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'Saturday Night Live' And 'Westworld' Scoop Up Most Emmy Nominations

5:27pm July 13, 2017

by Eric Deggans

NPR TV Critic Eric Deggans gives us his take on the 2017 Emmy nominations. With 22 nominations each, Saturday Night Live and Westworld are tied for the most Emmy nods of the season.

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Saturday Night Live was nominated for 22 Emmy Awards. Here, Melissa McCarthy portrays White House spokesman Sean Spicer in a special segment taped in May.

Arts

Emmy Nominations 2017: 'Saturday Night Live' And 'Westworld' Lead The Way

2:14pm July 13, 2017

by Bill Chappell

With 22 nominations each, NBC's Saturday Night Live and HBO's Westworld tied for the most Emmy nods for the 2016-2017 season. Netflix garnered 91 nominations — second among networks.

David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson star in the television show, The X-Files, where they played FBI agents.

FBI's 'G-Man' Image: From Comic Books To 'The X-Files' And 'The Silence Of The Lambs'

12:56pm July 13, 2017

by Vanessa Romo

The early years of the FBI coincided with the start of the comic book era, which inspired J. Edgar Hoover to take advantage of the new medium, according to the author of The Secrets of the FBI.

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Arts

After 27 Years, Kermit The Frog Is Getting A New Voice

2:55pm July 11, 2017

by Colin Dwyer

Puppeteer Steve Whitmire has voiced the iconic star of the Muppets since 1990, when he took over after show creator Jim Henson's death. Now, longtime Muppets veteran Matt Vogel is assuming the mantle.

Isaac Hempstead Wright plays Bran Stark in the HBO adaptation of George R. R. Martin's Game of Thrones books. Some disability activists are concerned that Bran will be magically cured of his paralysis in the show's new season.

'Game Of Thrones' Finds Fans Among Disability Rights Activists, Too

6:35pm July 10, 2017

by Neda Ulaby

Several main characters in the HBO series happen to have disabilities. "I had never seen my own experience in life reflected so accurately, so vividly, so viscerally," says one disability activist.

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'True Blood' Star Nelsan Ellis Dies At 39

6:35pm July 10, 2017

by Andrew Limbong

Actor Nelsan Ellis has died at age 39. He was best known for playing the flamboyant short order cook, Lafayette, in the TV series, True Blood.

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'True Blood' Actor Nelsan Ellis Dies At 39

5:08am July 10, 2017

Ellis played Lafayette Reynolds on HBO's vampire soap opera from 2008 to 2014.

National

Rick Najera, Jeff Yang Talk Hollywood's Racial Wage Gap

6:07pm July 08, 2017

After two Asian-American actors say they quit CBS's Hawaii Five-O over unequal pay, NPR's Michel Martin talks with writer Rick Najera and podcast host Jeff Yang about Hollywood's racial wage gap.

Alison Brie (left) and Betty Gilpin star in GLOW, a new Netflix show about a women's wrestling league in the 1980s.

Arts

'GLOW' Co-Creators Explain Why Wrestling Is Like Greek Theater

5:56pm July 07, 2017

by Kelly McEvers

The Netflix show follows a 1980s women's wrestling circuit. Showrunner Carly Mensch says you can see wrestling as "super reductive" or see it as "storytelling at its most potently inclusive and epic."

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Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine, the subjects of The Defiant Ones.

Music & Culture

'The Defiant Ones' Tells The Story Of An Unlikely Music-Biz Duo

12:39pm July 07, 2017

by Eric Deggans

The new HBO mini-series charts the shared and individual histories of Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine, whose partnership helped redefine hip-hop and rock music.

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