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2024 Emmys Recap: Cute Couples, Shocking F-Bombs and More Must-See Moments!
It was a record-breaking nighttime for Shogun astatine the 2024 Emmys.
After sweeping 18 categories, the FX series—which premiered successful February—made past by having the astir wins of immoderate amusement successful conscionable 1 season. It’s besides the archetypal non-English programme to triumph Outstanding Drama Series (see the afloat database of winners here).
While Shogun had already secured its highest number grounds by Emmys nighttime aft earning 14 trophies astatine the Sept. 7 and 8 Creative Arts Emmys, it grew its pb a week aboriginal with 4 much awards. Not lone was the amusement named Outstanding Drama Series, but Frederick E.O besides received the Outstanding Directing prize successful the category. In addition, Hiroyuki Sanada—who plays warlord Yoshii Toranaga successful the play acceptable successful 1600 Japan—took location the pb histrion honor.
“It was an east-meets-west imagination task with respect,” helium told the assemblage during his acceptance speech, “and Shogun taught maine that erstwhile radical enactment together, we tin marque miracle. We tin make a amended aboriginal together.”
Anna Sawai, who portrays noblewoman and translator Lady Toda Mariko, besides won Outstanding Lead Actress successful a Drama Series.
“Very emotional,” she tearfully told Laverne Cox up of the lawsuit connected Live From E!: Emmys, aboriginal adding, “It’s precise huge. I’m conscionable truthful blessed for the full team.”
And she’s thrilled fans person been loving the series.
“Everyone conscionable worked truthful hard due to the fact that they wanted the champion for the show,” the histrion continued. “There were nary egos. I’m conscionable blessed that everyone’s receiving it, and everyone’s touched by our story.”
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With 25 nominations, Shogun was the most-nominated bid of the night followed by The Bear (which received 23 nods and won successful 11 categories this year) and Only Murders successful the Building (which was up successful 21 categories and honored successful three).
To larn much astir the award-winning hit, support reading.
What is Shogun about?
Based connected James Clavell’s caller of the aforesaid name, the play is acceptable successful the twelvemonth 1600. In the premiere of the 10-episode series, the Taiko (former main advisor to the emperor) dies. But earlier his death, helium reveals his plans for a Council of Regents—consisting of 5 opposing warlords—to regularisation until his lad is aged capable to measurement in. Among them is Lord Yoshii Toranaga.
“Lord Yoshii Toranaga is warring for his beingness arsenic his enemies connected the Council of Regents unite against him,” FX shares, “when a mysterious European vessel is recovered marooned successful a adjacent sportfishing village.”
As the web explains, the bid follows Toranaga's communicative arsenic good arsenic that of Protestant English aviator John Blackthorne—whose vessel washes up successful Japan and who receives accusation that could impact his rivals (Portuguese merchants and Jesuit priests) arsenic good arsenic Toranaga—and Lady Toda Mariko, a Christian noblewoman and translator who is dealing with her past and forms a narration with Blackthorne.
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Who stars successful Shogun?
Hiroyuki Sanada plays Lord Yoshii Toranaga portion Anna Sawai portrays Lady Toda Mariko and Cosmo Jarvis takes connected the relation of John Blackthorne. Other formed members see Tadanobu Asano, Hiroto Kanai, Takehiro Hira, Moeka Hoshi, Tokuma Nishioka, Shinnosuke Abe, Yuki Kura, Yuka Kouri and Fumi Nikaido.
Where tin you ticker Shogun?
You tin ticker the FX bid connected Hulu and Disney+.
Is determination going to beryllium a Shogun play two?
Yes! FX antecedently announced that the network, Hulu and the Estate of James Clavell are moving to widen the bid for some a play 2 and a play three.
Considering the archetypal installment already ran done Clavell’s novel, the 2nd volition present person to spell beyond the page.
“There’s a batch of chaos but originative chaos, wherever we’re throwing everything that we person astatine the wall, seeing what sticks,” Rachel Kondo, who created the amusement on with Justin Marks, told The Hollywood Reporter successful June. “It’s been breathtaking and nerve-wracking because, obviously, this is uncharted territory — we don’t person a roadmap, we conscionable person history.”
So with the assistance of Clavell’s estate, she continued, they’re “trying to survey his process of curation.” Still, Marks added, a batch of questions remain.
“There’s a batch of large conspiracy mentation successful history, a batch of antithetic theories about, ‘Oh, it was said that this went on, but this truly went on,’ and those small darker corners are what we’ve truly enjoyed exploring,” helium noted to THR—though it appears determination aren’t arsenic galore questions for however agelong the bid volition run. “The 3rd play is truly an ending,” helium continued. “We cognize wherever it starts, and we cognize wherever it ends, and we cognize who is determination connected that journey. We’re conscionable focusing connected portion 2 close present to truly marque definite we tin get to that point. But portion 2 is, arsenic 2nd chapters go, benignant of a darker chapter.”
When volition Shogun play 2 premiere?
While an authoritative merchandise day hasn’t been announced, Sanada—who is besides 1 of the show’s producers—suggested they’re inactive successful the aboriginal stages of development.
“We decided to spell forward,” helium told the Television Academy backstage astatine the 2024 Emmys, “but conscionable started the penning country and past deliberation astir wherever to spell to shoot.”
Of course, Shogun isn’t the archetypal publication adaption to find occurrence onscreen. To work astir different tomes that made the leap to TV, scroll on.
Apple TV+
Lessons successful Chemistry
Miniseries Lessons successful Chemistry—based on Bonnie Gramus' 2022 debut novel of the aforesaid name—received a full of 10 Emmy noms successful 2024, including ones for stars Brie Larson, Lewis Pullman, Aja Naomi King and Millicent Shelton. Both the Apple TV+ series—which earned a information for Outstanding Limited oregon Anthology Series—and the publication travel chemist Elizabeth Zott (Larson) arsenic she navigates heartache, misogyny and yet stardom arsenic a cooking amusement big successful 1960s Southern California.
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Shōgun
After Shōgun premiered successful 2024, it became the archetypal Japanese-language bid to beryllium nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series—garnering 25 nominations successful full astatine the 2024 Emmys. The FX amusement is based on James Clavell's 1975 novel of the aforesaid name, which focused connected events and important figures from Japan successful the 1600s, conscionable arsenic the Edo play was beginning. In summation to the 2024 series, the publication was antecedently adapted into a 1980 miniseries and besides into a signifier musical, committee crippled and video games.
Apple TV+
The Morning Show
Since its 2019 debut, The Morning Show has remained a powerhouse successful the streaming world, acknowledgment to stellar performances from its stars including Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon and Billy Crudup, who person each earned Emmy nominations during the Apple TV+ show's run. Based on Brian Stelter 2013 non-fiction book Top of the Morning: Inside the Cutthroat World of Morning TV, The Morning Show has fixed viewers a behind-the-scenes look astatine greeting tv and nabbed 27 nominations successful the process—plus a 2020 triumph for Crudup for Outstanding Supporting Actor successful a Drama Series.
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Ripley
An adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's 1955 intelligence thriller The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley stars Andrew Scott as the titular Tom Ripley, a grifter successful 1960s New York who is hired by a affluent shipping magnate to transportation his lad Dickie (Johnny Flynn) to permission his European escapades and instrumentality to the U.S. The Netflix miniseries—which besides costars Dakota Fanning—premiered successful 2024 and received 13 Emmy nominations in 2024, including Outstanding Limited oregon Anthology Series, Outstanding Lead Actor successful a Limited oregon Anthology Series oregon Movie Scott and Outstanding Supporting Actress successful a Limited oregon Anthology Series oregon Movie for Fanning.
Amazon Prime
Red, White & Royal Blue
A 2019 bestselling novel by Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue became a deed Amazon Prime movie successful 2023, depicting the emotion communicative betwixt the fictional son of the president of the United States (Taylor Zakhar Perez) and the Prince of England (Nicholas Galitzine). The movie earned a 2024 Emmy information for Outstanding Television Movie.
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Feud: Capote vs. The Swans
The 2nd introduction in Ryan Murphy's anthology series, 2024's Feud: Capote vs. The Swans tells the communicative of however celebrated writer Truman Capote (Tom Hollander) ruined his friendships with his "Swans"—a radical of New York City socialites—after penning astir thinly veiled versions of them successful a 1975 Esquire article. Based on Laurence Leamer's 2021 book Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era, the FX amusement boasted a bevy of stars including Naomi Watts, Diane Lane, Chloë Sevigny, Calista Flockhart, Demi Moore, Molly Ringwald and the late Treat Williams. The 2nd play earned 10 Emmy nominations successful 2024, including acting nods for Hollander, Watts, Williams and Lane.
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Fellow Travelers
Based connected the 2008 novel of the aforesaid name by Thomas Mallon, 2023's Fellow Travelers tells the communicative of Hawkins Fuller (Matt Bomer) and Timothy Laughlin (Jonathan Bailey) arsenic they navigate a volatile narration that spans from the 1950s to the 1980s. Both Bomer and Bailey received 2024 Emmy acting nominations for the Showtime miniseries: Outstanding Lead Actor successful a Limited oregon Anthology Series oregon Movie for Bomer and Outstanding Supporting Actor successful a Limited oregon Anthology Series oregon Movie for Bailey.
Netflix
Bridgerton
Netflix's adaptation of Julia Quinn's romance publication bid Bridgerton was a taste improvement astatine the extremity of 2020. Why? Well, acknowledgment to a divers cast, an unthinkable people and immoderate steamy enactment scenes, subscribers to the streaming work couldn't get capable of the series. Bridgerton besides received captious acclaim, earning an Outstanding Drama Series information astatine the 2021 Emmys.
HBO
Game of Thrones
This drama afloat of epic battles and star-crossed romance is based connected the fashionable publication series by George R.R Martin. While the novels are best-sellers successful their ain right, the TV amusement has garnered fans from each implicit the world, including galore who wouldn't adjacent telephone themselves fans of the root material. Over the people of 8 seasons, the HBO bid received 58 Emmy Awards, much than immoderate other drama successful history. And portion viewers stay divided connected the arguable conclusion, which saw the bid surpass Martin's plotting to uncover an ending each its own, the amusement volition spell down arsenic 1 of the astir celebrated of each time.
HBO
Big Little Lies
HBO's adaptation of Liane Moriarty's best-selling novel of the aforesaid sanction lured immoderate A-list endowment to the tiny screen, with Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Shailene Woodley, Zoe Kravitz and Laura Dern occupying the precise enviable existent property owned by the 5 women who find themselves caught up successful a execution investigation. Every spot arsenic enthralling arsenic the book, the archetypal play earned 8 Primetime Emmy Awards and enticed nary different than Meryl Streep herself to motion connected for a pivotal relation successful the 2nd season, which Moriarty helped signifier contempt determination being nary root worldly near to mine. Though not arsenic universally beloved arsenic the first, play 2 inactive earned Streep and Dern Outstanding Supporting Actress successful a Drama Series nominations.
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3 Body Problem
3 Body Problem garnered six 2024 Emmy nominations aft its debut, including a coveted Outstanding Drama Series nomination. The Netflix series—set successful the U.K. and China—follows a radical of scientists dealing with an extraterrestrial enigma and planetary threat. It's based on Liu Cixin's publication series Remembrance of Earth's Past, which debuted successful 2006 with The Three-Body Problem. Cixin followed that up with The Dark Forest in 2008 and Death's End in 2010.
Apple TV+
Slow Horses
British spy thriller Slow Horses first premiered connected Apple TV+ successful 2022, but it was the show's 3rd play that resonated with 2024 Emmy voters, nabbing 9 nominations including Outstanding Drama Series, arsenic good arsenic Lead Actor and Supporting Actor nominations for stars Gary Oldman and Jack Lowden, respectively. The bid is based on Mick Herron's spy caller series, Slough House, with the archetypal book Slow Horses debuting successful 2010. There are presently 8 books successful the series, with the astir caller entry Bad Actors dropping successful 2023.
Apple TV+
Palm Royale
Palm Royale earned 3 2024 Emmy nominations aft its debut: Outstanding Comedy Series, Outstanding Lead Actress successful a Comedy Series for Kristen Wiig and Outstanding Supporting Actress successful a Comedy Series for Carol Burnett. Although based connected the 2018 book Mr. & Mrs. American Pie by Juliet McDaniel, the Apple TV+ amusement wildly diverges from its root material. Set successful the late ‘60s, the bid follows Wiig's erstwhile quality pageant queen Maxine Simmons arsenic she attempts to interruption into Florida's Palm Beach precocious society. However, in the novel, Maxine finds herself exiled to Scottsdale, Ariz., from Palm Springs erstwhile she causes a drunken country astatine Thanksgiving aft her hubby reveals he's leaving her to beryllium with his secretary.
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Under the Bridge
Lily Gladstone earned an Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Limited Or Anthology Series Or Movie 2024 Emmy information for Hulu's 2024 miniseries Under The Bridge, based on Rebecca Godfrey's 2005 true transgression publication of the aforesaid name. The amusement traces the events of the 1997 execution of 14 twelvemonth old Reena Virk by 8 of her peers successful Saanich, British Columbia, Canada.
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The Sympathizer
The 2024 miniseries The Sympathizer is a humanities achromatic drama based on Viet Thanh Nguyen's Pulitzer Prize-winning 2015 novel of the aforesaid name. The HBO bid takes spot adjacent the extremity of the Vietnam War, centering connected a Vietnamese spy who makes his mode to a exile campy successful the U.S., and finds his loyalties tested as he continues to report back to the Viet Cong. The amusement earned an Outstanding Supporting Actor successful a Limited oregon Anthology Series oregon Movie at the 2024 Emmys for Robert Downey Jr., who took connected 5 antithetic roles successful the series.
Hulu
The Handmaid's Tale
Premiering connected Hulu successful 2017, this adaptation of Margaret Atwood's dystopian 1985 novel centered successful the totalitarian authorities of Gilead pursuing a Second American Civil War. And portion the bid has agelong since near its root worldly down arsenic it continues the communicative of June Osborne (Elisabeth Moss), the titular subjugated handmaid, and her quest for freedom. It's won respective Emmys, including Outstanding Drama Series successful its archetypal season.
ABC
Roots
This groundbreaking mini-series was primitively adapted from Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Alex Haley's 1976 novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family. Just 1 twelvemonth later, Roots, starring LeVar Burton, premiered connected ABC and became a taste phenomenon, winning 9 Emmys arsenic good arsenic a coveted Peabody Award. The ratings were besides entity high, and the finale inactive holds a grounds arsenic the second-most-watched-overall bid finale successful U.S. TV history. In 2016, a remake of the aforesaid sanction premiered, starring Malachi Kirby and Anika Noni Rose.
HBO
True Blood
A waitress who tin work minds and vampires with confederate accents are lone a fewer of the intriguing characters connected this immortal drama. The series, starring now-real-life mates Anna Pacquin and Stephen Moyer, is based connected The Southern Vampire Mysteries books by Charlaine Harris and focuses connected a tiny municipality successful Louisiana. After 7 seasons, the amusement came to an extremity successful 2014, but we volition everlastingly beryllium grateful for giving each of america the acquisition of bare Alexander Skarsgård and Joe Manganiello.
Masterpiece
Sherlock
A modern instrumentality connected the iconic detective bid by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, this U.K. bid starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman was not lone a occurrence successful its homeland, but the play won fans each implicit the world, including the U.S., wherever it won the trophy for Best Television Film astatine the 2016 Emmys.
Starz
Outlander
Time travel, rebellion, and a emotion triangle are conscionable the opening of this breathtaking bid based connected historical fabrication books by writer Diana Gabaldon. Caitriona Balfe plays a caregiver who travels to a antithetic period and yet falls successful emotion with a rogue Scottish highlander (Sam Heughan) contempt already being joined successful her time.
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The Undoing
Based connected the 2014 caller You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz, The Undoing erstwhile again enactment Nicole Kidman successful a starring relation astatine the bosom of a execution mystery. Specifically, therapist Grace Fraser (Kidman)'s beingness is turned upside down erstwhile her hubby Jonathan (Hugh Grant) becomes a fishy successful the execution of Elena Alves (Matilda De Angelis).
While the finale near viewers feeling conflicted, everyone could hold that Kidman's wardrobe was A+ successful the series.
Showtime
Dexter
This transgression play pursuing Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall), a humor spatter adept by time and serial slayer by night, was primitively based connected books by writer Jeff Lindsay. Over the people of 8 seasons connected Showtime, the bid garnered a cult following, arsenic good arsenic 23 Emmy nominations. That bid finale, though? Let's conscionable accidental it's ne'er casual to instrumentality a landing.
The originative squad took a 2nd changeable astatine wrapping up Dexter's communicative arsenic a constricted lawsuit series, titled Dexter: New Blood in 2021.
Netflix
Orange Is the New Black
The award-winning Netflix archetypal bid is based on author Piper Kerman's memoir Orange is the New Black: My Year successful a Women's Prison and was an instant hit. Fans loved the show's premix of sarcastic wit and heart-wrenching storylines, arsenic good arsenic the beardown pistillate characters, including Crazy Eyes Suzanne (Uzo Aduba), Sophia (Laverne Cox), Pennsatucky (Taryn Manning) and the beloved Poussey Washington (Samira Wiley). After 7 seasons, viewers near Litchfield down for bully successful 2019.
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Friday Night Lights
Before Coach Taylor (Kyle Chandler) entered the TV screens and hearts of viewers, this sports play was initially adapted into a movie starring Billy Bob Thornton successful the aforesaid role. But successful 2006, writer H.G. Bissinger's non-fiction book Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream, hit the tiny surface and made non-football fans into believers. In summation to Chandler, the bid besides starred Connie Britton, Minka Kelly, Scott Porter, Michael B. Jordan, and everyone's favourite atrocious boy, Taylor Kitsch arsenic Tim Riggins. Everyone accidental it with america now, "Clear Eyes, Full Hearts..."
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Nine Perfect Strangers
Another Liane Moriarty adaptation! In 2021, Nicole Kidman and David E. Kelley collaborated erstwhile much to bring Moriarty's 2018 novel Nine Perfect Strangers to life. Debuting connected Hulu, the bid followed Masha Dmitrichenko (Kidman), a wellness retreat guru acceptable to alteration the lives of nine, hold for it, strangers, including Frances (Melissa McCarthy), Lars (Luke Evans), Tony (Bobby Cannavale), Carmel (Regina Hall), Napoleon (Michael Shannon), Jessica (Samara Weaving), Ben (Melvin Gregg), Heather (Asher Keddie) and Zoe (Grace Van Patten).
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Gossip Girl
This series, based connected books by Upper East Side autochthonal Cecily von Ziegesar, became an iconic practice of the concealed lives of young NYC elite. Whether you're a Blair (Leighton Meester) oregon a Serena (Blake Lively) you can't deny that the high-fashion formed made you conscionable a small spot jealous during its six seasons connected The CW.
Freeform
Pretty Little Liars
The palmy book bid by writer Sara Shepard was a favourite blameworthy pleasance amusement for binge watchers everywhere. The stylish squad featured Lucy Hale, Shay Mitchell, Ashley Benson and Troian Bellisario, who always kept fans connected the borderline of their seats. After 7 seasons connected Freeform, PLL tried to reply each the questions its legion of fans had arsenic the extremity neared. Whether they were satisfied with those answers, well, that's different story.
Syfy
The Magicians
SyFy drama The Magicians gives fans of Lev Grossman's fashionable publication series a glimpse into the magical satellite of students astatine Brakebills University. The characters indispensable navigate the emblematic challenges of assemblage students (like fraught relationships and cause addictions) with the added twist of learning however to power their magical powers - arsenic if beingness wasn't already analyzable enough. Over the people of 5 seasons, the missions grew much dire, usually tasking the heroes with redeeming the multiverse oregon magic itself. (No large deal, right?) But 1 happening stayed the same: You could ever number connected an unthinkable philharmonic episode.
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The Vampire Diaries
The formed of hotties, including Nina Dobrev, Paul Wesley, Kat Graham and Ian Somerhalder, successful this supernatural bid was decidedly a large contributor to this CW hit's popularity. Fans of the publication bid by L. J. Smith got to spot their favourite heroes travel to beingness successful the drama, which ended successful 2017 aft 8 seasons.
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