Caitlin Clark made her reputation as a scorer. But she can also dish it out. Clark set the WNBA record for the most assists in a single game tonight, recording 19 against the Dallas Wings. The record previously was held by Courtney Vandersloot, who had 18 in 2020. Clark had a chance to…

TV producer/writer Bob Booker, who spent 75 years working in television, radio, film, and the recording industry, died July 12 at his home in Tiburon, California, at age 92 from heart failure, according to his daughter, Laura Booker.   Booker was best known for the Grammy Award-winning album, The Firs…

Ron Howard's Jim Henson Idea Man led all comers in the documentary categories as the nominations for the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards were announced, racking up eight altogether, three more than the next most-nominated doc. Among its nominations are Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special…

The creators of Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV say they're open to making a follow up to the series, which scored two Emmy Nominations today, including Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series. The five-part Investigation Discovery series documented alleged abuse suffered by stars of…

In a recent interview with Jimmy Kimmel Live guest host Anthony Anderson,  former Friends star Lisa Kudrow recalled a moment when Sandra Bullock called her by her character’s name. “I just love this. I was at a big party and I was talking to Sandra Bullock — name-dropping, I have to, but it’s true,&#8221…

Actor and executive producer Matt Bomer has earned his second Emmy nomination, this time for his role as the lovelorn State Department official Hawk Fuller on Showtime's Fellow Travelers.  Created by Ron Nyswaner, based on Thomas Mallon's novel, Fellow Travelers is a love story and political…

Jane Lynch earned her 14th Primetime Emmy Award nomination this morning for her work on NBC’s The Weakest Link under the “Outstanding Game Show Host” category. The series revival is an adaptation of the British TV series of the same name hosted by Anne Robinson— a personality whose approach Lynch…

One of Rob Reiner's greatest filmmaking credits is the classic mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap. But he became the maker of an actual documentary – not a faux one – with Albert Brooks: Defending My Life. This morning (while working on the sequel to Spinal Tap in New Orleans) he learned he's become an Emmy…

Evan Wright, a writer and journalist whose 2004 book on the Iraq War, Generation Kill, was adapted into an HBO miniseries, died July 12 in Los Angeles by suicide, his family confirmed.  Born in Ohio, Wright earned a degree from Vassar College before entering journalism. In the mid-'90s, Wright worked…

I had a wide-ranging conversation via Zoom on Wednesday with Television Academy chair Cris Abrego and president and CEO Maury McIntyre to talk all things Emmys shortly after Abrego presided over this morning’s 76th annual Primetime Emmy Awards nominations…

The three most nominated programs at the Emmys this year, Shōgun (25 nominations), The Bear (23) and Only Murders In the Building (21), are all labeled differently — as FX, FX on Hulu and Hulu Originals series, respectively. But they have something in common — they all stream on Hulu. As Co-Chairman…

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoliers for the entirety of UnPrisoned Season 2. For UnPrisoned creator Tracy McMillan, the goal of Season 2 of the Hulu and Onyx Collective series was to take the Alexander family from rupture to repair. In Season 1 of the comedy series, Edwin Alexander…