With the 78th Emmy Awards well underway, it’s officially TV’s biggest night — which means the stars are hitting the red carpet in their Monday best. Heading into the evening, HBO Max’s medical drama “The Pitt” leads with 25 nominations, followed closely by “Hacks,” also from the streamer, with 24. (That number made Emmy history,
Emmy voting is now closed, and not a moment too soon. Every year, more than 27,000 members of the Television Academy — actors and editors, showrunners and composers, the people who actually make television — sit down with their ballots and decide who walks away with an Emmy. And every year, almost none of them
A few years back, Dale Dickey walked into a department store looking for a dress. She was wearing what she usually wears — T-shirt, shorts, flip-flops, no makeup — and a salesperson gave her the once-over and redirected her. “I sort of was treated like Julia Roberts in ‘Pretty Woman,’” Dickey tells Variety. “It’s like,
Apple TV executives can’t help but boast about their Emmy nomination batting average: 87 nominations (the platform’s best showing yet) across 15 shows, out of just 31 titles submitted for voter consideration, less than half of what their competitors submitted. “This simply reinforces our strategy, the ‘quality over quantity’ programming approach that continues to reward
