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View on web New reader? Subscribe SUBSCRIBE. IT'S FREE. EMMY ANALYSIS & SCORECARDS 'THE STUDIO' BREAKS A RECORD AS HBO MAX & NETFLIX TIE FOR THE BIGGEST HAUL OF THE NIGHT This one goes out to Sal Saperstein: Apple had its best ever performance at the Emmys thanks to big wins for The Studio and Severance. It picked up seven wins on the night, taking its total to 22. But it was all even at the top of the charts with HBO Max and Netflix sharing the honors with 30 Emmy wins apiece. HBO Max came into the night with 21 awards and added another nine, largely thanks to The Pitt, The Penguin and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Netflix came into the Primetime Emmys with 24 awards, including six juried animation winners, and added six awards, helped by Adolescence routing its categories. >>>Platform & Program Tallies Related: Pete Hammond's Analysis: A Night Of Firsts Turns A “Predictable” Year Into Something Unexpected Snubs & Surprises TV Review: Nate Bargatze-Hosted Show Goes Safety First With $100K Charity Gimmick & Not Much Else 10 Things The Cameras Didn’t Catch Full Winners List Full Coverage TORONTO   ‘Hamnet’ Wins Oscar-Predictive Toronto Film Festival People’s Choice Award Riz Ahmed On Why Aneil Karia’s ‘Hamlet’ Resonates: “I Was Lost As A Young Man ‘Swiped’ Star Lily James On “Visionary” Bumble Founder Whitney Wolfe Herd ‘Orwell: 2+2=5’ Director Raoul Peck On George Orwell’s Intense Relevance To Today ‘It Was Just An Accident’ Director Jafar Panahi Says Iran’s Islamic Republic Won’t Continue Forever All Of Deadline's Toronto Reviews TIFF Red Carpet Photos Deadline Exclusives & Originals 'Demon' Slays B.O. - Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle had a robust Saturday north of $21M+ which will get the Crunchyroll movie to a massive $70M opening. That’s the best ever for an anime movie, best ever for Crunchyroll, and best for Sony in the past two years. >>>Double Last Week's Projection Even More 'Insidious' - Lin Shaye and Amelia Eve are headlining the next Insidious movie from Blumhouse and Sony Pictures’ Screen Gems and Stage 6 Films. Jacob Chase is directing. >>>Shoots Next Week Andy Cohen Gets More Sirius - Less than a week after helping Howard Stern prank listeners that he was leaving his radio show, Andy Cohen has struck a new deal with SiriusXM. Cohen has signed a three-year extension that will see him continue to oversee the Radio Andy channel and host his daily live show Andy Cohen Live, which he does with co-host John Hill. >>>Special Anniversary Show Neil Druckmann Interview - At the Emmys, The Last of Us co-creator Neil Druckmann reflected on the show’s second season following the news that he his stepping back creatively. He also teased work with actress Tati Gabrielle, who portrayed Nora in Season 2 of The Last of Us, on his new project, the video game Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet. >>>" A Very Complex Arc " 'Robin Robin' Taking Flight At BBC — A spin-off of Aardman animation's Robin Robin is in the works at the BBC, with BBC kids boss Patricia Hidalgo seeking co-pro partners at this week’s Cartoon Forum. Starring Richard E. Grant and Gillian Anderson, Robin Robin was Academy Award-nominated in 2021 for Best Animated Short. >>>7-Minute Episodes A24 Plans 'Massacre' - Sources say that A24 is winning the film and TV rights for Texas Chain Saw Massacre, which were up for auction and had a handful of bidders. >>>Series Planned THE DEADLINE INTERVIEW Luciane Buchanan Reveals She Is Not Returning To ‘The Night Agent’ For Season 3, Talks Parallels To ‘Chief Of War’ In 2023, a then-little known actress outside of New Zealand named Luciane Buchanan captured the hearts of Netflix viewers as Rose Larkin, a cybersecurity wiz thrust into a dangerous government conspiracy on spy drama The Night Agent, with lowly FBI agent Peter Sutherland (Gabriel Basso) as her protector. Fans loved the duo’s dynamic and, despite the two going their separate ways in the Season 1 finale, Rose was the only character besides Basso’s titular Night Agent that was brought back for Season 2. That won’t happen again, with Peter and Rose’s Season 2 finale breakup permanent — at least for now. “I won’t be returning to Season 3 of The Night Agent,” Buchanan told Deadline in an exclusive interview tied to her new series, Apple TV+’s Chief of War. Interestingly, Buchanan initially didn’t realize she would be No. 2 on the Chief of War call sheet. “I did not know that I was a lead for the show because I hadn’t gotten a script,” she said. “I asked our director for Episode 1 and 2, Justin Chon, so how much am I in the show, like, roughly how many episodes? And he’s like, 'Oh, every episode, it’s Jason [Momoa], and then there’s you.'" >>>Interview              Quotable   "Is anyone hiring?" - Stephen Colbert to Emmy attendees after they gave him a standing ovation CASTING ABOUT exclusive Scottie Thompson, Bruce Dern and Nick Stahl have joined the cast of director John Francis Sullivan‘s coming-of-age drama All Day Happy Dance. Now in production, the indie feature stars Dern as steadfast patriarch Gramps, whose daughter Shay (Thompson) is a single mother navigating the ADHD diagnosis of one of her identical twin sons.   Exclusive Victor Rivas Rivers (Blood In, Blood Out) will guest star in HBO Max's hit medical drama The Pitt for its sophomore season. He will play Trent Norris, PTMC’s Chief Executive Officer.              DEVELOPMENT exclusive Amazon MGM Studios Boards Eric Heisserer’s ‘Mysteria’ With Charlize Theron And Craig Zobel Circling   exclusive Gina Girolamo Adapting Freida McFadden’s Novel ‘Dear Debbie’ For TV At Amazon MGM Studios              BY THE NUMBERS   $101M - Global B.O. for A24’s 'Materialists' MORE NEWS 📱 The Trump administration is close to a deal with China on what to do about TikTok, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said, amid another pending deadline for the parent company ByteDance to divest the popular app in the U.S. or face a ban. 🤠 Netflix has renewed breakout hit series The Hunting Wives starring Malin Åkerman and Brittany Snow for a second season. As expected, the racy Texas drama, from Lionsgate Television and 3 Arts Entertainment, will become a Netflix-branded series that will stream exclusively on the platform. 🗳️ Sean Astin has been elected to serve as the next national president of SAG-AFTRA. The actors union announced the results Friday evening, revealing that Astin was elected to succeed Fran Drescher with 79.25% of the vote. HIRINGS, PROMOTIONS & EXITS Bento Box Entertainment Co-Founder Joel Kuwahara Steps Down Broadway General Management Firm Foresight Theatrical Ups Two In Exec Transition ON THE RADAR Mon - Digital Oscar screeners go out; John Oliver on Colbert Tue - Fast Company Innovation Festival; Margot Robbie on Meyers Wed - The Morning Show S4 premieres; Trump's UK State Visit begins Thu - Jake Tapper on Colbert Sat - Farm Aid PHOTO OF THE DAY Downstream - Colman Domingo and Netflix Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria party at Netflix's 2025 post-Emmy celebration. This email was sent to punjabsvera@gmail.com by Deadline. Please add email@email.deadline.com to your address book to ensure delivery to your inbox. Visit the Preferences Center to update your profile and customize what email alerts and newsletters you receive. 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