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Do Emmy Episode Submissions Still Matter? Kathy Bates, Quinta Brunson and Britt Lower Make the Case
With the Television Academy officially revealing this year's Emmy nominees, attention turns not only to who's in the running — but what episodes the actors are submitting. Though the Emmys have increasingly become dominated by buzz and momentum, official episode submissions can play a critical role. But as full-season sweeps have become more common, it's worth asking: Does the individual episode still carry as much weight? In the lead drama actress category, frontrunner Kathy Bates — who made history as the oldest nominee ever — opted for the penultimate 17th episode of 'Matlock's' inaugural season from CBS. 'I Was That, Too' reveals the truth about Matty (Bates) to Olympia (Skye P. Marshall) and provides an absolute masterclass in acting from Bates, blowing the story wide open. More from Variety Fifth Season's Noah Greenshner on 'Severance,' Emmy Glory and the Studio's Creator-First Approach Netflix, Prime Video and Beyoncé Lead Wins in 77th Emmy Juried Categories A Salute to Legends Like Kathy Bates, Jean Smart and Harrison Ford on Finally Getting Their Emmy Flowers Her closest competitor, Britt Lower, submitted the acclaimed 'Attila' episode from Apple TV+'s dystopian 'Severance' — where 'Innie' Helly R. learns that her 'Outie' Helena slept with Mark S. and decides to form her own memories. It's a showcase for Lower's dual performance as the mysterious dual versions of her character. The hurdle for Bates is precedent. In the past 20 years, only two lead drama actress Emmys have been won as the sole nominee for their shows — Tatiana Maslany for 'Orphan Black' in 2016 and Patricia Arquette for 'Medium' in 2005. It's a steep climb for Bates' procedural drama. Elsewhere, Bella Ramsey chose 'Convergence,' the season two finale from HBO's 'The Last of Us' — the harrowing finale episode that showcases depth and intensity for the 20-year-old performer. A very wise choice. Three-time 'Hacks' winner Jean Smart submitted 'I Love LA' — the fourth episode showing the first taping of 'Late Night with Deborah Vance' and how it doesn't go according to plan. It's hard to bet against Smart at this point, looking to continue her historic run. Previous winner Quinta Brunson went with 'Strike' from ABC's 'Abbott Elementary,' that highlights Janine's growth during a pivotal teacher protest. Notably, this episode isn't among the required six episodes submitted for the comedy series trophy, nor is it her own writing episode. Moreover, her Emmy-nominated supporting actresses — Janelle James and Sheryl Lee Ralph — also submitted different episodes entirely. Is this a thoughtful strategy to get TV Academy members to watch more episodes of the 22-episode season? Perhaps. Ayo Edebiri's 'Legacy' from 'The Bear' presents a tightly wound character unraveling as her character Sydney, considers a position at a different restaurant. When a show like 'The Bear' dominates multiple categories — as it did last year — it raises the question: Are voters casting ballots based on their full impression of the series, rather than comparing submissions side-by-side? Streaming has fundamentally changed television consumption. Bingeable formats and serialized storytelling make it harder for voters to isolate an individual episode. Instead, performances are judged within the context of a season-long arc, making specific episode submissions feel almost arbitrary. Still, for performers in highly competitive categories, the right episode can crystallize a character's transformation, emotional arc, or comic brilliance in a way that lingers in voters' minds. So, does it still matter? The short answer: yes — but maybe not as much as it used to. While episode selection remains an important strategic tool, momentum and overall series reception appear to be the strongest indicators of Emmy success. Interestingly, the lead actress limited series category doesn't require performers to submit a specific episode. Instead, voters evaluate the performance across the entire series. However, that's not the case for supporting categories, which begs the question — why? Your guess is as good as mine. The TV Academy is always chock full of weird, unexplainable rules. The 77th Emmy Awards, hosted by comedian Nate Bargatze, will broadcast live on Sunday, Sept. 14 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on CBS. The ceremony will also stream live and on-demand through select Paramount+ packages. Awards Circuit Predictions: Emmys Current Emmy Predictions (as of Aug. 13, 2025) Drama Series: 'Severance' (Apple TV+) Comedy Series: 'The Studio' (Apple TV+) Limited Series: 'Adolescence' (Netflix) TV Movie: 'Rebel Ridge' (Netflix) Lead Drama Actor: Noah Wyle, 'The Pitt' (HBO Max) Lead Comedy Actor: Seth Rogen, 'The Studio' (Apple TV+) Lead Actor Limited: Stephen Graham, 'Adolescence' (Netflix) Lead Drama Actress: Kathy Bates, 'Matlock' (CBS) Lead Comedy Actress: Jean Smart, 'Hacks' (HBO Max) Lead Actress Limited: Michelle Williams, 'Dying for Sex' (FX) Supporting Drama Actor: Tramell Tillman, 'Severance' (Apple TV+) Supporting Comedy Actor: Harrison Ford, 'Shrinking' (Apple TV+) Supporting Actor Limited: Owen Cooper, 'Adolescence' (Netflix) Supporting Drama Actress: Carrie Coon, 'The White Lotus' (HBO Max) Supporting Comedy Actress: Catherine O'Hara, 'The Studio' (Apple TV+) Supporting Actress Limited: Erin Doherty, 'Adolescence' (Netflix) Guest Drama Actor: Shawn Hatosy, 'The Pitt' (HBO Max) Guest Drama Actress: Kaitlyn Dever, 'The Last of Us' (HBO Max) Guest Comedy Actor: Bryan Cranston, 'The Studio' (Apple TV+) Guest Comedy Actress: Julianne Nicholson, 'Hacks' (HBO Max) Competition Program: 'The Traitors' (Peacock) Structured Reality: 'Shark Tank' (ABC) Unstructured Reality: 'Love on the Spectrum' (Netflix) Talk Series: 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert' (CBS) Scripted Variety: 'Last Week Tonight with John Oliver' (HBO Max) Variety Special Live: 'Beyoncé Bowl' (Netflix) Variety Special Pre-Recorded: 'Adam Sandler: Love You' (Netflix) Documentary Series: 'Social Studies' (FX) Documentary Special: 'Pee-wee as Himself' (HBO Max) Hosted Nonfiction: 'My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman' (Netflix) Exceptional Merit: 'I Am Celine Dion' (Prime Video) Directing Drama: Ben Stiller, 'Severance' (Apple TV+) Directing Comedy: Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, 'The Studio' (Apple TV+) Directing Limited: Philip Barantini, 'Adolescence' (Netflix) Directing Documentary: Matt Wolf, 'Pee-wee as Himself' (HBO Max) Directing Variety Special: Liz Patrick, 'SNL50: The Anniversary Special' (NBC) Directing Variety Series: Paul Pennolino, 'Last Week Tonight with John Oliver' (HBO Max) Directing Reality: Cian O'Clery, 'Love on the Spectrum' (Netflix) Writing Drama: 'Severance' (Apple TV+) — 'Cold Harbor' by Dan Erickson Writing Comedy: 'The Rehearsal' (HBO Max) – 'Pilot's Code' by Nathan Fielder Writing Limited: 'Adolescence' (Netflix) – Series by Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham Writing Variety Series: 'The Daily Show' (Comedy Central) Writing Variety Special: 'Your Friend, Nate Bargatze' (Netflix) Writing Nonfiction: 'Martha' (Netflix) by RJ Cutler Game Show: 'Jeopardy' (ABC) Game Show Host: Jimmy Kimmel, 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' (ABC) Reality Host: Alan Cumming, 'The Traitors' (Peacock) Animated Program:'Arcane' (Netflix) Best of Variety Final Emmy Predictions: Documentary Programs — Wide‑Open Races Could Decide Which Networks Top the Nomination Leaderboard Final Emmy Predictions: Supporting Actress (Comedy) — Could History Repeat With Another Barrier-Breaking Lineup? Final Emmy Predictions: Supporting Actress (Drama) - Can Katherine LaNasa or Allison Janney Ride 'The White Lotus' Overload? Solve the daily Crossword
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18-07-2025
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Kathy Bates Sets Emmys Record With Her Matlock Nomination — Watch the Emotional On-Set Celebration
Kathy Bates on Tuesday earned her 13th career Emmy Award nomination for acting — but it was nonetheless a noteworthy one. That is because the Matlock headliner, at age 77, now stands as the oldest person to vie for Lead Actress in a Drama. Angela Lansbury previously held the record as a 70-year-old contender in 1996, for playing Murder, She Wrote's Jessica Fletcher. More from TVLine Jimmy Kimmel Supports Stephen Colbert Amid Late Show Cancellation: 'F-k You CBS and All Your Sheldons' CBS Cancels Late Show, With Stephen Colbert Signing Off Next Year - Watch His Announcement Dear Emmys: Stop Letting a Handful of Shows Dominate the Acting Categories As seen in the Instagram video below, Bates was greeted by a cast- and crew-wide celebration of her Emmy nod when she arrived to the Matlock set on Tuesday, with castmates David Del Rio (Billy), Leah Lewis (Sarah) and Skye P. Marshall (Olympia) each gifting Bates a bouquet of flowers. 'We're inspired every single day by your hard work and your grace and your humility and your talent and the way that you lead this set,' a tearful Jennie Snyder Urman, Matlock's showrunner, told Bates. 'You elevate every single one of us.' 'Y'all were more than enough all this time,' Bates then told her colleagues. 'I didn't need anything else. Thank you so much. This has been an extraordinary experience for an old broad like me. I just love you from the bottom of my heart, and thank you for just being so great with me every day so I can do what I love to do best.' Bates' very first Emmy nod, in the Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie category, came in 1996, for her role as talent agent Helen Kushnick in HBO's adaptation of The Late Shift. From there, she went on to amass nominations for guest and supporting roles in 3rd Rock From the Sun, Six Feet Under and other shows. In 2011, she entered the Lead Actress in a Drama race for the first time, for the title role in NBC's under-appreciated Harry's Law. Her most recent prior Emmy nods all came in the supporting actress category, for American Horror Story's Coven, Freak Show and Hotel seasons. She also scored an Emmy nod in 1999 for directing A&E's Dash and Lilly miniseries. Bates has taken home the Emmy twice over that 30-year span — in 2012 for Guest Actress in a Comedy (Two and a Half Men) and in 2014 for Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie (as AHS: Coven's Delphine LaLaurie). To date, Bates is an Academy Award winner (in 1990, for hobbling that cockadoodie Paul Sheldon in Misery)… a two-time Golden Globe winner (for Misery and The Late Shift)… and a two-time SAG Award winner (for The Late Shift and the Mike Nichols film Primary Colors). Want scoop on , or for any other Emmy-nominated TV show? Shoot an email to InsideLine@ and your question may be answered via Matt's Inside Line! Emmys 2025: Complete Nominations List View List Best of TVLine 'Missing' Shows, Found! Get the Latest on Ahsoka, Monarch, P-Valley, Sugar, Anansi Boys and 25+ Others Yellowjackets Mysteries: An Up-to-Date List of the Series' Biggest Questions (and Answers?) The Emmys' Most Memorable Moments: Laughter, Tears, Historical Wins, 'The Big One' and More Solve the daily Crossword
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28-06-2025
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Matlock Duo Sing Us a Li'l Something, Rave That ‘Everyone' Now Wants to Appear on the CBS Hit — WATCH
Matlock co-stars Skye P. Marshall and Jason Ritter make a bit of beautiful music together at the top of the TVLine red carpet video above. After harmonizing a few bars and then amazingly speaking in totally perfect unison, the on-screen exes got to revisiting some of the freshman CBS hit's biggest twists. More from TVLine In NCIS: Origins Season 2, Will Gibbs Go From 'Probie' to Assertive Agent? EP Previews 'Honest' Evolution Ahead FBI: International Co-Creator Reacts to Cancellation, Believes It 'Had Nothing to Do With the Quality' of Spinoff Matlock Season 2 Video: Stars Preview 'Storms Colliding' for Dad-to-Be Billy, 'So Much Trouble' for Sarah When Olympia in Season 1's antepenultimate hour confronted 'Matlock' with the litany of lies told by one Madeline Kingston, 'It was like going into the ring with Tyson,' Marshall says of the instantly iconic two-hander with the Kathy Bates. 'There were no other actors, it was just me and Kathy Bates in the room,' the actress tells TVLine West Coast Bureau Chief Dave Nemetz in the video above. 'I just had to breathe outside of that [office] door, and every time I walked in was very much, 'Don't try to nail it, just be honest. Just listen to what she's saying and respond wholeheartedly.'' As Marshall notes, 'It's the not acting, that's what makes great performances.' Matlock Boss Talks Finale's Big Reveal, If [Spoiler] Will Be Back for Season 2 View List Ritter then steps up to survey Julian's 'incredibly complicated relationship' with his father, Senior, who 1) passed Julian over for a promotion to partner 2) years after tasking him with stealing a legal document that was damning for Welbrexa, Jacobson Moore's Big Pharma client. 'As much as Senior drives him crazy, as much as he's been hurt by Senior, I think there's a part of [Julian] that still would love Senior to say, 'I'm proud of you, son,' one time,' Ritter posits. But will that longing for approval get in the way of Julian possibly allying with Olympia and Matty to pin the Welbrexa cover-up on Senior in Season 2? 'It's going to be fascinating seeing what happens next season,' Ritter ventures. 'I can't wait to see what the writers come up with.' To hear Marshall tell it, scores of other actors also would love to wield the Matlock writers' words, coming off the not-a-reboot's success as the TV season's most-watched new program. Whereas everyone, when the show was first announced in spring 2024, mocked the need for a 'reboot' of the late-1980s Andy Griffith courtroom drama, 'Now everyone's like, 'Can I please get on Matlock?!' says Marshall. 'Matlock means something completely different now, in such a short time,' she attests. Showrunner Jennie Snyder Urman 'flipped' the script on everyone, while executive producer Eric Christian Olsen, who had rights to Matlock and brought them to Urman, 'hit a lottery,' Marshall marvels. 'He built a universe for us and brought all of us together. I feel like we're the Avengers!' Want scoop on , or for any other TV show? Shoot an email to InsideLine@ and your question may be answered via Matt's Inside Line! Best of TVLine Yellowjackets' Tawny Cypress Talks Episode 4's Tai/Van Reunion: 'We're All Worried About Taissa' Vampire Diaries Turns 10: How Real-Life Plot Twists Shaped Everything From the Love Triangle to the Final Death Vampire Diaries' Biggest Twists Revisited (and Explained)
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15-06-2025
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Matlock Season 2 Video: Stars Preview ‘Storms Colliding' for Dad-to-Be Billy, ‘So Much Trouble' for Sarah
CBS' Matlock closed out its hit freshman run with several cliffhangers, including for the supporting characters toiling away at Jacobson Moore. Yes, we were left to wonder what Olympia (played by Skye. P. Marshall) will with her discovery, accompanied by an all-out confession/defense, that Julian (Jason Ritter) — acting on Senior's (Beau Bridges) orders — in fact stole the damning Welbrexa study that Matty (Kathy Bates), Edwin and Alfie spent all of Season 1 chasing down. More from TVLine Save the Dates: Brett Goldstein's Apple Movie, Hallmark's Christmas at Sea and More Casting News: black-ish Star Joins Boston Blue, Carrie TV Series Adds 14 and More Fire Country Season 4: It's a 'Mystery' How Gabriela Will Be Written Out, Say Co-Stars - WATCH Additionally, we and Matty were most unexpectedly introduced to a man (played by Sons of Anarchy's Niko Nicotera) who suspects he is Alfie's father. But wait, there's more drama simmering heading into Season 2! Because Billy's (David Del Rio) jaw dropped to the floor when on-and-off girlfriend Claudia (Bella Ortiz) announced to him that she is pregnant. Meanwhile, Sarah (Leah Lewis) is oblivious to the fact that workplace rival Simone (Andrea Londo) is quietly looking into how Sarah landed gym owner Dino as her first client. (As Matlock showrunner Jennie Snyder Urman told TVLine, 'you can't take a case in a giant law firm without going through the proper channels…. it's a fireable offense, so that's what's at stake.') Speaking with TVLine in the red carpet video above, Del Rio shares how he and wife Katherine were expecting their second child when he learned that Billy would suddenly be a dad himself. 'This will be the first character I've ever played that has to deal with fatherhood,' he notes, 'and to be in an environment such as the law game is going to be a real nice 'two thunderstorms colliding.' As an actor, you want your circumstances to be delicious.' Lewis in turn affirms that 'Simone is going to make so much trouble' for Sarah, which 'breaks my heart! 'Sarah has been working he ass off for one thing this whole season and finally gets it, but of course the way she went about it [was wrong],' she adds. With her rival now hot on her scent, 'I'm excited to see Simone pull out more intensity from Sarah, and see them fight tooth and nail.' The two then proceed to sing Londo's praises, and the spice and humor she brings to the role of Simone. Want scoop on , or for any other TV show? Shoot an email to InsideLine@ and your question may be answered via Matt's Inside Line! Best of TVLine Yellowjackets' Tawny Cypress Talks Episode 4's Tai/Van Reunion: 'We're All Worried About Taissa' Vampire Diaries Turns 10: How Real-Life Plot Twists Shaped Everything From the Love Triangle to the Final Death Vampire Diaries' Biggest Twists Revisited (and Explained)
