Shogun
THR’s Guide to the 2024 Emmy Nominations: Everything You Need to Know
And we’re back. Just six months after Fox aired the strike-delayed, wildly anticlimactic, 75th Emmy awards, ABC is prepping for the 76th. Earlier today, the TV Academy revealed the 2024 Emmy nominees, who will convene on Sept. 15 at the Peacock Theater in Downtown Los Angeles. The telecast, which will air live on both coasts, […]
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Critic’s Notebook: Emmy Vacuum Enables Voters to Right Some Wrongs — but Perpetuate Others
'Reservation Dogs,' 'Shōgun,' 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' and 'Palm Royale' led big nomination mornings for FX, Amazon and Apple TV+, as category confusion continued to reign.
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‘Shogun’ Makes History With 25 Emmy Nominations
As we enter the new post-Succession era, a fearsome potential ruler has emerged to seize power at the 2024 Emmys. FX Productions’ lavish Japanese period series Shogun — a show, incidentally, all about the complicated succession process after the death of an esteemed leader — dominated the drama category announcements Wednesday morning with 25 nominations. […]
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Emmys: Best Drama Series Field Almost Entirely Different From 2023
The 2024 Emmy Awards will feature a best drama series field that’s almost entirely different than the nominees for the last awards. But rather than a wholesale changing of the guard, the nearly unprecedented turnover is more a function of the way TV works now. Of last year’s eight drama series contenders, two — HBO’s Succession […]
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‘Shogun’ Dominates 2024 TV Critics Association Awards
FX’s Shōgun was the big winner at the 40th Television Critics Association Awards on Friday. The drama series set in feudal Japan won four honors, including the TCA’s program of the year award. It also won awards for best drama and best new program, while Anna Sawai won for individual achievement in drama for her […]
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Hollywood Reporter Critics Pick the 10 Best TV Shows of 2024 So Far
Faves from the first half of the year include a pair of addictively dark Netflix dramas, a heart-tugging sports doc/celebrity bromance and a stronger-than-ever season of 'Hacks.'
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Hollywood Flashback: How the 1980 ‘Shogun’ Was Pretty True to Japan
Paramount Television’s Shogun was arguably the original international event series. The five-part TV adaptation of James Clavell’s sprawling 1975 novel of the same name became a pop culture sensation when it aired on NBC in 1980, winning an Emmy for outstanding limited series and the Golden Globe for best television series in the drama category. […]
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‘Shogun’ Leads Gold List for Asian Pacific Television Honorees
After four years of highlighting Asian Pacific films for awards consideration, the Gold List is expanding to television projects for the first time. Shōgun leads the list, voted upon by members of the Gold House community. The feudal Japan-set show, whose breakout success prompted FX to order more seasons, propelling it from limited to drama […]
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‘Shogun’ Creators Tease Going Beyond James Clavell’s Book and “Darker Chapter” for Season 2
[This story contains spoilers for season one of Shōgun season one.] While celebrating season one of Shōgun at an Emmys For Your Consideration event on Tuesday, the team behind the hit FX series gave a few hints at what the future of the show may look like. Last month, it was announced that second and […]
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‘Shogun’ Creators Justin Marks, Rachel Kondo Set for Austin Film Festival Awards (Exclusive)
Shōgun co-creators Justin Marks and Rachel Kondo are set to be honored at the upcoming Austin Film Festival. Showrunner Marks will pick up the 2024 Writer’s Writer Award and Kondo will receive the 2024 New Voice Award as part of the Festival & Writers Conference in October. Shōgun, billed as a limited series, is among the […]
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‘Shogun’ Cinematographer on the Special Effects That Brought Its Season Opening Sea Disaster to Life
At the beginning of Hulu’s Shogun, set in 1600s Japan, English sailor John Blackthorne (Cosmo Jarvis) is taken prisoner by local samurai. While being shipped to Osaka, a storm sends Spanish sailor Vasco Rodrigues overboard, and Blackthorne rescues him. The sequence was filmed to look almost entirely as if it were captured in a single […]
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Critics’ Conversation: From ‘Baby Reindeer’ to ‘Fallout’ — Spring TV’s Left-Field Standouts and Shiny Letdowns
THR’s television critics dissect a busy small-screen season that included some unexpected blowout hits and a string of prestige projects with lots of stars but little spark.
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