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Adam Scott and Patricia Arquette are hitting the red carpet at the 2022 Emmy Awards!

Primetime Emmy Awards take place this evening (September 12), with a number of big shows vying for the most-coveted awards in TV.Returning to the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California, the show kicks off from 8pm ET (1am BST), with the ceremony itself hosted by Kenan Thompson.Succession leads the nominees going into the night with 12 nods, followed by The White Lotus with 11 and Ted Lasso with 10. Other big shows competing for awards include Dopesick, Squid Game, Severance, Barry, Ozark and Only Murders In The Building.Here, we bring you all the winners of the night as they happen – so for those in the UK, check back here from 1am and keep an eye on the rolling list below for updates:Outstanding Drama SeriesBetter Call SaulEuphoriaOzarkSeveranceSquid GameStranger ThingsSuccessionYellowjackets Lead Actor in a Drama SeriesJason Bateman (Ozark)Brian Cox (Succession)Lee Jung-jae (Squid Game)Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul)Adam Scott (Severance)Jeremy Strong (Succession)Lead Actress in a Drama SeriesJodie Comer (Killing Eve)Laura Linney (Ozark)Melanie Lynskey (Yellowjackets)Sandra Oh (Killing Eve)Reese Witherspoon (The Morning Show)Zendaya (Euphoria)Supporting Actor in a Drama SeriesNicholas Braun (Succession)Billy Crudup (The Morning Show)Kieran Culkin (Succession)Park Hae-soo (Squid Game)Matthew Macfadyen (Succession)John Turturro (Severance)Christopher Walken (Severance)Oh Yeong-su (Squid Game)Supporting Actress in a Drama SeriesPatricia Arquette (Severance)Julia Garner (Ozark)Jung Ho-yeon (Squid Game) Christina Ricci (Yellowjackets)Rhea Seehorn (Better Call Saul)J.

EXCLUSIVE: Cadence13, the podcast studio behind series such as Once Upon A Time… In The Valley, is looking to get into the TV and film adaptations game.

While the summer can sometimes be a strange time in the TV schedule, plenty of dramas are due to air over the coming months. Some big releases are coming to the BBC, Amazon, and Netflix, among many others.

On the latest episode of 20 Questions on Deadline, Emmy-nominated Severance star Adam Scott declares New York Attorney General Letitia James his hero.

Kristen Bell is giving fans a peek into her personal life like never before.

The world depicted on Apple TV+’s hit series “Severance” is already pretty bleak, but as it turns out, it could be even bleaker — all you need is the biggest jerk version of Stephen Colbert dropped into the madness.Colbert proved this on Thursday’s episode of “The Late Show” with a fun clip in which he becomes an employee of Lumen and we see what his workplace version is like. (The frame joke is that he actually did join the show, but all his scenes were cut, in case you’re curious.)Of course you know the premise, but for those who don’t, on “Severance,” the company Lumen has devised a procedure that allows people to literally separate their work and home lives completely.

It’s a little over a month since Ben Stiller returned from Ukraine. It was there, as part of his work representing the UN Refugee Agency, that Stiller was granted an audience with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, currently defending his country from a war of Russian aggression. It isn’t often that Ben Stiller is starstruck, but he marveled at Zelenskyy’s path, from comic actor to unflinching war premier. “I was really taken by the resilience of the people of Ukraine, and of the President,” he says now. “His incredible sense of how he has risen to the moment and offered his people leadership and true resolve to get through this awful situation.”

Dakota Johnson and Adam Scott film a dramatic car crash and rescue scene for their film Madame Web on Tuesday (August 9) in Boston, Mass.

Fans are getting their first look at “Madame Web” thanks to some brand new set photos.

The Flight Attendant‘s Zosia Mamet has landed a role in Sony and Marvel’s new movie Madame Web!

EXCLUSIVE: The Flight Attendant‘s Zosia Mamet has signed on for a role in S.J. Clarkson’s Sony Pictures film Madame Web, based on the Marvel comics by writer Denny O’Neil and artist John Romita Jr. She joins an ensemble led by Dakota Johnson, which also includes Sydney Sweeney, Isabela Merced, Emma Roberts, Celeste O’Connor, Tahar Rahim, Mike Epps and Adam Scott, as previously announced.

HBO shows like Euphoria and The White Lotus, Sweeney told The Hollywood Reporter that she still has insecurities over her finances.“If I wanted to take a six-month break, I don’t have income to cover that,” Sweeney said. “I don’t have someone supporting me, I don’t have anyone I can turn to, to pay my bills or call for help.”When asked about the payments from HBO, Sweeney said: “They don’t pay actors like they used to, and with streamers, you no longer get residuals.

Adam Scott has started filming his new movie!

An exciting web to weave. The expansion of Sony’s Spider-Man Universe continues with a new action-adventure flick with a female focus: Madame Web.

Comic-Con action took place on the convention center floor or in its ballrooms. While studios and producers like Marvel made headlines in Hall H, thousands of attendees to this year’s Con took time out to visit lavish, expensive activations geared toward an experiential visit to the worlds of films and series like Apple TV+’s “Severance,” HBO’s upcoming “Game of Thrones” prequel “House of the Dragon” and the upcoming “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” movie.Fans eager to return to Comic-Con — the first since 2019, after two years of virtual events due to the pandemic — welcomed that ability to once again interact with pop culture.

Dakota Johnson was photographed on the set of Sony’s new Marvel movie Madame Web, and fans noticed something about the photos that might give away some plot points!

Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterThe “Severance” team is hard at work writing Season 2 of the critically acclaimed Apple TV+ drama — so hard at work that they need to avoid fan theories in order to properly carry out the task of telling the Innies and Outies of the second season as they envision them.“I was warned not to go on Reddit, on the subreddit for this show, at all. And I held off for about six minutes and then I went on and I was just on it every day.

Emily Longeretta With the race tighter than ever, scheduling strategy comes into play for Emmys frontrunners. Here, Variety analyzes the competitive stakes in the key races.Drama SeriesWith one more nominee than last year, this category is again a mixed bag.

Sony is pushing their Spider-Man family title Madame Web from July 7 to Oct. 6, 2023. That first weekend of October has been a gold mine for the Culver lot where they own the month’s second and third biggest openings with Venom: Let There Be Carnage ($90M) and Venom ($80.2M).

Emma Roberts, Celeste O’Connor, Isabela Merced and Tahar Rahim, as well as Adam Scott. S.J. Clarkson will direct, with Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless writing a script based on the character created by Denny O.

Spider-Man spin-off Madame Web, according to reports.The actor, who recently received an Emmy nomination for Best Actor in Severance, is set to star alongside (via Deadline) Dakota Johnson and Sydney Sweeney in the film, from director S.J. Clarkson.Scott’s role in the film is unknown.

Another week, another casting announcement for Sony‘s upcoming spin-off to “Spider-Man,” “Madame Web.” Does it feel like someone new gets added to the cast list of this film every week? For the last month or so, that’s actually been the case, with five names announced since late May. And now, Variety reports that another joins their ranks: “Severance” star Adam Scott.

Adam Scott is taking on a new role.

EXCLUSIVE: After landing an Emmy nomination for his critically hailed roll in Severance, Adam Scott looks to have already found his next project as sources tell Deadline he is set to join the cast of Sony Pictures’ Madame Web starring Dakota Johnson. Also on board are Sydney Sweeney, Celeste O’Connor, Isabela Merced, Emma Roberts and Tahar Rahim for director S.J. Clarkson. Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless penned the screenplay, with Kerem Sanga writing a previous draft.

For the first time ever, Apple TV+ is heading down to San Diego Comic-Con with a huge spotlight on its genre series including Severance, For All Mankind, Mythic Quest, See, Invasion and Foundation. 

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorKate Mara will topline “Necropolis,” a scripted supernatural thriller podcast series from sci-fi and fantasy podcast studio Echoverse.Mara (“A Teacher,” “The Martian,” “House of Cards”) also will executive produce the audio drama, alongside Project X Entertainment’s James Vanderbilt, William Sherak, Paul Neinstein and Nicole Tossou. “Necropolis” is adapted by Brian Miller (“Apollo 18”) from his short story of the same name.“Necropolis” follows Sarah Bishop (Mara) who, after a dishonorable discharge from the Army, moves with her two kids to a small California town to work as the deputy sheriff.

Quinta Brunson, the creator and star of ABC’s “Abbott Elementary,” and Adam Scott, of Apple TV+’s mind-bending drama “Severance,” have a connection we can’t quite put our finger on. After they speak about their shows — and the fact that both of their mothers were public school teachers — it turns out that their familiar dynamic comes from an established collegial relationship: As Scott accidentally spills, on Variety‘s “Actors on Actors” is presented by Apple TV+, Brunson will be guest starring on the upcoming Starz revival of Scott’s brilliant-but-canceled “Party Down.” Thanks for letting us know! ADAM SCOTT: “Abbott Elementary” is your show. My family and I — we go through phases of watching a show together.

Kate Aurthur editorQuinta Brunson, creator and star of the hit ABC sitcom “Abbott Elementary,” will guest star on the upcoming Starz revival of “Party Down.” The appearance inadvertently leaked during an April 21 taping for Variety‘s Actors on Actors series, in which Brunson was paired with Adam Scott, of both Apple TV+’s “Severance” and the revived Starz series, which ran for two seasons in 2009 and 2010.During the conversation, it became clear that Brunson and Scott knew one another. At one point, Brunson said, “After doing Janine for months straight on ‘Abbott,’ I remember getting so excited to come do another thing in a way that almost felt juvenile,” to which Scott replied, “But that was announced, right? We can say it — you’re guest starring on ‘Party Down.'” “I don’t think that was announced,” Brunson replied.

FX’s breakout series Reservation Dogs, Hulu’s limited series Dopesick and socially impactful content from PBS, Netflix, NPR and Vice News are among the first winners of the 2022 Peabody Awards, which are being rolled out this week.

William Earl Variety’s “Actors on Actors” returns with some of the biggest names of the 2022 TV Emmys race for Season 16, with a lineup that includes Zendaya, Andrew Garfield, Jeremy Strong, Jennifer Aniston, Viola Davis, Anne Hathaway, Sebastian Stan and Sandra Oh.The 13 one-on-one conversations will begin airing June 7 on Variety.com and our social media channels, with the official “Actors on Actors” magazine hitting newsstands on June 8. This is the first time in more than two years that “Actors on Actors” has been conducted in person, with previous seasons going virtual due to COVID-19.

Money can’t buy happiness in Apple TV+’s new series “Loot”.

golf-obsessed friends or during your downtime on the weekend, you'll want to witness your favorite competitors' swings this year. While you can tune into the live coverage on ESPN (and CBS, starting on Saturday, May 21), you can also stream the 2022 PGA Championship from virtually anywhere with ESPN+.Sign Up for ESPN+The 2022 PGA Championship starts on Thursday, May 19, at 11 a.m ET / 8 a.m.

Saturday Night Live.The actor and comedian took to the stage with Amy Poehler on the final night of the Netflix is a Joke festival for an “In Conversation” event.As observed by The Hollywood Reporter, Fey and Poehler stressed their event was not stand-up and added “this is not the Golden Globes”, stressing it would be a conversation.At one point during the evening, Poehler reportedly asked Fey, “Who is the most famous person to ever hit on you?” before joking John McCain had flirted with her.“This is the kind of weird thing that used to happen to me,” Fey replied, beginning to discuss her days on Saturday Night Live. “One time when he was hosting SNL, at the after-party, it was late and Kevin Spacey tried to hit on me.”Kevin Spacey has since been accused of sexual misconduct by multiple men, and has since come out as gay.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorLaverne Cox will be honored as advocate of the year at the upcoming 2022 Webby Awards.The actor and producer will be recognized by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences (IADAS) for her LGBTQ advocacy work.“Laverne Cox understands the true power of showing up by example,” Webby Awards president Claire Graves told Variety exclusively on Tuesday morning. “She is a clear, consistent and powerful voice advocating in defense of Black trans lives, and we are so proud to recognize her as the 2022 Webby Advocate of the Year, selected by a committee chaired by the NAACP and IADAS.”Hosted by comedian Roy Wood Jr., the Webby Awards will take place May 16 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City.

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate has extended Emmy Award-winning writer and producer Ben Karlin and his Superego Industries’ first-look deal.