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Spirit Music Signs HARDY to Go-Forward Deal, Acquires Select Catalog

by jummy84 September 15, 2025

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Spirit Music has acquired select songs from singer-songwriter HARDY‘s music publishing catalog, while also signing the artist to a go-forward exclusive writing agreement with Spirit Music Nashville.

“I’m pumped to be joining the Spirit Music family,” HARDY said in a statement. “They believe in the songs I write and that means a lot to me. I’m excited to see what we can build together.”

HARDY is now with Spirit Music Nashville for songwriting, though he remains a partner in Relative Music Group as a publisher, which previously had his catalog. Relative Music Group signed a deal with Sony Music Publishing in 2021; Relative and/or Sony continue to own their portions of the select HARDY compositions Spirit acquired, while Spirit Music owns HARDY’s portion.

Mississippi native HARDY is a five-time ACM Award winner and a two-time CMA Award winner. As a songwriter, he’s won three CMA Triple Play Awards, three Association of Independent Music Publishers (AIMP) songwriter of the year accolades, and was named the 2022 BMI Country Songwriter of the Year.

HARDY is a co-writer on his own No. 1 Country Airplay hits including “One Beer,” and “Truck Bed,” as well as Dierks Bentley’s “Beers On Me,” which features BRELAND and HARDY. He is also a writer on his RIAA three-time platinum duet with Lainey Wilson, “Wait in the Truck,” and has co-written songs recorded by Morgan Wallen (“More Than My Hometown,” “Sand in My Boots,” “I’m A Little Crazy”), Jelly Roll (“Church”), Blake Shelton (“God’s Country”), Carrie Underwood (“Hate My Heart”), and has had songs recorded by Kenny Chesney, Jason Aldean, Dierks Bentley, Thomas Rhett, Dylan Scott, Florida Georgia Line, Cole Swindell, Vince Gill and more.

“HARDY is a multi-genre force of nature as an artist, a world-class songwriter and a great human being,” said Frank Rogers, chief creative officer of Spirit Music Group and CEO of Spirit Music Nashville, in a statement. “Spirit could not be more excited to welcome HARDY to the family and we are excited about helping him build on his already legendary career.”

“After years of making music together, I couldn’t be more proud to start this new chapter with my pal HARDY here at Spirit,” said Derek Wells, vp of A&R/Production at Spirit Music Nashville/2Mix. “Great music with great people is the business we want to be in here, and HARDY hits that nail on the head. He is truly a ‘1 of 1’ talent and human that elevates every room he’s in.”

HARDY released Quit!! in 2024 and saw the title reach No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Hard Rock Albums chart. Last year, HARDY headlined a set during CMA Fest, and collaborated with Fred Durst and Chad Smith. He’ll release Country! Country! on Sept. 26 via Big Loud Records, spearheaded by tracks “Favorite Country Song,” “Bottomland” and the ERNEST collaboration “Bro Country.” The same week Country! Country! releases, HARDY will make his first headlining show at Madison Square Garden on his Jim Bob World Tour.

HARDY was represented in the new publishing deal by Scott Safford (Safford Motley PLC), while Spirit was represented by Matthew Beckett and David Crow (Milom/Crow/Kelley/Beckett/Shehan PLC).

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Stephen Colbert Gets Standing Ovation at 2025 Emmys

by jummy84 September 15, 2025

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Stephen Colbert received a rousing standing ovation while presenting at the 2025 Emmys on Sunday night. With his Late Show set to end next May, the host seized the moment to jokingly pitch his staff to potential future employers.

“While I have your attention: is anyone hiring because I have 200 very qualified candidates who will be available in June,” he said. “I also brought my resume but I haven’t had the chance to update my headshot.”

Later in the evening, Colbert received the Emmy for Outstanding Talk Show.

CBS announced the cancelation of the Late Show with Stephen Colbert in July, calling it “purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night” and unrelated to Paramount’s upcoming merger with Skydance. Still, some critics have speculated that Colbert — one of Donald Trump’s most outspoken adversaries —may have been offered as a sacrificial lamb to placate the Trump administration to help get the merger over the finish line.

Stephen Colbert earns a massive standing ovation at the #Emmys and jokes “Is anyone hiring?” pic.twitter.com/vepMYMXdSX
— Variety (@Variety) September 15, 2025

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Liquid Mike: Hell Is an Airport Album Review

by jummy84 September 15, 2025

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As far as indie rock origin stories go, “mailman moonlighting as a rock star gets word-of-mouth breakthrough, no label needed” is about as cool as it gets. Mike Maple started driving for USPS in 2020, shortly before his band Liquid Mike released its first two albums. Since then, the prolific group has put out a record a year of high-octane garage rock, drawing in a cult fanbase: Its 2023 album S/T struck a nerve on Bandcamp and Twitter, despite having almost no formal promotion; then, 2024’s Paul Bunyan’s Slingshot earned the group critical buzz and support slots with bands like Descendants, Joyce Manor, and Militarie Gun.

Like other Midwest rockers before them—The Replacements, Hüsker Dü, and Guided By Voices all come to mind—Liquid Mike like their runtimes short, their guitars loud, and their hooks easy to sing along to no matter how many beers you’ve had. The band’s first five albums were mostly inspired by Maple’s time driving the mail truck around Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, and the small-town shenanigans he and his friends got up to off the clock. Their discography is filled with “get out of this town” anthems—but on their sixth album, Hell Is an Airport, Liquid Mike asks what happens when a hometown hero’s journey takes him outside of his familiar surroundings.

A lot of what happens, it turns out, is more of the same. Most of these songs see Maple in head-on collision with the realization that the ennui of his home life won’t disappear once he hits the road. “What are you running from?/A middle-aged Houdini/Locked ice box/Works hard to take it easy,” Maple sings on “Grand Am,” pondering the hours he spent at previous dead-end jobs—now that his dream job has become his day job, was the less predictable path worth it? “AT&T” features some subtle record scratching underneath its shimmery guitar progression, as Maple drags out the line, “How the days move slow” in a way that could apply both to the hurry-up-and-wait of his life as a touring musician, or the grind that preceded it when this kind of success was just a daydream.

Maple’s fears of becoming an “out-of-touch out-of-towner” bubble to the surface of the speedy and metallic “Double Dutch,” though oftentimes Hell Is an Airport sees Maple and his band leaving town only to discover that the rest of the country embodies the same monotony they’ve been trying to escape. Abandoned malls, endless highways, and dead-eyed service workers are reminders of alienation on all fronts. Hell Is an Airport soundtracks industrial wastelands and suburban sprawl with wiry power-pop, crunched-up grunge-gaze, and even the occasional coughing fit of stoner metal.

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Javier Bardem says he won’t work with any company in business with Israel: “Free Palestine”

by jummy84 September 15, 2025

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Javier Bardem has said he “won’t work” with any company that is in business with Israel.

The actor is among a number of names in the film industry who recently signed a pledge by Film Workers For Palestine to not work with Israeli film institutions amid the conflict in Gaza.

Bardem spoke out on the Emmys red carpet last night (September 14) regarding his decision, telling Variety that he was “denouncing the genocide in Gaza”.

Referencing a recent declaration by a leading association of genocide scholars (via BBC News), the Oscar-winning actor said: “I am talking about the IAGS, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, who study thoroughly genocide and has declared it is a genocide. That’s why we ask for a commercial and diplomatic blockade and also sanctions on Israel to stop the genocide. Free Palestine.”

The star explained that as “a human being” and “a father” he “really cannot take anymore what’s going on”, before speaking about the pledge he’d signed.

“Film Workers for Palestine do not target any individuals based on identity,” he said. “The targets are those film companies and institutions that are complicit and are white-washing or justifying the genocide and its apartheid regime. We do stand with those who are helping and being supportive of the oppressed people.”

Bardem further explained why he “won’t work” with companies in business with Israel, saying: “I cannot work with somebody who justifies or supports the genocide. I can’t. It’s as simple as that. We shouldn’t be able to do that in this industry or any other industry.”

He continued: “The world has changed and what we are witnessing is a genocide in 4K, alive on a daily basis. This has to stop.”

The star also revealed how he speaks to his children about the subject, sharing: “By telling them openly what is going on. By telling them that, of course, what Hamas did on October 7th is horrible. There’s no excuse or justification for that.

“But I have serious doubts that [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu’s agenda was ever the possibility or the will to rescue any hostages. And the family of those hostages are suffering so much are every day on the streets reminding him of that.

“I’m hopeful after unfortunately so many deaths and children being murdered, the world is waking up finally to something that has to be fixed, politically fixed now.”

The recent pledge was also signed by the likes of Olivia Colman, Mark Ruffalo, Tilda Swinton, Ayo Edebiri, Riz Ahmed, Yorgos Lanthimos, Ava DuVernay and Asif Kapadia.

“In this urgent moment of crisis, where many of our governments are enabling the carnage in Gaza, we must do everything we can to address complicity in that unrelenting horror,” it says.

Bardem was nominated at last night’s Emmys for the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie award for his role in Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story. The ceremony’s big winners were The Pitt, The Studio and Adolescence.

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Watch Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson Sing National Anthem at NFL Game

by jummy84 September 15, 2025

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The British musician performed ahead of the Pittsburgh Steelers’ home game against the Seattle Seahawks

Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson offered his take on the American national anthem at Pittsburgh’s Acrisure Stadium on Sunday.

The English musician was asked to perform the song at the Pittsburgh Steelers’ first home game of the season against the Seattle Seahawks, noting on Instagram that it was “a huge honour” to be invited. Dickinson left the field to chants of “U.S.A! U.S.A!”

“I’ll let you in to a secret,” Dickinson said in a recent interview on podcast The Charismatic Voice. “I’ve got to sing the national anthem in Pittsburgh for the Pittsburgh Steelers. They’ve asked me to do this. I’m going to do it a cappella and stuff, and as long as you start at the right place, you’re good to go.”

Fans were entertained by the NFL‘s decision to enlist a musician from the U.K. to perform America’s anthem at a very American sport. “The most random thing I saw today was a British man singing the American national anthem,” one commenter wrote on Instagram. Another added, “Why is a Brit singing the American national anthem? Especially at this current time?”

Dickinson is currently on the North American leg of his Mandrake Project solo tour. It continues on Tuesday in Toronto before heading to Montreal later this week. The tour wraps in Los Angeles on Oct. 5 with a show at the Wiltern.

Iron Maiden is celebrating their 50th anniversary in 2025, with a new documentary about the metal greats is slated to be released later this year. Directed by Malcolm Venville, the as-yet-untitled film will dig into Iron Maiden’s remarkable 50-year history and legacy, telling the story from the perspective of both band and fans (including famous ones like Javier Bardem, Lars Ulrich, and Gene Simmons). The film will also feature interviews with key members from throughout the band’s run, including the last interview with original vocalist Paul Di’Anno, who died last year.

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Lewis Capaldi to Headline BST Hyde Park and Roundhay Festival In 2026

by jummy84 September 15, 2025

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Lewis Capaldi will headline a pair of massive outdoor shows in the United Kingdom next summer.

Following AEG Presents’ announcement last Friday (Sept. 12) of Roundhay Festival, Capaldi will headline the inaugural event, set to take place July 4, 2026.

A week later, the Scottish singer-songwriter will top the bill at BST Hyde Park in London on July 11, joining Garth Brooks as a headliner.

Tickets for both shows will go on sale this Friday (Sept. 19) and 9 a.m. BST from the festival’s official website. Additional performers on both bills will be announced in due course.

BST Hyde Park takes place every summer at the central London park and attracts a wealth of huge names. Performers at the 2025 event included Sabrina Carpenter, Olivia Rodrigo, Neil Young and Stevie Wonder.

Capaldi is currently in the midst of a sold-out U.K. arena tour, the first since his comeback to the stage. The 28-year-old took time out from performing and recording due to his mental health, and returned as a live performer at Glastonbury Festival this June. “Survive,” his comeback single, shot straight to No. 1 on the U.K.’s Official Singles Chart upon release, and is one of his six leaders.

His signature song, “Someone You Loved,” was confirmed in November 2022 as the U.K.’s most streamed song of all time, overtaking Ed Sheeran’s “Shape Of You.”

Capaldi is a perfect two-from-two on the Official U.K. Albums Chart with 2019’s Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent (10 weeks) and 2023’s Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent (three weeks) both logging lengthy stints at No. 1.

Last week, AEG Presents shared news of the forthcoming Roundhay Festival, to be presented in Leeds, Yorkshire, in what is one of Europe’s largest city parks, spanning over 700 acres of woodlands, lakes and fields in the north-east of the city.

The venue has form for hosting large-scale music events. Over the years, the Rolling Stones (1982), Genesis (1987), Madonna (1987), Michael Jackson (1988), U2 (1997) and, most recently, Ed Sheeran (2019) have all played there.

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Jeremy Allen White Records Nebraka

by jummy84 September 15, 2025

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Next month brings the release of Deliver Me From Nowhere, the Bruce Springsteen biopic about the making of his seminal album Nebraska. A new trailer for the film premiered during Sunday’s Emmy Awards, which can be seen below.

Written and directed by Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart) and adapted from Warren Zanes’ 2023 biography, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska, the film chronicles the development of the 1982 album. Coming off the blockbuster success of The River, Springsteen retreated to his bedroom with a four-track recorder, crafting a raw, intimate set of songs. Despite label pressure to release full-band versions, he ultimately stuck with the haunting home recordings — the very ones that became Nebraska.

Jeremy Allen White stars as Springsteen, with Jeremy Strong playing the musician’s manager, Jon Landau. The cast also includes Paul Walter Hauser, Odessa Young, Marc Maron, Gabby Hoffman, Stephen Graham, and Johnny Cannizzaro. Deliver Me From Nowhere will be released in theaters on October 24th.

Twenty One Pilots: Breach Album Review

by jummy84 September 15, 2025

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This is Twenty One Pilots in its purest form. Opener “City Walls” is a five-minute litmus test, with gigantic “oh-woah” hooks, soaring choruses, fuzzy bass tones, overdriven drums, and yes, rapping. It’s also pure fan service; the deeply ludicrous $1 million music video frequently calls back to past work and the song itself interpolates their single “Holding on to You.” It’s fascinating to hear a Christian-adjacent band reprise the words “entertain my faith” as the video depicts Clancy’s submission to a religious cult, but this isn’t the band to handle those implications.

Having once contributed to the Suicide Squad soundtrack, Pilots now convey the bubbly energy of James Gunn’s Superman reboot. You don’t need to know about the Bishops’ necromancing powers to enjoy the frenetic snowboarding-game breakbeat and maniacal vocal processing of “The Contract.” There are dumb-clever antics throughout: “Garbage” teases an uplifting “Something Just Like This” piano part before Joseph blurts out “I feel like garbage!” The song “Rawfear” speeds up on the line “never slowing down,” then abruptly returns to the original tempo—because he can’t escape the cycle. There’s hardly a breather until “Cottonwood,” a loving tribute to Joseph’s grandfather, and the meditative closer, “Intentions.” There’s also “Downstairs,” a dolled-up demo from their pre-major label days, but the vestigial self-seriousness feels out of place on an album like this.

The most engaging motif in the Pilots catalog remains Joseph’s complex relationship with his fans. On Vessel standout (give or take a reggae break) “Guns for Hands,” he felt responsible for their mental health as his own deteriorated. On Trench ballad “Neon Gravestones,” he cautioned them not to glorify his death should he one day lose his battle with depression. The tension comes to a head on Breach. Earlier this year, somebody briefly stole a kick drum from Dun’s kit at a concert, and throughout “Center Mass,” the band samples another fan’s cautionary “I really don’t think you should take that!” On “Drum Show,” seemingly in response to this fiasco, Joseph pays tribute to his burnt-out bandmate, who’s “stuck between a rock and a home, two places he does not wanna go.” When Joseph says, “This has not been interesting in a while” on “One Way,” a fundamentally earnest band fully admits to disillusionment.

Twenty One Pilots’ pure pop songs—like Scaled and Icy’s “Shy Away”—are often their best, which makes their ongoing attempts at hip-hop all the more frustrating. Joseph once gave Zane Lowe a playlist of his greatest influences, and not only was Ben Gibbard on it twice, the only rapper was Matisyahu. On Breach, they sound like they maybe gave GNX a passing listen (the call-and-response on “Center Mass” is very “Reincarnated”), but their engagement with the genre remains shallow. No one has ever sounded less convincing than Tyler “gangstas don’t cry, therefore I’m Mr. Misty Eyed” Joseph singing about “empty Uzis” on “Rawfear.” But when they get the balance right, they wind up with some of their best material to date: “Mass” starts with a suitably moody verse over a two-chord vamp and ends with a genuinely exciting double-time outro.

Right now it’s hard to imagine a cultural re-evaluation for Twenty One Pilots, the way people who grew up in the ’00s eventually gave My Chemical Romance and Linkin Park (both obvious influences) their flowers. But seeing the likes of MGK attempt a similar style without the same ambition puts the duo’s merit into perspective, and at least Pilots are thoroughly committed to their uncool niche. They’d be more respected if they did away with the rapping entirely, but that would fundamentally change what this band is and why it got this far. As for poor Clancy, he fails to break the cycle and, in a Matrix Reloaded-esque twist, the rebels must find another “Clancy” to continue the fight. It’s a surprisingly sobering ending: No one here truly transcends their limitations, but it’s only a matter of time before they try again.

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Emmys 2025: ‘The Pitt’, ‘The Studio’ and ‘Adolescence’ win big

by jummy84 September 15, 2025

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The 2025 Emmys are here – check out the list of winners from TV’s biggest night of the year below.

READ MORE: The best TV shows of 2025… so far!

This year’s ceremony took place at Los Angeles’ Peacock Theater, with comedian Nate Bargatze hosting. This year, Severance and The Penguin received the most nominations, with Apple TV+’s Severance boasting 27 nominations, while HBO’s The Penguin has 24. The top five is rounded off with The Studio and The White Lotus (23 apiece) and The Last Of Us (16).

Among the big names battling it out to win the top prizes for acting were Harrison Ford –earning his first Emmy nomination aged 83 – Quinta Brunson, Jeremy Allen White, and Britt Lower.

The night’s biggest winners were The Pitt, The Studio and Adolescence, which won Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Comedy Series and Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series respectively. Additionally, Noah Wyle, Seth Rogen and Stephen Graham won Outstanding Actor in Drama, Comedy and Limited or Anthology Series.

Elsehwhere, Owen Cooper – who debuted in Adolescence – won Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. Other big wins so far also include Hacks‘ Jean Smart for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series, The Pitt‘s Katherine LaNasa for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series and more.

Severance also won several awards: Britt Lower was awarded Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series, while Merritt Wever won Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series and Trammel Tillman won Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.

Here are all the winners of the 2025 Emmy Awards – as it’s updated live:

Best Drama Series
Andor
The Diplomat
The Last Of Us
Paradise
The Pitt (WINNER)
Severance
Slow Horses
The White Lotus

Noah Wyle and Patrick Ball in ‘The Pitt’ season one. Credit: Warrick Page/HBO Max

Best Comedy Series
Abbott Elementary
The Bear
Hacks
Nobody Wants This
Only Murders In The Building
Shrinking
The Studio (WINNER)
What We Do In The Shadows

Best Limited or Anthology Series
Adolescence – WINNER
Black Mirror
Dying For Sex
Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story
The Penguin

Best Television Movie
Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy
The Gorge
Mountainhead
Nonnas
Rebel Ridge (WINNER)

Best Animated Program
Arcane (WINNER)
Bob’s Burgers
Common Side Effects
Love, Death + Robots
The Simpsons

Best Actor in a Drama Series
Sterling K. Brown – Paradise
Gary Oldman – Slow Horses
Pedro Pascal – The Last Of Us
Adam Scott – Severance
Noah Wyle – The Pitt (WINNER)

Best Actress in a Drama Series
Kathy Bates – Matlock
Sharon Horgan – Bad Sisters
Britt Lower – Severance (WINNER)
Bella Ramsey – The Last Of Us
Keri Russell – The Diplomat

Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
Zach Cherry – Severance
Walton Goggins – The White Lotus
Jason Isaacs – The White Lotus
James Marsden – Paradise
Sam Rockwell – The White Lotus
Tramell Tillman – Severance (WINNER)
John Turturro – Severance

Best Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
Colin Farrell – The Penguin
Stephen Graham – Adolescence (WINNER)
Jake Gyllenhaal – Presumed Innocent
Brian Tyree Henry – Dope Thief
Cooper Koch – Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story

Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
Patricia Arquette – Severance
Carrie Coon – The White Lotus
Katherine LaNasa – The Pitt (WINNER)
Julianne Nicholson – Paradise
Parker Posey – The White Lotus
Natasha Rothwell – The White Lotus
Aimee Lou Wood – The White Lotus

Best Guest Actor in a Drama Series
Giancarlo Esposito – The Boys
Scott Glenn – The White Lotus
Shawn Hatosy – The Pitt (WINNER)
Joe Pantoliano – The Last Of Us
Forest Whitaker – Andor
Jeffrey Wright – The Last Of Us

Best Guest Actress in a Drama Series
Jane Alexander – Severance
Gwendoline Christie – Severance
Kaitlyn Dever – The Last of Us
Cherry Jones – The Handmaid’s Tale
Catherine O’Hara – The Last of Us
Merritt Wever – Severance (WINNER)

Best Actress in a Comedy Series
Uzo Aduba – The Residence
Kristen Bell – Nobody Wants This
Quinta Brunson – Abbott Elementary
Ayo Edebiri – The Bear
Jean Smart – Hacks (WINNER)

Best Actor in a Comedy Series
Adam Brody – Nobody Wants This
Seth Rogen – The Studio (WINNER)
Jason Segel – Shrinking
Martin Short – Only Murders In The Building
Jeremy Allen White – The Bear

Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
Ike Barinholtz – The Studio
Colman Domingo – The Four Seasons
Harrison Ford – Shrinking
Jeff Hiller – Somebody Somewhere (WINNER)
Ebon Moss-Bachrach – The Bear
Michael Urie – Shrinking
Bowen Yang – Saturday Night Live

Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
Liza Colón-Zayas – The Bear
Hannah Einbinder – Hacks (WINNER)
Kathryn Hahn – The Studio
Janelle James – Abbott Elementary
Catherine O’Hara – The Studio
Sheryl Lee Ralph – Abbott Elementary
Jessica Williams – Shrinking

Best Guest Actor in a Comedy Series
Jon Bernthal – The Bear
Bryan Cranston – The Studio (WINNER)
Dave Franco – The Studio
Ron Howard – The Studio
Anthony Mackie – The Studio
Martin Scorsese – The Studio

Best Guest Actress in a Comedy Series
Olivia Colman – The Bear
Jamie Lee Curtis – The Bear
Cynthia Erivo – Poker Face
Robby Hoffman – Hacks
Zoë Kravitz – The Studio
Julianne Nicholson – Hacks (WINNER)

Best Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
Cate Blanchett – Disclaimer
Meghann Fahy – Sirens
Rashida Jones – Black Mirror
Cristin Milioti – The Penguin (WINNER)
Michelle Williams – Dying For Sex

Best Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
Javier Bardem – Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story
Bill Camp – Presumed Innocent
Owen Cooper – Adolescence (WINNER)
Rob Delaney – Dying For Sex
Peter Sarsgaard – Presumed Innocent
Ashley Walters – Adolescence

Owen Cooper in 'Adolescence' — Owen Cooper in ‘Adolescence’. CREDIT: Netflix

Best Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
Erin Doherty – Adolescence (WINNER)
Ruth Negga – Presumed Innocent
Deirdre O’Connell – The Penguin
Chloë Sevigny – Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story
Jenny Slate – Dying For Sex
Christine Tremarco – Adolescence

Best Writing for a Drama Series
Dan Gilroy – Andor (WINNER)
Joe Sachs – The Pitt
R. Scott Gemmill – The Pitt
Dan Erickson – Severance
Will Smith – Slow Horses
Mike White – The White Lotus

Best Writing for a Comedy Series
Quinta Brunson – Abbott Elementary
Lucia Aniellp, Paul W. Downs and Jen Statsky – Hacks
Nathan Fielder, Carrie Kemper, Adam Locke-Norton, Eric Notarnicola – The Rehearsal
Hannah Bos, Paul Thureen, Bridget Everett – Somebody Somewhere
Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Peter Huyck, Alex Gregory, Friday Perez – The Studio (WINNER)
Sam Johnson, Sarah Naftalis, Paul Simms – What We Do In The Shadows

Best Writing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
Jack Thorne, Stephen Graham – Adolescence (WINNER)
Charlie Brooker, Bisha K. Ali – Black Mirror
Kim Rosenstock, Elizabeth Meriwether – Dying For Sex
Lauren LeFranc – The Penguin
Joshua Zetumer – Say Nothing

Best Directing for a Drama Series
Janus Metz – Andor
Amanda Marsalis – The Pitt
John Wells – The Pitt
Jessica Lee Gagné – Severance
Ben Stiller – Severance
Adam Randall – Slow Horses (WINNER)
Mike White – The White Lotus

Best Directing for a Comedy Series
Ayo Edibiri – The Bear
Lucia Aniello – Hacks
James Burrows – Mid-Century Modern
Nathan Fielder – The Rehearsal
Seth Rogen – The Studio (WINNER)

Best Directing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
Philip Barantini – Adolescence (WINNER)
Shannon Murphy – Dying For Sex
Helen Shaver – The Penguin
Jennifer Getzinger – The Penguin
Nicole Kassell – Sirens
Lesli Linka Glatter – Zero Day

Best Reality Competition Program
The Amazing Race
RuPaul’s Drag Race
Survivor
Top Chef
The Traitors (WINNER)

Best Talk Series
The Daily Show
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert – WINNER

Best Scripted Variety Series
Last Week Tonight With John Oliver (WINNER)
Saturday Night Live

Best Structured Reality Program
Antiques Roadshow
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
Love Is Blind
Queer Eye (WINNER)
Shark Tank

Cristin Milioti in The Penguin — Cristin Milioti as Sofia in ‘The Penguin’ CREDIT: HBO/Warner Bros.

Best Game Show
Celebrity Family Feud
Jeopardy! (WINNER)
The Price Is Right
Wheel Of Fortune
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire

Best Variety Special (Live)
The Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show starring Kendrick Lamar
Beyoncé Bowl
The Oscars
SNL 50: The Anniversary Special (WINNER)
SNL 50: The Homecoming Concert

Best Variety Special (Pre-Recorded)
Adam Sandler: Love You
Ali Wong: Single Lady
Bill Burr: Drop Dead Years
Conan O’Brien: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humour (WINNER)
Sarah Silverman: Postmortem
Your Friend, Nate Bargatze

Best Documentary or Nonfiction Series
100 Foot Wave (WINNER)
Chef’s Table
Simone Biles: Rising
Social Studies
SNL 50: Beyond Saturday Night

Best Documentary or Nonfiction Special
Deaf President Now!
Martha
Pee-wee as Himself (WINNER)
Sly Lives!
Will and Harper

Best Documentary or Nonfiction (Hosted Nonfiction)
Conan O’Brien Must Go (WINNER)
The Daily Show Presents: Jordan Klepper Finger The Pule: MAGA: The Next Generartion
Finding Your Roots With Henry Louise Gates, Jr.
My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman
Tucci in Italy

Best Host for a Reality or Reality Competition Program
Alan Cumming – The Traitors (WINNER)
Jeff Probst – Survivor
Kristen Kish – Top Chef
RuPaul – RuPaul’s Drag Race
Mark Cuban, Lori Greiner, Kevin O’Leary, Barbara Corcoran, Robert Herjavec, Daymond John and Daniel Lubetzky – Shark Tank

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Travis Kelce Says He Shed ‘A Few Tears’ Proposing to Taylor Swift

by jummy84 September 15, 2025

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Travis Kelce knows how to ball, and when it comes to life’s joyous, emotional moments, he can bawl, too.

In a preview clip from a new interview for NFL on Fox, he opened up to sports commentator Erin Andrews about his proposal to Taylor Swift. When Andrews asked him about having “dry mouth, the nerves” and how “rattled” he was on that day, he said, “She can tell that story,” but he admitted, “the palms were definitely sweating.”

“I’m an emotional guy,” he continued. “So there were a few tears here and there, but it’s been an exciting, exciting ride up to this day, and I can’t wait to spend the rest of my life with her.”

In the full interview, where Kelce also refuted any rumors of him retiring soon, Andrews prefaced their discussion about the proposal by asking how much happier Swift has made the self-proclaimed “happiest guy in the world.” He said, “She has brought excitement and a joy for life that made me a better man, made me a better person, and that made me just that much more comfortable in who I am.”

Andrews also mentioned Swift describing her fiancé as a “human exclamation point” during her appearance on his New Heights podcast on Aug. 13, while asking what he hoped his legacy would be. “That I was a good teammate, I was a good person in the community. I just love what I do,” he responded.

He added: “I don’t know. I’m not here for any other reasons. I just love coming in, playing football, and giving people something to get excited for outside of their lives on Sundays,” he continued. “Hopefully they can see how much excitement I bring to my life, and they can bring that to others.”

Swift and Kelce announced their engagement on Aug. 26 via a joint post on Instagram after two years of dating. The post featured a carousel of photos of the couple, which was captioned by “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married.”

September 15, 2025 0 comments

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