"Schitt's Creek"
Streaming services were largely shut out of Sunday night's Emmy Awards, with HBO and Pop TV's "Schitt's Creek" dominating many of the major categories. HBO took home 30 awards from 107 nominations, winning 11 awards during Sunday night's telecast alone.
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- Many of HBO's wins went to "Succession" -- which won for Outstanding Drama Series -- and "Watchmen."
- While Pop TV earned 10 Emmys for the final season of "Schitt's Creek," Netflix, Apple, and Hulu combined for just 4 Emmy wins.
- "Schitt's Creek" swept all major categories in which it was nominated, becoming the first show in history to win 9 Emmys in a single year.
- 24-year-old Zendaya became the youngest winner for Best Lead Actress in a Drama series ever for her work in HBO's "Euphoria."
- Tyler Perry accepted the Governors Award with a heartfelt and widely-shared acceptance speech about the importance of representation.
- For the second year in a row, the Emmy ceremony set a new record for its lowest-ever TV viewership.
- The full list of winners can be found here.
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NBCUniversal's Peacock will come to Roku boxes after the two companies reached a deal. Peacock launched on July 15 and will become available to Roku viewers for the first time in a few weeks.
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- Last week, Roku threatened to remove NBC's other apps from its platform unless a deal was reached.
- Peacock remains unavailable on the Amazon Fire TV platform.
- HBO Max is still missing on both Roku devices and Amazon Fire TV sets.
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DAILY CALENDAR
THE 72ND PRIMETIME EMMY AWARDS: The semi-virtual TV awards show -- hosted by Jimmy Kimmel -- aired on Sunday night on ABC and comes to Hulu today. [Hulu]
A LOVE SONG FOR LATASHA: Hybrid documentary short relating the story of 15-year-old Latasha Harlins, who was fatally shot by a convenience store owner in Los Angeles in 1991. [Netflix]
MANHUNT: DEADLY GAMES: The second season of the Discovery Channel dramatic anthology series revolves around the search for Eric Rudolph, the perpetrator the Centennial Olympic Park bombing. Jack Huston, Cameron Britton, Judith Light, Carla Gugino, and Arliss Howard co-star. [CBS All Access]
BANG: Season 2 of the Welsh crime drama series, starring Jacob Ifan as a loner in the town of Port Talbot whose sister (Catrin Stewart) is a local detective, comes to Acorn TV today. The series is produced in both English and Welsh, with subtitles. [Acorn TV]
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Disney+ debuted a new trailer for the upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) spin-off series "WandaVision" during the Emmys telecast. The show will apparently be a parody of black-and-white sitcoms from the 1950s, starring the MCU characters of Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany).
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- Vision was killed during the film "Avengers: Infinity War," and it remains unclear how he has returned for this new adventure.
- The series will also feature Teyonah Parris as an adult version of Monica Rambeau, a character first introduced in "Captain Marvel," along with Kat Dennings, Randall Park, and Kathryn Hahn.
- There's widespread speculation that the show could be inspired by the 2005 Marvel comic book storyline "House of M," which prominently featured the Scarlet Witch character.
- Though no specific release date has been announced, Disney+ has indicated that "WandaVision" will debut sometime before the end of the year.
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I watched nearly all of "Ratched" in a single afternoon, and it was certainly compelling and pretty enough to hold my attention, with some fun scenery-chewing turns from an ensemble of great character actors. But it's a largely empty spectacle, a show that's constantly throwing new elements at you -- shocking reveals, winking homages, violent reprisals, retro flourishes, self-aware comedy -- but without making them add up to anything meaningful, or even coherent. In some ways, it's the ideal Netflix series: exceptionally bingeable but also instantly forgettable. It's the kind of show you watch in an afternoon and then set aside, ready to move on to the next series.
The show is theoretically a prequel to the novel and movie "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," surveying an earlier moment in the career of high-strung, no-nonsense, by-the-book Nurse Mildred Ratched. But other than the character name and the psychiatric hospital setting, there's essentially nothing connecting the new series -- which comes from co-creator and uber-producer Ryan Murphy -- to its predecessor.
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Ellen DeGeneres opened the new season of her afternoon chat show by discussing the recent toxic workplace allegations made against the production. In her monologue, DeGeneres said that she is "taking responsibility for what happens at my show," and that the production had made "the necessary changes."
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- BuzzFeed first reported on the allegations from a number of current and former "Ellen" staff members in July, which included reports of harassment, intimidation, and racism.
- The report sparked an internal investigation by distributor Warner Bros. Television.
- DeGeneres also discussed the pressure of being known as the "Be Kind lady," but maintained that "I am that person that you see on TV."
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Co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg
According to the Wall Street Journal, Quibi is considering a number of options for moving forward, including a potential sale. Quibi leadership may also opt to take on an additional round of funding, or to merge with an acquisition company and take the company public.
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- Quibi launched with a bevy of high-profile talent but has struggled for attention and subscribers.
- The company declined to comment on the WSJ report.
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The crime thriller series "Mr. Mercedes," based on a trilogy of novels by Stephen King, will move from AT&T's Audience Network for Peacock. The first two seasons of "Mr. Mercedes" will land on Peacock on October 15, with a new third season to follow next year.
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- The Audience Network ceased operations in the Spring and now serves as an HBO Max preview channel.
- The series stars Brendan Gleeson as retired detective Bill Hodges, who begins receiving letters and emails from a notorious serial killer (Harry Treadaway), pulling him into the investigation.
- David E. Kelley ("Big Little Lies") executive produces and writes the series, along with Sophie Owens-Bender and King himself.
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Amazon released a trailer for the five-part anthology series "Small Axe," from director Steve McQueen. The Oscar-winning "12 Years a Slave" filmmaker directed all five entries in the series, three of which will debut at this year's New York Film Festival.
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- Each film in the series was inspired by a true story about West Indian people overcoming injustice through resilience and faith.
- Stars include Letitia Wright, John Boyega, Malachi Kirby, Shaun Parkes, Rochenda Sandall, Alex Jennings, Jack Lowden, and Micheal Ward.
- One film will debut on Prime Video a week, starting with "Mangrove" on November 20.
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QUICK HITS
- YouTube will bring back more human moderators after discovering that machine learning systems failed to flag inappropriate content as accurately.
- Production on the second season of HBO's "Euphoria" won't begin until 2021; the new season will deal directly with the COVID-19 pandemic.
- "The Third Day" creators Felix Barrett and Dennis Kelly discussed the making of the film's unconventional live episode.
- Netflix announced a new original series and three films from Nigeria.
- Comedian Demi Adejuyigbe tweeted the latest in his series of Earth, Wind, & Fire "September" music video homages.
- Brands see 18.5% of e-commerce revenue from SMS marketing. See 6 top SMS campaigns here.*
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Lon Harris is the writer and editor of Inside Streaming and was the very first person to ever write an Inside newsletter. He lives in Los Angeles, California, and also writes about TV and film for Fandom, Screen Junkies, Rotten Tomatoes, Gamma Ray and others. Plus he has a Game of Thrones podcast called "Casterly Talk" and competes on The Movie Trivia Schmoedown as "The Professor."
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Jonathan Harris is a writer for Inside.com. Previously, he wrote for The Huffington Post, TakePart.com, and the YouTube channel What’s Trending.
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