesiac Timothy Robicheaux on Peacock's Days of Our Lives, making him the oldest Daytime Emmy winner ever, per the...

Elton John EGOTs at Emmys
Latest to
EGOT:
Elton John
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Jan 16, 2024 12:00 AM CST

Latest to EGOT: Elton John

Emmy win cements him as one of the few

(Newser) - Elton John has achieved EGOT status. The famed British singer-pianist secured an Emmy Award on Monday night for best variety special (live) for Elton John Live: Farewell from Dodger Stadium, a three-hour concert documentary that streamed on Disney+, the AP reports. John said he was "incredibly humbled" to join...

Succession , The Bear Dominate Emmy Awards
These Are Your
Emmy Award Winners
emmy awards
Jan 15, 2024 10:23 PM CST

These Are Your Emmy Award Winners

'Succession,' 'The Bear' dominate

(Newser) - Succession won best drama series, The Bear won best comedy, and both dominated the acting awards at Monday night's Emmys, while Quinta Brunson scored an emotional and historic win for Abbott Elementary, the AP reports. Succession, the HBO saga of a squabbling wealthy family and maladjusted media empire, won...

Among Emmys' Silver Carpet Standouts: 450K Sequins
Here Are the Emmys'
Silver Carpet Standouts
emmy awards
Jan 15, 2024 9:04 PM CST

Here Are the Emmys' Silver Carpet Standouts

Including Selena Gomez in a dress with 450K sequins

(Newser) - Television's finest brought the silver carpet alive in color, vying with a sea of black, on Monday at the strike-delayed 75th Emmy Awards , including a 3D-molded black look for Ayo Edebiri and sparkly chartreuse for Rhea Seehorn, the AP reports. Edebiri of The Bear walked in a strapless custom...

Emmy Host's 'Enforcer' Mom Interrupts Acceptance Speech

Apparently Anthony Anderson was serious about his joke that she'd keep time

(Newser) - Host Anthony Anderson opened Monday night's long-delayed Emmy Awards with a Mister Rogers' Neighborhood-style musical medley of television theme songs interspersed with lyrics about all the lessons the black-ish star has learned from TV. Then he went into his monologue, informing the audience that with 27 awards to hand...

ESPN Hands Back Dozens of Emmys in Fake-Name Hubbub

Scheme saw network submit aliases for awards so ineligible on-air 'College GameDay' stars could win

(Newser) - "Violating the rules of engagement in the cutthroat world of sports television awards" is how Sports Illustrated is covering the latest commotion at ESPN, after the cable sports network was forced to hand back dozens of Emmys won by its College GameDay program. The story was first reported by...

Emmys Pick 10 Biggest Moments in TV History

From Beatles and MLK Jr., all the way through 9/11 coverage, these moments made an impression

(Newser) - The Emmys take place Monday, and it's the awards ceremony's 75th anniversary of celebrating the best on the boob tube. To honor that milestone, the Television Academy assembled members and academics who sifted through more than seven decades of TV gold, including news reports, sitcoms, dramas, variety shows,...

Barack Obama Wins His 2nd Emmy
Barack Obama
Wins Another Emmy
Jan 8, 2024 1:00 AM CST

Barack Obama Wins Another Emmy

Former POTUS wins at Creative Arts Emmys

(Newser) - Former President Obama won his second Emmy, and John Mulaney won his third Sunday on night two of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards, the AP reports. Obama won the Emmy for best narrator for his Netflix documentary series, Working: What We Do All Day, repeating in a category he previously...

Emmy Awards Delayed Indefinitely
Emmy Awards
Delayed Indefinitely
Jul 28, 2023 6:41 AM CDT

Emmy Awards Delayed Indefinitely

This is the first time show has been postponed since 2001

(Newser) - The Emmy Awards have been officially postponed due to the strikes that have brought Hollywood to a standstill. Vendors have been informed that with actors and writers on strike, the show will definitely not be happening on the original date of September 18, Variety reports. No new date has been...

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...

Kimmel Takes Flak Over Emmys Bit
Kimmel Takes Flak
Over Emmys Stunt
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Sep 17, 2022 12:50 PM CDT

Kimmel Takes Flak Over Emmys Stunt

He's accused of upstaging winner Quinta Brunson

(Newser) - Jimmy Kimmel is taking a fair amount of flak online Tuesday over a jokey stunt he pulled at Monday night's Emmy Awards. He and Will Arnett presented the award for best writing in a comedy series, except that Kimmel pretended to be drunk over losing in his own category,...

Here Are Your Emmy Winners
These Are Your
Emmy Winners
Sep 13, 2022 12:01 AM CDT

These Are Your Emmy Winners

'Succession,' 'Ted Lasso' win top honors

(Newser) - Succession and Ted Lasso topped the Emmy Awards on Monday, in a ceremony that touted the influence of TV and extended honors to Squid Game and winners who delivered messages of empowerment. The evening's uplifting tone, as voiced especially by Zendaya, Lizzo, and Sheryl Lee Ralph, was in contrast...

Barack Obama Is Halfway to an EGOT
Barack Obama Is
Halfway to an EGOT
Sep 4, 2022 7:30 AM CDT

Barack Obama Is Halfway to an EGOT

Former president wins Emmy for narrating national parks series

(Newser) - Barack Obama is halfway to an EGOT. The former president won an Emmy Award on Saturday to go with his two Grammys. Obama won the best narrator Emmy for his work on the Netflix documentary series, Our Great National Parks. The five-part show, which features national parks from around the...

Bridgerton Hair and Makeup Designer Dead of COVID

2 weeks after accepting an Emmy award in LA

(Newser) - On Sept. 19, Marc Pilcher accepted an Emmy Award for his hair and makeup design work on Bridgerton. Two weeks later, he died of COVID-19. The 53-year-old tested negative for the virus multiple times as he traveled from the UK to Los Angeles and back again for the ceremony, but...

Seth Rogen at Emmys: This Isn't Very COVID-Safe

Actor appears shocked at COVID protocols

(Newser) - Seth Rogen presented an award at Sunday night's Emmy Awards , but he didn't sound too comfortable with the whole thing. "Let me start by saying: there’s way too many of us in this little room," he said. The event took place outdoors in a tent,...

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