Elle Fanning, Toni Collette Among Actresses Who Could Land Double Emmy Noms

Before Hulu’s terrific and hilarious historical drama/satirical and black screwball comedy “The Great,” was a successful TV series starring Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult, now entering its third season, it was actually a play in Australia written by the same showrunner Tony McNamara. Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Favorite,” the Academy Award-winning screenplay that McNamara eventually wrote was not out yet, and so for its stars that had no reference point yet — a period piece set during the `1700s period of Russian Enlightenment, but also a super clever ratatat-style comedy in the vein of “His Girl Friday”— was hard to wrap their heads around.

The UK Americana scene is positively thriving right now. A genre increasingly influencing the mainstream, it's important to shine a spotlight on those artists embodying the roots of Americana; bringing the traditional elements of the music into 2022 and challenging perceptions of the genre along the way, too.

Having acted since the age of two, Elle Fanning is a unique kind of veteran. Now, at 24, she knows her way around a set but still has the energy and fervor to take on new challenges, such as producing the shows she stars in, something she began doing in 2020 with The Great, followed by this year’s The Girl from Plainville, which is based on true events. The Great will soon start filming its third season. For Fanning, these roles have kept her on her proverbial toes, while allowing her to expand her skills as a producer.

Love Island fans pointed out an "awkward" filming blunder during Thursday's episode as Liam Llewellyn went on two dates with new bombshells Afia Tonkmor and Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu. On Tuesday, the hit ITV2 show unveiled two new bombshells with the public picking who they go on dates with after Davide Sanclimenti picked his new partner Gemma, who had been coupled up with Liam.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeThrough the years, there have been countless creators, producers, directors and actors who have gone without an Emmy Award. And then there are those lucky enough to earn multiple kudos for different projects — in the same year.That could be the case for numerous stars leading up to the 2022 Emmys, with more than a dozen actors with multiple projects in contention.Elle Fanning is Hulu’s shining star this year, with both “The Great” and “The Girl From Plainville” in the conversation; not only does she lead the comedy and the dark drama, she also serves as an executive producer on both.“I only had two weeks in between to go from ‘The Great’ to ‘The Girl From Plainville.’ So it was a complete 180 for sure,” says Fanning of wrapping the second season of the period comedy and heading into the true-crime story.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorComposer Kris Bowers could find himself landing more than one Emmy nomination come July.From composing the music to “Bridgerton” to “Inventing Anna,” and reuniting with Ava Duvernay for “Colin in Black and White” to penning an original song for “Dear White People,” the odds are stacked in his favor as he has multiple paths to landing a nomination and even win.Bowers returned to score “Bridgerton’s” second season. The composer says he spent a lot of time focusing on Kate (Simone Ashley) and Anthony’s (Jonathan Bailey) theme and how it should sound.As the characters go from enemies to lovers, Bowers explains he knew their storyline would be “complicated, messy and devastating for somebody.” His initial version of the theme was “pretty dark.

A host of Coronation Street stars were spotted in Manchester on Monday as they attended the press night for The Play That Goes Wrong at the city’s Opera House Theatre. Several fan favourites, including Millie Gibson and Elle Mulvaney arrived to see the performance of the smash hit play, as it returned to Manchester as part of its ongoing fifth UK tour, which runs until August 21st 2022.

Dierks Bentley and Elle King are set to host this year's CMA Fest in Nashville, and the duo are opening up about working side-by-side to emcee the performance-packed music festival.«They asked us if we could, you know, if we wanted to host together, and for me, anything with Elle, it doesn't feel like like work. It's just fun, you know?» Bentley marveled to ET recently.

Coronation Street fans have been left surprised by Shona Platt during the most recent trip to Weatherfield. The ITV soap character, played by Julia Goulding, was causing a distraction for Amy Barlow as she tried to work in Roy's Rolls.