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Seth Rogen Will Star in an Episode of “The Twilight Zone”
CBS All Access will be premiering the Jordan Peele-produced/hosted reboot of “The Twilight Zone“ on April 1st with not one but TWO episodes, and the already impressive cast grows even bigger today with the news that Seth Rogen will be starring in an episode!
Alex Rubens (“Key & Peele,” “Rick & Morty”) wrote the episode he’ll appear in.
Cast also includes Taissa Farmiga, John Cho, Greg Kinnear, Sanaa Lathan, Kumail Nanjiani, Adam Scott, Alison Tolman, Jacob Tremblay, Jessica Williams, DeWanda Wise, Rhea Seehorn, Lucinda Dryzek, Jefferson White, Ginnifer Goodwin, Zabryna Guevara, James Frain, Jonathan Whitesell, Luke Kirby, Ike Barinholtz, Percy Hynes-White and Steven Yeun.
The new anthology series will be produced by CBS Television Studios in association with Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions and Simon Kinberg’s Genre Films. Peele, Kinberg and Ramirez will exec produce for the series and collaborate on the premiere episode. Win Rosenfeld and Audrey Chon will also serve as executive producers.
“The Twilight Zone,” created and hosted by Rod Serling, ran as a series on CBS from 1959 to 1964. The show melded fantasy, science-fiction, and horror elements with Serling serving as the exec producer and writing or co-writing 92 of the show’s 156 episodes along with delivering monologues at the beginning and end of each episode.
One of the best new series of the year, Apple TV’s hit series “Widow’s Bay”, is also now an Emmy nominee in multiple categories.
The 78th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards will be hosted by Mariska Hargitay and will air live on September 14 on NBC, streaming on Peacock, and nominations were announced this morning. Jeff Hiller, who plays government employee Dale in the series, was on hand to deliver the announcements.
“Widow’s Bay” has officially been nominated for Outstanding Comedy Series. Lead star Matthew Rhys has been nominated for an Emmy Award for Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for “Widow’s Bay”.
Dale Dickey and Kate O’Flynn have both earned noms for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. Also earning a nomination is Stephen Root for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.
Betty Gilpin earns a nom for Comedy Guest Actress while Hamish Linklater lands a spot on the Comedy Guest Actor list.
But wait. There’s more.
The Emmy nominations for “Widow’s Bay” also include:
- Production Design for Narrative Program (Half-Hour)
- Casting for Comedy Series
- Cinematography for a Series (Half-Hour)
- Directing for a Comedy Series – Hiro Murai
- Editing for a Single-Camera Comedy Series – Isaac Hagy
- Editing for a Single-Camera Comedy Series – Kyle Reiter
- Editing for a Single-Camera Comedy Series – Jen Bryson
- Music Composition for a Series
- Music Supervision
- Sound Editing for a Comedy or Drama Series (Half-Hour)
- Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series (Half-Hour)
- Writing for a Comedy Series
That’s 19 total nominations. All of it well deserved.
Daniel Kurland wrote in his “Widow’s Bay” review for Bloody Disgusting, “Season One makes a perfect first impression, and its debut is strong enough that viewers will want to set up permanent residency there. There’s an excellent sense of storytelling, character development, and an engaging mystery that’s strengthened through pitch-perfect horror and comedy.
The series takes place in a quaint island town 40 miles off the coast of New England and follows the town’s mayor as he attempts to revitalize the community despite a very pesky curse that unleashes horror of all varieties.
Season one is directed and executive produced by Emmy Award-winner Hiro Murai (“Barry“, “Atlanta”). Murai helms five of the 10-episode season, in addition to directors Ti West (The X Trilogy, “Them”), Sam Donovan (“Severance”), and Andrew DeYoung (Friendship).
The inaugural season wrapped last month and has already been renewed for season two.
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