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Severance was named best streaming drama series and Ted Lasso was named best streaming comedy series at the Hollywood Critics Association’s Hca TV Awards on Sunday. Dopesick was named best streaming limited or anthology series.
Tig Notaro was supposed to host the ceremony, but Cameron Esposito stepped in after Notaro tested positive for Covid-19, Esposito told the audience. Esposito noted that she got the last-minute call over the weekend and flew to Los Angeles earlier Sunday to host the show, where awards were handed out in the streaming categories.
“I can’t believe you were able to squeeze these awards into two days,” Esposito joked, noting that the streaming shows are the only TV programs she actually watches, before noting she had written her monologue in one hour. (Esposito goes by both she/her and they/them pronouns.)
Overall, Severance was the...
Severance was named best streaming drama series and Ted Lasso was named best streaming comedy series at the Hollywood Critics Association’s Hca TV Awards on Sunday. Dopesick was named best streaming limited or anthology series.
Tig Notaro was supposed to host the ceremony, but Cameron Esposito stepped in after Notaro tested positive for Covid-19, Esposito told the audience. Esposito noted that she got the last-minute call over the weekend and flew to Los Angeles earlier Sunday to host the show, where awards were handed out in the streaming categories.
“I can’t believe you were able to squeeze these awards into two days,” Esposito joked, noting that the streaming shows are the only TV programs she actually watches, before noting she had written her monologue in one hour. (Esposito goes by both she/her and they/them pronouns.)
Overall, Severance was the...
- 8/15/2022
- by Kimberly Nordyke
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Apple TV+ led both the comedy and drama fields when it comes to nominations for the Hollywood Critics Association’s 2nd annual Hca TV Awards in streaming. The outlet’s “Severance” 12 nominations; “Ted Lasso” was next with 11. “Severance” was recognized for streaming drama series, actor, actress, supporting actor, supporting actress, directing and writing. “Ted Lasso” was nominated for streaming comedy series, actor, supporting actor, supporting actress, directing and writing; “Ted Lasso Presents: The Missing Christmas Mustache” was nommed for short form animated series.
The Hca TV Awards are unique in featuring several drama and comedy categories for both broadcast and cable. And it’s also unique for splitting broadcast/cable and streaming into separate nominations and ceremonies. The streaming nominees will be announced later this afternoon.
Netflix’s “Stranger Things,” Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building” and Hulu’s “Dopesick” each landed nine nominations. Other major nominees included Netflix’s “Squid Game” with seven,...
The Hca TV Awards are unique in featuring several drama and comedy categories for both broadcast and cable. And it’s also unique for splitting broadcast/cable and streaming into separate nominations and ceremonies. The streaming nominees will be announced later this afternoon.
Netflix’s “Stranger Things,” Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building” and Hulu’s “Dopesick” each landed nine nominations. Other major nominees included Netflix’s “Squid Game” with seven,...
- 7/7/2022
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
The downfall of celebrity restaurateur Sarma Melngailis is the subject of Netflix's latest documentary, "Bad Vegan: Fame. Fraud. Fugitives." The four-part series explores how Melngailis went from owning popular restaurant Pure Food and Wine to becoming a runaway fugitive.
Frequented by celebrities like Alec Baldwin and Owen Wilson, Pure Food and Wine opened in 2004 and was one of New York's first raw-food restaurants. However, after Melngailis stole millions of dollars from the restaurant and failed to pay her employees on multiple occasions, the staff walked out, and the restaurant eventually closed in 2015.
After a year on the run, Melngailis was arrested in 2016 along with her husband, Anthony Strangis, for unpaid-wage lawsuits and stealing from restaurant investors. Melngailis pleaded guilty for stealing $1 million from the eatery but claimed she only did so because Strangis convinced her that he could expand her food empire and make her beloved dog immortal. So,...
Frequented by celebrities like Alec Baldwin and Owen Wilson, Pure Food and Wine opened in 2004 and was one of New York's first raw-food restaurants. However, after Melngailis stole millions of dollars from the restaurant and failed to pay her employees on multiple occasions, the staff walked out, and the restaurant eventually closed in 2015.
After a year on the run, Melngailis was arrested in 2016 along with her husband, Anthony Strangis, for unpaid-wage lawsuits and stealing from restaurant investors. Melngailis pleaded guilty for stealing $1 million from the eatery but claimed she only did so because Strangis convinced her that he could expand her food empire and make her beloved dog immortal. So,...
- 3/23/2022
- by Monica Sisavat
- Popsugar.com
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