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Emmy On-Screen Diversity Takes A Hit With Acting & Hosting Nominations Down 18% From 2024
Twenty-eight actors and reality hosts from diverse backgrounds were recognized by the Television Academy with Emmy nominations on Tuesday, not only an 18% drop from last year's 34 but a near-low since 2019, when there were 26 non-Caucasian actors and hosts. At its highest, the most diverse year for actors and reality competition/talk show hosts was 2021 per Deadline stats with a massive 49 nominees. More from Deadline Primetime Emmy Nominations: 'Severance' Leads Field Ahead Of 'The Penguin', 'The Studio' & 'The White Lotus' – Full List 'Squid Game,' Diego Luna & Elisabeth Moss Snubbed In Emmy Nominations; Beyoncé & Martin Scorsese Among Big Surprises Jenny Slate On Emotional Journey To First Emmy Nomination For 'Dying For Sex': "I Knew Enough About Myself To Let It All Go" While there were only two categories last year devoid of nominees from diverse backgrounds (Guest Actor Comedy Series and Lead Actor in Limited Series, Anthology or Movie), this year there were three (Lead Actress in a Drama Series, Guest Actress in a Drama Series and Lead Actor in a Comedy Series). RELATED: The most diverse acting categories were Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series with Jessica Williams (Apple TV+'s Shrinking), Sheryl Lee Ralph (ABC's Abbott Elementary), Janelle James (Abbott Elementary), and Liza Colón-Zayas (The Bear) who made Emmy history last year as the first Latina to win the category. This is Colón-Zayas' second nomination. Another Emmy acting slot representing the most thespians of color was Lead Actress in a Comedy Series with Uzo Aduba (her sixth Emmy nom, for Netflix's The Residence, in a three-time Emmy-winning career), Ayo Edebiri with The Bear (who scored two Emmy noms this year in this category and comedy directing her Bear episode 'Napkins'), and Quinta Brunson for Abbott Elementary. RELATED: Had Diego Luna received a Best Actor in a Drama Series nom for Andor, it would have repped the first time two Latino actors shared the slot, the sole nominee this year in the category being Pedro Pascal for HBO's The Last of Us, his fourth career nom. Pascal is the second Latino nominee in the slot to be nominated more than once after NYPD Blue's Jimmy Smits' five-Emmy-nom streak from 1995 to 1999. Edebiri is the first Black woman to be nominated for acting and directing categories in a single year. She is also the youngest Black woman, at 29, to reach three Emmy acting noms in her career. She won best supporting actress comedy series in 2023 for her turn as Sydney Adamu on The Bear. She was nominated for a DGA Comedy Series directing award earlier this year for 'Napkins.' Abbott Elementary creator, EP and star Brunson counts 11 Primetime Emmy noms now in her career, having already won two for Outstanding Comedy Series Writing in 2022 and Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 2023. She also nominated in the comedy series writing category for a third time this year, the first time a Black woman has achieved that benchmark with a single series. Brunson is tied with Stefani Robinson (Atlanta and What We Do in the Shadows) with the most writing Emmy noms by a Black woman. Brunson is also the first Black Woman to win for comedy writing. With his lead actor drama series nom for Hulu's Paradise, Sterling K. Brown ties with Don Cheadle and Andre Braugher with an overall 11 Emmy career noms across various categories. This is Brown's fifth Lead Actor in a a Drama Series nomination; he is a three-time Emmy winner, in 2016 for Limited Series Supporting Actor for FX's American Crime Story: The People vs. O.J. Simpson, 2017 for Lead Actor Drama in This Is Us, and Outstanding Narrator in 2021 for Lincoln: Divided We Stand. Saturday Night Live's Bowen Yang is the only AAPI standout this year among noms, the sketch player landing a supporting comedy actor nom. Yang is now the most nominated Asian American actor in the Emmy books with four. Kristen Kish receives her second Emmy nom in Outstanding Host for Reality or Reality Competition for Top Chef. The TV Academy overlooked key performances from Asian actors and actresses in The White Lotus, The Studio and Squid Game. Other shoutouts: First-time nominees include Zach Cherry and Travel Tillman both in Supporting Actor for Apple TV+'s Severance, Anthony Mackie for playing himself in the streamer's The Studio in the Best Actor Comedy slot, also Zoë Kravitz for Guest Comedy Actress on The Studio, Javier Bardem as the twisted father in Netflix's Monsters in Supporting Actor Limited Anthology, and Ashley Walters in Limited Series Anthology for Netflix's Adolescence. There's also Ruth Negga, who is already a 2017 Best Actress Oscar nominee for Loving, who lands her first Emmy nom for Apple TV+'s Presumed Innocent in the Limited Anthology Series Supporting Actress category. Rashida Jones gets her second career Emmy nom and first above-the-line acting nom in the Lead Actress Limited Series Anthology category for Black Mirror. She was previously recognized in the 2015 documentary filmmaking category for her non-fiction feature Hot Girls Wanted. Other actors from diverse backgrounds recognized in today's noms include Bryan Tyree Henry in Limited Actor Anthology Series for Apple TV+'s Dope Thief, Natasha Rothwell in Supporting Actress for HBO's The White Lotus, Colman Domingo for Supporting Actor Comedy Series for Netflix's The Four Seasons, Cynthia Erivo for Peacock's Poker Face in Guest Actress Comedy Series, Giancarlo Esposito for Prime Video's The Boys in Guest Actor Drama Series, Forest Whitaker for Disney+'s Andor in Guest Actor Drama Series, Jeffrey Wright for HBO's The Last of Us in Guest Actor Drama Series, RuPaul Charles for RuPaul's Drag Race in Reality or Reality Competition Host and Daymond John in Reality or Reality Competition Host for ABC's Shark Tank. Best of Deadline Everything We Know About Amazon's 'Verity' Movie So Far 'Street Fighter' Cast: Who's Who In The Live-Action Arcade Film Adaption 2025-26 Awards Season Calendar: Dates For Emmys, Oscars, Grammys & More
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10-07-2025
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‘Abbott Elementary' Star Chris Perfetti Talks Style Strategy and How Last Season 'Blew the Lid Off'
If Emmy forecasters are correct, Chris Perfetti and the rest of the Abbott Elementary family will be making some red carpet rounds in coming months. And he's ready. 'In our fourth year of being invited to these things, I still feel it's less daunting and way more fun than it was the first time,' the actor told The Hollywood Reporter last week while attending the Mediterrane Film Festival's closing Golden Bee Awards in Malta. 'But I still feel like I have a responsibility to live up to the bigger purpose of what we're all there for, and so I try to pay homage and be polite, but I try to express myself at the same time, and I've always thought that fashion is a way to do just that — to tell a story.' More from The Hollywood Reporter Janelle James Looks Back on Not Getting Role on Netflix's 'GLOW' After She "Nailed" Audition Russell Crowe Returns to Malta, Site of 'Gladiator' Filming, and Recalls Intensity of Ridley Scott Epic: "It Wasn't an Easy Production" 'The Bachelor' Names New Showrunner, Locks in 2025-26 Renewal Perfetti has been doing just that, turning heads for expressing an eye-catching personal style, evidence of which is seen below. The riskier the better, he says. 'I kind of err on the side of more risk taking than not. [The red carpet] feels like a great opportunity for that. I've been blessed with so many talented geniuses, and when you find somebody whose work inspires you like that, you just have to kind of go with them.' While speaking to THR in Malta, who presented at the Golden Bee Awards alongside Anna Camp, Perfetti was nearing the end of his Abbott Elementary hiatus and prepping to head back to work on the series for an upcoming season five. 'I'm so proud of what we did in season four. I really feel like we didn't drop the ball. God bless our writers room, they're really doing so well by us,' explained the actor. 'Our cast, we genuinely love each other, and we're trying to make each other laugh. We really just blew the lid off of it last year.' Best of The Hollywood Reporter Seeing Double? 25 Pairs of Celebrities Who Look Nearly Identical From 'Lady in the Lake' to 'It Ends With Us': 29 New and Upcoming Book Adaptations in 2024 Meet the Superstars Who Glam Up Hollywood's A-List
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04-07-2025
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‘The Residence' and ‘Pulse' Canceled at Netflix
Netflix has canceled a pair of first-year series, The Residence and Pulse. The two shows both premiered in the spring and had four-week runs in Netflix's internal, worldwide top 10 rankings, with The Residence lasting a bit longer than than in Nielsen's U.S. streaming charts. As usual, Netflix does cost-benefit analysis in making renewal or cancellation decisions. More from The Hollywood Reporter The Front Man Speaks: 'Squid Game' Star Lee Byung-hun Unpacks His Character's Mysterious Inner Thoughts 'The Residence' Was Mostly Good, But It Didn't Quite Earn a Second Season Janelle James Looks Back on Not Getting Role on Netflix's 'GLOW' After She "Nailed" Audition The Residence is a White House-set murder mystery starring Uzo Aduba as Cordelia Cupp, the 'greatest detective in the world.' The series hails from Shonda Rhimes' Shondaland and creator/showrunner Paul William Davies (Scandal). Had the series gone forward, the plan was for it to become an anthology with Cupp taking on a new case each season. The cast for the first (and now only) season also features Randall Park, Giancarlo Esposito, Susan Kelechi Watson, Edwina Findley, Bronson Pinchot, Mary Wiseman, Julieth Restrepo, Al Mitchell, Mel Rodriguez, Ken Marino, Jason Lee and Jane Curtin, among others. Davies executive produced the series with Shondaland principals Rhimes and Betsy Beers. In its four weeks in Netflix's global top 10, The Residence had 177.4 million hours of viewing, equivalent to 22.9 million full runs of the season ('views' in Netflix and other streamers' parlance). In those same four weeks, Nielsen recorded about 83.1 million hours of viewing, about 47 percent of the worldwide total. The Residence spent two additional weeks in the Nielsen rankings, adding 15.55 million more hours just above 2 million more views. Pulse was Netflix's first take at a medical procedural. Over its four weeks in the streamer's worldwide rankings, it drew 20.2 million views and 162.1 million total viewing hours. Its release also coincided with growing momentum for Max's hospital drama The Pitt, which had its first season finale the week after Pulse debuted. In the United States, Pulse spent just two weeks on the Nielsen streaming charts. Willa Fitzgerald, Colin Woodell, Justina Machado, Jack Bannon, Jessie T. Usher, Jessy Yates, Chelsea Muirhead, Daniela Nieves, Néstor Carbonell, Jessica Rothe, Santiago Segura, Ash Santos and Arturo Del Puerto starred. Zoe Robyn created the series and served as co-showrunner with Carlton Cuse; they executive produced with Bradley Gardner, Emma Forman, Michael Klick and Kate Dennis. In addition to the cancellations, a third Netflix rookie, No Good Deed, is on an indefinite hiatus following its first season, released in December 2024. There is still a chance that the dark comedy from Liz Feldman (Dead to Me) could return as an anthology, but nothing is planned at the moment. Deadline first reported the news. Best of The Hollywood Reporter 'The Studio': 30 Famous Faces Who Play (a Version of) Themselves in the Hollywood-Based Series 22 of the Most Shocking Character Deaths in Television History A 'Star Wars' Timeline: All the Movies and TV Shows in the Franchise
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04-07-2025
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Janelle James Looks Back on Not Getting Role on Netflix's ‘GLOW' After She 'Nailed' Audition
Janelle James is looking back on a role that got away. While appearing in Kelly Ripa's Let's Talk Off Camera podcast, the Abbott Elementary star was asked if she's able to watch projects she auditioned for but didn't get. James then reflected on the one role she 'really wanted.' More from The Hollywood Reporter U.K. Streaming Levy Officially Rejected by Government: "We Support a Mixed Ecology" 2025 Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival Opening Lineup Announced 'The Residence' and 'Pulse' Canceled at Netflix 'I haven't thought about this in awhile. Another thing I was excited about that I auditioned for once was GLOW. Do you remember that? The female wrestling,' James said. 'I really wanted that role.' She continued, 'It was for one of the female wrestlers, and we had to make up an '80s rap and perform it in the audition, and also do a fight scene with ourselves. I did this rap and then I did a round kick. And I remember leaving that audition like, 'Nailed it.' And did not get that role.' Thus far James said she hasn't 'watched one second of that show.' 'I'm so salty,' she added before offering that perhaps she would watch it that day after the interview. In 2020, Netflix reversed its fourth-season renewal decision on GLOW, citing COVID-19 issues as the reason they would not go forward with the series' final installment. GLOW had started production on season four at the time. It completed one episode and started a second before the coronavirus pandemic led to production shutdowns for it and other series and films. The series earned 18 Emmy nominations and three wins over the course of its three-season run. The show, created by Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch, was a fictionalized telling of the real-life women's professional wrestling program called Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling that launched in the 1980s. Best of The Hollywood Reporter 'The Studio': 30 Famous Faces Who Play (a Version of) Themselves in the Hollywood-Based Series 22 of the Most Shocking Character Deaths in Television History A 'Star Wars' Timeline: All the Movies and TV Shows in the Franchise
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04-07-2025
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‘The Residence' Was Mostly Good, But It Didn't Quite Earn a Second Season
The Residence is not extending its residence at Netflix. On Wednesday, the streamer canceled a pair of freshman series: medical drama Pulse and The Residence. Critically-speaking, Pulse had basically no, well, pulse from the get-go — but The Residence was generally well-reviewed. More from The Hollywood Reporter Janelle James Looks Back on Not Getting Role on Netflix's 'GLOW' After She "Nailed" Audition U.K. Streaming Levy Officially Rejected by Government: "We Support a Mixed Ecology" 2025 Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival Opening Lineup Announced Both shows, meanwhile, faired pretty well in terms of viewership. With just four days of availability during the week ended March 23, 2025, The Residence (released March 20) debuted as Netflix's number two show, trailing only the juggernaut that was Adolescence. The standings repeated the following week, and though The Residence began to slip after that, it remained in the top 10 for two more weeks. One of the shows that first pushed The Residence down Netflix's list was Pulse, which premiered on April 3, 2025; both series would spend four weeks on Netflix's Global Top 10 Shows chart. Adolescence lasted twice a long, and is Netflix's second-most-watched English-language TV show of all time. Ultimately, it is disappointing that both The Residence and Pulse were one-and-done, though for different reasons. Pulse may not have been good, but by virtue of being Netflix's first foray into medical procedurals — one of television's longest-running and most-successful genres — Pulse was going to be precedent-setting one way or another. Turns out, precedent was set in the right direction. But losing The Residence after just one season is a bummer because it was a really good show — mostly. Like pretty much all TV programs ever, The Residence was flawed. But its flaws were really only apparent at the very end, when a first-season show is supposed to leave the viewer wanting more. (And hopefully much more.) You never want to end on a low note, especially if it doesn't have to be the end. First, let's talk about some of The Residence's strengths. For starters, Uzo Aduba as Cordelia Cupp, the 'greatest detective in the world,' was excellent. Randall Park was tremendous in support, and Giancarlo Esposito, Ken Marino, Isiah Whitlock Jr. and Susan Kelechi Watson were excellent as well. And there were others — the ensemble was truly terrific. And it is hard to do much better than having Shonda Rhimes' Shondaland as the producer of your series. The set, a near-full re-creation of the White House built at Los Angeles' Raleigh Studios, was gorgeous. The production connected 132 rooms across seven stages, used 10 miles of molding and had 200 working doors, according to Netflix. The colors were beautiful and the rooms were distinct; hell, it may have been nicer than the actual White House. If you're not getting the idea here, we're saying that The Residence was expensive — the kind of expensive that makes a cost-benefit analysis hard to come out on the side of 'benefit.' Remember, this isn't Netflix circa 2021; these days, the bottom line is the bottom line (on an income statement). Had The Residence gone forward with a second season, the plan was for it to become an anthology series with Cupp taking on a new case each season. So unless there were more murders in the White House (I mean, it worked for Only Murder in the Building…), all of that carpentry and decorating goes to waste. You don't throw good money after…pretty good money. From a storytelling standpoint, The Residence season finale is what truly failed us. A must-have quality to be counted among the great whodunnits is the ability for the viewer to use clues and solve the crime. That wasn't possible with The Residence. Yes, there were breadcrumbs along the way, but the sheer scope of the production made it realistically impossible to come to the same conclusion as Cupp. Even if you randomly guessed the culprit, there was no feasible way of figuring out what happened and how it happened. That's frustrating for a show that for seven of its eight successfully drew its viewers in to a White House's-worth of suspects of theories. Interestingly, Netflix only initially sent critics those first seven episodes (and not the finale) for review. Most likely that was more an effort to protect spoilers than it was to hide a subpar finale — even I'm not that cynical. But the ending was a let down. And then the ending-ending was a head scratcher. After Cupp solves her case and gets her man (or woman), a reveal that took forever to reveal within the finale, and before she went wheels up for even more birdwatching — a hobby that begins as funny and gets kind of grating as the season goes on — the greatest detective in the world had 'to make a quick stop.' We'd say this next piece is a spoiler, but the payoff has so little to do with anything that's important to the story, it's really not. Cupp has her boss, Metropolitan PD police chief Larry Dokes (Whitlock Jr.), pull over at the White House for one more key scene. But we don't return to the scene of the crime for anything that fans cared to see. Like, for example, to finally give the young boy who is obsessed with the White House — and who helped Cupp out with a key clue — the tour he so desperately wanted (but couldn't get due to it previously having been a crime scene). No, it wasn't that. Cupp returned to the residence to have some random brief chat with the POTUS' mother-in-law Nan Cox (Jane Curtin). Ostensibly, Cupp wanted to tell Nan who it was that killed White House chief usher A.B. Wynter (Esposito). Turns out, Nan, a pretty minor character throughout the season, either already knew the answer, or she made a good guess in the moment. Either way, The End, for some reason. There was at least one more long setup in The Residence that had no punchline. For someone who does not actually appear in The Residence, Hugh Jackman plays a pretty big role in its story — bigger than Jane Curtin's, at least. The general plot of the season goes like this: At a White House state dinner intended to repair relations with Australia, a murder is committed on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue's residential floors. The night's guest list includes a lot of Australians, mostly fake, but is top-lined by the real Kylie Minogue, who plays (and sings as) herself. But the big running joke throughout the season is about an even-more-famous Aussie apparently in the building, the dude who plays Wolverine. Jackman's face is never seen, but (a facsimile of) his body often is, and we get an OK vocal impression as well. (The real) Jackman had no participation in the series, though producers did ask him to be a part of The Residence. Cool idea. But once the actor passed on the project, why leave the running gag in? It comes across to the viewer as a tease for a big reveal — perhaps (the real) Jackman is the killer? Or maybe, once we've become convinced it's a double whose face we'll never see, it turns out they did get actual Hugh Jackman for just long enough to get one over on us? But none of that happens, so why plant the seed? And don't say 'because it's funny,' because it isn't. It's just a self-imposed letdown, an unnecessary device that gets in front of a good mystery. In some ways, that makes it the perfect metaphor for The Residence. 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