English Entertainment
Star English Network shows nominated for Primetime Emmy Awards
MUMBAI: The Primetime Emmy awards recognizes the best TV series and are touted as the ‘Oscars of Television’ in its 69th year. The best shows of the year declared on 13 July as the nominations for the biggest and most coveted international television awards were announced. 8000 entries from across the past 12 months were reviewed by the academy and the top contenders across categories emerged with Westworld, This Is Us, Feud: Bette and Joan, Veep, Big Little Lies and several more.
The Star english entertainment network too has reason to celebrate as the maximum nominations have been bagged by the shows broadcast across its channels. With a staggering 50 Emmy nominations across key categories it goes to prove that Star indeed is home to the most popular and critically acclaimed international shows.
The 69th Primetime Emmy Award ceremony itself will be simulcast LIVE exclusively on Star World, Star World HD and Star World Premiere HD at 5:30 AM on 18th September with a primetime repeat at 8:00 PM. Furthermore, one of the most loved, witty and curious talk show hosts on television –Stephen Colbert of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert fame will host the Emmy Awards this year, certain to make television viewing a delightful and hilarious affair.
Here is the list of shows that air on Star World and Star World Premiere who have received nominations in the key categories announced today:
DRAMA SERIES
This is Us
Westworld
LEAD ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Viola Davis for How to get away with murder
Keri Russell for The Americans
Evan Rachel Wood for Westworld
LEAD ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Sterling K. Brown for This is us
Anthony Hopkins for Westworld
Matthew Rhys for The Americans
Milo Ventimiglia for This is Us
LIMITED SERIES
Big Little Lies
FEUD: Bette And Joan
The Night Of
LEAD ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES OR A MOVIE
Nicole Kidman for Big Little Lies
Jessica Lange for FEUD: Bette And Joan
Susan Sarandon for FEUD: Bette And Joan
Reese Witherspoon for Big Little Lies
LEAD ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES OR A MOVIE
Riz Ahmed for The Night Of
John Turturro for The Night Of
COMEDY SERIES
Black-ish
Modern Family
Silicon Valley
Veep
LEAD ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Pamela Adlon for Better Things
Julia Louis-Dreyfus for Veep
Tracee Ellis Ross for Black-ish
LEAD ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Anthony Anderson for Black-ish
Zach Galifianakis for Baskets
English Entertainment
Ellison takes his Paramount-Warner Bros case straight to theater owners
The Skydance chief goes to CinemaCon with promises and a skeptical crowd waiting
CALIFORNIA: David Ellison strode into a room packed with thousands of cinema owners and executives at CinemaCon in Las Vegas on Thursday and did something rather bold: he looked them in the eye and asked them to trust him.
The chief executive of Paramount Skydance vowed that his company would release a minimum of 30 films a year if regulators greenlight its proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery, a deal that has made theater owners deeply, and loudly, nervous.
“I wanted to look every single one of you in the eye and give you my word,” Ellison told the crowd. “Once we combine with Warner Bros, we are going to make a minimum of 30 films annually across both studios.”
It was a confident pitch. Whether it landed is another matter. Cinema operators have already called on regulators to block the deal, and scepticism in the room was hardly concealed.
Ellison pushed back by pointing to recent form. Paramount, born from the merger of Paramount Global and Skydance Media last August, plans to release 15 films this year, nearly double the eight it put out in 2025. Progress, he argued, was already underway.
He also threw theater owners a bone they have long been chasing: all films, he pledged, would run exclusively in cinemas for a minimum of 45 days, drawing applause from a crowd that has spent years fighting for exactly that commitment across the industry.
“People can speculate all they want,” Ellison said, “but I am standing here today telling you personally that you can count on our complete commitment. And we’ll show you we mean it.”
Fine words. The regulators, however, will have the last one.
