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2015 Screen Actors Guild TV Predictions

The 2015 Screen Actors Guild awards will be handed out Sunday, January 25. Who will take home the prizes in nine TV categories? The staff at Awards Daily TV weigh in with their predictions.

Casting’s Artios Awards Honor TV’s ‘Orange,’ ‘Detective’

The Casting Society of America presented their 30th annual awards – dubbed the Artios Awards – in a ceremony held simultaneously in Los Angeles and New York City. The group shifted their awards ceremony to align with the more traditional guild awards schedule, so the eligibility window for this year’s awards was longer than typical, …

Cinema Audio Society TV Nominees

American Horror Story, Fargo, Sherlock, True Detective, The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire among TV nominees for the Cinema Audio Society Awards

Gay/Lesbian Entertainment Critics Nominees: Transparent, Normal Heart, Orange is the New Black

The Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association (GALECA) announced its nominations for the Dorian Awards given to the best in TV and movies from the past year.

2015 Golden Globes TV Results: The Affair, Fargo, Transparent

“Good evening. Good evening and welcome you bunch of despicable, spoiled, minimally talented brats.” And so co-host Tina Fey kicked off the 72nd Annual Golden Globe Awards Sunday night which, thanks partly to Fey and her partner Amy Poehler (more about them in a minute), breezed along mostly entertainingly even while the specific awards seemed …

TV News: Weekly Recap (1/4 – 1/10)

The biggest news items from the last week including stories on Guillermo del Toro, Alex Gibney, Frank Sinatra, Roots, Matt Bomer, Montgomery Clift, George Clooney, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Lena Dunham, Ted Danson, Patrick Wilson, Jean Smart, Nick Offerman, Brad Garret, Kieran Culkin, John Travolta, Ryan Murphy, OJ Simpson, Fargo, The Simpsons, Bob’s Burgers, Girls

Emmys – For Your Consideration – Fargo is Exceptional Television

Fargo is the best show on TV no one is really talking about. It’s a slow burn, admittedly, which hasn’t caught the same kind of zeitgeist fire that True Detective or House of Cards caught. But that’s probably because it’s an acquired taste – and besides, so many other TV shows have people talking, like …

Fargo Recap – Episode 2: The Rooster Prince (Spoilers)

I’ve been trying to write all morning about the second episode of FX’s Fargo which aired last night, but it’s like pulling teeth. I went into the first episode with a deep skepticism based on my unconditional love of Joel and Ethan Coen’s film. After a shaky start, I thought the whole thing went pretty …