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Apple TV Earns Record 87 Emmy Nominations for 2026, Led by ‘Pluribus’ and ‘Widow’s Bay’

Apple TV Earns Record 87 Emmy Nominations for 2026, Led by ‘Pluribus’ and ‘Widow’s Bay’

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Apple earned its highest number of Emmy nominations to date in 2026, with popular shows like Pluribus, Margo’s Got Money Troubles, Widow’s Bay, Shrinking, and Slow Horses earning the most nominations. New series Widow’s Bay received 19 nominations, while Pluribus was second with 18 nominations. The five most highly nominated shows are up for best series in their respective categories, and have also earned several lead actress and actor nominations. Pluribus Outstanding Drama Series Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series – Rhea Seehorn, Carol Sturka Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series – Carlos-Manuel Vesga, Manousos Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series – Karolina Wydra, Zosia Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series – Miriam Shor, Helen Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series – Jeff Hiller, Larry Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series Margo’s Got Money Troubles Outstanding Comedy Series Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series – Elle Fanning Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series – Nick Offerman, Jinx Millet Outstanding Supporting Actress in …

Karolina Wydra Talks Zosia, Vince Gilligan and Pluribus Future

Karolina Wydra Talks Zosia, Vince Gilligan and Pluribus Future

Published by Daniella Wilson

With Pluribus, Karolina Wydra gets to live out many actors’ greatest dream — and their worst nightmare. Sure, she clocks in and works with creator Vince Gilligan and plays all of her scenes opposite Rhea Seehorn. But the bizarre specificity of her role on the Apple TV drama — she’s essentially the ambassador for a pacified human race with a shared consciousness, thanks to an alien virus — means that she can’t really react. “I’m Eastern European, and I have a big personality, a lot of feelings,” the Polish-born actress says during a May conversation. “I cry so much that my friends are like, ‘Jesus Christ, just stop!’ So it’s really challenging because there were moments where I’d watch Rhea, whose performance is so beautiful and rich, and I just have to turn mine off? If I watch you do something, I’m going to react to it.” Naturally, Wydra’s actor friends were surprised when she landed the part of an all-knowing, Zenned-out antagonist on one of the most anticipated series in recent memory. (Gilligan’s Better …

Pluribus season 2 gets disappointing update from Vince Gilligan

Pluribus season 2 gets disappointing update from Vince Gilligan

Published by Daniella Wilson

Pluribus creator Vince Gilligan has shared an update on the eagerly anticipated second season of his acclaimed Apple TV sci-fi drama – and it sounds as though fans shouldn’t expect new episodes imminently. The series, which stars Better Call Saul’s Rhea Seehorn as author Carol Sturka, became one of the most talked-about sci-fi shows of 2025. Pluribus follows Carol after a mysterious event links most of humanity into a blissful hive mind, leaving her as one of the few people still seemingly immune – and, by extension, one of the only people capable of resisting. While season 2 was already confirmed before the first run had even aired, Gilligan has now indicated that the writing process is still ongoing. Speaking to Deadline, the Breaking Bad creator said: “We’re about a little past the halfway point. My writers and I have figured out the episodes, and it always – every season on every show – starts out hard. “And then you just stay with it long enough. I’m starting to get to the point where I’m …

From ‘The Testaments’ to ‘Fallout’: TV’s Most Stylish Dystopias

From ‘The Testaments’ to ‘Fallout’: TV’s Most Stylish Dystopias

Published by Daniella Wilson

In Pluribus, an alien virus has tethered the world’s population into a peaceful, polite and compliant hivemind — all except 13 people, including the impeccably dressed Mauritanian playboy, Mr. Diabaté (Samba Schutte). He’s reveling in his best life, free of the financial worries, societal boundaries and prejudices he would have faced prior to The Joining. “He is very hedonistic and pleasure-driven, so when he realizes that he can have anything he wants, he’s not thinking about world peace,” says Pluribus costume designer Jennifer L. Bryan. “His idea is, ‘Every fantasy and wish is going to be granted unequivocally, so I want to dress the part of a dandy, a pleasure-seeking guy.’ ” For Diabaté’s elaborate bespoke suits, show creator Vince Gilligan’s go-to costume designer looked to the Congolese Sapeurs, whose dandyism — rooted in colonial influence and reframed as postcolonial self-expression — centers on vibrant, designer label-filled sartorial rebellion. In contrast, unless The Joined’s hivemind humans are performing one of Diabaté’s dream scenarios, they rely on shared, reused clothing — regardless of style or culture …

2026 Gotham TV Awards Winners List

2026 Gotham TV Awards Winners List

Published by Daniella Wilson

The 2026 Gotham TV Awards took place in New York on Monday night, with DTF St. Louis winning a leading two awards. The HBO Max show won outstanding limited or anthology series and best supporting performance (David Harbour). The final limited series award, for best lead performance, was won by Death by Lightning‘s Michael Shannon, though he wasn’t present to accept the prize. Death by Lightning went into the night tied with Big Mistakes for a leading four nominations. Accepting his award, Harbour shouted out his fellow nominee in the supporting category, Linda Cardellini, apologizing that there was only one award. “We can share custody of this,” he offered before highlighting the DTF St. Louis cast by name and creator Steven Conrad. With its three nominations, but across two categories, DTF St. Louis won all of the awards it could have unless there had been a tie. Fellow triple nominee I Love LA won breakthrough comedy series, somewhat of an ironic honor at the New York-centric ceremony, which took place at Cipriani Wall Street in …

Pluribus star says writers “sweating it” as she offers season 2 update

Pluribus star says writers “sweating it” as she offers season 2 update

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Pluribus star Rhea Seehorn has revealed that writers on the Apple TV sci-fi drama are currently “working their butts off” on the highly anticipated second season. From Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul creator Vince Gilligan, the series imagines a surreal scenario in which the world’s population (barring a handful of exceptions) becomes the single unitary hive mind of an extraterrestrial entity. Jaded former novelist Carol Sturka (Seehorn) is one such individual who, by mere twist of genetics, finds herself immune to the mass absorption of human consciousness – and is now scheming to restore Earth to its previous state. Taking cues from The X-Files and The Twilight Zone, the mind-blowing sci-fi drama earned critical acclaim upon release for its ambitious sequences, compelling characters and fascinating moral quandaries. The future of Pluribus was assured long ago with an initial two-season order, but we’re still a long way away from seeing new episodes, as Seehorn told Radio Times at an Apple TV event for BAFTA TV Award nominees. Rhea Seehorn attends the 2026 BAFTA Television Awards …

Pluribus gets very promising filming update after fears of lengthy delay

Pluribus gets very promising filming update after fears of lengthy delay

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Vince Gilligan made it clear fans might have to wait years for a new season of Pluribus – but fortunately, new episodes might arrive a bit quicker than that. The Apple TV+ series, created by Breaking Bad’s Gilligan, follows Carol Sturka (Rhea Seehorn), a fantasy romance novelist who must save the world after the rest of humanity becomes a hive mind. After the conclusion of the first season in December, fans naturally wondered when it would return, with Gilligan saying that the writing team was “plugging away” on the next batch of episodes but wasn’t sure “what year” exactly it would make it to screens. We can now assume that the show will return in 2027, thanks to a filming update about season two courtesy of Karolina Wydra, who played Carol’s hive-mind representative Zosia. According to Wydra, filming will commence later …

Vince Gilligan on the 8-Word Note That Inspired ‘Breaking Bad’

Vince Gilligan on the 8-Word Note That Inspired ‘Breaking Bad’

Published by Daniella Wilson

We’ve all heard how Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan first thought that his beloved crime drama would tell the story of how a Mr. Chips-type everyman would turn into Scarface. But during a South by Southwest Film & TV Festival panel on Saturday morning titled “Albuquerque Aftermath: From Breaking Bad to Pluribus,” Gilligan said he found a notebook which had the very first conception for the show — and it was only nine words. “I found this old notepad in my office a few years back, and it was the very first idea for this,” Gilligan said. “And who knows where ideas come from? But it said: ‘Good guy does something bad to save his family.’” Then Gilligan retold the story of how he fleshed out his idea of a high school chemistry teacher with cancer who cooks meth to provide for his family and then pitched it to Sony Pictures Television. Gilligan says a top executive, who is no longer with the company, told him, “‘That’s the single worst idea I’ve ever heard.’” Gilligan …

Vince Gilligan Offers Update on ‘Pluribus’ Season 2

Vince Gilligan Offers Update on ‘Pluribus’ Season 2

Published by Daniella Wilson

Attention Pluribus fans: Season two is in the works but don’t expect The Pitt-level of swiftness in between seasons. Vince Gilligan joined his star Rhea Seehorn and members of the ensemble Karolina Wydra, Carlos Manuel Vesga and Samba Schutte for a panel conversation during Apple TV’s inaugural press day at Santa Monica’s Barker Hangar on Tuesday. Naturally, the Emmy Award-winning creator was asked the question “everyone’s dying to know” by a member of the press and fielded by Schutte, who moderated the lively discussion: “Where are you currently in the process of writing Pluribus season two?” “We’re plugging away,” answered Gilligan. “My writers are plugging away. All the folks, if you like the show, thank you for getting us here on this stage. It takes a long time to come up with these episodes. We are deeper into the process at this moment than I would like, considering how few episodes we have figured out. But it takes some time, just as it did the first season.” Pluribus represents an idea that Gilligan had been …

What Pluribus Reveals About AI And Our Future

What Pluribus Reveals About AI And Our Future

Published by Sam Flores

Rhea Seehorn is already dominating awards season for her spectacular performance as Carol Sturka in Pluribus, the wildly unsettling sci-fi series on Apple TV+ from Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan. Earlier this month, she won the Golden Globe for her work in the series, having already picked up a Critics’ Choice Award for the same role the previous week. In Pluribus, both identity and individualism are under direct threat. An alien virus spreads across the globe, absorbing nearly everyone into a collective consciousness — the hivemind — leaving behind just 13 “lucky” people who are immune. Lucky might be the wrong word; unlucky might be worse. These survivors become keepsakes of an old world almost overnight. Carol loses her wife, Helen (played by Miriam Shor), during the “turning event”. While other immune survivors savour their new reality, Carol rejects it. The hivemind does not retaliate against her. Instead, it accommodates her. It assigns her a constant companion, Karolina Wydra’s Zosia, whose role is to manage Carol’s day-to-day life and anticipate her needs. Zosia is attractive, …