Season six of The Crown is on Netflix November 16. There are 10 episodes, as the prestige drama looks at the relationship between Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed, and their fateful car trip in Paris. 

Prince William tries to integrate back into life at Eton after his mother’s death. As she reaches her Golden Jubilee, the Queen reflects on the future of the monarchy with the marriage of Charles and Camilla and the beginnings of what Netflix calls “a new royal fairy tale” in William and Kate.

Four episodes are out on premiere day and the final six become available December 14. 

Peter Morgan created the show. Season six is the final one for The Crown. 

USA Today called the first four episodes “bleak.”

“In a story this long, not all endings can be happy. That’s the takeaway from the grim and almost macabre first half of the final season,” said critic Kelly Lawler. 

The Guardian loathed the new season. “From the beginning The Crown has walked a tightrope between prestige drama — capable of evoking a world of emotional struggle from a single scene or queenly line — and soapy nonsense,” said critic Lucy Mangan. “It started teetering in season three, lost its balance entirely over the next two and is now plummeting into the abyss, despite the uniformly brilliant performances from the entire cast — Elizabeth Debicki as the queen of our hearts especially, of course — trying gamely to arrest its fall.” 

Debicki portrays Princess Diana. Imelda Staunton plays Queen Elizabeth II. Dominic West is Prince Charles and Olivia Williams plays Camilla. Khalid Abdalla portrays Dodi. 

Variety, for its part, said, “With this devastating first section of its final chapter, Netflix’s crown jewel bids farewell to an icon and retakes its throne.”

Princess Diana died in the summer of 1997. 

Season 5 of The Crown saw its second-week audience on Netflix drop nearly 22%, but it still led all series and movies on the platform for the week of Nov. 14-20 with 84.3 million streaming hours. 

It has to count a disappointing outcome for the historical drama, which tracks the British royal family under Queen Elizabeth II's reign. The significant audience drop came despite the fact that Season 5 of The Crown, which dropped Nov. 9, was in its first full seven-day frame last week. 

Season 5 focuses on 1991-'97, tracking the demise of King Charles' marriage to Diana, along with the trajectory that led her to Egyptian filmmaker Dodi Fayed, among other story arcs.

With creator/EP Peter Morgan and his team recasting key roles amid each transition to a new era in Queen Elizabeth II's reign, Season 5 represents yet another major reboot of the series. Imelda Staunton takes over for Olivia Colman in the Queen Elizabeth role, Jonathan Pryce takes the baton from Tobias Menzies as the Duke of Edinburgh, and Dominic West assumes the role of Prince Charles (now King Charles) from Josh O'Connor. 

Notably, catch-up viewing of the early seasons of The Crown spiked in September, amid the death and subsequent memorial for Queen Elizabeth, so anticipation of outsized performance had been high. Netflix's weekly audience rankings only go back to the summer of 2021, so there's no comparable metrics for seasons 1-4. 

Notably, Rotten Tomatoes aggregation of TV critic reviews, which scored season 4 at 95%, give season 5 only a 72% rating. 

"The balance that the show long maintained has tipped in favor of portraying the melodramatic turmoil within the family, but it’s done to tepid effect," wrote Shirley Li in The Atlantic. "Even with an impressive and capable new cast anchoring the proceedings, Morgan’s approach to the personal lives of the royals is too sympathetic to ever be damning. The new season of The Crown never risks challenging anyone’s reputation. Instead, it merely risks its own as a compelling show.

Finishing just behind The Crown in the English-language TV series rankings was the debut of 1899, a German-produced sci-fi/horror drama, shot in the UK, which yielded  79.3 million viewing hours in just four days on the Netflix platform last week. 

Season 4 of rescued NBC sci-fi series Manifest continued to drop in week 3, garnering 35.7 million viewing hours. 

Meanwhile, the season 3 debut of the Liz Feldman-produced Christina Applegate series Dead to Me was ... largely DOA, capturing only 30.3 million viewing hours in its first four days on Netflix. 

Meanwhile, among Netflix movies, Lindsay Lohan holiday movie Falling for Christmas fell two weeks before Thanksgiving, losing more than 20% of its debut audience from the week before. 

Creator Peter Morgan and the rest of the producing team for Netflix's The Crown have been fairly impeccable in regard to the challenging task of casting -- and re-casting -- the show's core actors, as the reign of the late Queen Elizabeth II transitions through the eras. 

And starting with his role as murder policeman Jimmy McNulty on HBO's The Wire,  there's no denying the talent of Yorkshire-spawned actor Dominic West.

But starting season 5 of The Crown last week, which picks up the royal family in 1991 and carries them through the untimely death of Princess Diana in 1997, we're not sure that the 53-year-old West, a man versed at playing charming smooth operators, is the best choice for the more awkward and reserved -- and far more pasty -- King Charles, in his early forties when season 5 picks up. 

Regardless of Next TV's misgivings, season 5 scored a solid first-three-day debut on Netflix, racking up 107.4 million viewing hours and becoming the most streamed show in the world for the week of Nov. 7-13. 

The Crown was the No. 1 show on Netflix not only in the U.S. last week, but in the UK and most of Western Europe. 

Notably, viewership of the first two seasons of the show spiked in September, right around the time of Queen Elizabeth's funeral, so this is a show with a truly global audience. 

In second place, the fourth season of rescued NBC sci-fi drama Manifest grew its audience in week 2 to nearly 78.8 million viewing hours, while catch-up viewing of Manifest: Seasons 1 and 2 resulted in the two earlier campaigns also registering in the top 10 of English-language TV series on Netflix. 

Solid results considering the tepid Netflix launch of Manifest: Season 3 in the late-summer of last year. 

Meanwhile, leading Netflix movies for the second consecutive week, Enola Holmes 2 -- starring Millie Bobby Brown as younger sister to Sherlock Holmes -- garnered 62.9 million viewing hours, with the original Enola Holmes movie placing third among English-language Netflix films with nearly 18.7 million viewing hours. 

The debut of Falling for Christmas, starring Lindsay Lohan, finished second on Netflix's English-language films list with 48.4 million viewing hours. 

Cable TV’s most-watched drama series returns to the small screen, Netflix returns one of its popular Emmy-Award winning drama series, and Sylvester Stallone debuts in his first scripted series during the Election Day and Veteran's Day holiday week.

Paramount's Yellowstone launches its fifth season on November 13 as it continues to follow the exploits of the Dutton family, who control the largest contiguous cattle ranch in the United States and are in constant conflict with an expanding town, an Indian reservation, and business rivalries, said the network. The season four finale of Yellowstone, which stars Kevin Costner, drew more than 10 million viewers -- the most-watched cable show since the season three premiere of The Walking Dead in 2017, according to Nielsen.

Netflix drops the fifth season premiere of its Emmy-winning series The Crown on November 9. The series, set in the early to mid-1990s, will continue to explore the actions of The Queen, as well as the breakdown of the marriage between Prince Charles and Princess Diana, according to Netflix.

On November 13, Paramount Plus will debut Tulsa King, starring Stallone who plays a mobster who relocates to Oklahoma after being released from prison.

Below are video trailers and premiere dates for multiple shows debuting the week of November 7 to November 13 on cable networks and streaming services (for some videos, viewer discretion is advised):

November 8 – Say Hey, Willie Mays! (sports documentary) – HBO

November 9 – Zootopia+ (animation) – Disney Plus

November 30 – The Calling (drama) – Peacock

November 10 – Warrior Nun (drama) – Netflix

November 11 - Circuit Breakers (sci-fi) – Apple TV Plus

November 11 – The English (drama) – Prime Video

November 11 – Is That Black Enough for You?!? (documentary) – Netflix

November 11 – Mammals (dramedy) – Prime Video

November 11 – Mythic Quest (returning series) – Apple TV Plus

November 13 – Rogue Heroes (drama) – Epix

Season five of The Crown starts on Netflix November 9, the network shared at a Tudum fan event. Set in the early to mid-1990s, the series details, among other things, the breakdown of the marriage between Prince Charles and Princess Diana. 

Goes the Netflix description: “The Queen is approaching the 40th anniversary of her accession. Setting off on Britannia for her annual tour of Scotland’s Western Isles, she reflects on a reign that has encompassed nine Prime Ministers, the advent of mass television and the twilight of the British Empire. However, as a new decade enters its stride, the old certainties are no longer guaranteed. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the transfer of sovereignty in Hong Kong signals a seismic shift in the international order and presents the monarchy with both challenges and opportunities, but trouble is brewing closer to home.”

Prince Charles pressures the Queen to allow him to divorce Diana, and rumors circulate as the two live increasingly separate lives. “As media scrutiny intensifies Diana decides to take control of her own narrative, breaking with family protocol to publish a book that undermines public support for Charles and exposes the cracks in the House of Windsor,” said Netflix. 

John Major succeeds Margaret Thatcher as prime minister, and Mohamed Al Fayed uses his wealth and power to push for a seat at the royal table. 

Elizabeth Debicki plays Princess Diana and Dominic West portrays Prince Charles. Imelda Staunton is Queen Elizabeth. 

Season four came out in November 2020. ■

A new episode of Netflix's biographical series The Crown hasn't dropped since November 2020, and Season 5 won't debut until this upcoming November.

Still, driven by the globally observed passing of Queen Elizabeth II, viewing of the original series focused on the British Royal Family has spiked anew, with seasons 1 and 2 of the show generating more than 47 million hours of streaming on Netflix last week. 

Season 1 of The Crown, which originally dropped back in November 2016, finished third on Netflix's ranking of English-language TV series for the week of September 12-18, garnering nearly 40.8 million hours of viewing. 

The Crown: Season 1 ranked as a top 10 English-language show in 87 countries that host Netflix, and it was the No. 1 show in Iceland and Ukraine. 

Globally, The Crown: Season 1 was the No. 4 program overall for the week, finishing behind season 5 of Cobra Kai (95.6 million streaming hours), season 2 of live-action Nickelodeon series adaptation Fate: The Winx Saga (49 million hours) and the local-language version of Narco Saints: Season 1 (62.7 million). 

Since Netflix only reveals viewing data for full seasons of shows that finish in the top 10 on its rankings to English-language and non-English language series, we don't know many millions of hours of streaming seasons 3 and 4 contributed to the show's total last week. 

Notably, creator Peter Morgan has shifted the key cast members of The Crown, aging up the actors as the story progresses. Season 5 will see Imelda Staunton take over as Elizabeth II for Olivia Colman, who starred in the role in seasons 3 and 4 ... and who took over the role from Claire Foy, who played the younger Queen in seasons 1 and 2. 

Dominic West will take over for Josh O'Connor as Prince Charles, and Elizabeth Debicki will play Princess Diana with the storyline progressing to focus on the latter years of the pair's relationship. 

HBO’s Succession was the big winner among a list of Emmy Awards nominations that offered few surprises but a lot of intrigue.

Succession led all shows with 25 nominations, followed by Apple TV Plus’s Ted Lasso and HBO’s The White Lotus with 20 nominations each. HBO Max’s Hacks and Hulu’s Only Murders In the Building drew 17 nominations each, while HBO’s Euphoria garnered 16 nods, according to the TV Academy during a Tuesday-morning online ceremony hosted by J.B. Smoove and Melissa Fumero. 

All of last year’s winners in the major comedy categories will be back to defend their crown. Apple TV Plus’ Ted Lasso will look to fend off challenges from ABC’s Abbott Elementary, HBO’s Barry and Curb Your Enthusiasm, HBO Max’s Hacks, Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building and FX’s What We Do In the Shadows. 

Ted Lasso’s Jason Sudeikis will look to defend against previous category winner Donald Glover (FX’s Atlanta), as well as Bill Hader (Barry); Only Murders In the Building’s Steve Martin and Martin Short; and Nicholas Hoult (Hulu’s The Great).

Hacks’ Jean Smart takes on former category winner Rachel Brosnahan (Amazon Prime Video’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), Quinta Brunson (Abbott Elementary), Kaley Cuoco (HBO Max’s The Flight Attendant), Elle Fanning (Hulu’s The Great) and Issa Rae (HBO’s Insecure).

The absence of Netflix’s The Crown, which won 2021 Emmys in most of the major drama categories, provided a wide-open competition for best drama series, led by Succession along with three Netflix series — Ozark, Stranger Things and Squid Game — as well as Better Call Saul, Euphoria, Apple TV Plus’s Severance and Showtime’s Yellowjackets.

Killing Eve’s Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh earned Lead Actress in a Drama Series nods along with Ozark’s Laura Linney, Yellowjackets’ Melanie Lynskey, The Morning Show’s Reese Witherspoon and Euphoria's Zendaya. 

Succession’s Brian Cox and Jeremy Strong lead a best actor in a drama series category that also features Ozark’s Jason Bateman, Squid Game’s Lee Jung-Jae, Better Call Saul’s Bob Odenkirk and Severance’s Adam Scott.

NBC will air live the 74th Emmy Awards on September 12. ▪️

In the Running

Here‘s a partial list of Emmy-nominated shows: 

OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES
Better Call Saul (AMC)
Euphoria (HBO)
Ozark (Netflix)
Severance (Apple TV Plus)
Squid Game (Netflix)
Stranger Things (Netflix)
Succession (HBO)
Yellowjackets (Showtime)

LEAD ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Jodie Comer (Killing Eve, BBC America)
Laura Linney (Ozark, Netflix)
Melanie Lynskey (Yellowjackets, Showtime)
Sandra Oh (Killing Eve, BBC America)
Reese Witherspoon (The Morning Show, Apple TV Plus)
Zendaya (Euphoria, HBO)

LEAD ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Jason Bateman (Ozark, Netflix)
Brian Cox (Succession, HBO)
Lee Jung-jae (Squid Game, Netflix)
Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul, AMC)
Adam Scott (Severance, Apple TV Plus)
Jeremy Strong (Succession, HBO)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Patricia Arquette (Severance, Apple TV Plus)
Julia Garner (Ozark, Netflix)
Jung Ho-Yeon (Squid Game, Netflix)
Christina Ricci (Yellowjackets, Showtime)
Rhea Seehorn (Better Call Saul, AMC)
J. Smith-Cameron (Succession, HBO)
Sarah Snook (Succession, HBO)
Sydney Sweeney (Euphoria, HBO) 

SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Nicholas Braun (Succession, HBO)
Billy Crudup (The Morning Show, Apple TV Plus)
Kieran Culkin (Succession, HBO)
Park Hae-soo (Squid Game, Netflix)
Matthew Macfadyen (Succession, HBO)
John Turturro (Severance, Apple TV Plus)
Christopher Walken (Severance, Apple TV Plus)
Oh Yeong-Su (Squid Game, Netflix) 

OUTSTANDING COMEDY SERIES
Abbott Elementary (ABC)
Barry (HBO)
Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO)
Hacks (HBO)
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon Prime Video)
Only Murders in the Building (Hulu)
Ted Lasso (Apple TV Plus)
What We Do in the Shadows (FX)

LEAD ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Rachel Brosnahan (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Amazon Prime Video)
Quinta Brunson (Abbott Elementary, ABC)
Kaley Cuoco (The Flight Attendant, HBO)
Elle Fanning, (The Great, Hulu)
Issa Rae (Insecure, HBO)
Jean Smart (Hacks, HBO Max)

LEAD ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Donald Glover (Atlanta, FX)
Bill Hader (Barry, HBO)
Nicholas Hoult (The Great, Hulu)
Steve Martin (Only Murders in the Building, Hulu)
Martin Short (Only Murders in the Building, Hulu)
Jason Sudeikis (Ted Lasso, Apple TV Plus) 

SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Alex Bornstein (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Amazon Prime Video)
Hannah Einbinder (Hacks, HBO Max)
Janelle James (Abbott Elementary, ABC)
Kate McKinnon (Saturday Night Live, NBC)
Sarah Niles (Ted Lasso, Apple TV Plus)
Sheryl Lee Ralph (Abbott Elementary, ABC)
Juno Temple (Ted Lasso, Apple TV Plus)
Hannah Waddingham (Ted Lasso, Apple TV Plus)

SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Anthony Carrigan (Barry, HBO)
Brett Goldstein (Ted Lasso, Apple TV Plus)
Toheeb Jimoh (Ted Lasso, Apple TV Plus)
Nick Mohammed (Ted Lasso, Apple TV Plus
)Tony Shalhoub (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Prime Video)
Tyler James Williams (Abbott Elementary, ABC)
Henry Winkler (Barry, HBO)
Bowen Yang (Saturday Night Live, NBC) 

OUTSTANDING LIMITED ANTHOLOGY SERIES OR MOVIE
Dopesick (Hulu)
The Dropout (Hulu)
Inventing Anna (Netflix)
Pam & Tommy (Hulu)
The White Lotus (HBO)

LEAD ACTOR IN A LIMITED TV SERIES OR MOVIE
Colin Firth (The Staircase, HBO Max)
Andrew Garfield (Under the Banner of Heaven, FX)
Oscar Isaac (Scenes from a Marriage, HBO Max)
Michael Keaton (Dopesick, Hulu) 
Himesh Patel (Station Eleven, HBO Max)
Sebastian Stan (Pam & Tommy, Hulu) 

LEAD ACTRESS IN A LIMITED TV SERIES OR MOVIE
Toni Collette (The Staircase, HBO Max)
Julia Garner (Inventing Anna, Netflix) 
Lily James (Pam & Tommy, Hulu)
Sarah Paulson (Impeachment: American Crime Story, FX)
Margaret Qualley (Maid, Netflix)
Amanda Seyfried (The Dropout, Hulu) 

OUTSTANDING REALITY/COMPETITION SERIES 
The Amazing Race (CBS)
Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrrls (Amazon Prime Video)
Nailed It! (Netflix)
RuPaul’s Drag Race (VH1)
Top Chef (Bravo)
The Voice (NBC)

OUTSTANDING VARIETY TALK SERIES
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah (Comedy Central)
Jimmy Kimmel Live! (ABC)
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Late Night with Seth Meyers (NBC)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (CBS)

VARIETY SKETCH SERIES
A Black Lady Sketch Show (HBO)
Saturday Night Live (NBC)

The Crown won Netflix’s first ever Emmy Award for best drama series, leading a streaming services sweep of the major awards categories during Sunday night’s Primetime Emmy Awards telecast. 

Along with The Crown, wins by Apple TV Plus’s Ted Lasso for best comedy series and Netflix’s The Queens Gambit for best limited, anthology series or movie certified the digital platform as this year's dominant source for quality content on the small screen, according to Television Academy voters.  

The Crown won seven Emmy statuettes -- the biggest of which was for best drama series -- to top all shows. The Crown's win marks only the second Emmy best drama series win for a streaming service, following Hulu’s 2017 win for The Handmaid’s Tale.

Along with winning best drama series, The Crown’s Josh O’Connor and Olivia Colman won Emmys for lead actor and actress, respectively. Also The Crown’s Tobias Menzies and Gillian Anderson won best supporting actor and best supporting actress Emmys, respectively.

Emmys 2021: 'Ted Lasso' Gets Top Comedy, 'The Crown' Named Best Drama, 'The Queen's Gambit' Best Limited Series

Apple TV Plus’s Ted Lasso was the big winner in the comedy category, winning four awards including best comedy series and outstanding lead actor in a comedy series for Jason Sudeikis. The soccer-themed series also won Emmys in the outstanding supporting actor in a comedy series category for Brett Goldstein, and outstanding supporting actress in a comedy series for Hannah Waddingham. 

Actress Jean Smart kept Ted Lasso from sweeping the major Emmy comedy acting awards with a win in the lead actress category for her role in HBO Max's Hacks.

Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit was the top choice in the Limited or Anthology Series or Movie category. Kate Winslet won lead actress in a limited or anthology series or movie for her role in Mare of Easttown, while Ewan McGregor won lead actor in the category for his role in Halston.

Overall Netflix won 10 Primetime Emmy Awards during CBS’ live telecast, besting HBO/HBO Max’s nine awards. Apple TV Plus finished third with four awards during the telecast, which was hosted by Cedric The Entertainer. 

Together with the Creative Arts Emmys, Netflix finished with a total of 44 Emmy Awards, easily besting second place HBO/HBO Max's 19 awards. Disney Plus (14 award wins) and Apple TV Plus (10 wins) were the only other distributors with double figure win totals, according to the Television Academy. NBC topped all broadcast networks with eight Emmy wins.  

One of the few surprises during the primetime ceremony was Michaela Coel’s win in the Outstanding Writing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movies for her work on HBO’s I May Destroy You.   

HBO’s Last Week Tonight With John Oliver won the Outstanding Variety Talk Series category for the sixth year in a row, while VH1’s RuPaul Drag Race was the winner in the Outstanding Competition Program for the fourth consecutive year.

Emmys 2021: Photos From the 73rd Annual Emmy Awards

The complete list of the 73rd annual Primetime Emmy Awards winners are as follows: 

Outstanding Comedy Series

"Ted Lasso” (Apple TV Plus)

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series

Jean Smart, "Hacks" (HBO Max)

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series

Jason Sudeikis, “Ted Lasso” (Apple TV Plus)

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series

Brett Goldstein, "Ted Lasso" (Apple TV Plus)

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series

Hannah Waddingham, "Ted Lasso" (Apple TV Plus)

Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series

"Hacks" (There Is No Line), Written by Lucia Aniello (HBO Max)

Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series

"Hacks" (There Is No Line), Directed by Lucia Aniello (HBO Max)

Outstanding Drama Series

"The Crown" (Netflix)

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series

Olivia Colman, "The Crown" (Netflix)

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series

Josh O'Connor, "The Crown" (Netflix)

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series

Tobias Menzies, "The Crown" (Netflix)

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series

Gillian Anderson, "The Crown" (Netflix)

Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series

"The Crown" (War), written by Peter Morgan (Netflix)

Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series

"The Crown" (War), Directed by Jessica Hobbs  (Netflix)

Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series

"The Queen's Gambit" (Netflix)

"Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or a Movie

Ewan McGregor, "Halston" (Netflix)

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or a Movie

Kate Winslet, "Mare of Easttown" (HB0)

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie

Evan Peters, "Mare of Easttown" (HBO)

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie

Julianne Nicholson, "Mare of Easttown" (HBO)

Outstanding Directing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie

"The Queen's Gambit," Directed by Scott Frank (Netflix)

Outstanding Writing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie

"I May Destroy You," Written by Michaela Coel (HBO)

Outstanding Variety Sketch Series

"Saturday Night Live" (NBC)

Outstanding Variety Special (Live)

"Stephen Colbert's Election Night 2020: Democracy's Last Stand Building Back America Great Again Better 2020" (Showtime)

Outstanding Variety Special (Pre-Recorded)

"Hamilton" (Disney Plus)

Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series

"Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" (HBO)

Outstanding Variety Talk Series

"Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" (HBO)

Outstanding Competition Program

"RuPaul's Drag Race" (VH1)

Obliterating any remaining doubt about which companies now control the television business, Netflix and other leading subscription streaming service providers utterly dominated this year's Primetime Emmy Awards, winning 24 of the 27 major trophies.

Netflix was the biggest winner, capturing its first ever series trophy with The Crown, which also won for lead drama actress (Olivia Colman, who plays Queen Elizabeth II), lead drama actor (Josh O'Connor's portrayal of Prince Charles) ,dramatic supporting actress (Gillian Anderson, who played Margaret Thatcher in the most recent season), and dramatic supporting actor (Tobias Menzies, who plays the late Prince Philip). 

Netflix won 10 total Primetime Emmys Sunday, a haul that also included an Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series win for The Queen's Gambit. Factoring its 34 previously awarded Creative Arts wins, the world's top streaming service won 44 Emmys this year. Both The Crown and The Queen's Gambit totaled 11 Emmy wins. 

HBO Max, meanwhile, took home a very strong nine Primetime Emmys, with Mare of Easttown winning Limited or Anthology Series acclaim for lead actress (Kate Winslet as Detective Mare Sheehan) and supporting actor and actress (Julianne Nicholson as Lori Ross and Evan Peters as Detective Colin Zabel). Also, Jean Smart won Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series for her lead role in HBO's Hacks.

Disney Plus finished in third place in the overall trophy race, with Star Wars spinoff The Mandalorian capturing seven of the streaming service's 14 overall Emmy wins. Disney Plus only won one Primetime Emmy (Hamilton won Prerecorded Special). 

Apple TV Plus finished in fourth place with 10 overall Emmys, and Ted Lasso, not surprisingly, won seven of them, including Best Comedy Series, Best Actor in a Comedy Series (Jason Sudeikis as the title charactor), Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series (Hannah Waddingham as Rebecca Welton) and Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series (Brett Goldstein as the lovably foul-mouthed Roy Kent). 

Notably, Amazon came away totally bereft of Emmy love this year, as did Hulu, which saw original series A Handmaid's Tale come up short on all 23 of its nominations this year. That's actually record. 

And companies operating on traditional linear platforms had limited success. 

NBC won an Outstanding Variety Sketch Series Emmy for its venerable Saturday Night Live franchise; VH1's Rupaul's Drag Race won Outstanding Competition Program; and Showtime won Outstanding Variety Special for Stephen Colbert's Election coverage.

But that was it for the non-streamers.

Emmys 2021: Photos From the 73rd Annual Emmy Awards

A complete list of the 73rd annual Primetime Emmy Awards winners: 

Outstanding Comedy Series

Ted Lasso (Apple TV Plus)

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series

Jean Smart, Hacks (HBO Max)

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series

Jason Sudeikis, Ted Lasso (Apple TV Plus)

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series

Brett Goldstein, Ted Lasso (Apple TV Plus)

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series

Hannah Waddingham, Ted Lasso (Apple TV Plus)

Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series

Hacks (There Is No Line), Written by Lucia Aniello (HBO Max)

Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series

Hacks (There Is No Line), Directed by Lucia Aniello (HBO Max)

Outstanding Drama Series

The Crown (Netflix)

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series

Olivia Colman, The Crown (Netflix)

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series

Josh O'Connor, The Crown (Netflix)

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series

Tobias Menzies, The Crown (Netflix)

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series

Gillian Anderson, The Crown (Netflix)

Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series

The Crown (War), written by Peter Morgan (Netflix)

Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series

The Crown (War), Directed by Jessica Hobbs  (Netflix)

Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series

The Queen's Gambit (Netflix)

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or a Movie

Ewan McGregor, Halston (Netflix)

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or a Movie

Kate Winslet, Mare of Easttown (HB0)

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie

Evan Peters, Mare of Easttown (HBO)

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie

Julianne Nicholson, Mare of Easttown (HBO)

Outstanding Directing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie

The Queen's Gambit, Directed by Scott Frank (Netflix)

Outstanding Writing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie

I May Destroy You, Written by Michaela Coel (HBO)

Outstanding Variety Sketch Series

Saturday Night Live (NBC)

Outstanding Variety Special (Live)

Stephen Colbert's Election Night 2020: Democracy's Last Stand Building Back America Great Again Better 2020 (Showtime)

Outstanding Variety Special (Pre-Recorded)

Hamilton (Disney Plus)

Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Outstanding Variety Talk Series

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Outstanding Competition Program

RuPaul's Drag Race (VH1)

HBO's Mare of Easttown and Netflix’s The Crown lead the count of Primetime Emmy Awards wins thus far through the first half of CBS' live televised presentation.

The Crown swept the supporting actor in a drama series categories with wins for Tobias Menzies and Gillian Anderson, as well as awards for best directing and best writing for a drama series.  

Mare of Easttown took home two awards for best supporting drama actor in a limited or anthology series (Evan Peters) and best supporting actress (Julianne Nicholson.)  Apple TV Plus's Ted Lasso won Emmys in both the supporting actor and actress in a comedy series for Brett Goldstein and Hannah Waddingham, respectively. 

HBO Max’s Hacks also won two awards for best directing and writing for a comedy series, while NBC’s Saturday Night Live won for best variety sketch series.

Emmys 2021: Photos From the 73rd Annual Emmy Awards

HBO’s Last Week Tonight With John Oliver won its sixth consecutive Emmy in the Outstanding Variety Talk Series, and also won for best writing for a variety series.  

Emmys host Cedric The Entertainer set the tone for the show with an opening monologue that offered a personal tribute to the history of television before launching into a TV-based version of late hip-hop artist Biz Markie’s hit song Just A Friend, performed by celebrities L.L. Cool J, Rita Wilson and Lil Dicky among others.  

From Ted Lasso’s relentless optimism to The Underground Railroad’s devastating storytelling, from Bridgerton’s frothy romance to The Handmaid’s Tale’s wrenching violence, this year’s Emmy-nominated shows all reflect the constantly changing culture in their own unique ways. In a time where audiences mostly consume their entertainment on demand from their homes, these are the shows that stood out.

The outstanding drama nominees reveal the true range of television in 2021, with romance, science fiction, superheroes, family drama and historical drama all in play. 

Stacked Field for Drama 

Netflix’s The Crown — with 24 nominations in 2021, including for outstanding drama series — is the favorite to finally win the top drama Emmy after the show has been nominated for each of its four seasons. Season four began telling the tortured story of Prince Charles and Princess Diana with lead actor and actress nominees Josh O’Connor and Emma Corrin channeling their royal counterparts through nuanced performances. 

While season four of The Crown is set in London in the ’80s, the story it told was remarkably resonant, especially as Charles and Diana’s son, Prince Harry, and his wife, Meghan Markle, struggled to redefine their own relationship with Buckingham Palace. 

Disney Plus’s The Mandalorian, in season two, tied The Crown with 24 nominations, many of which are in the craft and technical categories.

Coming in with 21 nominations is Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale, a show that continues to feel prescient as politics divides the country. The Handmaid’s Tale was named outstanding drama in its first season, which premiered in April 2017.

“The Handmaid’s Tale came to life as we were seeing the rise of the far right throughout the world, and then [Donald] Trump made it to the White House,” executive producer Warren Littlefield said. “Hulu decided that they had a show that spoke to the moment and they promoted us in the Super Bowl. In many ways, we’ve been seen as a voice of the resistance against what we were experiencing here in the U.S. and what people were feeling throughout the world.”

In season four, Handmaid Offred (star and executive producer Elisabeth Moss) is dealing with the ramifications of helping many of Gilead’s children escape across the border to Canada and trying to escape herself, even though that means leaving her own children. 

“June’s journey to freedom as she is getting through that compound where bodies are just desperate to get out — when that boat pulls away, in our visual narrative, people are throwing themselves to try and touch that freedom, which June is fortunate enough to get,” Littlefield said. “We’re living a version of that as we look at Afghanistan and realize what all those people are going through. We don’t predict the future … [but] we seem to echo the world that we inhabit. I hope we bring a sense of the fight against those who oppress us and against authoritarian regimes, both foreign and domestic.” 

Also nominated for best drama series are Netflix’s Bridgerton, HBO’s Lovecraft
Country, FX’s Pose, Amazon’s The Boys and NBC’s This Is Us, which returns to the category after missing in 2020. All  of those shows in their own ways deal with issues of race, class, identity and social justice.

Lead actress in a drama series is a stacked category, including awards heavy-hitters Olivia Colman, playing Queen Elizabeth in The Crown, and The Handmaid’s Tale’s Moss, who won the Emmy in this category in the show’s first season. Even with those two in the mix, the front-runners are two Emmy newcomers: The Crown’s Corrin, who won the Golden Globe, and Pose’s M.J. Rodriguez, who made history as the first transgender actress to be nominated in this category. Also nominated are In Treatment’s three-time Emmy winner Uzo Aduba and Lovecraft Country’s Jurnee Smollett.

Josh O’Connor, like his Crown counterpart Emma Corrin, has a good shot at taking the win for lead actor in a drama series, with Billy Porter of FX’s Pose, a former winner in this category, also considered a contender. Bridgerton’s instant star, Regé-Jean Page, could also grab a win here. Also nominated are Perry Mason’s Matthew Rhys, who won an Emmy in 2018 for FX’s The Americans; Lovecraft Country’s Jonathan Majors, who is about to star as the next major villain in the Marvel Universe; and two-time Emmy winner Sterling K. Brown for This Is Us.

‘Lasso’ a Comedy Favorite

Apple TV Plus’s sunny sensation Ted Lasso is almost the universal pick to sweep the comedy categories. Like Schitt’s Creek last year, Ted Lasso, which was developed out of a popular branded content piece for NBC Sports, provided audiences with a much-needed break from the unrelenting bad news of politics and the pandemic. 

Also nominated outstanding comedy series are ABC’s perennially nominated Black-ish; Netflix’s Cobra Kai, which it picked up from YouTube and just renewed for season five ahead of the season four debut; Netflix’s Emily in Paris; Hulu’s Pen15 and Netflix’s The Kominsky Method. 

All that Lasso love also puts series star, co-creator and executive producer Jason Sudeikis in the hot seat to repeat his Golden Globe victory with an Emmy. Much of Lasso’s supporting cast is also nominated, including Hannah Waddingham, Juno Temple, Brett Goldstein, co-creator Brendan Hunt, Nick Mohammad and Jeremy Swift.

Joining Sudeikis in the lead actor in a comedy category are Black-ish’s Anthony Anderson, Kenan’s Kenan Thompson, Shameless’s William H. Macy and The Kominsky Method’s Michael Douglas. 

A late entry to the comedy field is HBO Max’s Hacks, starring lead actress nominee Jean Smart and supporting actress nominee Hannah Einbinder. Hacks, about an aging comedian and the cynical young woman who helps her freshen her act, premiered on HBO Max on May 13, just before the Emmy eligibility deadline closed on May 31. Nominated alongside Hacks is HBO Max sibling The Flight Attendant, starring and executive produced by Kaley Cuoco. 

Besides Smart and Cuoco, also nominated are Black-ish’s Tracee Ellis Ross, Shrill’s Aidy Bryant and Mom’s Allison Janney, a previous winner for this role. Side note: Saturday Night Live cast members past and present cleaned up at this year’s Emmy nominations, with Thompson and Bryant also nominated in the supporting categories for Saturday Night Live, along with Bowen Yang, Kate McKinnon and Cecily Strong. Filling out the supporting actor category is Hacks’s Carl Clemons-Hopkins and The Kominsky Method’s Paul Reiser. On the actress side is Rosie Perez for The Flight Attendant.

Because of their limited purviews, limited series are often the most incisive of the scripted series, telling intense stories quickly and with purpose.

Limited series is the only one of the major three series categories that seems to be a true toss-up. Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit won Golden Globes for limited series and for lead actress Anya Taylor-Joy. But the chess-focused drama didn’t have to face HBO’s I May You Destroy You, which won a Peabody and was considered by many critics to be 2020’s best show but was ignored by the Hollywood Foreign Press, or HBO’s Mare of Easttown, which offered powerhouse performances from a trio of actresses: Kate Winslet in the title role, Jean Smart as Mare’s mom and Julianne Nicholson as Mare’s best friend. 

All three series — as well as Amazon’s The Underground Railroad, based on Colson Whitehead’s best-selling novel and created, directed and executive produced by Oscar winner Barry Jenkins (Moonlight), and Disney Plus’s genre-bending WandaVision — are in the mix for the win.

‘Mare’ a Complex Contender

Mare of Easttown, starring and executive produced by Kate Winslet, tells the story of a woman who’s lived her whole life in a blue-collar town in Pennsylvania and has followed in her father’s footsteps to become a detective. As the story unfolds, so does the trauma that Mare has had to endure as she married and raised children herself. The story also includes many twists and turns as Mare tries to solve two cases that have affected her personally.

“It’s never been on my mind to make something relevant, it’s not how I go about crafting stories,” show creator Brad Inglesby said. “What I try to do is write something, a character, a world with as much honesty as I can and as many specifics as I can and hope that if I’ve achieved that, then the honesty of that world will come through and impact people emotionally. What we were always trying to do with Mare was to make it as honest a portrait of a community as we could. We feel that if we portray people with honesty and complexity, then the audience will believe in these people, believe in this place and get immersed in the world.” 

Four out of five of this year’s limited-series nominees are heavily driven by the performances of their lead actresses: I May Destroy You’s Michaela Coel, Mare’s Kate Winslet, The Queen’s Gambit’s Anya Taylor-Joy and WandaVision’s Elizabeth Olsen are all nominated, as is Cynthia Erivo for Nat Geo’s Genius: Aretha. 

Among the men, only WandaVision’s Paul Bettany is nominated along with the series in which he starred. Also nominated are Hamilton’s Lin Manuel-Miranda and Leslie Odom Jr., The Undoing’s Hugh Grant and Halston’s Ewan McGregor.

The 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards, hosted by Cedric the Entertainer, will air Sunday, Sept. 19, on CBS. 

Streaming shows drew the most Emmy Awards nominations in a year influenced by increased home viewing due to the pandemic.

Netflix’s The Crown and Disney Plus’s The Mandalorian tied for the top spot among program nominations with 24 — including nods for best drama, the Television Academy announced Tuesday (July 13) during a morning ceremony hosted by  Jasmine Cephas Jones and Ron Cephas Jones. 

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HBO and streaming service HBO Max drew a combined 130 Emmy nominations to nudge out Netflix’s 129 nominations, according to the Television Academy. Disney Plus finished a distant third with 71 nominations, followed by NBC with 46.

The best drama category is wide open after last year’s winner, HBO’s Succession, was not nominated. The Crown and The Mandalorian competing against freshman series Lovecraft Country (HBO) and Bridgerton (Netflix), along with FX’s Pose in its last year of eligibility. Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale, NBC’s This Is Us and surprise nominee, Amazon Prime Video’s The Boys, rounded out the category.  

Pose’s Billy Porter was tapped for best actor in a drama, along with Jonathan Majors (Lovecraft Country), Regé-Jean Page (Bridgerton), Matthew Rhys (Perry Mason), Josh O’Connor (The Crown) and Sterling K. Brown (This is Us).

Mj Rodriguez garnered a surprise best drama actress nominee for her role in Pose, while Uzo Aduba drew a nomination for her lead role in HBO’s reboot of In Treatment. They will compete against The Crown's Olivia Colman and Emma Corrin; Jurnee Smollett (Lovecraft Country); and Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid’s Tale) 

The best comedy categories will feature all new winners after last year’s winner, Schitt’s Creek, swept every Emmy in its last year of eligibility. Freshman series Hacks, Pen15, Emily in Paris, Ted Lasso and The Flight Attendant will go up against veterans Black-ish and The Kominsky Method, as well as Netflix’s Cobra Kai, which aired its first two seasons on YouTube.

Best actor in a drama series will pit previous nominees Anthony Anderson (Black-ish), Michael Douglas (The Kominsky Method), and William H. Macy (Shameless) against two newcomers, Saturday Night Live alumni Jason Sudeikis (Ted Lasso) and Kenan Thompson (Kenan).

Kaley Cuoco gets a nomination for her best actress in a comedy for HBO Max’s freshman series The Flight Attendant, up against Aidy Bryant (Shrill), Jean Smart (Hacks), Tracee Ellis Ross (Black-ish) and Allison Janney (Mom).

HBO’s I May Destroy You drew nominations for outstanding limited or anthology series as well as a best actress nod in the category for Michaela Coel. Disney Plus’s WandaVision — which drew 23 Emmy nominations — also drew a nomination for best limited series as well as best actor and actress nods for Paul Bettany and Elizabeth Olsen, respectively. 

The 73 annual Emmy Awards will air live on CBS Sept. 19. A full list of nominees can be viewed here.

Here's a list of nominations by show:

24 Nominations
The Crown
The Mandalorian 

23 Noms
WandaVision 

21 Noms
The Handmaid's Tale
Saturday Night Live 

20 Nominations
Ted Lasso 

18 Noms
Lovecraft Country
The Queen's Gambit 

16 Noms
Mare Of Easttown 

15 Noms
Hacks 

12 Noms
Bridgerton
Hamilton 

9 Noms
The Flight Attendant
I May Destroy You
Pose
RuPaul's Drag Race 

7 Noms
Allen v. Farrow
Last Week Tonight With John Oliver
The Social Dilemma
The Underground Railroad
The Voice 

6 Noms
The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend A Broken Heart
Bo Burnham: Inside
David Byrne's American
Utopia
The Kominsky Method
Queer Eye
This Is Us 

5 Noms
Black Lady Sketch Show
black-ish
The Boys
Dancing With the Stars
David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet
The Falcon And The Winter Soldier
Halston
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert
Top Chef
Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist 

4 Noms
The Amazing Race
Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry
Cobra Kai
Friends: The Reunion
The 63rd Annual Grammy Awards
The Oscars
Perry Mason
Ratched
Star Trek: Discovery
The Umbrella Academy 

3 Noms
Dick Johnson Is Dead
Die Hart
8:46 - Dave Chappelle
Euphoria
Fargo
Genius: Aretha
Life Below Zero
Mapleworth Murders
Mom
Pen15
The Pepsi Super Bowl LV Halftime Show Starring The Weeknd
The Politician
Secrets Of The Whales
Shark Tank
Stephen Colbert's Election Night 2020: Democracy's Last Stand Building Back America Great Again Better 2020
Tina
Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre 

2 Nominations
America's Got Talent
American Masters
B Positive
Below Deck
Big Mouth
Boys State
Celebrating America - An Inauguration Night Special
Central Park
City So Real
The Conners
Deadliest Catch
Dolly Parton's Christmas On The Square
Emily In Paris
Framing Britney Spears (The New York Times Presents)
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Legendary
Love, Death + Robots
The Masked Singer
Mythic Quest
Nailed It!
Oslo
Reno 911!
RuPaul's Drag Race
Untucked
Stanley Tucci: Searching For Italy
The Undoing
A West Wing Special To Benefit When We All Vote

Netflix should send a thank you note to Oprah and the Duchess of Sussex. Netflix original series The Crown, which has not debuted an original episode since season 4 premiered back in November, garnered a strong 449 million minutes of U.S. streaming for the week of March 8-14, according to Nielsen.

The 207 million-minute week-over-week increase was no doubt due to Oprah Winfrey’s March 7 CBS interview with Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and his wife, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex. The highly anticipated exclusive interview drew 17.1 million viewers to CBS, according to Nielsen. The Crown was the sixth most watched show on the major SVOD services the following week. It was also the second most watched original series, Nielsen said. 

The research company reports that viewers of The Crown were most attracted to the series' first season, implying that the Oprah interview drove first-time watchers to start binging on the show.

For the second consecutive week, Amazon’s Coming 2 America was the most watched program in the U.S. among the four biggest subscription-streaming services—Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney Plus and Hulu. The film captured 770 million minutes of viewing for the week of March 8.

This is only the second time Amazon has topped Nielsen’s typically Netflix-dominated weekly SVOD top 10 ranking list.

The Amazon Studios film, which Prime Video released on March 4, was down by 630 million total views week over week. But the fact that the 109-minute film maintained the top spot on the master ranking of all SVOD programs is noteworthy because Nielsen’s ranking system is based on total minutes streamed, therefore shows or series with many episodes have a clear advantage over one-off movies.

Coming 2 America is only the fourth movie to rank No. 1 on Nielsen’s weekly top SVOD programs list. Netflix’s Spenser Confidential, Disney Plus’ Soul and HBO Max’s Wonder Woman 1984 preceded Coming 2 America.

The Eddie Murphy comedy was the only movie to rank in Nielsen’s overall top 10. Jennifer Garner’s Yes Day just missed a spot on the overall chart, but came in second place on Nielsen’s more drilled down ranking of the top SVOD movies. Released on March 12, the Netflix film drew 402 million minutes of viewing over just two days of availability. Disney Plus’ Raya The Last Dragon moved from fourth to third place on the movie ranker week over week, garnering 390 million minutes of viewing. That is 35 million more views than the film collected during the week ending March 7.

In the week ending March 14, Variety reported that the Disney animated adventure was No. 1 at the domestic box office, garnering $5.5 million from 2,163 venues across the country. In order to access the film on Disney Plus, viewers have to purchase a $30 premier access membership in addition to regular subscriber fees.

Meanwhile, on the original series front, Netflix’s 10 episodes of Ginny & Georgia, which premiered Feb. 24, ranked No. 2 overall and No. 1 on Nielsen’s ranking of SVOD original shows, collecting 772 million minutes of U.S. viewing for March 8-14. The mother-daughter series is reminiscent of another recent Netflix original series,  Firefly Lane. 

Firefly Lane, which debuted Feb. 3, initially captured over 1 billion minutes, just as Ginny & Georgia did in its second week on the Nielsen streaming service chart. Six weeks after premiering, Firefly Lane has continuously maintained a top-tier ranking on Nielsen’s weekly original series chart.

Despite coming to a close on March 5, Disney Plus’ nine installments of WandaVision managed to maintain a spot on the originals chart during the week beginning March 8, as well. The Marvel miniseries garnered 388 million views per minute. WandaVision initially cracked Nielsen’s original series rankings when it debuted on Jan. 15 and tallied just 434 million minutes of U.S. streaming. This marks the first week that viewership of the series has decreased week to week.

Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel director and executive producer Joe Berlinger once again had a true crime docuseries on the originals chart. His Netflix docuseries – Murder Among Mormons – took in 264 million minutes of viewing after premiering on March 3.

As for acquired series, Netflix streaming of the CBS procedural Criminal Minds was the No. 1 off-network show on SVOD for the week, and No. 3 show overall. The 12 seasons and 307 episodes of the procedural drama licensed by Netflix garnered 699 million minutes of viewing. ABC’s long-running Grey’s Anatomy, meanwhile, was the second most popular acquired SVOD show. The series’ 366 episodes tallied 628 million U.S. viewing minutes during the week of March 8. 

Notably the master ranking SVOD chart included one movie and one original series. The eight remaining slots were taken up by acquired Netflix series. Also significant is during the week of March 8 no programs or films broke the one billion viewing minutes mark.

Netflix continued its awards season success Sunday, dominating SAG Awards wins in both the television and motion picture categories during a televised primetime ceremony.

The streaming service won four SAG Awards in the television category to lead all distributors, doubling the take of second place Pop TV's two award wins. 

Read also: Golden Globes: Netflix Dominates TV Categories with 'The Crown,' 'Queen's Gambit'

Netflix was once again led by The Crown, which repeated as the top choice in the outstanding performance by an ensemble in a drama series category. The Crown star Gillian Anderson also won a SAG Award for outstanding performance by a female actor in a drama series. 

Read also: Netflix, 'The Crown' Lead Critics Choice Awards TV Wins 

Pop TV’s Schitt’s Creek won two awards in the comedy category, including outstanding ensemble as well as best actress in a comedy series for Catherine O’Hara.

On the movie front, Netflix won three awards, including two for original movie Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom stars Viola Davis and the late Chadwick Boesman, who took home SAG Awards for outstanding lead female and male actor in a motion picture, respectively.

Read also: ABC, Netflix Among Top NAACP Image Awards Winners 

The 27th annual SAG Awards winners in the television category are as follows: 

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series

MARK RUFFALO / Dominick Birdsey/Thomas Birdsey – I Know This Much is True (HBO)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series

ANYA TAYLOR-JOY / Beth Harmon – The Queen’s Gambit (Netflix)

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series

JASON BATEMAN / Marty Byrde – Ozark (Netflix)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series

GILLIAN ANDERSON / Margaret Thatcher – The Crown (Netflix)

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series

JASON SUDEIKIS / Ted Lasso –  Ted Lasso (Apple TV Plus)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series

CATHERINE O’HARA / Moira Rose – Schitt’s Creek (Pop TV)

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series

The Crown (Netflix)

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

Schitt’s Creek (Pop TV)

Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Comedy or Drama Series

The Manalorian (Disney Plus)

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The 27th annual SAG Awards winners in the motion picture category are as follows:

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

CHADWICK BOSEMAN / Levee – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

VIOLA DAVIS / Ma Rainey – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

DANIEL KALUUYA / Fred Hampton – Judas and The Black Messiah

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

YUH-JUNG YOUN / Soonja – Minari

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture 

The Trial of the Chicago 7

Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture

Wonder Woman 1984

Netflix was the big winner at the 78th Golden Globe Awards, bagging top drama with The Crown and best limited series with The Queen’s Gambit, and with those series’ stars racking up prizes too. Schitt’s Creek, which premiered on Pop TV but built a mass audience on Netflix, got top comedy. 

Tina Fey hosted the primetime event from the Rainbow Room in New York and Amy Poehler from the Beverly Hilton, where a collection of vaccinated first responders were in attendance. 

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association awards the Golden Globes, and the consortium took some heat in the weeks leading up to the Feb. 28 affair. That there are but 90 members that vote for the Golden Globes has long made for oddball picks now and then, but the Los Angeles Times also reported that none of the voters are Black. 

Midway through the three-hour production, HFPA brass addressed the criticism. “Just like in film and television, Black representation is vital,” said VP Helen Hoehne. “We must have Black journalists in our organization.”

Black artists were nonetheless well-represented among the winners. The first prize, for supporting actor in a drama film, went to Daniel Kaluuya for his work in HBO Max’s Judas and the Black Messiah, about the battle between the chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party, Fred Hampton, and the FBI. Kaluuya played Hampton. 

Kaluuya’s remote response initially had connectivity issues, setting an ominous tone for the virtual awards. Eventually his words came through. “We’re here to give until we’re empty, and I gave everything,” Kaluuya said. 

John Boyega got the next award, for best supporting actor in a series. He was in the Steve McQueen-directed Small Axe on Amazon. Later on, Chadwick Boseman got best actor in a motion picture drama for his work in Netflix’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Boseman died in August, and his widow, Taylor Simone Ledward, spoke on his behalf. “He would say something beautiful,” said an emotional Ledward. “Something inspiring.”

Receiving the Cecil B. DeMille Award, Jane Fonda cited Small Axe and Judas and the Black Messiah, among others, as projects that gave her empathy and opened her mind across this difficult past year. She pushed Hollywood to be more inclusive. “Let’s all of us make an effort to expand that tent so that everyone rises,” said Fonda. 

Norman Lear got the Carol Burnett Award for TV achievement. “He paved the way for all of us who follow,” said Tina Fey of the 98-year-old producer. 

“I’ve never lived alone,” Lear said. “I’ve never laughed alone.”

Catherine O’Hara got best actress in a comedy for her work in Schitt’s Creek and Jason Sudeikis got best actor in a comedy for Apple TV Plus’s Ted Lasso. 

Best actor in a limited series went to Mark Ruffalo of HBO’s I Know This Much Is True and best actress in a limited series went to Anya Taylor-Joy of Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit. 

The Queen’s Gambit got best limited series. 

Best actress in a drama went to Emma Corrin of Netflix’s The Crown, Corrin beating out Olivia Colman from the same series. Corrin plays Princess Diana. Best actor in a drama stuck with The Crown, as Josh O’Connor got the prize. He plays Prince Charles. 

The show was again saluted when Gillian Anderson got best supporting actress for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher. 

Best TV drama went to, yes, The Crown, beating out HBO’s Lovecraft Country, Disney Plus’s The Mandalorian and Netflix’s Ozark and Ratched. 

Upon getting best TV comedy for Schitt’s Creek, Eugene Levy called the award “a lovely vote of confidence in the messages the show stands for,” such as inclusion. Schitt’s won against Netflix’s Emily in Paris, HBO Max’s The Flight Attendant, Hulu’s The Great and Apple TV Plus’s Ted Lasso. 

Netflix, ‘Borat’ Rack Up Wins

Netflix did well in terms of the movie awards. Its The Trial of the Chicago 7 won best screenplay and Rosamund Pike won best actress in a comedy for I Care a Lot.

Best actor in a motion picture comedy went to Sacha Baron Cohen for Amazon’s Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. He joked that Donald Trump was contesting the result amidst reports of dead people voting. 

Borat then took best comedy movie. “This movie couldn’t have been possible without my co-star,” Cohen said. “I’m talking, of course, about Rudy Giuliani.”

Andra Day got best actress in a motion picture drama for her work in The United States vs. Billie Holliday.

Best motion picture drama was given to Nomadland (which, like Billie Holliday, is on Hulu). Director Chloé Zhao called the film “a pilgrimage through grief and healing.”

“We don’t say goodbye,” Zhao added. “We say, see you down the road.” 

Netflix was the big winner at the 78th Golden Globe Awards, bagging top drama with The Crown and best limited series with The Queen’s Gambit, and with those series’ stars racking up prizes too. Schitt’s Creek, which premiered on Pop TV but built a mass audience on Netflix, got top comedy. 

Tina Fey hosted the primetime event from the Rainbow Room in New York and Amy Poehler from the Beverly Hilton, where a collection of vaccinated first responders were in attendance. 

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association awards the Golden Globes, and the consortium took some heat in the weeks leading up to the Feb. 28 affair. That there are but 90 members that vote for the Golden Globes has long made for oddball picks now and then, but the Los Angeles Times also reported that none of the voters are Black. 

Midway through the three-hour production, HFPA brass addressed the criticism. “Just like in film and television, Black representation is vital,” said VP Helen Hoehne. “We must have Black journalists in our organization.”

Black artists were nonetheless well-represented among the winners. The first prize, for supporting actor in a drama film, went to Daniel Kaluuya for his work in HBO Max’s Judas and the Black Messiah, about the battle between the chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party, Fred Hampton, and the FBI. Kaluuya played Hampton. 

Kaluuya’s remote response initially had connectivity issues, setting an ominous tone for the virtual awards. Eventually his words came through. “We’re here to give until we’re empty, and I gave everything,” Kaluuya said. 

John Boyega got the next award, for best supporting actor in a series. He was in the Steve McQueen-directed Small Axe on Amazon. Later on, Chadwick Boseman got best actor in a motion picture drama for his work in Netflix’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Boseman died in August, and his widow, Taylor Simone Ledward, spoke on his behalf. “He would say something beautiful,” said an emotional Ledward. “Something inspiring.”

Receiving the Cecil B. DeMille Award, Jane Fonda cited Small Axe and Judas and the Black Messiah, among others, as projects that gave her empathy and opened her mind across this difficult past year. She pushed Hollywood to be more inclusive. “Let’s all of us make an effort to expand that tent so that everyone rises,” said Fonda. 

Norman Lear got the Carol Burnett Award for TV achievement. “He paved the way for all of us who follow,” said Tina Fey of the 98-year-old producer. 

“I’ve never lived alone,” Lear said. “I’ve never laughed alone.”

Catherine O’Hara got best actress in a comedy for her work in Schitt’s Creek and Jason Sudeikis got best actor in a comedy for Apple TV Plus’s Ted Lasso. 

Best actor in a limited series went to Mark Ruffalo of HBO’s I Know This Much Is True and best actress in a limited series went to Anya Taylor-Joy of Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit. 

The Queen’s Gambit got best limited series. 

Best actress in a drama went to Emma Corrin of Netflix’s The Crown, Corrin beating out Olivia Colman from the same series. Corrin plays Princess Diana. Best actor in a drama stuck with The Crown, as Josh O’Connor got the prize. He plays Prince Charles. 

The show was again saluted when Gillian Anderson got best supporting actress for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher. 

Best TV drama went to, yes, The Crown, beating out HBO’s Lovecraft Country, Disney Plus’s The Mandalorian and Netflix’s Ozark and Ratched. 

Upon getting best TV comedy for Schitt’s Creek, Eugene Levy called the award “a lovely vote of confidence in the messages the show stands for,” such as inclusion. Schitt’s won against Netflix’s Emily in Paris, HBO Max’s The Flight Attendant, Hulu’s The Great and Apple TV Plus’s Ted Lasso. 

Netflix, ‘Borat’ Rack Up Wins

Netflix did well in terms of the movie awards. Its The Trial of the Chicago 7 won best screenplay and Rosamund Pike won best actress in a comedy for I Care a Lot.

Best actor in a motion picture comedy went to Sacha Baron Cohen for Amazon’s Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. He joked that Donald Trump was contesting the result amidst reports of dead people voting. 

Borat then took best comedy movie. “This movie couldn’t have been possible without my co-star,” Cohen said. “I’m talking, of course, about Rudy Giuliani.”

Andra Day got best actress in a motion picture drama for her work in The United States vs. Billie Holliday.

Best motion picture drama was given to Nomadland (which, like Billie Holliday, is on Hulu). Director Chloé Zhao called the film “a pilgrimage through grief and healing.”

“We don’t say goodbye,” Zhao added. “We say, see you down the road.” 

Netflix continued its successful 2021 awards season run, picking up the most Critics Choice Awards wins within the television category during Sunday night's virtual awards ceremony. 

Netflix took home eight Critics Choice Awards to lead all broadcast, cable and streaming services. Netflix was led by The Crown, which won four awards, including best drama series, best actor in a drama series (Josh O’Connor), best actress in a drama series categories (Emma Corrin) and best supporting actress in a drama series (Gillian Anderson). 

Netflix's performance follows its domination of the Golden Globes Awards ceremony last weekend. 

Also Read: Golden Globes: Netflix Dominates TV Categories with 'The Crown,' 'Queen's Gambit'

Apple TV Plus’s Ted Lasso won three awards, including best comedy series, topping Pop TV’s Schitt’s Creek, which won two awards in its final season. Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit also won two awards, including best limited series. 

Overall, streaming services took home more than half of the awards in the TV categories. 

HBO took home two awards, one each for drama series Lovecraft Country and limited series The Undoing.

Netflix also won six awards in the film category, including three for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, which included a best actor nod for the late Chadwick Boseman’s performance in the film. The Trial of The Chicago 7 won two awards including best acting ensemble. 

Amazon Studios won three awards, including a best supporting actress win for Maria Bakalova in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm and a best editing statuette for Sound of Metal.

The Critics Choice Winners in the television category are as follows:  

BEST DRAMA SERIES

The Crown (Netflix)

BEST ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES

Josh O’Connor – The Crown (Netflix)

BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES

Emma Corrin – The Crown (Netflix)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES

Michael K. Williams – Lovecraft Country (HBO)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES

Gillian Anderson – The Crown (Netflix)

BEST COMEDY SERIES

Ted Lasso (Apple TV Plus)

BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES

Jason Sudeikis – Ted Lasso (Apple TV Plus)

BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES

Catherine O’Hara – Schitt’s Creek (Pop)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES

Daniel Levy – Schitt’s Creek (Pop)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES

Hannah Waddingham – Ted Lasso (Apple TV Plus)

BEST LIMITED SERIES

The Queen’s Gambit (Netflix)

BEST TV MOVIE

Hamilton (Disney Plus)

BEST ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES OR TV MOVIE 

John Boyega – Small Axe (Amazon Studios)

BEST ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES OR TV MOVIE

Anya Taylor-Joy – The Queen’s Gambit (Netflix)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES OR TV MOVIE

Donald Sutherland – The Undoing (HBO)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES OR TV MOVIE

Uzo Aduba – Mrs. America (FX)

BEST TALK SHOW

Late Night with Seth Meyers (NBC)

BEST COMEDY SPECIAL

Jerry Seinfeld: 23 Hours to Kill (Netflix)

Michelle Buteau: Welcome to Buteaupia (Netflix)

BEST SHORT FORM SERIES

Better Call Saul: Ethics Training with Kim Wexler (AMC/Youtube)

The Critics Choice Winners in the film category are as follows: 

BEST PICTURE

Nomadland (Searchlight Pictures)

BEST ACTOR

Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Netflix)

BEST ACTRESS

Carey Mulligan – Promising Young Woman (Focus Features)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Daniel Kaluuya – Judas and the Black Messiah (Warner Bros.)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (Amazon Studios)

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS

Alan Kim – Minari (A24)

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE

The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Netflix)

BEST DIRECTOR

Chloé Zhao – Nomadland (Searchlight Pictures)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman (Focus Features)

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Chloé Zhao – Nomadland (Searchlight Pictures)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Joshua James Richards – Nomadland (Searchlight Pictures)

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

Donald Graham Burt, Jan Pascale – Mank (Netflix)

BEST EDITING

Alan Baumgarten – The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Netflix)

Mikkel E. G. Nielsen – Sound of Metal (Amazon Studios)

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Ann Roth – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Netflix)

BEST HAIR AND MAKEUP

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Netflix)

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Tenet (Warner Bros.)

BEST COMEDY

Palm Springs (Hulu and NEON)

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

Minari (A24)

BEST SONG

Speak Now – One Night in Miami (Amazon Studios)

BEST SCORE

Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, Jon Batiste – Soul (Disney)

Netflix was a huge winner in the Golden Globe Awards' television category, grabbing more than half of the awards presented during Sunday night's ceremony.  

Led by its drama series The Crown -- which swept the Golden Globe awards in the TV drama category -- the streaming service garnered wins in six of the 11 television awards during the mostly virtual and often glitchy live event on NBC hosted by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. Pop TV was the only other cable, broadcast or streaming service to garner multiple awards with two for its comedy series Schitt’s Creek. 

Overall, streaming services won eight of the 11 awards in the television category, with Apple TV Plus and Amazon Prime each taking home a Golden Globes statuette. Netflix won 10 trophies overall.

Streaming companies were well represented in film categories, too--Amazon's Borat Subsequent Moviefilm took best motion picture comedy or musical prize, while the movie's star, Sacha Baron Cohen, won the comedy/musical actor trophy.

Also Read: HFPA Addresses Diversity Controversy During Golden Globes Ceremony

Along with winning best TV drama series, The Crown won for best television actor in a drama series (Josh O’Connor) and best television actress in a drama series (Emma Corrin). Series star Gillian Anderson also won for best television supporting actress. 

Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit won two Golden Globes, including best television limited series. 

Schitt’s Creek in its final year of eligibility won a Globes statuette for best comedy series, while series star Catherine O’Hara won for best television actress in a musical/comedy series. 

The streaming service also won hardware on the movie front. Netflix's Trial of the Chicago 7 won best movie screenplay, while the late Chadwick Boseman won for best actor in a motion picture for his role in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Also, Rosamund Pike won the best actress in a motion picture comedy award for her role in Netflix's I Care A Lot.

Netflix's Mank, which led all motion pictures with six nominations, was shut out of the winner’s circle. 

Outside of Netflix, Hulu's The United States vs Billie Holiday won best actress in a motion picture for Andra Day’s lead role as the R&B singer, while Daniel Kaluuya, star of Judas and The Black Messiah -- which debuted on HBO Max -- won the Golden Globes award for best supporting actor in a motion picture. 

Also Read: Golden Globes 2021: 'Schitt's Creek' Gets Globe For Comedy, 'The Crown' Gets Top Drama

The Golden Globes winners in the television category are as follows: 

Best Drama Series 

The Crown -- Netflix

Best Television Actor -- Drama series 

Josh O’Connor, “The Crown” -- Netflix

Best Television Actress -- Drama Series 

Emma Corrin, “The Crown” -- Netflix

Best Musical/Comedy Series 

Schitt’s Creek -- Pop TV

Best Television Actor -- Musical/Comedy Series 

Jason Sudeikis, “Ted Lasso” -- Apple TV+

Best Television Actress -- Musical/Comedy Series 

Catherine O’Hara, “Schitt’s Creek” -- Pop TV

Best Television Motion Picture

The Queen’s Gambit -- Netflix

Best Actor -- Television Motion Picture 

Mark Ruffalo, “I Know This Much Is True” -- HBO

Best Actress -- Television Motion Picture 

Anya Taylor-Joy, “The Queen’s Gambit” -- Netflix

Best Supporting Actor -- Television 

John Boyega, “Small Axe” -- Amazon Prime

Best Supporting Actress -- Television 

Gillian Anderson, “The Crown” -- Netflix

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler took the virtual stage at the Golden Globes, hosting on a split screen from opposite coasts. The spartan gathering was an “audience made up of smokin'-hot first responders,” said Fey. “We are so grateful for the work that you do."

Poehler shared what the crowd usually looks like at the Globes: “Meryl Streep, like, hammered, can’t remember what movie she’s there for,” she said. “Quentin Tarantino, crawling under tables, touching people’s feet.”

Fey poked fun at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, for its “90 international, no-black journalists” and a German member who might just be a sausage with a face drawn on it. 

Also Read: HFPA Addresses Diversity Controversy During Golden Globes Ceremony

Laura Dern awarded the best supporting actor in a motion picture. The prize went to Daniel Kaluuya for HBO Max’s Judas and the Black Messiah.

Kaluuya initially had connectivity issues, then came through. He thanked director Shaka King “for your vision.” He said, “We’re here to give until we’re empty, and I gave everything." 

Angela Bassett awarded best supporting actor in a TV series, with John Boyega of Amazon Prime’s Small Axe getting honored. Boyega apologized for wearing track bottoms, and thanked director Steve McQueen for his leadership. “I’m absolutely shocked,” he said. 

Photos: 2021 Golden Globes

Christian Slater named the best actress in a comedy, with Catherine O’Hara of Pop TV’s Schitt’s Creek winning. She singled out creators Eugene and Daniel Levy. “They created an inspiring, funny, beautify family love story,” she said. 

Tiffany Haddish awarded the best animated feature, with Soul winning.  “Little did we know that making a film about jazz, jazz would teach us so much about life,” said one producer.  

 Best actor in a limited series went to Mark Ruffalo of HBO’s I Know This Much Is True. “Thanks to my family who lets me go off and bring these crazy people home,” he said of his characters. 

He singled out showrunner Derek Cianfrance. “My brother, my partner, my director,” he said. 

“Let’s be courageous together,” Ruffalo urged viewers, imploring them to treat the earth, and each other, better. 

Cynthia Erivo was out next to award the best motion picture screenplay. Aaron Sorkin of Netflix’s The Trial of the Chicago 7 got the honor. “This is very nice but it can’t top the honor of being nominated alongside these four screenplays,” he said of Mank, Promising Young Woman, The Father and Nomadland. 

The HFPA acknowledged its shortcomings in terms of the association’s diversity. “Just like in film and television, Black representation is vital,” said VP Helen Hoehne. “We must have Black journalists in our organization.”

Norman Lear got the Carol Burnett award for TV achievement. “By changing television, he changed America,” went the narration of his intro. 

“He paved the way for all of us who follow,” said Tina Fey. 

“It knocks me out to be introduced by Amy Poehler and Tina Fey and to accept this award named for Carol Burnett,” Lear said, adding, “nobody made me laugh harder” than Burnett. 

Lear thanked “Sony Pictures Television, one of the greatest, most able groups of executives I’ve ever worked with.” 

On the cusp of 99 years old, Lear said, “I’ve never lived alone. I’ve never laughed alone.”

Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon came out to name the best actress in a TV drama. Emma Corrin of Netflix’s The Crown got the honor, ahead of Olivia Colman from The Crown, Jodie Comer from Killing Eve, Laura Linney from Ozark and Sarah Paulson from Ratched. 

“Thank you to my incredible cast and crew for being by my side,” she said, and praised Princess Diana for teaching her empathy. 

Tracy Morgan awarded best song from a movie to "IO SI" from Netflix’s The Life Ahead. He awarded best movie score to Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste for Disney Plus’s Soul. “I think this is the first piece of art I ever made in my life that I can show my kids,” said Reznor. 

Sterling K. Brown and Susan Kelechi Watson from This Is Us came out for best actor in a TV comedy. Jason Sudeikis from Apple TV Plus’s Ted Lasso was picked. “That’s nuts,” he said. 

Sudeikis mentioned reading Tolstoy’s short story The Three Questions to his son, which made him “kind of reject the premise” of best actor, saying everyone he acts with should share the honors. They may not make him the best, he added, but they make him better. 

Best comedy went to Schitt’s Creek, the big winner at the Emmys in September. Daniel Levy thanked the show’s “amazing” cast and crew for their work in taking the show to “places we never thought possible.”

He called the Globe honor “a lovely vote of confidence in the messages the show stands for,” such as inclusion. 

Ben Stiller showed off the Golden Globe trophy he baked, he said after learning to bake during COVID. After taking a satisfied bite, he gave the best actress in a motion picture comedy prize to Rosamund Pike for Netflix’s I Care a Lot. 

She thanked the HFPA for “recognizing the dark side of comedy” and Netflix for “giving us an audience.” 

Pike also thanked “America’s broken legal system for making it possible to make stories like this.”

Anthony Anderson gave out best actor in a TV drama. Josh O’Connor from The Crown beat out Jason Bateman of Ozark, Bob Odenkirk of Better Call Saul, Al Pacino of Hunters and Matthew Rhys of Perry Mason. Of the Crown cast, he said, “every day, working with you was a master class.” 

O’Connor singled out co-star Emma Corrin for being “extraordinarily talented, funny, and a brilliant player of rock-paper-scissors.”

Gal Gadot was out next for foreign language motion picture. Minari won. Director Lee Isaac Chung described the film as about “A family trying to learn a language all its own,” adding, “a language of love.” 

Kenan Thompson gave out best TV drama to The Crown, beating out Lovecraft Country, The Mandalorian, Ozark and Ratched. 

“I’m just sorry that I’m sitting here in my tragic little office,” said Crown showrunner Peter Morgan as he saluted his cast. 

Jane Fonda was given the Cecil B. DeMille Award. “I’m so moved to receive this honor,” she said. 

She cited the essentiality of storytelling in tough times. “For all our adversity, we are humans first,” she said. 

Fonda mentioned Minari, Small Axe, Judas and the Black Messiah and Rami, among other series and films, for giving her empathy and opening her mind. She pushed Hollywood to be more inclusive. “Let’s all of us make an effort to expand that tent so that everyone rises,” said Fonda. 

Jamie Lee Curtis came out to salute the best supporting actress in a movie. Jodie Foster got the honor for The Mauritanian. “I think you made a mistake,” she said. “I’m a little speechless. I just never expected to be here again.”

Foster mentioned author Mohamedou Ould Salahi, who wrote the book that predated the film, and thanked him for sharing his story.  

Christopher Meloni saluted the best TV actress in a supporting role. Gillian Anderson of The Crown won for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher. She called out showrunner Peter Morgan, “for imagining I could inhabit Mrs. T.”

Rosie Perez was out next to salute best actress in a limited series. Anya Taylor-Joy of Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit won. “Thank you for letting us make the show that we want to make,” she said of Netflix. 

“I would do this project again and again and again,” she added. “I learned so much.”

Best limited series went to The Queen’s Gambit. Showrunner Scott Frank mentioned the producers securing the film rights to the Walter Tevis novel “three years before Anya was born.”

Of Anya Taylor-Joy, he wondered how someone who is “such a joy to work with” can go by the name Joy.  

Renee Zellwegger was out next for the best film actor in a drama prize. Chadwick Boseman of Netflix’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom got the honors. Boseman died last year. His wife Taylor Simone Ledward spoke on his behalf. “He would thank God,” she said. “He would thank his parents. He would thank his ancestors for their guidance and their sacrifices.”

She added, “He would say something beautiful. Something inspiring.”

Best film director went to Chloé Zhao for Nomadland. 

“Thank you for making beautiful beautiful movies,” she said to her fellow nominees. She thanked her family “for keeping me sane all these years.”

Best comedy movie went to Amazon’s Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. Director and star Sacha Baron Cohen said, “This movie couldn’t have been possible without my costar. I’m talking, of course, about Rudy Giuliani.”

He added, “The revelation, the sensation, was Maria Bakalova.”

Cohen saluted cast, crew and producers for getting the film out before Election Day, “to show the danger of lies, hate, conspiracies,” he said, and the power of empathy. 

Awkwafina was out next to hand out the prize for actor in a comedy movie. Sacha Baron Cohen won for Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. He said, “Donald Trump is contesting the result,” adding that the former president said dead people voted. 

Joaquin Phoenix came out to award best actress in a drama movie. Andra Day of The United States vs. Billie Holliday won. An emotional Day said she was “in the presence of giants” among her nominees. “You inspire me so much.”

Billie Holliday, she added, “just transformed me with this role and her presence and her spirit.”

Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones gave out the Globe for best drama movie. Nomadland won. 

“I’m speechless,” said Chloé Zhao. 

She thanked star Frances McDormand “for trusting me to create the character with you.”

At its core, the film is “a pilgrimage through grief and healing,” she said. 

“We don’t say goodbye,” concluded Zhao. “We say, see you down the road.”

The Writers Guild of America East (WGAE) and West (WGAW) have announced their 2021 Writers Guild Awards nominees and Netflix got the most nods, followed by HBO and CBS.

Broadcast net nominations were primarily for news, with only Fox scoring multiple primetime nods for writing on its animation.

The awards, for outstanding writing in TV, new media, news and radio/audio, will be handed out March 21 at a virtual ceremony.

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Netflix's 10 nods included The Crown (written by Peter Morgan and Jonathan Wilson), Ozark (Laura Deeley, Bill Dubuque, Paul Kolsby, Miki Johnson, Chris Mundy, John Shiban, Ning Zhou, Martin Zimmerman), and The Queen's Gambit (Scott Frank and Allan Scott).

HBO's nine nominations were for shows including Raised By Wolves (written by Aaron Guzikowski), High Maintenance (Isaac Oliver), and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (Johnathan Appel, Ali Barthwell, Tim Carvell, Liz Hynes, Greg Iwinski, Mark Kramer, Daniel O'Brien, John Oliver, Owen Parsons, Charlie Redd, Joanna Rothkopf, Chrissy Shackelford, Ben Silva, and Seena Vali).

Streaming service HBO Max got four nods of its own, three for children's shows Mo Willems and the Storytime All Stars Present: Don't Let the Pigeon Do Storytime (Mo Willems), The Not Too Late Show with Elmo (Geri Cole, Scott Gray, Benjamin Lehmann, Wendy Marston, Andrew Moriarty, Ken Scarborough, and Moujan Zolfaghari), and The Power of We: A Sesame Street Special (Geri Cole). The other was for new series The Flight Attendant (Kara Lee Corthron, Michael Foley, Ryan Jennifer Jones, Ticona S. Joy, Meredith Lavender, Jess Meyer, Daniele Nathanson, Marcie Ulin, Ian Weinreich, and Steve Yockey).

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CBS was the top broadcast nominee with six, plus one for OTT service CBS All Access and one for WCBS-TV New York, which is co-owned with the network.

ABC got five nomination, but none for primetime. Its nods were four for news and one for daytime drama.

Fox also had five, all in the animation category. Four were for The Simpsons (Dan Vebber, Cesar Mazariegos, Jessica Conrad, and Danielle Weisberg) and one for Bob's Burgers (Katie Crown). In fact, Fox has all but one animation nomination, the other going to Netflix's BoJack Horseman (Nick Adams).

NBC had five as well, spread over writing for late night, comedy/variety, daytime and quiz/audience participation.

Other outlets getting multiple nominations included five for Hulu, three for Amazon Studios, three for Disney Plus, and two for Apple TV Plus.

Facebook also got two for promotional writing. 

David Fincher’s biographical film, Mank, which tracks the travails of Citizen Kane co-writer Herman Mankiewicz, received six Golden Globe nominations from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association Wednesday, as Netflix dominated the field.

Netflix easily led the field, garnering 42 nominations in all.

The top streaming service also came out ahead in TV, where the fourth season of The Crown received nominations for Best Drama Series, Best Television Actress — Drama Series (Olivia Colman), Best Television Actor -- Drama Series (Josh O’Connor), and Best Supporting Actress -- Television (Gillian Anderson). The Crown also took six nominations in all.

Netflix also saw top TV drama series nominations for Ratched and Ozark, as well as a best musical/comedy series nod for Emily in Paris and a best limited series nom for The Queen's Gambit.

Meanwhile, back on the film side, yet another Netflix movie, Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7 secured a second-best five nominations, including nods for best film, drama; best director and best screenplay for Sorkin; supporting actor for Sacha Baron Cohen; and best song.

The Golden Globe nominations are usually announced in December amid a chain of traditionally boozy events conducted by the HFPA. Of course, during this pandemic year, they were not only delayed, but virtualized. 

Among other streaming companies, Amazon Studios nabbed 10 nominations in all, including nods for Borat Subsequent Moviefilm and the Small Axe anthology series, while Hulu totaled nine nominations, which included a nod for Pete Davidson comedy film Palm Springs and comedy series Ramy.

Disney Plus' The Mandalorian, meanwhile, also received a nod for best TV drama series. 

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Netflix dominated the 2021 Golden Globe nominations with strong performances in both the television and film categories.

The nominations, which were announced by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association Wednesday morning, saw Netflix draw 22 nominations in the television category, easily outdistancing HBO seven nods. The streaming service garnered   multiple nominations for several of its shows, including The Crown, Ozark and Ratched -- all three of which were nominated for best drama series along with HBO's Lovecraft Country and Disney Plus' The Mandalorian. 

Overall, The Crown drew six nominations to lead all shows.

The streaming service also nearly swept the best actress in a TV drama category with Olivia Colman and Emma Corrin (The Crown), Laura Linney (Ozark) and Sarah Paulson (Ratched) all nominated along with Jodie Comer (Killing Eve).

Netflix also garnered numerous nominations in the motion picture category for such films as Mo Rainey's Black Bottom and The Trial of the Chicago 7. 

Best TV comedy show nods went to freshmen series The Flight Attendant (HBO Max), The Great (Hulu) and Ted Lasso (Apple TV Plus) as well as sophomore series Emily in Paris (Netflix) and veteran series Schitt's Creek (Pop TV). 

Schitt's Creek drew five nominations in its final year of eligibility, followed by Ozark and The Undoing, with four nominations each. 

NBC will televise the 78th Golden Globes Awards ceremony on Feb. 28. 

Below are Golden Globes Awards nominees in the television category:

Best drama series 

The Crown -- Netflix

Lovecraft Country -- HBO

The Mandalorian -- Disney Plus

Ozark -- Netflix

Ratched -- Netflix

Best Musical/comedy series 

Emily In Paris -- Netflix

The Flight Attendant -- HBO Max

The Great -- Hulu

Schitt’s Creek -- Pop TV

Ted Lasso -- Apple TV Plus

Best Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture Made For Television

Normal People -- Hulu

The Queen's Gambit -- Netflix 

Small Axe -- Prime Video 

The Undoing -- HBO

Unorthodox -- Netflix 

Best Actress -- Television Motion Picture

Cate Blanchett (Mrs. America) -- FX 

Daisy Edgar-Jones (Normal People) -- Hulu 

Shira Haas (Unorthodox) -- Netflix

Nicole Kidman (The Undoing) -- HBO

Anya Taylor-Joy (The Queen’s Gambit) -- Netflix 

Best Actor -- Television Motion Picture

Bryan Cranston (Your Honor) -- Showtime

Jeff Daniels (The Comey Rule) -- Showtime

Hugh Grant (The Undoing) -- HBO

Ethan Hawke (The Good Lord Bird) -- Showtime

Mark Ruffalo (I Know This Much is True) -- HBO

Best Television Actress -- Drama Series

Olivia Colman (The Crown) -- Netflix

Jodie Comer (Killing Eve) -- BBC America

Emma Corrin (The Crown) -- Netflix

Laura Linney (Ozark) -- Netflix

Sarah Paulson (Ratched) -- Netflix

Best Television Actor -- Drama Series 

Jason Bateman (Ozark) -- Netflix

Josh O’Connor (The Crown) -- Netflix

Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul) -- AMC

Al Pacino (Hunters) -- Prime Video

Matthew Rhys (Perry Mason) -- HBO 

Best Television Actress -- Musical/Comedy Series 

Lilly Collins (Emily in Paris) -- Netflix 

Kaley Cuoco (The Flight Attendant) -- HBO Max

Elle Fanning (The Great) -- Hulu

Jane Levy (Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist) -- NBC

Catherine O’Hara (Schitt’s Creek) -- Pop TV

Best Television Actor -- Musical/Comedy Series 

Don Cheadle (Black Monday) -- Showtime

Nicholas Hoult (The Great) -- Hulu

Eugene Levy (Schitt’s Creek) -- Pop TV

Jason Sudeikis (Ted Lasso) -- Apple TV Plus

Ramy Youssef (Ramy) -- Hulu

Best Supporting Actress -- Television

Gillian Anderson (The Crown) -- Netflix

Helena Bonham Carter (The Crown) -- Netflix

Julia Garner (Ozark) -- Netflix

Annie Murphy (Schitt’s Creek) -- Pop TV

Cynthia Nixon (Ratched) -- Netflix

Best Supporting Actor -- Television 

John Boyega (Small Axe) -- Prime  Video

Brendan Gleeson (The Comey Rule) -- Showtime

Daniel Levy (Schitt’s Creek) -- Pop TV

Jim Parsons (Hollywood) -- Netflix 

Donald Sutherland (The Undoing) -- HBO 

The average U.S. household increased its streaming subscriptions to four from three in the past eight months, chipping away at SVOD pioneer Netflix’s market share, according to a J.D. Power survey.

Netflix still holds the No. 1 spot among streaming services -- it had about 74 million U.S. and Canadian subscribers in Q4 -- but five of the next six largest streaming providers gained market share since April  2020, according to J.D. Power. Households also spent more on streaming video in 2020, with the average home doling out $47 per month compared to $38 in 2019. 

Half of respondents said that their household now subscribes to four or more streaming services. In April, that figure was 39%. In December, 13% of respondents said they use as many as seven or more services. 

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According to the survey of about 1,745 U.S. adults taken between Dec. 16 and Dec. 19, 81% of households said they subscribed to Netflix, down from 85% in April, while Amazon Prime Video slipped to 65% from 66% in April. Other services gained ground: About 56% said they subscribed to Hulu (up from 48%), Disney Plus was at 47% (up from 37%), YouTube TV finished at 20% (up from 17%), HBO/HBO Max was at 22% (up from 13%) and Apple TV was at 14% (up from 10%). Peacock, at 18%, had no presence in April. 

Peacock, soon to be the exclusive home of WWE wrestling content, led all other services in terms of problems per hour watched (0.19), compared to 0.10 for Netflix. 

The Mandalorian was the most-watched show in December (7.3%), but was the only Disney Plus show to crack the list. Grey’s Anatomy (Netflix, Hulu), The Crow (Netflix), Shameless (Showtime) and The Queen’s Gambit (Netflix) rounded out the list. Engagement of streaming services also increased, according to the survey. 

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Users spent 5 hours per week on Disney Plus, up from 4.8 hours in April. The only other streaming service that gained time spent was YouTube TV, which saw the biggest increase of 1.5 hours (10 hours from 8.5 hours). Netflix had the biggest decline from the spring, 0.7 hours, (9.5 hours from 10.2 hours), according to J.D. Power. 

Netflix had a rather turbulent Thanksgiving holiday in the United Kingdom, receiving slaps on the wrist for how it bills its hit original series The Crown, as well as how it reports its revenue in the region.

Speaking to local paper The Mail, U.K. Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden called on the streaming service to address historical fabrications in The Crown, a Left Bank Pictures-produced period drama that tracks the lives of more recent British royalty.

“It’s a beautifully produced work of fiction, so as with other TV productions, Netflix should be very clear at the beginning that it is just that,” Dowden told The Mail. “Without this, I fear a generation of viewers who did not live through these events may mistake fiction for fact.”

Dowden said he planned to follow up with Netflix this week. 

The growing clamor in the U.K. for Netflix to more clearly delineate when The Crown head writer Peter Morgan and his team are taking creative license comes as think tank Tax Watch reports that Netflix is significantly under-reporting its revenue in the UK. 

Through holding company Netflix Services UK, the streaming company reported 2018 revenue of just $57 million (U.S.). It gets complicated, because the holding company also provides services to Netherlands-based Netflix International.

Tax Watch said that Netflix’s real U.K. revenue for 2018 is closer to $1.1 billion. 

Netflix responded by saying that U.K. revenue will more directly broken out in future earnings reports. 

“As Netflix continues to grow in the U.K. and in other international markets we want our corporate structure to reflect this footprint,” a Netflix spokesman told The Guardian. “So from next year, revenue generated in the UK will be recognized in the U.K., and we will pay corporate income tax accordingly.”

The second week of November will feature several scripted series premieres, including the fourth season of Netflix’s The Crown. 

Olivia Colman will return to the Emmy award-winning series for its fourth season, which explores the life of Queen Elizabeth II from the late 1970 to the early 1990s. The Crown premieres Nov. 15.

FX on Hulu on Nov. 10 will debut its latest drama series, A Teacher, which stars Kate Mara as a high school teacher who has an illicit affair with a student. (Read Review).

Below are video trailers and premiere dates for several shows debuting the week of Nov. 2 to Nov. 8 on cable networks and streaming services (for some videos, viewer discretion is advised):

Nov. 9 -- Industry (drama) -- HBO

Nov. 9 -- The South Westerlies (drama) -- Acorn TV

Nov. 9 -- The Mighty Ones (animation) -- Hulu

Nov. 10 -- The Cost Of Winning (documentary) -- HBO

Nov. 11 -- The Real Housewives Of Salt Lake City (reality) -- Bravo

Nov. 11 -- Eater's Guide to The World (reality) -- Hulu

Nov. 13 -- The Ride (movie) -- Prime Video

Nov. 13 -- Becoming You (reality series) -- Apple TV Plus

Nov. 15 -- The Reagans (documentary) -- Showtime

Season four of drama The Crown drops on Netflix Nov. 15. Peter Morgan wrote the episodes. Olivia Colman plays Queen Elizabeth. Josh O’Connor portrays Prince Charles and Emma Corrin plays Lady Diana. Gillian Anderson plays Margaret Thatcher. 

“As the 1970s are drawing to a close, Queen Elizabeth and her family find themselves preoccupied with safeguarding the line of succession by securing an appropriate bride for Prince Charles, who is still unmarried at 30,” according to Netflix. “As the nation begins to feel the impact of divisive policies introduced by Britain's first female Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, tensions arise between her and the Queen which only grow worse as Thatcher leads the country into the Falklands War, generating conflict within the Commonwealth. While Charles’ romance with a young Lady Diana Spencer provides a much-needed fairytale to unite the British people, behind closed doors, the Royal family is becoming increasingly divided.”

Helena Bonham Carter plays Princess Margaret, Tobias Menzies plays The Duke of Edinburgh, Erin Doherty portrays Princess Anne and Emerald Fennell takes on Camilla Parker Bowles.

Below are video trailers and premiere dates for several shows debuting the week of Feb. 3 to Feb. 9 on cable networks and streaming services (for some videos, viewer discretion is advised):

Feb. 11 -- Cherish The Day (drama) -- OWN

Feb. 13 -- Narcos: Mexico (drama) -- Netflix

Feb. 13 -- Stuck With You (drama) -- UMC

Feb. 14 -- High Fidelity (dramedy) -- Hulu

Feb. 14 -- Utopia Falls (drama/musical) -- Hulu

Feb. 14 -- Visible: Out on Television (documentary series) -- Apple TV+

Feb. 14 -- Zombies 2 (movie) -- Disney

Feb. 16 -- Outlander (drama) -- Starz

Feb. 16 -- War of the Worlds (drama) -- Epix

Feb. 16 -- Washington (documentary) -- History

The Crown star Olivia Colman was awarded the Golden Globe for best actress in a drama series Sunday night.

Colman topped such actresses as Jennifer Aniston (The Morning Show), Jodie Comer (Killing Eve), Nicole Kidman (Big Little Lies) and Reese Witherspoon (The Morning Show) for the coveted statuette. 

Sandra Oh won the Golden Globes in the category last year for her role in BBC America's Killing Eve. 

HBO's Succession was a surprise winner in the best drama series category at the Golden Globes awards Sunday night.

The sophomore series, which stars Brian Cox, Jeremy Strong, Sarah Snook and Kieran Culkin, beat out such favorites as Netflix's The Crown, BBC America's Killing Eve and HBO's Big Little Lies, as well as freshman series The Morning Show from Apple TV+. 

Cox also took home the Golden Globe award for best actor in a drama series, topping Kit Harington (Game of Thrones), Rami Malek (Mr. Robot), Tobias Menzies (The Crown) and Billy Porter (Pose) for the statuette. 

Netflix drew the most 2020 Golden Globe Awards nominations Monday morning in what was a strong showing for streaming services, according to the Hollywood Press Association.

Netflix drew 17 Golden Globe nods, topping HBO’s 15, with streaming services Hulu and Prime Video each drawing five nominations and FX Networks garnering four nods, the association announced during a morning ceremony in Los Angeles.

Recently launched streaming service Apple TV+ earned three nominations, tying cable premium service Showtime. The broadcast networks were shut out of this year's Globe nominations.

Netflix was led by drama series The Crown and Unbelievable, which both drew four nominations along with HBO’s Chernobyl (pictured).

Netflix also garnered 17 Golden Globe nominations in the motion picture category for such films as Marriage Story, The Irishman and Dolemite Is My Name. 

The 77th annual Golden Globes Awards will air live Jan. 5 on NBC. 

A partial list of Golden Globe nominations in the television category are as follows:

Best Television Series, Drama

"Big Little Lies"

"The Crown"

"Killing Eve"

"The Morning Show"

"Succession"

Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Series, Drama

Jennifer Aniston, "The Morning Show"

Olivia Colman, "The Crown"

Jodie Comer, "Killing Eve"

Nicole Kidman, "Big Little Lies"

Reese Witherspoon, "The Morning Show"

Best Performance by an Actor in a TV Series, Drama

Brian Cox, "Succession"

Kit Harington, "Game of Thrones"

Rami Malek, "Mr. Robot"

Tobias Menzies, "The Crown"

Billy Porter, "Pose"

Best Television Series, Musical or Comedy

"Barry"

"Fleabag"

"The Kominsky Method"

"The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel"

"The Politician"

Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Series, Musical or Comedy

Christina Applegate, "Dead to Me"

Rachel Brosnahan, "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel"

Kirsten Dunst, "On Becoming a God in Central Florida"

Natasha Lyonne, "Russian Doll"

Phoebe Waller-Bridge, "Fleabag"

Best Performance by an Actor in a TV Series, Musical or Comedy

Michael Douglas, "The Kominsky Method"

Bill Hader, "Barry"

Ben Platt, "The Politician"

Paul Rudd, "Living With Yourself"

Ramy Youssef, "Ramy”

Best Television, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

"Catch-22"

"Chernobyl"

"Fosse/Verdon"

"The Loudest Voice"

"Unbelievable"

Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

Christopher Abbot, "Catch-22"

Sacha Baron Cohen, "The Spy"

Russell Crowe, "The Loudest Voice"

Jared Harris, "Chernobyl"

Sam Rockwell, "Fosse/Verdon"

Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

Kaitlyn Dever, "Unbelievable"

Joey King, "The Act"

Helen Mirren, "Catherine the Great"

Merritt Weaver, "Unbelievable"

Michelle Williams, "Fosse/Verdon"

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

Alan Arkin, "The Kominsky Method"

Kieran Culkin, "Succession"

Andrew Scott, "Fleabag"

Stellan Skarsgard, "Chernobyl"

Henry Winkler, "Barry"

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for TV

Patricia Arquette, "The Act"

Helena Bonham Carter, "The Crown"

Toni Collette, "Unbelievable

Meryl Streep, "Big Little Lies"

Emily Watson, "Chernobyl"

Research and analytics company TVision said that among over-the-top programs, viewers in November paid the most attention to season three of The Crown.

The Crown generated a 1.21.4 Attention Index, according to TVision. 

Other top OTT shows in terms of attention were three shows from Apple TV+-- For All Mankind, See and The Morning Show--and Disney+’s Star Wars series The Mandalorian.

The most binged OTT shows were Hello Ninja, Hulu’s Letterkenny and Castle Rock, according to TVision, followed by Rhythm + Flow and Living With Yourself.

The most co-viewed OTT shows for November Apple’s For All Mankind, Hulu’s Letterkenny, Living with Yourself, Apple TV+’s The Morning Show and Hulu’s Castle Rock.

TVision also said that the top broadcast TV shows in terms of ad viewability were The Goldbergs, NCIS: Los Angeles, Mom, Bill and The Resident.

On cable the top shows for ad viewability were Guy’s Grocery Games, Flip or Flop, The Real Housewives of Dallas, America Says and Beachfront Bargain Hunt.

Top brand based on ad viewability were Oreo, Dyson, Infiniti, Subaru Ascent and Cosentyx.

Streaming service Disney+ will make its long-awaited debut on Nov. 12 with a number of original series, specials and movies that highlight this week’s show premieres.

Among the new shows debuting on Disney+ is a retelling of the classic Disney movie Lady and the Tramp, as well as The Mandalorian — the first live-action series set in the Star Wars universe, and The World According to Jeff Goldblum, a reality series originally slated to debut on National Geographic channel.

On the returning series front, Prime Video will debut the fourth and final season if its sci-fi/drama series The Man In The High Castle on Nov. 15, while Netflix will premiere the third season of its Emmy-winning drama series The Crown on Nov. 17.

Below are video trailers and premiere dates for several shows debuting this week on cable networks and streaming services (for some videos, viewer discretion is advised):

Nov. 12 — Encore! (reality) — Disney+

Nov. 12 — High School Musical; The Musical: The Series (dramedy) — Disney+

Nov. 12 — Marvel’s Hero Project (reality) — Disney+

Nov. 12 — Noelle (movie) — Disney+

Nov. 13 — The Preppy Murder: Death in Central Park (miniseries) — Sundance/AMC

Nov. 15 — Dollface (comedy) — Hulu

Nov. 15 — Earthquake Bird (movie) — Netflix

Nov. 15 -- Pariah: The Lives and Deaths of Sonny Liston (movie) -- Showtime

Nov. 17 — Ray Donovan (returning series) — Showtime 

Netflix stock fell more than 7% Friday after chairman and CEO Reed Hastings told an industry audience that the emergence of new streaming competition from Disney and Apple will create a “new world” of competition.

Hastings was speaking at the Royal Television Society Conference in Cambridge, U.K., and said that beginning in November -- the expected launch dates of Disney+ and Apple TV + -- “it’s a whole new world,” according to reports.

Hastings also name-checked NBC Universal’s planned direct-to-consumer offering Peacock, adding that the competitive landscape will be “tough.”

“Direct-to-consumer [customers] will have a lot of choice,” he said, according to a Variety report. 

But according to The Hollywood Reporter, Hastings said that Netflix has been preparing for the onslaught of SVOD competitors since 2012, and was surprised it hadn’t occurred sooner.

“Sometimes you do your best work when you're challenged,” he said, according to THR.

Still, acknowledging the competition and coming off a bad Q2 -- where Netflix lost domestic subscribers for the first time -- was enough to send the stock southward. Netflix shares traded as low $266 each (down 7.2%) on Sept. 20, before closing at $270.75, down 5.5% or $15.85 per share.

Related: Bull or Bear on Netflix: It Depends on Which Side of the Street You’re On

The Friday drop-off basically erased the stock’s gains for the year.

Netflix stock took a beating in July when it announced that it had lost domestic subscribers in the second quarter. The stock continued on a downward slope after that announcement, falling below $300 per share on Aug. 14. With the exception of a brief rise on Aug. 16 (to $302.80 per share) and Aug. 19 (to $309.38), the stock continued to stumble and is down a collective 13% ever since.

Hastings said Netflix would boost its programming spending in the U.K. -- it is on track to spend more than $500 million this year in Britain, a figure that would "not quite double" in 2020, according to THR. 

“Some day The Crown will look like a bargain,” he said according to THR, of the Netflix series estimated to cost between $6.5 million and $13 million per episode. 

He expects content costs to rise higher with new players Disney + and Apple in the mix, adding that Netflix was outbid by Amazon for one show in particular that he coveted -- Fleabag, the critically acclaimed hit series by Phoebe Waller-Bridge.

Netflix stock fell more than 7% Friday after chairman and CEO Reed Hastings told an industry audience that the emergence of new streaming competition from Disney and Apple will create a “new world” of competition.

Hastings was speaking at the Royal Television Society Conference in Cambridge, U.K., and said that beginning in November -- the expected launch dates of Disney+ and Apple TV + -- “it’s a whole new world,” according to reports.

Hastings also name-checked NBC Universal’s planned direct-to-consumer offering Peacock, adding that the competitive landscape will be “tough.”

“Direct-to-consumer [customers] will have a lot of choice,” he said, according to a Variety report. 

But according to The Hollywood Reporter, Hastings said that Netflix has been preparing for the onslaught of SVOD competitors since 2012, and was surprised it hadn’t occurred sooner.

“Sometimes you do your best work when you're challenged,” he said, according to THR.

Still, acknowledging the competition and coming off a bad Q2 -- where Netflix lost domestic subscribers for the first time -- was enough to send the stock southward. Netflix shares traded as low $266 each (down 7.2%) on Sept. 20, before closing at $270.75, down 5.5% or $15.85 per share.

Related: Bull or Bear on Netflix: It Depends on Which Side of the Street You’re On

The Friday drop-off basically erased the stock’s gains for the year.

Netflix stock took a beating in July when it announced that it had lost domestic subscribers in the second quarter. The stock continued on a downward slope after that announcement, falling below $300 per share on Aug. 14. With the exception of a brief rise on Aug. 16 (to $302.80 per share) and Aug. 19 (to $309.38), the stock continued to stumble and is down a collective 13% ever since.

Hastings said Netflix would boost its programming spending in the U.K. -- it is on track to spend more than $500 million this year in Britain, a figure that would "not quite double" in 2020, according to THR. 

“Some day The Crown will look like a bargain,” he said according to THR, of the Netflix series estimated to cost between $6.5 million and $13 million per episode. 

He expects content costs to rise higher with new players Disney + and Apple in the mix, adding that Netflix was outbid by Amazon for one show in particular that he coveted -- Fleabag, the critically acclaimed hit series by Phoebe Waller-Bridge.

Netflix Pulls Plug on Kids Binge-watching Game

TWIN: Netflix said it has abandoned a test that rewarded kids for watching more shows, after the practice attracted a huge Twitter backlash. The SVOD pioneer had “gamified” binge watching for kids, who could earn patches the more children’s shows they watched.

.@netflix has patches /badges now? What’s the deal with this?? As if getting my son to stop watching Netflix wasn’t hard enough. Now I have to deal with him wanting to binge endless hours of shows just to earn a silly patch? Not good. My opinion I know, but still I don’t like it!

— Ed Munoz (@LivingDadly) February 24, 2018

MCN Take: Netflix has been a pioneer in massaging user data to recommend additional programming options, but many saw turning binge-watching into a game for kids as crossing the line. After weathering the ire of parents and parental groups, the company said it had “decided not to move forward with the test.”

Read the full story at Variety

Heaviest Is the Purse That Wears 'The Crown'

TWIN: After taking some serious heat from critics after it admitted it paid The Crown star Claire Foy considerably less than her co-star, Matt Smith, Netflix said that it will correct the discrepancy in future seasons. Foy played a young Queen Elizabeth II to Smith’s Prince Philip, and has ended a much-acclaimed two-season run on the show. Netflix had argued that Smith – who played Dr. Who from 2010-2014 – was the bigger star at the time of their signing. He too is ending his run on the show as The Crown transitions to the Prince Charles-Princess Diana-Camilla Parker Bowles years of the monarchy.

MCN Take: Veteran British actress Olivia Coleman is set to take over the role of Queen Elizabeth II in seasons three and four, and Netflix has said “Going forward, no one gets paid more than the Queen.” Foy, who could still sue the SVOD pioneer, has landed some choice roles in the meantime – she’s playing Lisbeth Salander in the upcoming movie The Girl in the Spiders Web.

Read the full story at Forbes

Netflix Is Developing '60-Minutes-type' News Show

TWIN: Just months after dipping its toes in the monthly talk show format with David Letterman’s My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, Netflix is reportedly developing a "60 Minutes-type" news magazine program for weekly consumption, according to MarketWatch. Citing executives familiar with the matter, the website said the project is in its early stages and could include comedic takes on the news.

https://t.co/XKScp0SVqB via @NiemanLab@CJR@dallasnewspic.twitter.com/oNrMlLXOpj

— FairParkRising (@FairParkRising) March 14, 2018

MCN Take: Netflix is apparently emboldened by the success of Letterman’s show – it first featured formed President Barack Obama followed by actor George Clooney – has landed other talk show deals with Joel McHale, Norm MacDonald, Hassan Minhaj and Michelle Wolf and has signed Obama to a development deal to come up with new shows. It’s mostly older people who watch TV news. Can Netflix and Facebook change that in the 60 Minutes mode?

Read the full story at MarketWatch

Netflix in Space

TWIN: To commemorate the company’s own Hack Day, Netflix engineers jettisoned an iPhone equipped with a downloaded episode of Star Trek: Discovery into space, because they are Netflix and they can. The iPhone, attached to a balloon and also equipped with a GoPro camera, reached a height of 115,000 feet.

MCN Take: To quote Mr. Spock, Netflix’s choice of programming was a bit “illogical” – Star Trek: Discovery isn’t available to stream on Netflix in the U.S. (it’s on CBS All Access). Other hacks from the day included a virtual 3D representation of Bay City from Netflix sci-fi anthology series Altered Carbon that functioned as a workable Netflix homepage.

Get the full story at Engadget

Netflix Not in Apple’s M&A Eye

TWIN: Apple senior VP of software and service Eddy Cue said at the South by Southwest Festival that the computer giant was not in the business of making big acquisitions and was unlikely to buy Disney or Netflix. Cue told the audience that Disney and Netflix are great partners, and that is enough, quoting hockey legend Wayne Gretzky:“Skate to where the puck is going, not where it is.”

MCN Take: While Apple’s track record in TV has been spotty, Cue praised its progress, adding it has taken two years to get the right people to spearhead its efforts. But there is no need to own huge franchises, he said, adding that Apple will focus on long-form TV and movie content. “We are not after quantity, but quality,” he said.

Read the full story at CNBC

This Is Us actor Sterling K. Brown continued his strong TV awards performance with a SAG Awards win in the outstanding performance by a male actor in a drama series category, while the series took home the award for outstanding drama series.

Brown beat out Jason Bateman (Netflix’s Ozark), Peter Dinklage (HBO’s Game of Thrones), David Harbour (Netflix’s Stranger Things), and Bob Odenkirk (AMC’s Better Call Saul) for top honors, matching his recent Emmy and Golden Globe wins in the category.

This Is Us also beat out Netflix's The Crown and Stranger Things, HBO's Game Of Thrones and Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale for the outstanding performance by an ensemble in a drama series.

The Crown’s Claire Foy won the SAG Award for outstanding performance by a female actor in a drama series for the second straight year, beating out category favorite -- recent Emmy and Golden Globes Award winner Elisabeth Moss (Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale) -- as well as Millie Bobby Brown (Netflix’s Stranger Things), Laura Linney (Netflix’s Ozark), and Robin Wright (Netflix’s House of Cards).

The Crown’s John Lithgow was the first winner during the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony Sunday night, taking home the top award in the Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Category.

Read More: Complete coverage of the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards

Lithgow, who plays Winston Churchill in the Netflix freshman drama series, beat out Jonathan Banks (AMC’s Better Call Saul);, Mandy Patinkin (Showtime’s Homeland), Michael Kelly (Netflix’s House of Cards), David Harbour (Netflix’s Stranger Things), Ron Cephas Jones (NBC’s This Is Us) and Jeffrey Wright (HBO’s Westworld). 

Netflix swept the Screen Actor Awards in the major drama categories with wins for Stranger Things and The Crown.  

The streaming service's freshman fantasy drama series Stranger Things won for the Outstanding Performance by an Ensamble in a Drama Series. Another freshman series, The Crown, took home awards for Outstanding Perfrormance By A Male Actor In A Drama Series (John Lithgow) and Outstanding Performance By A Female Actor In A Drama Series (Claire Foy).

Netflix's Orange Is The New Black also took home top honors in the Outstanding Performance by an Esemble In A Comedy Series.  

The annual Golden Globes Awards event is known for its unpredictability, and the 74th edition of the awards show held Sunday night did not disappoint as a slew of freshman basic cable and online streaming series won the majority of TV awards.

FX, led by limited series People V. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story and freshman comedy series Atlanta took home the most Golden Globes awards with four, followed by AMC, which earned three awards for its limited series The Night Manager.

Netflix was the only other service to garner multiple awards, winning two statuettes for its first-year series The Crown, which wonfor best drama series as well as best actress in a drama series for Claire Foy.

Noticeably absent from the list of award wininng networks was HBO, which led all networks with 14 nominations. In fact, only five content distributors won awards, with ABC and Amazon joining FX, AMC and Netflix.

Freshman series took home 10 of the 11 Golden Globes Awards in the television category – the exception being third-year series Black-ish, whose star Tracy Ellis-Ross won for best actress in a television series – led by AMC’s The Night Manager. The series won three acting awards including best actor in a limited series for Tom Hiddleston and best supporting actress and actor awards in a limited series for Olivia Colman and Hugh Laurie respectively.

The Golden Globe Winners in the Television Category Are As Follows:

Best Television Series – Drama

The Crown – Netflix

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama
Billy Bob Thornton (Goliath) -- Amazon

Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series – Drama
Claire Foy (The Crown) – Netflix

Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy
Atlanta – FX

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy
Donald Glover (Atlanta) – FX

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy
Tracy Ellis-Ross (Black-ish) – ABC

Best Television Limited Series or Motion Picture Made For Television

The People V. O.J. Simpson – FX

Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Tom Hiddleston (The Night Manager) – AMC

Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

Sarah Paulson (The People v. O.J. Simpson) – FX

Best Performance By An Actress In A Supporting Role In A Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made For Television

Olivia Colman (The Night Manager) – AMC

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

Hugh Laurie (The Night Manager) -- AMC

Freshman Netflix series The Crown was the surprise winner of The Golden Globes award for best drama.

The series, which follows the early reign of Queen Elizabeth II, beat out drama series heavyweights Game of Thrones and Westworld (HBO), Netflix’s Stranger Things and NBC’s This Is Us.

Claire Foy also won the statuette for best actress in a drama for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II, besting Caitriona Balfe (Outlander), Keri Russell (The Americans), Winona Ryder (Stranger Things), and Evan Rachel Wood (Westworld).

New York – Binge watching, a buzzword just a few years ago and one of the catalysts of subscription video on demand in its infancy, is starting lose its cachet according to a panel of top media executives at a Paley Center for Media event here Thursday.

While bingeing on entire seasons of shows in one sitting isn’t going away entirely, it no longer appears to be the badge of honor that it once was, Discovery Communications’ Group President Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and Science Channel Rich Ross said at the Paley Center for Media’s 2015 Paley International Council Summit here Thursday.

“About six months ago, you stopped hearing about it that way and there was a return to this obsession and fascination with watching something and being able to talk about it the next day,” Ross said. “To me it is what is fueling a lot of my ratings, where I realize it matters to them that it was on Wednesday night. And it did not have to be an event like Shark Week, it could be an episode of Alaska Bush People.”     

United Talent Agency co-founder, partner and director Peter Benedeck said that is good news for content developers. He added that shows like HBO’s Game of Thrones are a prime example of what the industry used to call “water cooler” programming, or shows that viewers like to talk about around the office water cooler on Monday morning and speculate what may happen next week.

Benedeck said shows that are set up to be binge-viewed don’t have that advantage, and he pointed to one series his agency has been involved in, The Crown, slated to debut on Netflix next year.

“The point is that on a given day, 10 hours of that show will be dropped on Netflix and three days later the buzz will be gone,” Benedeck said. “On a Monday morning I walk into a staff meeting at my company and people want to talk about what happened on The Affair, they want to talk about what happened in that episode and wonder what might happen next week. Shows that by definition are going to be binge-watched don’t get the opportunity for people to feel about them that way. Orange is the New Black was Orange is the New Black for about a week. And then Orange is the New Black was moving on. And that’s too bad.”

He added that is why sports seem to do so well for networks; they can’t be binged.

“Imagine if the Pittsburgh Steelers played all their games on tape and you could watch the whole season in one sitting?” Benedeck asked.

Ross added that some shows are already becoming appointment television for some viewers and with the proliferation of original content, that can only get bigger.

“There are three hours of Shonda Rhimes shows on Thursday night that everybody knows are on Thursday night,” Ross said. “If you watch all the seasons of shows at once, then you go back to, ‘Oh, there’s nothing’s on.’ That’s part of the dilemma that marathon or binge programmers have.”