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These are good times for Eric Appel, who not only had a DGA Award nomination for his work as a director this season, he is also a double nominee as co-writer and producer of Roku’s Weird: The Al Yankovic Story. That film, which had its world premiere a year…

From giving tours as a page at NBC’s 30 Rock to becoming one of the darlings of this Emmy season, Beef’s multiple nominee Lee Sung Jin is riding high. His Netflix Limited Series, Beef scored an impressive 13 nominations overall including three for Lee Sung…

Davis Guggenheim comes from a prestigious family in terms of legendary documentary filmmakers. His father was the late great Charles Guggenheim, winner of several Oscars as well as numerous other nominations in the field. Perhaps that is why initially his…

If there was one big jaw-dropping surprise for pundits on Emmy nomination morning it had to be the four nominations — including one in the highly competitive Outstanding Comedy Series race — for Amazon Freevee’s Jury Duty. With the help of becoming a…

Paris Barclay has directed more than 170 episodes of television, been nominated for nine Emmys and won two in addition to numerous other industry accolades: 10 DGA nominations and a win, two Humanitas Prizes, and four Peabodys. And this year he made Emmy…

Editor’s note: This episode of Behind the Lens was taped before the start of the writers strike May 2. Versatile is certainly the word to describe Brett Goldstein. He is not only a two-time Emmy winner as Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for…

Brooke Shields has been approached many times from documentary filmmakers about putting her story on film, but the pitches never intrigued her enough to give a green light or even more importantly agree to participate. That is until ABC News and…

Editor’s note: This episode of Behind The Lens with Scott Neustadter was taped before the beginning of the WGA strike on May 2. Apart from a single season 2011 TV series he and partner Michael H. Weber created and produced called Friends With Benefits…

Karyn Kusama scored an Emmy nomination in 2022 for directing the pilot of Showtime’s Yellowjackets. Now there is talk she could repeat that feat this season for her return to the directing chair for the drama’s shocking Season 2. As an executive producer of Y…

It has been quite a time for Jessica Chastain. In 2022 she won an Oscar and SAG award for Best Actress in The Eyes of Tammy Faye. Earlier this year she won a second consecutive SAG Award for her role as a different Tammy, that being country superstar Tammy…

For Mary McCartney, directing the enthralling documentary If These Walls Could Sing on the history of London’s Abbey Road studio wasn’t just as a tip of the hat to her father Paul McCartney’s celebrated career, but also to her own life virturally growing up…

Nick Antosca is the creator, executive producer, and writer/showrunner for Peacock’s twisty limited series, A Friend of the Family, a true-crime story that seems stranger than fiction. It focuses on Robert Berchtold (played chillingly by Jake Lacy), a…