Cinematography Contenders on Capturing TV’s Most Stunning Images

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Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorThis year the single-camera half-hour cinematography race pits action-packed episodes against tense drama and dark comedy. Despite the drastic tonal differences between series and their sometimes out-of-this-world settings, the goals of DPs on their nominated episodes were common: capturing theater-grade quality images to allow audiences stuck at home amid a pandemic a chance to escape.

As the cinematographer for Netflix’s Queer Eye, Garrett Rose knows he needs to use a light touch in his work. In an effort to highlight the story and the people being helped, keeping the visuals as close to reality is essential so it does not diminish the “emotional strength” of the episode.

Deadline has launched the streaming site for its Contenders Television: The Nominees, out annual award-season event that this past weekend shined a light on panel presentations from 34 Emmy-nominated series featuring 117 cast and creatives from 16 broadcast and cable networks and streamers.

Alex Salmond is set to be elected as the leader of the Alba party at its conference later this year. The ex- SNP leader was facing a leadership challenge from former journalist Rob Brown ahead of the inaugural conference in Greenock next month.

The upcoming sixth and final season of Disney Television Studios’ mega-hit This Is Us is sure to see some emotionally stirring storylines. In fact, during Deadline’s Contenders Television: The Nominees event, series creator Dan Fogelman said he brought studio execs to tears during a Season 6 story pitch meeting on Zoom.

Disney+’s first TV series launch, the nine-episode WandaVision combined a wholly original premise that somehow felt familiar by its blatant homage to classic sitcoms that the witch Wanda conjured to mask her grief in losing her soulmate, Vision, to a brutal death we all saw in Avengers: Infinity War.

After winning acclaim and Oscars for your two most recent movies, what do you next? Well, if you are Barry Jenkins, whose Moonlight won Best Picture and Original Screenplay for him, and whose If Beale Street Could Talk won an Oscar for Regina King, well you tackle the most ambitious project imaginable, but one that has been brewing and calling out your name for two decades.

Mick Harrington sure knows how to make an impression.

When Friends went off the air in 2004 there was a definite feeling that, somehow, this would not be the end of it, an itch that was finally scratched some 17 years later when the HBO Max special Friends: The Reunion appeared in May. Directed by British documentary filmmaker Ben Winston, the Warner Bros Television production was an apparently effortless success that has resulted in four Emmy nominations.

Heidi Montag isn't holding back when it comes to her former friend, Lauren Conrad. In a new interview on the podcast, Montag opened up about all the drama she dealt with on and how she really feels about some of her former castmates since their time on the show."Kristin [Cavallari], let’s be honest, is the most successful.

Allyson Felix is going down in history.

There’s less than a week remaining until the release of The Kissing Booth 3 and we have new photos from Joey King‘s recent press day for the film!

Courteney Cox and fiancée Johnny McDaid walk side by side while heading out of Giorgio Baldi restaurant on Saturday night (July 31).

Courteney Cox looked chic as she stepped out for dinner with boyfriend Johnny McDaid in Santa Monica on Saturday. The Friends actress, 57, looked smitten as she linked arms with the Snow Patrol rocker, 45, while they stepped out at Giorgio Baldi.

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