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Jennifer Coolidge and Matthew Macfadyen were repeat winners at the Emmy Awards on Monday night, January 15. 

Coolidge took home her second Emmy for playing Tanya McQuoid on HBO’s The White Lotus. At the 74th Emmy Awards, she won for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series; this year, she took home Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.

After thanking the show’s creator, Mike White, Coolidge thanked “all the evil gays” — a reference to her character’s fate on the show.  However, she was interrupted by host Anthony Anderson’s mother, who tried to cut her off for going over her allotted time.  Coolidge persisted, though, and ended her speech with an empowering message.

“I had a little dream in my little town and everyone said it was impractical and it was far-fetched,” she said, “But it did happen after all, so don’t give up on your dream.”

With four actors from Succession nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, the only real question was which one would win. In the end, Macfadyen took home his second win in the category for playing Tom Wambsgans, triumphing over co-stars Nicholas Braun, Alan Ruck and Alexander Skarsgård.

In thanking the cast, he noted, “I must make special mention to my onscreen wife, Sarah Snook, and my other onscreen wife, Nicholas Braun.”  He added, “Acting with you has been one of the most wonderful things in my career.”

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Ayo Edebiri and Quinta Brunson won the Emmys for Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series and Leading Actress in a Comedy Series, respectively, during Monday night’s 75th annual Emmy Awards ceremony.

Edebiri won the first award of the night for her work on The Bear, which was presented by Christina Applegate. Applegate received a standing ovation as she walked on stage. “You’re totally shaming my disability,” the actress, who has MS, joked, before telling the crowd they could sit down.

Edebiri was nominated alongside Alex Borstein, Janelle James, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Juno Temple, Hannah Waddingham and Jessica Williams.

TV icon Carol Burnett presented Brunson with her award for her role on Abbott Elementary, which she accepted with tears in her eyes. Brunson was nominated alongside Christina Applegate, Rachel Brosnahan, Natasha Lyonne and Jenna Ortega.

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After an almost four-month wait due to the writers and actors strikes, the 75th Emmy Awards finally took place January 15 in Los Angeles, with former Blackish star Anthony Anderson tackling the hosting duties.

The show opened with a play on Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood, called, naturally, Mr. Anderson’s Neighborhood. Anderson entered wearing in a big fur coat, but instead of Mr. Rogers’ iconic cardigan, Anderson changed into a tuxedo jacket.

Anderson then paid tribute to the memorable themes of the TV shows he watched growing up, with the help of a “small, local, diverse and inclusive choir from Compton” singing along. Anderson and the choir broke into the Good Times theme song, with the actor joking that thanks to that classic 1970s sitcom, he learned about the importance of “family, a dynamite catchphrase and spinoff money.” He noted that without Good Times, there would be no Blackish, nor its subsequent spinoffs. 

The opening also featured Anderson and the choir performing the theme from The Facts of Life  He joked that Kim Fields‘ character, Tootie, was his first crush, until he decided he needed an older, more experienced woman: Charlotte Rae‘s middle-aged Mrs. Garrett, who could “teach me the facts of life.”

The segment ended with Anderson reminiscing about Miami Vice, with Blink-182‘s Travis Barker playing drums on one of the songs heavily identified with the slick cop show: Phil Collins‘ “In The Air Tonight.”

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Lindsay Lohan has been feeling the Mean Girls revival, from appearing in Walmart Black Friday ads to recently appearing at the New York City premiere of the new musical version of the film.

However, People reports she was peeved at a joke made at her expense in the film in which she cameos.

According to the magazine, Megan Thee Stallion appears in the film as well and makes a crack about the Christmas talent show outfit worn by Angourie Rice‘s character, saying, “Y2K fire crotch is back.”

Rice plays Lohan’s Cady in the new film, but that particular sizzling sobriquet was famously used to label flame-haired LiLo by Brandon Davis back in 2006.

“Lindsay was very hurt and disappointed by the reference in the film,” her rep told People.

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On January 15, 1974, Happy Days debuted on ABC, meaning Garry Marshall‘s beloved sitcom is celebrating its 50th birthday on Monday.

Set in 1950s Milwaukee, the show centered on Ron Howard‘s Richie Cunningham, his family and his friends, including Anson Williams‘ Warren “Potsie” Weber, Donny Most‘s Ralph Malph and, of course, Henry Winkler‘s Arthur “The Fonz” Fonzarelli.

Erin Moran played Richie’s younger sister, Joanie; Marion Ross played his mom, Marion — or Mrs. C, as Ritchie’s friends called her; and Tom Bosley played the family patriarch, Howard.

At one point before the show really took off with viewers, Richie and Joanie had an older brother, Chuck, who was written out of the show.

The show ran for 11 seasons and spun off a pair of classic sitcoms, Laverne & Shirley and Mork and Mindy. It also spawned three failed spinoffs, Joanie Loves Chachi, starring Moran and the Happy Days cast addition Scott Baio as Fonz’s cousin Chachi Arcola, as well as the lesser known Blansky’s Beauties and Out of the Blue.

During its run, Happy Days earned 20 Emmy nominations and won 18.

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As his Emmy-winning series passes its 25th birthday, David Chase, the guy who created The Sopranos, says the golden age of TV that his show started is over.

Speaking to the U.K.’s The Times, Chase called that golden age, which also saw shows like The Wire, Mad Men and Breaking Bad flourish, a mere “blip.”

He adds, “[A] 25-year blip. And to be clear, I’m not talking only about The Sopranos, but a lot of other hugely talented people out there who I feel increasingly bad for.”

“We’re going back to where we were [before Sopranos],” he lamented, saying he was recently told by a TV executive to “dumb … down” a project he was pitching.

And while executives haven’t changed their ways, viewers have, Chase argues, saying “audiences can’t keep their minds on things, so we can’t make anything that makes too much sense, takes our attention and requires an audience to focus.”

And as for streaming executives? “It is getting worse.”

When he was asked about the success of HBO’s trophy magnet drama Succession, Chase argues that show had been given the green light many years ago, and its success “is a funeral. Something is dying.”

Before Sopranos, Chase recalled, “the networks were in an artistic pit. A s******. The process was repulsive. In meetings, these people would always ask to take out the one thing that made an episode worth doing. I should have quit.”

Instead, The Sopranos‘ success “made them regret all their decades of stupidity and greed.”

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The first extended look at Kelvin Harrison Jr.’s take on Martin Luther King Jr. is here.

Entertainment Tonight shared an exclusive first-look clip at the upcoming National Geographic series, Genius: MLK/X, on Monday, in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

In the clip, Harrison’s MLK addresses his church congregation and delivers a sermon about equality.

“When I look at you, I see we are mothers and fathers. We are sisters and brothers. Men and women. But if we let others tell it, we are slaves. We are second class. We are agitators banging at the door of segregation asking to be let into the house of equality,” he says. “Equality is not a dirty word whispered in the valley of despair but screamed from the peaks of prosperity.”

Two new images from the series have also been revealed. The first photo shows Weruche Opia as Coretta Scott King standing alongside her husband, while the second is of Harrison as MLK as he delivers his historic “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., during the August 1963 March on Washington.

Genius: MLK/X premieres February 1 on National Geographic. Episodes will stream the next day on Disney+ and Hulu.

Disney is the parent company of National Geographic and ABC News.

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In March, stuntman-turned director David Leitch‘s The Fall Guy hits theaters, about a stuntman, played by Ryan Gosling, whose skills are put to the test in a real-life action adventure.

If the circumstances behind the adaptation of the 1980s hit TV show aren’t meta enough, Gosling, who also played a stuntman in Drive, says he’s now “buddies” with Lee Majors, who played the title role in the original show.

Before he received the Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Film from the Santa Barbara International Film Festival on Saturday night, Gosling told People of Majors, “He came out to Australia and I had an opportunity to talk to him and spend the day with him. It was pretty great.”

Ryan said “it’s pretty cool” that he and the 84-year-old former Fall Guy star have become “text buddies,” adding, “He’s so funny and he’s very lovely and gracious.”

The Fall Guy also stars Oppenheimer‘s Emily Blunt, Bullet Train‘s Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Black Panther scene-stealer Winston Duke and Academy Award nominee Stephanie Hsu from Everything Everywhere All at Once.

The action comedy opens March 1.

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“I love critics,” Robert Downey Jr. said when accepting his Best Supporting Actor Critics Choice Award for Oppenheimer Sunday night.

Tongue firmly in cheek, the actor continued, “You know, they’ve given me such beautiful feedback, really just so many great moments, and some of it is so poetic.” As he drew laughs from the crowd, he pulled an index card from his jacket and said, “I just want to share some of their thoughts with you over the years.”

Downey turned the tables on the critics — some of them who may have been in the room at the time — by proceeding to read from a random sampling, including, “The first one is kind of like Haiku: ‘Sloppy, messy and lazy.'”

He continued, “The next one is more metaphoric: ‘Like Pee-Wee Herman emerging from a coma,” before affecting an English accent to read a review from a Brit that said he was “a puzzling waste of talent.”

The last one “lingered,” Downey noted: “Amusing as a bed-locked fart.”

The former Marvel movie star then thanked his “Oppenhomies” for his experience on the movie, praising director Christopher Nolan, co-star Cillian Murphy and Nolan’s wife and producing partner, Emma Thomas, as the “Holy Trinity.”

Downey added, “Every day of filming was like having my ego’s a** handed to me at the door, and I think it couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.”

Oppenheimer was the big winner of the evening in the film category, earning eight trophies, including Best Acting Ensemble, Best Director for Nolan, Best Cinematography for Hoyte van Hoytema, Best Editing for Jennifer Lame, Best Visual Effects and Best Score for Ludwig Göransson.

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Harry Styles‘ last two movies had him front and center, but he could have had a tiny part in the new musical version of Mean Girls.

Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, director Samatha Jayne talked about keeping certain beloved elements of the original 2004 film. “There are certain iconic lines where we would joke that there would be riots in the streets if it wasn’t in there. Like ‘You go, Glen Coco!'” she explained. “Give the people what they want … But when we were like, ‘Who’s Glen Coco?…’”

Her co-director Arturo Perez Jr. chimed in, “Who can it be? I remember us going, could we ask, like Harry Styles?”

“We were like, ‘Harry Styles could be Glen Coco!'” Jayne added. “Then we were like, hold on, we love to break the fourth wall: What if we are all Glen Coco? So, after 20 years, we can all feel like Glen Coco.”

So ultimately, in the movie, the line is delivered directly to the camera, robbing fans of a Harry Styles cameo that probably would’ve been better than the one in — spoiler alert — Eternals.

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