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| 'Adventure Time' and others win first 2013 Emmys Posted: Awards in juried categories include another one for HBO Documentary Films' Sheila Nevins, the biggest winner in Emmy history. Disney animation, The Simpsons, the Grammy Awards, Portlandia and the documentary Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence In The House Of God have won the first Emmy Awards of 2013, the Television Academy announced recently. Those programmes, and several others, were given Emmys in three juried categories. The Emmys do not have standard nominations in those categories but instead convene special peer-group screening committees to view eligible achievements and decide if each one is deserving of an Emmy. More than one award in each category is possible, but only programmes or individuals winning unanimous approval are given Emmys. The awards will be given out on Sept 15 during the Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles.Among the winners is HBO Documentary Films chief Sheila Nevins, who won her 24th Emmy for serving as executive producer on Alex Gibney's Mea Maxima Culpa to break her own award as the biggest Emmy winner of all time. — Reuters The awards: Exceptional Merit In Documentary Filmmaking |
| Posted: Actor Noah Wyle reveals a bit of what's in store for the third season of his sci-fi show, Falling Skies. When asked what he loves best about working on the science-fiction television series Falling Skies, Noah Wyle replied that it has everything to do with his son. "I love how much my son loves it. I love that he is very popular in his class because all the other boys love Falling Skies. And that he thinks his father is cool," says the 42-year-old actor, who plays lead character Tom Mason on the show. He adds that his son, 10-year-old Owen, enjoys coming on the set with him, and playing with his prop machine gun and the alien models. "To me, that's what makes it all worthwhile," Wyle says. "I'm very grateful for the chance to work, and I'm very engaged by it, but personally, as it takes me away from my family, it's really nice that I'm doing something that they can enjoy as well." (Falling Skies films on location in Canada; Wyle's home is in Los Angeles, California.) Wyle was speaking to South-East Asian journalists over a conference phone call from his newly-renovated ranch house, where he and his family were in the middle of unpacking after moving in two days prior to the interview. "Everybody's just got a huge grin on their face because we've been waiting to move into this house for a long time. So, the family's great, and I'm having a really nice hiatus. It's going to be hard to pull me back to Canada, but I'm ready," he says. Wyle is currently on a break before the start of filming the fourth season of Falling Skies. He shares that Season Three was really a turning point for the series, which revolves around a band of survivors led by Mason, a former history professor, and retired US Army Captain Dan Weaver (played by Will Patton), who are fighting back against an alien invasion that has wiped out 90% of Earth's population, enslaving children by attaching harnesses to their spinal cord. "I think Season Three was really a watershed year for us. If we had not built on the momentum of Season Two, (or) even if we had built a season equivalent to the second one, I don't think we would have gotten picked up for a fourth," says Wyle. The finale of Season Two left plenty of revelations and developments to be further explored in the following season, chief of which is the discovery that the group's medic and Mason's girlfriend Dr Anne Glass (Moon Bloodgood), is pregnant with his child. Wyle reveals that this news has a big impact on Season Three. Firstly, the baby and Anne play a huge part of the season's story arc. The second reason is that Bloodgood was actually pregnant. "As a result, she had to finish all of her filming by October, (which was) very, very early in the shooting schedule, so that she could fly home and have her actual baby. So, it was something we had to work around both logistically and creatively. "But the baby storyline is one of the major driving forces of Season Three's narrative," he says. In addition, Mason's eldest son, 16-year-old Hal (Drew Roy), was infected with an alien parasite by his ex-girlfriend Karen (Jessy Schram), who is now working for the aliens after being harnessed. Wyle, who is also a producer on the show, shares that Hal has a bigger role in Season Three, compared to previously when younger brother Ben (Connor Jessup) had a larger share of the story. "(Being infected) does change him quite a bit. It's a major plot point for the first half of the season because there's a security breach, somebody's leaking information to the enemy, and he is the most obvious choice because he has been implanted," Wyle says, adding that Roy really stepped up to the challenge and made it work. Meanwhile, Mason also undergoes some important changes. In the first episode, we discover that he has been given a role of greater responsibility among the survivors. Wyle says that at first, Mason feels more like an actor playing the role he is given, rather than actually believing in his ability to truly carry out his responsibilities. "That is the arc that goes on throughout the season, but by the end of Season Three, he really can take on the role. Whatever he is lacking in the beginning, he gets in the end through experience." Falling Skies Season Three premieres tonight at 10pm, on AXN (Astro Ch 701 / HD Ch 721). |
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