#FIRSTLOOK: “THE STUDIO” LEADS APPLE TV+’S RECORD-BREAKING 22 WINS AT EMMYS

Today, Apple TV+ scores a record-breaking 22 wins at the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Comedy Series for “The Studio,” which dominates as the most-winning series overall this year and the most-winning freshman comedy in history, setting a new record with 13 wins overall. Global phenomenon “Severance” leads as this year’s most-winning drama with eight wins including Outstanding Lead Actress Britt Lower and Outstanding Supporting Actor Tramell Tillman, while hit spy drama “Slow Horses” earns a win for Outstanding Directing for a Drama. 

“What an unforgettable, record-setting night for Seth, Evan, and ‘The Studio’ creative team,” said Zack Van Amburg, Apple’s head of Worldwide Video. “It has meant the world to all of us at Apple to watch fans embrace this series, alongside the year’s most-celebrated drama, ’Severance,’ and the acclaimed ‘Slow Horses.’ We are so appreciative of the Television Academy and applaud all of these artists who have shown the power of storytelling to bring people together.”

“It’s an incredible honour to see this milestone for ‘The Studio,’” said Jamie Erlicht, Apple’s head of Worldwide Video. “Tonight’s wins — from Seth and Evan’s sharp comedy to Britt and Tramell’s powerful work on ‘Severance’ — show how great stories connect with audiences everywhere. Huge congratulations to all of tonight’s nominees and winners. Your creativity keeps us inspired.”

In addition to Outstanding Comedy Series, freshman comedy “The Studio” scores Outstanding Lead Actor Seth Rogen; Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series; and, Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series. This is in addition to the previously announced wins for Outstanding Guest Actor Bryan Cranston; Outstanding Production Design; Outstanding Casting for a Comedy Series; Outstanding Cinematography for a Series (Half-Hour); Outstanding Contemporary Costumes; Outstanding Picture Editing for a Single Camera Comedy Series; Outstanding Music Supervision; Outstanding Sound Editing for a Comedy or Drama (Half-Hour); and, Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama (Half-Hour). 

In its celebrated sophomore season, “Severance” scores eight Emmy Awards, with star Tramell Tillman nabbing his first Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor, and star Britt Lower earns her first Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama. The honours are in addition to previously announced wins at the Creative Arts Emmys for Outstanding Guest Actress Merritt Wever, Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Contemporary Program (One Hour), Outstanding Cinematography for a Series (One Hour), Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score), Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series (One Hour) and Outstanding Main Title Design.

Following last year’s win for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series, Apple’s acclaimed “Slow Horses” lands Outstanding Directing for a Drama for its fourth season.

To date, Apple Original films, documentaries and series have earned 620 wins and 2,816 award nominations and counting, including multi-Emmy Award-winning comedy “Ted Lasso” and historic Oscar Best Picture winner “CODA.”

In total, Apple earned 22 wins total for the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards, including:

“The Studio” (13)

• Outstanding Comedy Series 
• Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series: Seth Rogen 
• Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series: Bryan Cranston
• Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series: Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Peter Huyck, Alex Gregory, Frida Perez
• Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series
• Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Program (Half-Hour)
• Outstanding Casting for a Comedy Series
• Outstanding Cinematography for a Series (Half-Hour)
• Outstanding Contemporary Costumes for a Series
• Outstanding Picture Editing for a Single Camera Comedy Series
• Outstanding Music Supervision
• Outstanding Sound Editing for a Comedy or Drama Series (Half-Hour) 
• Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series (Half-Hour) and Animation

“Severance” (8)

• Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series: Britt Lower
• Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series: Tramell Tillman
• Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series: Merritt Wever
• Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Contemporary Program (One Hour or More)
• Outstanding Cinematography for a Series (One Hour)
• Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score)
• Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series (One Hour)
• Outstanding Main Title Design

“Slow Horses” (1)

• Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series: Adam Randall 

“The Studio”

In “The Studio,” Seth Rogen stars as Matt Remick, the newly appointed head of embattled Continental Studios. As movies struggle to stay alive and relevant, Matt and his core team of infighting executives battle their insecurities as they wrangle narcissistic artists and craven corporate overlords in the ever-elusive pursuit of making great films. With their power suits masking their never-ending sense of panic, every party, set visit, casting decision, marketing meeting and award show presents them with an opportunity for glittering success or career-ending catastrophe. As someone who eats, sleeps and breathes movies, it’s the job Matt’s been pursuing his whole life, and it may very well destroy him.

“Severance”

In “Severance,” Mark Scout (Adam Scott) leads a team at Lumon Industries, whose employees have undergone a severance procedure that surgically divides their memories between their work and personal lives. This daring experiment in “work-life balance” is called into question as Mark finds himself at the centre of an unraveling mystery that will force him to confront the true nature of his work … and of himself. In season two, Mark and his friends learn the dire consequences of trifling with the severance barrier, leading them further down a path of woe.

“Slow Horses”

This darkly funny espionage drama follows a team of British intelligence agents who serve in a dumping ground department of MI5 due to their career-ending mistakes. Led by their brilliant but irascible leader, the notorious Jackson Lamb (Academy Award winner Sir Gary Oldman), they navigate the espionage world’s smoke and mirrors to defend England from sinister forces.

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#FIRSTLOOK: BEN STILLER ON “THE ZANE LOWE SHOW”

Actor-director Ben Stiller sits down with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe to discuss Severance Season 3, Meet the Parents 4, and other upcoming projects. In the interview, Stiller also talks about his transition from acting to directing, developing new film projects, and collaborating with co-stars like Robert De Niro, Ariana Grande, and Jim Carrey.

Video, key quotes and photos below. Please credit The Zane Lowe Show on Apple Music 1.

Listen to the full episode anytime on demand with an Apple Music subscription HERE.

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Transcription:

Ben Stiller tells Apple Music about discovering his passion for directing
Ben Stiller: Honestly, it was just out of wanting to work and to do my thing when I was starting out. I think I’m a late bloomer, really, in terms of just getting to the place where I feel like even now in my life, I have a really much more clear sense of creatively what makes me happy. And I think I’ve been trying to figure it out a lot of my life and going down different roads, which have all been really interesting. But when I started out, I knew I wanted to be making movies, and I knew I wanted to be doing funny things, and I also loved drama. I was sort of trying to figure out, what do I do? Am I an actor? Am I a director? Am I a writer?

Zane Lowe: You’re driving all over the road at that point, one may say.

Ben Stiller: Yeah. And also not having a self-awareness when I was younger, I think, of really understanding, having a clear sense. I really admire artists at a young age who have a really clear sense of the choices that they make, understanding how important the choices you make are. I didn’t have that sense when I was younger. I was just sort of trying to figure it out and going off of instinct. I started wanting to act and I wanted to make films, but I didn’t know how to do either, other than I grew up in the business. So I knew that you go on audition. Or if you want to make a movie, you figure out what the movie is and you try to put it together.

But I personally, inside, didn’t know what my real calling or direction was, so I just sort of went in different directions and saw what was sticking. Making my own stuff came out of really as an actor in my late teens or early twenties, trying to get work and not really getting hired, so I started to just create my own stuff with my friends. Now, this was, again, it was before phones and all of that, so it was a different process to make your own stuff. It was a little bit harder. You had to-

Zane Lowe: Quite an investment, yeah. Somebody had to back it.

Ben Stiller: Yeah. So I went down some funny roads of trying to get somebody to pay for a short film I wanted to make, or coming up with an idea and getting friends who I was working with, as an actor, to be in it. It was all sort of just … Then there was Saturday Night Live, and that was something that I’d always dreamed of. But then I was there for a little bit and I didn’t quite feel like that was the right fit for me.

Ben Stiller tells Apple Music about directing and starring in features like ‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’ and ‘The Cable Guy’
Ben Stiller: That movie, I think, was me trying to express my kind of filmmaking aspirations or ambitions, things that I loved, but also it was a studio movie that was also seen as a comedy too. I think that’s what … When I think about it, just in retrospect, for me, it was trying to make something that I felt really connected to that was maybe also in a box that the studio saw as maybe wanting it to be something else. Even with Cable Guy, going back to Cable Guy, it’s the same thing. It’s like Cable Guy. Let’s make a weird dark kind of … We watched Roman Polanski’s The Tenant and thought, “Oh, let’s do that in a comedy.”

Zane Lowe: Which blows my mind, Ben, because you’re dealing with a star at the time, and you’re paying him the most amount of money any male actor has had on screen for a weird dark film you’re trying to make. That in itself is such a paradox.

Ben Stiller: Yeah. Well, it was the fact that he was in that position that we could make that movie, and that Jim Carrey wanted to make that movie. But it’s interesting because I never thought about it in relation to Walter Mitty, but it’s the same thing, trying to fit my desires not to necessarily do what maybe people were expecting in that genre. So the studio would be a little bit like, “Oh, well, wait. What are you making here?”

Zane Lowe: What are we marketing here?

Ben Stiller: What are we marketing? Exactly. And so that is part of, I think for me, the evolution of realizing, “Oh, okay, this is actually what I really want to do,” that led to me directing other stuff.

Ben Stiller tells Apple Music about moving from comedy and acting into drama and directing
Ben Stiller: When you start to make movies and people go to them, and you start to be seen as a comedy person or whatever, it’s amazing to have that connection with an audience, and it’s fun to do. But if you do have other stuff going on, sometimes it’s harder to go in a direction where people don’t necessarily see you.

Zane Lowe: Yeah. Because your identity. You’ve just done a whole lot of identity work that you can’t control, because we like you as that guy.

Ben Stiller: Right. Right. Exactly. Which is great. I appreciate that. But it becomes down to the personal choices that you have to make as you go forward of, like, “Okay, well, but how do I feel about that?” And that can be tough for a relationship with an audience if you want to go in a different direction. But you have to listen to yourself and you have to have the courage to do that. And I think for a long time, I didn’t necessarily, until I got to a place where I was like, “Oh, no, no. I actually just want to do something that … because I really want to see this movie.” Personally, I want to see this thing. And that, for me, helped clarify my choices.

Zane Lowe: Which film was that? What choice was that?

Ben Stiller: I think for me, honestly, it probably came down to Escape at Dannemora, the limited series I did for Showtime that was a prison break. That wasn’t true story, that wasn’t a comedy, and I wasn’t in it. And I was … the first thing I’d directed, except for Cable Guy. I was in Cable Guy a little bit. That, I wasn’t in. And it was so … It was such a personal breakthrough for me because I was so happy. I remember the first day on the set. I mean, honestly, it’s going a little deep here, but, it’s that thing of, as an actor, I was so happy not to be acting and just directing, and not having to direct myself or have to see myself on the screen or any of that stuff. It was like, “Oh, this is what I wanted to do since I was 10 years old, is make movies.” Just make movies. It doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy the other stuff. But same thing with Severance too. I love directing. I’m happy, very happy to just be doing that job, and actually having directed a lot of movies I was in, I found it much more enjoyable and fulfilling to just do one thing, and really concentrate on that and be there fully as the audience, the first audience for the movie that you’re making.

Ben Stiller tells Apple Music about casting Adam Scott in ‘Step Brothers’
Ben Stiller: Well, I was a fan of his from Step Brothers. I saw him in Step Brothers, which is… That’s just a ridiculous character, who’s this really awful guy.

Zane Lowe: He’s so awful.

Ben Stiller: But so funny. And Mitty kind of needed this guy who was sort of the antagonist, and knew he would… It sort of like, it made sense from that movie, that I could see that. But really, I just credit that Dan Erickson, who wrote Severance, the pilot, when he wrote this part, it was so specifically tailored, I thought, to what Adam could do, because it was something that was deeper underneath than what you might think on the surface.

Ben Stiller tells Apple Music about the essence of ‘Severance’ and creating the unique story-world
Ben Stiller: This is what I like about the show, is that it brings up a lot of issues that we have in real life. That the metaphors in the show are kind of very… And that’s because Dan is such a smart, interesting writer, that he came up with this idea that’s like, “Oh yeah, this could be about just life in general. What are we all doing here? What are you and I doing here? We’re here in this room doing this thing and it’s amazing, but what is it really about? And where do we go after in life, once we’re not here anymore?” All those things to me, which are really interesting, are kind of encapsulated in the show. And so, for an actor, it’s a really interesting, I think, exciting, fun challenge, to have to explore that

Zane Lowe: It’s got to be a challenge for all of you. I can imagine that there’s been times, when you’ve all got together and gone, “Okay, where are we right now? How is this making sense? Are we honoring the vision, because…? “As an actor, am I presenting innie versus outie correctly?” And you’re like, “Am I seeing this through the lens, the way that it needs to be seen?” Because it is not your linear viewing experience. It is very multi-dimensional.

Ben Stiller: The first season of the show was fun, because Adam [Scott] really got to play these two different characters, really, even though they’re the same person. One was in such a depressed, grieving state, and just heavy and dark. And then his innie was just not that. Not questioning his world, and kind of a company man, but not really invested the way that Irving, John Turturro’s character, was, in terms of the theology of the place and all that.

So, it was a great sort of fun balance to go back and forth between, and I think that really helped us in the first season sort of establish… Having those two aspects of him, they were so clearly different, really helped us sort of find our way through, because it was very clear. And then, I think as the show has progressed, it’s gotten much more nuanced, and kind of layered, because there are so many different things going on in terms of his innie character and his outie character.

Ben Stiller tells Apple Music about the challenges of editing scenes in ‘Severance’
We’ve been working on the show for a few years now, and we’ve done a bunch of episodes. Not that many episodes, but there’ve been so many different challenging, interesting scenes. I mean, the thing that’s sort of freshest in my mind right now, is the scene that Adam [Scott] does in the end of the second season, where he has this conversation with himself where he videotapes himself.

And that was challenging on the writing, because we kept on rewriting it, and trying to figure out, what would this conversation be? And then, for Adam, just to be able to actually figure out how to play both sides of that, and having to do both sides of it. And then, the technical aspect of just having to, “All right, we’re going to shoot all of your innie side now, and then we’re going to shoot your outie side.” And then, wanting it to build. And on the page it’s sort of feeling like, “Oh, this could just be a kind of a boring 15 minute..” It’s like 17 minutes I think, in the show. And in the back of my head all the time, I was like, “Ah, I hope this is interesting. I hope this is interesting.”

But when we got our first cut of it together with Jeff Richmond, who edits the show, we watched it, and it was long and it wasn’t quite, didn’t get the rhythm of it totally right. But it was just fascinating to watch, for me as an audience, because of where we were in the story. So, I felt like… It’s kind of the same way the end of the first season, I think, paid off a lot of what was set up during the season. This scene was sort of, we were building to this scene. So, really, as long as it was done in the right way, it was going to be interesting-

…because as an audience, he’s talking about these things that you really want to understand.

Ben Stiller tells Apple Music about the future of his acting career
Ben Stiller: I think it goes back to that choice of saying, “I only want to do things that I want to see.” And I think as an actor being in that world over the years and doing those movies and having fun, as I started to get closer to the ideas of what I really makes me happy or what makes me excited when I watch it or what creatively fulfills me, I think I’ve just decided that as an actor, I’m going to wait until that comes along. And sometimes those opportunities are few and far between, especially when you go away from acting for a while. The train moves on, and I personally am not dying to see myself in anything else ever again. I’m not going to go, I can enjoy a movie that I’ve made as a director because of all those elements, but then when I’m looking at myself, it’s much more complicated and harder.

Ben Stiller tells Apple Music about working with Robert De Niro on ‘Meet the Parents’
Ben Stiller: He [Robert De Niro] knows what he’s doing. And at first it was a little bit embarrassing. It’s been a while, but the first scene we did ever together, I cracked up.

Zane Lowe: Which one was that? Do you remember which one it was?

Ben Stiller: Yeah. I was at the front door in Meet the Parents when I meet him for the first time, and it’s literally the first thing I say to him. I look and I think I said, “Hey,” I forget what the line was. And then I looked at the house and I was like, “Oh, this is nice.” I looked up at the house and then he looked at me and went, and it cracked me up. I was like, “Oh my God, Robert De Niro is reacting to something I’m doing.” And it’s funny. It was so funny. It still makes me laugh because he’s, he’s really funny. But man, he’s so good. And he’s any great actor, that’s what they listen and they react and they’re in the moment. Same thing as ‘Spinal Tap.’ It’s all listening. And when you’re in the moment and you’re reacting to the reality of what’s going on, that’s the best.

Ben Stiller tells Apple Music about casting Ariana Grande on ‘Meet the Parents 4’
She’s [Ariana Grande] amazing. Amazing in Wicked. I went to see Wicked with my daughter in the theatre and had the best time. And I can’t really say too much about it, but she’s going to be so great in this movie, and it’s going to be really fun to play with her because it’s a very specific character that she’s playing. And I think these movies are all about the family interactions and the subtlety of the things where we’re trying to, everybody wants to get along with everybody, but we all have our baggage. And that’s what I like about Meet the Parents, it’s really about these dynamics that we all can connect with.

Ben Stiller tells Apple Music about his next film project
Just movies to direct. I think it’s been a long time working on Severance, wanting to go out and make a movie that’s not a 10 hour story, because that is challenging to have a beginning, a middle, an end in two hours. There’s a movie of the Rachel Maddow podcast, Bagman, that I’m trying to get made.

That we’re kind of close on, which was about a political story from 1973 that the Vice President of the United States was a crook, after Richard Nixon, was a crook and was about to be impeached. And these young assistant U.S. attorneys in Baltimore stumbled onto this case where they realized the Vice President was taking kickbacks and was a crook also and was about to become President.

It’s a great podcast and it’s kind of an underdog story about these young guys who were in their 20s, who had to go to the Attorney General of the United States and say, “We got to prosecute the Vice President,” so that’s one.

And gosh, there’s a World War II movie I want to make about a turret gunner in a B-24 that gets shot down over occupied France and a survival story, how he has to get home.

I love movies and I’m really excited about making something for the big screen, because there’s nothing like going to the movies. And I’m really happy that the filmmakers who are Chris Nolan and Chris McQuarrie and people who are making these big movies-

Ben Stiller tells Apple Music about Season 3 of ‘Severance’
It’s also like a gift, too. Because you’re like, “How lucky are we that we have a show that when season three does come out, that there will be people who are waiting to see it?” I mean, honestly, that’s probably the most challenging thing making stuff these days, is there’s so much out there, video games, phones, movies, TV, everything. To have something that there’s going to be an audience waiting for it and they’re going to be critical and they’re going to be really ready for it and asking questions and you need to make sure it’s good, but they’re there.

And for me, that’s the gift. So it’s just, again, going back to that instinct inside, for all of us who are making the show, what do we want to see, what interests us? What do we think will be surprising? What do we think will be true to the show? It is a question on a show like this, what is the heart of the show? Is it the relationships, is it the mystery? Is it what is Lumon up to? All those things, there’s so many different aspects to it.

And ultimately, the show is, look, we’re human beings. So I feel like ultimately, the human connection is what it’s all about, the human experience. And to me, anything that I ever watch, it’s always on an emotional level, when something hits me on an emotional level, moves me, makes me feel connected to the world or to other people in some way, the stuff we were talking about earlier, that’s what it’s all about. And I think that’s always been sort of, for me, what the point of the show is. That’s not giving anything away, is it?

#SPOTTED: BRITT LOWER AND MILO VENTIMIGLIA IN TORONTO FILMING “I WILL FIND YOU”

BRITT LOWER continues to see her career flourish after many years of cutting her craft. She has won several accolades for her work as Helly R. in Apple TV+ series SEVERANCE, and just was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for her performance in DARKEST MIRIAM (filmed in Toronto).

She’s back in the City again working on upcoming Netflix series I WILL FIND YOU, in which she stars alongside Sam Worthington and Milo Ventimiglia. The eight-episode Mini-Series centers on a man (Worthington) wrongly-convicted of killing his son. This is expected to film around town through August. Lower plays a journalist of former glory, looking to reclaim her career, landing upon a groundbreaking lead that could relaunch her career.

While we missed Lower at the Screen Awards this past weekend, she was attending the Gotham Awards in New York, we spotted her filming. She is the kindest soul ever, stopping for a quick hello and a snap between scenes. Adore her!

Was amazing seeing her and the amazing and almost unrecognizable Ventimiglia (This is Us, Gilmore Girls) between scenes!

A quick moment:

@mrwillwong Britt Lower x Milo Ventimiglia in Toronto filming upcoming Netflix series, I WILL FIND YOU. Series stars.Sam Worthington as a man wrongly-accused of killing his son. #iwillfindyou #toronto #filming #severance #brittlower #miloventimiglia ♬ Wolf – Yeah Yeah Yeahs

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#SPOTTED: ZACH CHERRY, TRAMELL TILLMAN AND JESSICA LEE GAGNE IN TORONTO FOR “SEVERANCE” SEASON TWO

SEVERANCE continues to make its mark as prestige television for Apple TV+ and now it manages to replicate the wide acclaim received by its first season which saw Primetime Emmy and Golden Globe nominations.

This season sees Mark (Adam Scott) and his friends being led them down a woeful path.

Stars Zach Cherry (Dylan) and Tramell Tillman (Seth) were in Toronto to promote the Series with an appearance at TIFF Lightbox in a Q&A alongside Director and Director of Photoraphy, Jessica Lee Gagné. Second season contains ten episodes, streaming Fridays on Apple TV+.

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#FIRSTLOOK: APPLE CEO TIM COOK “SEVERANCE” THEMED VIDEO

Apple CEO Tim Cook and “Severance” executive producer and director Ben Stiller engaged in a conversation over X, complete with “Severance”-themed video starring Tim C. and Mr. Milchick, played by Tramell Tillman. See it below!

Don’t forget to tune-in for a new episode streaming now on Apple TV+. Praise Kier! 

Critics and global audiences alike hail “Severance” as “one of the best series of the decade” and “arguably the best show on television.” Brought to you from the un-severed minds of director and executive producer Ben Stiller and creator, writer and executive producer Dan Erickson, the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning workplace thriller premiered globally with the first episode on Friday, January 17, 2025 on Apple TV+, and follows with one episode every Friday through March 21, 2025.

This week’s episode “Goodbye, Mrs. Selvig” premieres today and finds Outie Mark contemplating the meaning of a message while Helena, Irving and Dylan grapple with the fallout of the Overtime Contingency. 

#FIRSTLOOK: APPLE TV+ UPDATES FROM 2022 SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON

Some exciting new Apple TV+ updates coming out from 2022 San Diego Comic-Con this weekend, including announcements for SEVERANCE, MYTHIC QUEST, FOR ALL MANKIND and SEE!

For All Mankind – Season Four

Apple TV+ announced a season four renewal for “For All Mankind,” the hit critically acclaimed space drama series from Golden Globe nominee and Emmy Award-winner Ronald D. Moore and Emmy Award nominees Ben Nedivi & Matt Wolpert. The series is set to begin production on the new season of the alternate reality series next month. The news was announced during the show’s panel at San Diego Comic-Con, featuring series stars Joel Kinnaman, Shantel VanSanten, Jodi Balfour, Sonya Walger, Krys Marshall, Cynthy Wu, Casey Johnson, Coral Peña, Wrenn Schmidt and Edi Gathegi, along with executive producers Moore, Nedivi, Wolpert, and Maril Davis.

Described by critics as “one of the best shows currently on TV,” “For All Mankind” explores what would have happened if the global space race had never ended. The series presents an aspirational world where NASA astronauts, engineers and their families find themselves in the center of extraordinary events seen through the prism of an alternate history timeline — a world in which the USSR beats the US to the moon.

“See” – Trailer Reveal for Third & Final Season

During the “Storytellers of Apple TV+” panel, “See” showrunner and executive producer Jonathan Tropper unveiled the trailer for the third and final season of the global hit, epic post-apocalyptic Apple Original series starring Jason Momoa. The eight-episode final season of “See” debuts on Friday, August 26.

“See” is set in a brutal and primitive future, hundreds of years after humankind has lost the ability to see. In season three, almost a year has passed since Baba Voss (Momoa) defeated his nemesis brother Edo and bid farewell to his family to live remotely in the forest. But when a Trivantian scientist develops a new and devastating form of sighted weaponry that threatens the future of humanity, Baba returns to Paya in order to protect his tribe once more.

Starring alongside Momoa in the third season of “See” are ensemble cast members Sylvia Hoeks, Hera Hilmar, Christian Camargo, Archie Madekwe, Nesta Cooper, Tom Mison, Olivia Cheng, Eden Epstein, Michael Raymond-James, David Hewlett and Trieste Kelly Dunn.

“See” Season 3 Trailer:

“Mythic Quest” – New Season Coming This Fall + Teaser First-Look

The cast and creators of “Mythic Quest” confirmed that the hit workplace comedy series, will return this fall and unveiled a first-look teaser at the highly anticipated third season. “Mythic Quest” co-creator, executive producer and star Rob McElhenney, co-creator and executive producer Megan Ganz, executive producer and star David Hornsby and stars Charlotte Nicdao, Danny Pudi, Ashly Burch, Imani Hakim, and Jessie Ennis came together for a panel moderated by Craig Mazin, and shared a glimpse into what fans can expect this upcoming season.

“Mythic Quest” follows a group of video game developers tasked with building worlds, molding heroes and creating legends, but the most hard-fought battles don’t occur in the game — they happen in the office. In season three, as Ian and Poppy navigate the gaming world and their partnership at the newly formed GrimPop Studios, Dana is forced to play mediator to her bosses’ incessant bickering. Back at Mythic Quest, David settles into his new role as the boss where he truly finds himself in charge for the first time with Jo returning as his assistant — more loyal and militant than ever; and Carol attempts to figure out where she fits in after a new promotion. At Berkeley, Rachel struggles to balance her morals with capitalism, while a post-prison Brad tries to return to society as a reformed man.

“Severance” – Immersive Lumon Industries Installation

“Severance” fans were given the opportunity – if they dared – to get “severed” as they immersed themselves in the world of Lumon Industries at an innovative installation at the Hard Rock Hotel. The experience took new Lumon employees through their first day on the severed floor where all of their senses were required if they hoped to be reunited with their ‘outtie.’ The experience was created in partnership with executive producer Ben Stiller and the show producers.

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#FIRSTLOOK: “SEVERANCE” RENEWED FOR SECOND SEASON

SEVERANCE will be back for a second season, as confirmed today by Apple TV+! The first season of the hit Series directed and produced by Ben Stiller concludes this Friday.

Synopsis:

In “Severance,” Mark Scout (Adam Scott) leads a team at Lumon Industries, whose employees have undergone a severance procedure, which surgically divides their memories between their work and personal lives. This daring experiment in ‘work-life balance’ is called into question as Mark finds himself at the centre of an unraveling mystery that will force him to confront the true nature of his work… and of himself.  

This Friday’s highly anticipated finale episode, titled “The We We Are,” will see the team discover troubling revelations. 

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#FIRSTLOOK: “SEVERANCE”

By David Baldwin

Mark Scout (Adam Scott) works for Lumon Industries. He says he works in an archiving department, but he cannot be certain as he has undergone the “severance” procedure – a controversial surgery that involves a chip being implanted in the brain and separating any knowledge about work and personal lives in half. As he begins to train new employee Helly (Britt Lower), Mark begins to question what is really going on within Lumon Industries at the same time as he starts uncovering a much bigger conspiracy on the outside.

That may sound like a lot to digest, but after two episodes, it gets much easier to wrap your head around the intricacies of SEVERANCE. Both episodes are directed by Series Producer Ben Stiller (yes, I am just as shocked as you are) and boldly blends elements of Horror, Science Fiction, Dark Comedy and Conspiracy Thrillers into one mysterious nightmare that you will not be easily able to shake afterwards. Stiller frames the Series as clinically precise and sterile as he can, echoing the monotonous grind of the 9-to-5 office worker on a much larger scale. There are few brushes of colour, preferring to stay monochromatic in its costuming, lighting and production design. And having the sets be so expansive and high-ceilinged (likely due to Covid restrictions) make the few amount of on-screen characters feel genuinely small and isolated. The dystopic and sinister undertones flow through very well, giving just enough hints at the overarching mystery to keep viewers invested. I doubt the series would feel anywhere near as palpable and tangible had it been filmed prior to our new normal; everything here feels like you are looking into a mirror and the hellscape of our modern lives is looking right back at you.

I would not suggest it captures the Zeitgeist or has its finger on the beating pulse of modern office work, but I was having some serious déjà vu watching many of these scenes and scenarios play out.

The Cast is terrific and genuinely gifted, despite only getting to see fleeting glimpses of their histories and motivations so far. Scott is excellent as Mark, imbuing the greater themes of loneliness and despair quite wonderfully. Lower, who I loved on the short-lived series Man Seeking Woman, is a firecracker just waiting to explode, while character actor Zach Cherry has a lot of fun playing their no-nonsense, straight-and-narrow co-worker Dylan. And though their roles are small so far, I cannot wait to see John Turturro, Patricia Arquette and the legendary Christopher Walken dive into their roles.

I have not quite settled in on any theories about what is happening just yet, and am fearful for how the Series plans on balancing all of its competing tones and genre mashups. For now though, I am optimistic and excited to see just how SEVERANCE plays out over the next few weeks.

The first two episodes of SEVERANCE are available to stream now on Apple TV+, with new episodes arriving every Friday.

#FIRSTLOOK: NEW TRAILER TRAILER FOR “SEVERANCE”

Adam Scott and Patricia Arquette star in workplace Thriller SEVERANCE. Ben Stiller serves as Executive Producer. See the new Trailer for the Apple TV+ Series.

Synopsis:

In “Severance,” Mark Scout (Adam Scott) leads a team at Lumon Industries, whose employees have undergone a severance procedure, which surgically divides their memories between their work and personal lives. This daring experiment in ‘work-life balance’ is called into question as Mark finds himself at the center of an unraveling mystery that will force him to confront the true nature of his work… and of himself.

“Severance” reunites Emmy and DGA Award winner Ben Stiller with Academy Award and Emmy Award winner Patricia Arquette (“Escape at Dannemora,” “Boyhood”), who stars alongside Adam Scott (“Parks and Recreation,” “Step Brothers”), Emmy Award winner John Turturro (“The Plot Against America,” “The Night Of”), Britt Lower (“High Maintenance,” “Casual”), Zach Cherry (“You,” “Succession”), Dichen Lachman (“Jurassic World: Dominion,” “Altered Carbon”), Jen Tullock (“Before You Know It,” “Bless This Mess”), Tramell Tillman (“Hunters,” Dietland”), Michael Chernus (“Orange is the New Black,” “Patriot“) and Academy Award winner Christopher Walken.

SEVERANCE arrives on Apple TV+ February 18, 2022.

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