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Gulf Today
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Gulf Today
Noah Wyle talks about his Emmy nomination for ‘The Pitt'
Twenty-six years after Noah Wyle was last nominated for an Emmy, for his role as Dr. John Carter on NBC's long-running medical drama 'ER,' the actor has scrubbed back in for a chance at a golden trophy. The star and executive producer of 'The Pitt' received a nomination for lead actor in a drama series for his role as Dr. Michael 'Robby' Robinavitch, and overall, HBO Max's breakout hit received 13 nominations. Wyle will be competing alongside Sterling K. Brown ('Paradise'), Pedro Pascal ('The Last of Us'), Gary Oldman ('Slow Horses') and Adam Scott ('Severance') for the award. The actor's skill around a fictional emergency room has yielded strong results. While it's his first Emmy nomination since 1999, it's the actor's sixth Emmy nomination for playing a doctor — the previous five were for his supporting role as the med student-turned-hospital veteran on 'ER.' Tuesday's nomination is his first ever in the lead actor in a drama category. Wyle was in production on 'The Pitt's' sophomore season on the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank when he got the celebratory news, and The Times caught up with him during a break. Noah, congratulations! Production on Season 2 is underway. You were on set when you got the news? Thank you. Yes, we're working today. I was on set. We shot the first scene. I asked to go to the bathroom. On a bathroom break, I checked my phone and saw a text from my wife that said, 'Baby!' I thought, 'Oh.' By the time I came back onto set, everybody was starting to get very excited. Then just now, [R.] Scott Gemmill [the show's creator] came down and made a formal announcement and read off all the 13 nominations, and that just exploded the crew and cast background into massive celebration. How do you get back to work after this? Oh, so easily. I'm going [to] go in there, and we're gonna get right back at it. I don't know. I guess with a little bit of a bounce in our stride. When I look at the sound department, who works so hard on our show, parsing out all that overlapping dialogue — to see them get recognized, and see our makeup departments, both prosthetic and non-prosthetic, be recognized for their labour — everybody puts such pride into their work, and I am inspired by so many incredible artists who bring their expertise to this place every day. How are you feeling about that kind of cast change early in the show's run, or what it means for Season 2? We made it clear at the outset that part of being in a realistic teaching hospital is a revolving door of characters, whether you have somebody not come back, or you have somebody die, or whether you have somebody rotate to another department or go on another specialty. These are the things that we pull our hair out in the writers' room trying to figure out how to keep this ensemble together for as long as time possible, but knowing that there has to be a revolution of characters coming through to keep the place realistic. I would imagine it'll be easy today. How do you plan to celebrate? I looked at that list of nominees that I'm in the company of, and I send my congratulations to all of them. It's incredibly gratifying and humbling to be included in their company. I'm going to celebrate quietly with my family and come back to work tomorrow. What's a memory that stands out from your last Emmys experience? Talk about perspective. It was such a beautiful, wonderful, heady time for me that the last time I was nominated, I was annoyingly blasé about it, and if I had known that it was going to be 20-plus years before I was invited to the party again, I think I would have had a better time. Tribune News Service
Otago Daily Times
16-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Otago Daily Times
Severance, The Penguin lead Emmy race
Psychological thriller Severance and crime drama The Penguin stacked up the most nominations for Emmy Awards on Tuesday, outpacing The Studio and The White Lotus in the contest for television's highest honours. Severance received a leading 27 nominations and was nominated for the top prize of best drama alongside Star Wars series Andor , The Pitt , The White Lotus and others. The Penguin , set in the DC Comics universe and starring Colin Farrell, earned 24 nominations and will compete for best limited series against Netflix hit Adolescence , among others. Hollywood satire The Studio , an Apple TV+ show featuring Seth Rogen as a nervous film executive, and HBO's The White Lotus , about murder and misdeeds at a luxury resort in Thailand, received 23 each. "What the heck?!! We never thought this would happen," Rogen said in a statement. Comedy nominees included defending champion Hacks , previous winner The Bear , Nobody Wants This and Abbott Elementary . The 23 nominations for The Studio tied the record for a comedy in a single season, set last year by Chicago restaurant tale The Bear . Winners of the Emmys will be announced at a red-carpet ceremony held in Los Angeles and broadcast live on CBS on September 14. Comedian Nate Bargatze will host. The television industry is undergoing a contraction as media companies curtail the sky-high spending they shelled out to compete in the shift to streaming platforms led by Netflix. Long-time Emmy favourite HBO and the HBO Max streaming service topped all programmers with 142 nominations - a record for the network. Walt Disney collected 137 nominations, including six for ABC's Abbott Elementary , one of the few broadcast shows in the Emmy mix. Andor , on Disney+, received 14. Netflix garnered 120 nods and Apple scored 81, its highest total since launching its streaming service in 2019. Severance tells the story of office workers who undergo a procedure to make them forget their home life at work, and vice versa. "It's distinctive in every way - in terms of its storytelling, in terms of style, in terms of its directing, its tone," said Matt Cherniss, head of programming at Apple TV+. Star Adam Scott, a best actor nominee, said the cast had been unsure of how viewers would respond. "The fact that it's resonated at all has been just such an incredible feeling," Scott said. "We thought it was something that might be too weird." WYLE, FORD IN THE RUNNING Noah Wyle received his first Emmy nomination since 1999 for his role as an emergency room doctor on The Pitt . Wyle was nominated five times for ER but never won. "I'm humbled and grateful," Wyle said of the recognition for The Pitt , which received 13 total nominations. Harrison Ford, 83, earned his first Emmy nod, for playing a grumpy therapist on Shrinking . Ron Howard, the former Happy Days star turned Oscar-winning director, also landed his first acting nomination, a guest actor nod for playing himself on The Studio . "Who says nice guys finish last?!" Howard wrote on Instagram. He will compete with fellow director Martin Scorsese, another guest star on The Studio . Other notable acting nominees included Farrell and Cristin Milioti for The Penguin , The Bear actors Jeremy Allen White and Ayo Edebiri, Kathy Bates for Matlock , Hacks stars Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder, and Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey for The Last of Us . Eight White Lotus actors were recognised. "This is a bunch of cherries on the icing on the cake that was the gift of playing such a tortured and lonely human," said Jason Isaacs, who portrayed a suicidal father facing financial ruin on the show. Beyonce also made the Emmys list. Her halftime performance during a National Football League game on Netflix was nominated for best live variety special. Missing from the field was Netflix's popular Korean drama, Squid Game , while the final season of previous drama winner The Handmaid's Tale received just one nod. Winners will be chosen by the roughly 26,000 performers, directors, producers and other members of the Television Academy.
Los Angeles Times
15-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Noah Wyle on his Emmy nomination for ‘The Pitt': ‘This time around, it's much more gratifying'
Twenty-six years after Noah Wyle was last nominated for an Emmy, for his role as Dr. John Carter on NBC's long-running medical drama 'ER,' the actor has scrubbed back in for a chance at a golden trophy. The star and executive producer of 'The Pitt' received a nomination for lead actor in a drama series for his role as Dr. Michael 'Robby' Robinavitch, and overall, HBO Max's breakout hit received 13 nominations. Wyle will be competing alongside Sterling K. Brown ('Paradise'), Pedro Pascal ('The Last of Us'), Gary Oldman ('Slow Horses') and Adam Scott ('Severance') for the award. The actor's skill around a fictional emergency room has yielded strong results. While it's his first Emmy nomination since 1999, it's the actor's sixth Emmy nomination for playing a doctor — the previous five were for his supporting role as the med student-turned-hospital veteran on 'ER.' Tuesday's nomination is his first ever in the lead actor in a drama category. Wyle was in production on 'The Pitt's' sophomore season on the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank when he got the celebratory news, and The Times caught up with him during a break. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Noah, congratulations! Production on Season 2 is underway. You were on set when you got the news? Thank you. Yes, we're working today. I was on set. We shot the first scene. I asked to go to the bathroom. On a bathroom break, I checked my phone and saw a text from my wife that said, 'Baby!' I thought, 'Oh.' By the time I came back onto set, everybody was starting to get very excited. Then just now, Scott Gemmill [the show's creator] came down and made a formal announcement and read off all the 13 nominations, and that just exploded the crew and cast background into massive celebration. How do you get back to work after this? Oh, so easily. I'm going go in there and we're gonna get right back at it. I don't know. I guess with a little bit of a bounce in our stride. When I look at the sound department, who works so hard on our show, parsing out all that overlapping dialog — to see them get recognized, and see our makeup departments, both prosthetic and non-prosthetic, be recognized for their labor — everybody puts such pride into their work, and I am inspired by so many incredible artists who bring their expertise to this place every day. To see everybody be recognized makes it feel even more special, because it's truly a group effort. Dr. John Carter on 'ER' was a newbie to the healthcare industry, bright-eyed and eager to learn. Dr. Robby in 'The Pitt' is a veteran of the industry, sort of jaded by the systemic challenges, but as committed as ever to the patients. How is it to track someone deep in their career at this stage in yours? There was a lot of one-to-one identification with Carter back then, as I was new and eager to be good at my job and seen as being good at my job —both ambitious, both aspirational. This time around, it's much more gratifying because you have perspective. When you're 23, you don't necessarily know what the peaks and valleys of a life or career are going to be, but at 53, you have a better understanding of the road traveled and the road ahead, and it just makes this feel even sweeter. The show is confronting issues changing in our world in real time, and you're inhabiting someone behind the headlines, in the trenches, dealing with the realities of those issues. What intrigues you about what Dr. Robby and the rest of the characters on this show say about this moment in time, especially as the healthcare industry is on the precipice of more drastic change? Season 1 was trying to put a spotlight on the community of frontline workers and hospital personnel who've been doing sort of unending tours of duty since the pandemic. It was a thesis on tracking the emotional and physical toll that that it's taken on our workforce, in a way to try to inspire the next generation, but really to also highlight the heroism of people that are in the trenches now. Unfortunately, we've had to move on from that thesis because the world events since that [time] have taken such a turn, and healthcare in particular is in such cross hairs that it is both extremely incumbent upon us to stay current in our storytelling and reflective of what's happening. But it's really quite a challenge to try and peer into a crystal ball and see what the world will look like 13 months from now, when these episodes air, because the events are changing on the ground daily, so quickly that things that we didn't think would have come to pass by now have already come and gone and been normalized. So it's a challenge. The last time we spoke, you talked about how you strolled into work every morning, sort of mimicking Dr. Robby routine — that entrance to the hospital, listening to 'It's Baby' by Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise. Is that still the case for Season 2? No, we have a different opening this year. So, I have a different ritual and routine every morning. But I'm a creature of habit, and so I do my odd, little eccentric things every day to get ready. How are you feeling about this new season? It was recently revealed that your co-star Tracy Ifeachor would not appear in Season 2; there has been speculation about that decision and whether it's linked to her allegedly being a member of a London evangelical mega church that performs 'gay exorcisms.' Can you comment on the reason for parting ways? I can only comment and say that that was all revelatory to me. All these stories that have come out subsequently are news to us. It had nothing to do with anything like that. How are you feeling about that kind of cast change early in the show's run, or what it means for Season 2? We made it clear at the outset that part of being in a realistic teaching hospital is a revolving door of characters, whether you have somebody not come back, or you have somebody die, or whether you have somebody rotate to another department or go on another specialty. These are the things that we pull our hair out in the writers room trying to figure out how to keep this ensemble together for as long as time possible, but knowing that there has to be a revolution of characters coming through to keep the place realistic. And the character of Collins was a significant character in the first season, and Tracy was amazing. I loved working with her. I wish her all the best in her future. I heard she got another gig. As far as how this impacts your character, there's concern about Dr. Robby's mental health. Fans want to see Dr. Robby smile. Are you smiling in Season 2? [laughs] If it means that much to you, I'll trying to work one in. I would imagine it'll be easy today. How do you plan to celebrate? I looked at that list of nominees that I'm in the company of, and I send my congratulations to all of them. It's incredibly gratifying and humbling to be included in their company. I'm going to celebrate quietly with my family and come back to work tomorrow. Have you heard from your 'ER' counterparts? George Clooney? Eriq La Salle? They don't get up this early. [laughs] What's a memory that stands out from your last Emmys experience? Talk about perspective. It was such a beautiful, wonderful, heady time for me that the last time I was nominated, I was annoyingly blase about it, and if I had known that it was going to be 20-plus years before I was invited to the party again, I think I would have had a better time. Before I let you get back to work, tell me: what's the medical procedure on the docket for you today? Today I'm removing some taser barbs from the back of a thrashing patient's neck. We're shooting, actually, an episode that I wrote, so it's really kind of heavy week already.
Yahoo
15-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
The Pitt's Noah Wyle Addresses Tracy Ifeachor's Exit Ahead of Season 2
Noah Wyle is addressing Tracy Ifeachor's shocking exit from The Pitt following TVLine's exclusive report that Dr. Heather Collins will not scrub in for Season 2. 'Truthfully, we loved the actress,' Wyle tells our sister site Deadline. 'We enjoyed having her with us very much. She's gotten really big and we will miss her.' More from TVLine The Pitt Season 2: Everything We Know The Pitt Season 2: What a 50-Year-Old Novel Might Reveal About Dr. Robby's Storyline Harry Potter: HBO Confirms 2027 Release Date for Series Adaptation - See First Production Photo On July 10, TVLine confirmed that Ifeachor would not return to the acclaimed HBO Max medical drama. At the time, sources told us that the decision was a creative one, and it was not Ifeachor's choice to leave. Confirmation came one day after Ifeachor took to Instagram to say what a 'blessing' it was to be a part of the series' freshman run — but made no mention of Season 2. Soon after, she booked a supporting role in M. Night Shyamalan's forthcoming thriller, Remain, opposite Jake Gyllenhaal and Phoebe Dynevor. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Tracy Ifeachor (@tracyifeachor_) Dr. Collins was last seen in Episode 11, during a tender exchange that revealed the depth of her relationship with Noah Wyle's Dr. Robby. She confided in her ex about her recent IVF journey that ended in miscarriage earlier that day, then revealed that she got pregnant while they were dating but chose to have an abortion. After assuring Collins that he was not upset, Robby gave her the OK to clock out an hour ahead of schedule.'Go home, turn off your phone,' he told her, and that she did. By the time our department chief got word that there had been a mass shooting at PittFest, his senior resident was incommunicado. Ifeachor's absence from the final four episodes did not go unnoticed by fans — and in an April interview, Wyle, who is also an executive producer, addressed the decision to have Collins scrub out before everyone else. 'The whole end of the season is just removing bearing walls from Robby's life,' Wyle said on The Watch. 'He leans so heavily on Collins and Langdon, and then you take them both away from him… he leans so heavily on Dana, and then she becomes compromised… and then his one last relationship to Jake is severed when he can't save his girlfriend.' The thinking was, 'let's take away all this guy's support system and have him out there [alone].'If Collins had been there, Wyle said, 'I think she would have maybe been one of those voices that could have reached [Robby], and we didn't want him to be reachable.' That said, at the time of the podcast interview, there was no indication that Ifeachor would not be back for the series' sophomore shift. Wyle & Co. are currently back in production for a targeted January 2026 premiere. On Tuesday, The Pitt racked up 13 Emmy nominations for its first season, including Lead Actor (Wyle), Supporting Actress (Katherine LaNasa), Guest Actor (Shawn Hatosy) and Outstanding Drama Series. For a full list of the 2025 Emmy nominations, go here. The Pitt Season 2: Everything We Know 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
Forbes
21-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
‘NYT Mini' Hints For Sunday, June 22: Extra Clues And Answers For Today's Game
Answers for today's NYT Mini Crossword are just ahead. Before we get to today's NYT Mini crossword hints, clues and answers, here are Saturday's: Wondering what man's name fittingly has the same two vowels as BOAT? Not sure what mammal cracks open sea urchins with rocks? Don't worry, because I'm here to help you with extra hints and the answers for today's NYT Mini crossword. The NYT Mini is a quick and dirty version of the newspaper's larger and long-running crossword. Most days, there are between three and five clues in each direction on a five by five grid, but the puzzles are sometimes larger, especially on Saturdays. Unlike its larger sibling, the NYT Mini crossword is free to play on the New York Times website or NYT Games app. However, you'll need an NYT Games subscription to access previous puzzles in the archives. Here are extra hints and the official NYT Mini Crossword clues and answers for Sunday, June 22: Spoilers lie ahead, so remember to scroll slowly: NYT Mini Crossword Hints 1 Across: The Pitt actor Wyle 5 Across: Overindulge at a bar, perhaps 6 Across: Aquatic mammal and a useful transcription service 7 Across: Identifying mark on livestock 8 Across: ____ in i.e. decides to participate 1 Down: Button that makes cars go Fast and Furious? 2 Down: Draught at a bar 3 Down: Bond is a secret one 4 Down: Rounds up a group 5 Down: Marley, Barker or Saget NYT Mini Crossword Clues And Answers 1 Across: Man's name with the same two vowels as BOAT, fittingly – NOAH 5 Across: Watch in one sitting, as a TV series – BINGE 6 Across: Mammal that cracks open sea urchins with rocks – OTTER 7 Across: Publicist's concern – BRAND 8 Across: Chooses, with "for" – OPTS 1 Down: Like some cold brew coffee – NITRO 2 Down: How beer may be served – ON TAP 3 Down: One helping to seal the deal – AGENT 4 Down: Groups of buffalo – HERDS 5 Down: ___ the Drag Queen, RuPaul's Drag Race winner who competed on The Traitors – BOB Completed New York Times Mini crossword for Sunday, June 22. It took me 1:12 to complete today's NYT Mini. A slightly tough one, today, I thought, so I was pretty happy with my time. BINGE was the only Across answer I got on my first pass. NOAH didn't click at all at first and OTTER was on the tip of my tongue, but I decided to move on. I thought 7 Across might have been 'buzz' or 'client' but neither of those were five letters. I'm very glad I got AGENT, HERDS and BOB, because I would have been stumped otherwise. The letters they filled in helped me get NOAH and OTTER, and it was easy to fill in NITRO and ON TAP after those. I'll see you tomorrow for more NYT Mini fun! Make sure to follow my blog for more coverage of the NYT Mini and other word games, as well as video game news, insights and analysis. It helps me out a lot! Want to chat about the Mini, Connections and other NYT games? Join my Discord community! And be sure to sign up for my newsletter!
