The nominees for the 22nd Annual Critics’ Choice Awards were announced today, and with no surprise, HBO took the top spot raking in 22 nominations while ABC and Netflix tied for second with 14 nods. With critically acclaimed shows like The Americans, the new Donald Glover comedy Atlanta, and the uber-successful The People Vs. OJ Simpson FX ranked fourth.
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You may have been distracted by the news coming out of Cannes, or all the fun concert feeds and late night comedy stars who’ve been making headlines all day, but some great TV trailers dropped today. Here are the ones from NBCUniversal!
Follows a young computer programmer who suffers from social anxiety disorder and forms connections through hacking. He’s recruited by a mysterious anarchist, who calls himself Mr. Robot. Season 2 premieres Wednesday, July 13th on USA.
James Franco continues his endlessly busy slate, as he just wrapped on the indie drama King Cobra, which centers on a murder that shocked the adult entertainment industry in the early 2000s.
Frances McDormand, Logan Lerman, Brit Marling, Christian Slater and Jonathan Pryce sign on to new drama THE WIFE.
Slater is set to topline the upcoming hacker drama series.
Story follows a woman recounting her sexual exploits over the past fifty years of her life to a sexually addicted man who took her in.
Logline: A forty-year marriage unravels as a preeminent American novelist and his wife travel to the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm
Four astronauts isolated in a bio-dome like spacecraft begin to have ghastly revelations after a meteor storm, leading to intense paranoia.
Logline: Follows the relationship a teenager develops with a college professor after she defers her college enrollment for a year in hopes of connecting with herself.
After watching their respective partners die, a cop and a hitman form an alliance in order to bring down their common enemy, who has kidnapped the hitman’s daughter.
After watching their respective partners die, a cop and a hitman form an alliance in order to bring down their common enemy.
Actor on board for Von Trier’s latest.
After watching their respective partners die, a cop and a hitman form an alliance in order to bring down their common enemy.
Wealthy thrill-seekers pay huge premiums to have themselves inserted into military adventures, only this time things don’t go exactly to plan.
A detective on the trail of a murderer is led to believe that a local teen with supernatural powers may be involved.
Logline: Four astronauts isolated in a bio-dome like spacecraft begin to have ghastly revelations after a meteor storm, leading to intense paranoia.
Yvette Yates has also joined the cast.
Nasser Entertainment is producing the film.
Logline: Story follows a man who seeks revenge for his father’s murder after he returns home to Wyoming in an effort to mend family troubles.
Brendan Fraser, Matt Dillion and Katie Cassidy officially exit the Elmore Leonard adaptation.
Logline: With a bag full of stolen money, and Mexican gangsters after him, a man must stay alive while finding his way back onto American soil.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Christian Slater and Holt McCallany join graphic novel adaption.
Logline: After watching their respective partners die, a cop and a hitman form an alliance in order to bring down their common enemy, who has kidnapped the hitman’s daughter.
Logline: Story follows a woman recounting her sexual exploits over the past fifty years of her life to a sexually addicted man who took her in.
Logline: A police officer and a notorious hitman, both looking for vengeance after their respective partners are killed, discover that they have a common enemy.
Fox adds another to series regular status, as it resuscitates a dormant pilot with two leads still under contract, and Lifetime finalizes two for a new pilot.
Logline: A group of bounty hunters track down and grab a mysterious Chinese woman, only to discover that she may be more then she lets on, when they find themselves surrounded in a deadly standoff in a deserted motel.
Logline: After agreeing to transport a special package, a young woman becomes involved in a global plot that threatens the entire world.
Logline: Story centers on an anthropology bookworm who laments his place in a society that lacks a ceremony to mark his transition into manhood and leads his hard-partying, stressed-out classmates to his family’s abandoned ranch — where his brother lives in a psychotic world of drugs, guilt and Chumash Indian rituals.
