SAG Awards TV Predictions 2021: ‘The Crown,’ ‘Schitt’s Creek,’ ‘Ted Lasso’ and Other Top Contenders

Apple TV+ have shared a new trailer for season two of Ted Lasso.The two minute clip, which you can watch below, sees the hapless football coach played by Jason Sudeikis return for a new season with AFC Richmond.It also sees the return of his famous home made shortbread biscuits as his underdog team facing more uphill battles.

As with all award shows, the Independent Spirit Awards will be quite different than previous years. The virtual ceremony means there will be no day drinking in a tent on Santa Monica beach, and the Spirit’s first-time host, Melissa Villaseñor, won’t be able to interact with the always buzzed audience.

The 10 episode series original Ted Lasso worked wonders on the OTT platform and filled the gape of a genuinely innocent watch within the pool of blood, gore, and horror content on streaming platforms. Merely five days after its premiere, the show was renewed for a season 2 consisting of 12 episodes with the entire star cast recurring for their parts.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeCBS Sports’ coverage of Super Bowl LV led all nominees for the 42nd Annual Sports Emmy Awards, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced Tuesday.The Super Bowl landed 11 nominations, followed by NFL Network’s “NFL 360,” which picked up nine. ESPN’s stable of networks led the conglomerate charge, with 54 nominations altogether via ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN+, ABC, ESPN Deportes, ESPNews and ESPN.com.

Ted Lasso is short on victories but high on self-belief in Apple TV+’s new trailer for “Ted Lasso”.

When Apple TV+ launched more than a year ago, the lineup of original series included some massive stars in huge, high-profile projects. We’re talking Steve Carell, Jennifer Aniston, and Reese Witherspoon in a drama series and Jason Momoa is a post-apocalyptic thriller series.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeTelevision dominated the roster of nominees for the 2021 MTV Movie & TV Awards, which returns this May after a year-long hiatus due, at least in part, to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeThe Banff World Media Festival has revealed the full list of nominees for its 2021 Rockie Awards International Program Competition.

Clayton Davis The 2021 BAFTA nominations turned more than a few heads when they were announced in early March. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has approximately 9,000 voting members, nearly identical to AMPAS at 10,000.With “Nomadland” leading the field with seven noms and having the prestige of wins from the Golden Globes and PGA, the season has looked like an inevitable coronation of Chloé Zhao’s American West drama.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeNiecy Nash was in bed late one Sunday evening earlier this year when she got a frantic call from her team of reps: “The Masked Singer” host Nick Cannon had tested positive for COVID-19 on the eve of production for Season 5. Would she be available to fill in?“I was like, ‘you had me at hello,'” Nash tells Variety.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeThe Screen Actors Guild Awards shrunk to one hour this year, and despite solid critical reviews of the telecast, so did the viewership. The 27th Annual SAG Awards, which aired on Sunday, April 4, averaged 957,000 viewers on the TNT/TBS simulcast.The Easter night telecast also averaged a 0.22 rating among adults 18-49 via both networks.

Since the pandemic, awards shows have been contained in Zoom chats and other virtual spaces. That said, the red carpet has also become virtual and allows Hollywood talent to come up with inventive ways to show off their red carpet fashions. For the SAG Awards, the virtual red carpet portraits contained many elevated looks, giving some sartorial eye candy on social media.

This year's SAG Awards might be quite a bit different than in years past, but the celeb fashions are as chic and stylish as ever.For the first time in the show's history, this year's ceremony was a pre-taped affair — completely virtual, with no host, and edited down to an hour-long broadcast.That doesn't mean, however, that the A-list nominees didn't get all glammed up for their brief acceptance speeches, delivered over Zoom!Despite the absence of a red carpet this year, there were plenty of red

Jason Sudeikis is keeping his look fresh as he racks up the awards.

Screen Actors Guild Awards, SAG-AFTRA minted a new class of winners during a reimagined awards ceremony.Honoring the best in film and television — as well as stunt people in both — this year's most-nominated TV series were and, while Chadwick Boseman made SAG history, becoming the first actor to earn four nominations in a single year.

If Netflix was going to have a golden night this award season it was going to be at the SAG Awards and, surprise, the actors came through. The streaming service took major honors including the Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture for “Trial of the Chicago 7” and “The Crown” won for Drama Series ensemble for the second year in a row.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeThere’s a double-edged sword to being singled out as an awards frontrunner. Yes, it’s a positive sign when pundits consider you the top contender to score a top prize.