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EMMYS Q&A: Allison Williams

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday June 18, 2013 @ 10:31am PDTTags: Allison Williams, Emmys, Girls

Michael Slezak is Senior Editor at TVLine.

You know those people who brag about not having a television? Girls’ Allison Williams has a handy response for ’em. “I always say very dryly and very honestly, ‘You should invest in one. I’m not even saying you would necessarily like our show. But TV is so good right now.’” Williams’ awareness of the number of great performances under consideration this Emmy season makes it all the more “exciting and unbelievable” when her name gets floated as a possible contender for supporting actress. And while she’s quick to credit Girls creator and star Lena Dunham—as well as the show’s writers, directors and hair and makeup staff—for helping her bring to life the rudderless Marnie Michaels, Williams admits that “it’s a really fun challenge to play someone who seems to have it all together and yet has this anxiety bubbling beneath the surface. It’s an anxiety she isn’t necessarily aware of herself.”

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Michael Zegen Joins HBO Comedy ‘Girls’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday June 3, 2013 @ 10:26am PDTTags: Girls, HBO, Michael Zegen
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EXCLUSIVE: Michael Zegen, who recurs as infamous mobster Bugsy Siegel on Boardwalk Empire, has been added to the cast of another HBO series, Lena Dunham’s comedy Girls. The network is keeping details about his … Read More »

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BAFTA TV Awards: ‘Girls’ Top International Show; Olivia Colman Scores Two Prizes

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Sunday May 12, 2013 @ 1:42pm PDTTags: BAFTA, BBC, Girls, HBO

BAFTA handed out its TV prizes tonight in London with Olivia Colman taking two awards, one for supporting actress for BBC miniseries Accused and the other as actress in a comedy program for Olympics sitcom Twenty Twelve, which was also named best sitcom. Colman will soon be seen by U.S. audiences in ITV’s recent hit drama Broadchurch. Ben Whishaw was best actor for Neal Street Productions co-production with NBC Universal and WNET Thirteen/BBC Two, Richard II (Hollow Crown), and top comedy actor was Steve Coogan for Sky Atlantic‘s Welcome To The Places Of My Life. The best drama series was the BBC’s Last Tango In Halifax while HBO‘s Girls was named best international show. Coming into the evening, the BBC and HBO’s Hitchcock film The Girl was among the most nominated programs, but went home empty-handed. Downton Abbey had no nominations. A full list of winners follows: Read More »

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‘Girls’, ‘Louie’, ‘Doctor Who’, Lorne Michaels Among Peabody Award Winners

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday March 27, 2013 @ 7:35am PDTTags: Girls, Lorne Michaels, Peabody Awards

Athens, Ga. – Thirty-nine recipients of the 72nd Annual Peabody Awards were announced today by the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. The winners, chosen by the Peabody board as the best in electronic media for the year 2012, were named in a ceremony in the Peabody Gallery on the UGA Campus.

The latest Peabody recipients reflect diversity in content, genre and sources of origination.

They include “Girls,” Lena Dunham’s HBO comedy-drama about the young and the feckless in New York; “Putin, Russia and the West,” a compelling portrait of a modern-day czar; “Rapido y Furioso (Fast and Furious),” Univision’s Mexican perspective on the infamous Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosive gun-tracking debacle; “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel,” a sterling magazine series that springboards from athletics; “Robin’s Journey,” a public-service campaign created around “Good Morning America” co-anchor Robin Roberts’ treatment for a rare blood disease; and “Design Ah!,” an imaginative Japanese series aimed at developing children’s creative vision.

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HBO’s ‘Girls’ Down In Season 2 Finale

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Monday March 18, 2013 @ 1:48pm PDTTags: Girls, HBO, TV Ratings

The second-season finale of HBO’s Girls at 9 PM drew 632,000 viewers Sunday night, down from the 1 million who watched the show’s Season 1 finale June 17. It also was down from … Read More »

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It’s Official: HBO’s ‘Girls’ Renewed For Season 3

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday January 25, 2013 @ 10:05am PSTTags: Girls, HBO
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HBO has officially announced a third-season pickup of Lena Dunham’s comedy Girls, which has received a 12-episode order, up from 10 for the first two seasons. HBO has been making preparations for a third season of … Read More »

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Lena Dunham Confirms ‘Girls’ Third Season Renewal

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday January 24, 2013 @ 8:55am PSTTags: Big Deals TV, Girls, HBO, Lena Dunham
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While there is still no official third-season pickup for Lena Dunham‘s Girls, she has confirmed the long-expected renewal of her HBO comedy series. “We’re starting season three at the end of March,” she told Alec Baldwin on his podcast. “I’m so excited.” HBO has been preparing for a third season of Girls for a couple of months. I hear it closed a new overall deal with executive producer Jenni Konner to return as co-showrunner alongside creator/star/executive producer Dunham and has been assembling a writing team, with Paul Simms expected to replace Bruce Eric Kaplan as co-executive producer as Kaplan is busy working on his HBO pilot. According to Dunham, Girls is taking over the stage used by Baldwin’s departing 30 Rock at Silvercup Studios.

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HBO’s ‘Girls’ Dips In Season 2 Premiere, ‘Enlightened’ Up In New Night Return

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Monday January 14, 2013 @ 1:23pm PSTTags: Enlightened, Girls, Golden Globes, HBO, TV Ratings

Last night’s Season 2 premiere of Girls at 9 PM drew 866,000 viewers, a slight drop from the 872,000 viewers the HBO show drew for its series premiere on April 15 last year. … Read More »

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Golden Globes: Pay TV Dominant With ‘Girls’, ‘Homeland’ And ‘Game Change’ Wins

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Sunday January 13, 2013 @ 10:41pm PSTTags: Game Change, Girls, Golden Globes, Homeland
Nellie Andreeva

The Golden Globes displayed a split personality on the TV side, going for repeat winners in the drama and longform categories and fresh honorees in comedy. But overall, the night was dominated completely by HBO and Showtime which won all but two TV awards, led by Showtime’s drama Homeland with three, including best drama series; HBO’s Girls with two, including best comedy series; and HBO’s Game Change also with three, including best TV movie/miniseries.

Related: Golden Globes: TV Scorecard

After being largely snubbed at the Emmys, HBO’s Girls had its awards coming-out party tonight, winning both categories it was nominated in: best comedy series and best comedy actress for creator/star Lena Dunham. There have been a lot of parallels drawn between Girls and HBO’s previous edgy comedy about a quartet of single women in New York, Sex And The City. With its double win tonight, Girls is following in the footsteps of Sex And The City, a Hollywood Foreign Press Association darling which won for best comedy series and best comedy actress (Sarah Jessica Parker) an unprecedented three consecutive years. Also getting a first Golden Globe after an Emmy nomination last year was Don Cheadle, star of Showtime’s comedy series House Of Lies. Both Girls and House Of Lies celebrated their wins just as their second seasons kicked off — with the season premieres airing against the Golden Globes.  Read More »

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Lena Dunham Is Touchy, Touchy, Touchy About Her $3.5 Million Book Proposal

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Monday December 10, 2012 @ 6:36pm PSTTags: Girls, HBO, Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham is writing a self-described funny book of advice and anecdotes on everything from sex to eating to traveling to work. But she sure is taking seriously one website’s attempt to make any of it public. Gawker at the start of … Read More »

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‘Breaking Bad’ & ‘Modern Family’ Dominate 2013 Writers Guild Awards TV Nominations

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday December 6, 2012 @ 10:22am PSTTags: Breaking Bad, Girls, Modern Family, WGA Awards
Nellie Andreeva

Last year’s WGA Awards winners for best drama series and best comedy series, AMC’s Breaking Bad and ABC’s Modern Family, are back in full force this year, leading the list of TV nominees announced today. Breaking Bad landed five writing nominations — for best drama series as well as four of the six noms for individual drama episodes. Modern Family followed with four — best comedy series and three of the six episodic noms. The new series field, topped by Emmy winner Homeland last year, includes HBO’s Girls, Veep and The Newsroom, as well as Fox’s The Mindy Project and ABC’s Nashville. Girls snagged both best new series and comedy series nominations, the only new show to land multiple noms. Another freshman cable series, USA’s Political Animals, got a mention in the long-form category for Greg Berlanti’s pilot. The WGA Awards are set for February 17 at ceremonies in LA and New York. Here is a full list of the TV nominees:

TELEVISION NOMINEES
DRAMA SERIES
Boardwalk Empire, Written by Dave Flebotte, Diane Frolov, Chris Haddock, Rolin Jones, Howard Korder, Steve Kornacki, Andrew Schneider, David Stenn, Terence Winter; HBO

Breaking Bad, Written by Sam Catlin, Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould, Gennifer Hutchison, George Mastras, Thomas Schnauz, Moira Walley-Beckett; AMC

Game of Thrones, Written by David Benioff, Bryan Cogman, George R. R. Martin, Vanessa Taylor, D.B. Weiss; HBO

Homeland, Written by Henry Bromell, Alexander Cary, Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon, Chip Johannessen, Meredith Stiehm; Showtime

Mad Men, Written by Lisa Albert, Semi Chellas, Jason Grote, Jonathan Igla, Andre Jacquemetton, Maria Jacquemetton, Brett Johnson, Janet Leahy, Victor Levin, Erin Levy, Frank Pierson, Michael Saltzman, Tom Smuts, Matthew Weiner; AMC

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TV Teaser: Season 2 Of HBO’s ‘Girls’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday November 30, 2012 @ 9:55am PSTTags: Girls, HBO

HBO’s Lena Dunham-starring comedy Girls just wrapped production on its second season, which premieres January 13. The pay cable network released a trailer for it today and already is looking ahead to a third season, with executive producer Judd Apatow hinting as much recently.

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HBO Makes Plans For Potential Third Season Of ‘Girls’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday November 12, 2012 @ 8:05pm PSTTags: Big Deals TV, Girls, HBO
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HBO’s hot comedy Girls just wrapped production on its second season but the pay cable network is already looking ahead to a potential third season. I hear HBO is working on a deal to bring back executive producer Jenni Konner, who has been co-running the show with creator/star/executive producer Lena Dunham. Once Konner is locked in, the show is expected to move on to doing writer-staffing deals in anticipation of a pickup. Girls executive producer Judd Apatow hinted at the show’s pending renewal. “We’re about to shoot the third season of Girls,” he said in a video interview for The DP/30 Channel while promoting his new film, This Is 40. Read More »

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UPDATE: Season 2 Of ‘Girls’ & ‘Enlightened’ Set To Debut January 13, 2013

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Monday October 15, 2012 @ 1:23pm PDTTags: Enlightened, Girls, HBO, Lena Dunham

UPDATE, 1:22 PM: The second seasons of both Girls and Enlightened, starring Laura Dern, will debut on January 13, 2013, HBO confirmed this afternoon.

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Shiri Appleby Joins ‘Girls’ For Arc, Melanie Griffith And Tippi Hedren In ‘Raising Hope’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday July 31, 2012 @ 2:20pm PDTTags: Girls, melanie Griffith, Raising Hope
Nellie Andreeva

Shiri Appleby Girls HBO CastShiri Appleby has been tapped for an arc on the second season of HBO’s Emmy-nominated comedy Girls. She will play Natalie, a new love interest for Hannah’s (Lena Dunham) lover Adam Driver (Adam … Read More »

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EMMYS: Comedy Series Nominations – ENTV Video

By ENTV YouTube | Thursday July 19, 2012 @ 7:15pm PDTTags: Emmy Awards, Emmys, ENTV, Girls, Veep

Deadline’s Pete Hammond and Awardsline’s Christy Grosz discuss Comedy Series Emmy nominations with ENTV YouTube channel host Brian Corsetti:

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EMMYS: Reality Competition Series Nominations – ENTV Video

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EMMYS: Lena Dunham & Amy Poehler Score Rare Double For Female Comedy Writers

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday July 19, 2012 @ 12:44pm PDTTags: Amy Poehler, Emmys, Girls, Lena Dunham, Parks and Recreation
Nellie Andreeva

Amy Poehler Emmys Parks And RecreationLena Dunham Girls EmmysThe momentum for female TV comedy writers continues. On the heels of the recent success of comedy series created/co-created by women — including Fox’s New Girl, ABC’s Suburgatory and CBS’ 2 Broke Girls – and a second consecutive upfront with multiple pickups of new series from female creators including Fox’s The Mindy Project from Mindy Kaling and ABC’s How To Live With Your Parents from Claudia Lonow, female comedy writes are now making big strides in the boy’s club known as the writing for a comedy series Emmy category. Lena Dunham, creator-star of HBO’s new comedy series Girls, and Amy Poehler, star of NBC’s Parks And Recreation, today landed comedy series writing Emmy nominations alongside Parks & Rec co-creator Michael Schur, Louie creator-star Louis C.K., and Community’s Chris McKenna. Film prodigy Dunham is nominated for the Girls pilot, while Poehler is recognized for writing ”The Debate” episode of Parks & Rec. I counted only a handful times in Emmy history when two female writers have received comedy writing nominations, the last time in 2002 when Jennifer Crittenden was nominated for the “Marie’s Sculpture” episode of Everybody Loves Raymond and Julie Rottenberg & Elisa Zuritsky for the ”My Motherboard, My Self” episode of Sex And The City.

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EMMYS: Lena Dunham On ‘Girls’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday June 17, 2012 @ 7:28pm PDTTags: Awardsline, Emmys, Girls, HBO, Lena Dunham

Charlie Mason is an AwardsLine contributor.

A year ago, you’d have been hard-pressed to find anyone who had ever heard of Lena Dunham. Now, of course, the 26-year-old New Yorker’s name is one of the household variety. Her Judd Apatow-produced HBO series, Girls, didn’t just earn its creator-writer-director-leading lady rave reviews, the pop-culture phenom also sparked Girlsdiscussions of nepotism and race — since she and two of her co-stars come from distinguished families, and there’s not a person of color among the cast.

AWARDSLINE: Congratulations on the nominations we think you’re going to get.
LENA DUNHAM: Thank you! That’s something I still can’t wrap my brain around.

AWARDSLINE: No? C’mon. Would you say you have a healthy interest in a nod, a mild obsession, or would you rather I hadn’t jinxed you by bringing it up?
DUNHAM: The Jew in me wants to go with the third. I’m so focused on shooting Season 2 that it’s hard for me to [worry about it]. That being said, it’s always nice to have the fantasy of the dress and getting to tell your parents how much you love them in a context that really matters — all those things [you] imagine when you’re standing in the shower. Read More »

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HBO Renews Comedy Series ‘Veep’ And ‘Girls’ For Second Season

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday April 30, 2012 @ 12:28pm PDTTags: Girls, HBO, Veep
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Girls HBO RenewedHBO has given early second-season pickups to new comedy series Veep and Girls after two and three airings, respectively. Both have received 10-episode orders. The Julia Louis-Dreyfus starrer Veep drew 1.4 million viewers in its debut to Girls‘ 872,000, … Read More »

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