Three NPR television critics published their preferred Emmy winners days before Monday's ceremony, and their picks lean heavily toward Apple TV and away from the shows that actually dominated this year's nominations. The 2026 Emmy race has been defined by a handful of heavyweights. The Pitt, Hacks, Widow's Bay, and Pluribus lead the nominations pack. […] The post NPR critics bypass frontrunners, pick streaming underdogs for Emmy night appeared first on American Almanac .
Three NPR television critics published their preferred Emmy winners days before Monday's ceremony, and their picks lean heavily toward Apple TV and away from the shows that actually dominated this year's nominations. The 2026 Emmy race has been defined by a handful of heavyweights. The Pitt, Hacks, Widow's Bay, and Pluribus lead the nominations pack. But in a preview published Saturday , NPR critics Glen Weldon, Aisha Harris, and Eric Deggans staked out positions that favor smaller, quirkier fare, the kind of shows public-radio audiences already watch. That pattern tells you something about where the cultural gatekeepers sit, and how far their taste runs from the broad middle of the television audience. Apple TV dominates NPR's wish…Open
John Travolta's iconic white suit from Saturday Night Fever could fetch up to £300,000 when Propstore puts more than 1,400 pieces of film and TV history on the block next month. The auction house's Summer Entertainment Memorabilia Auction will run four days and feature props, costumes, and collectibles spanning decades of Hollywood production. Among the […] The post Travolta's Saturday Night Fever suit and Shining axe headline massive Propstore memorabilia auction appeared first on American Almanac .
John Travolta's iconic white suit from Saturday Night Fever could fetch up to £300,000 when Propstore puts more than 1,400 pieces of film and TV history on the block next month. The auction house's Summer Entertainment Memorabilia Auction will run four days and feature props, costumes, and collectibles spanning decades of Hollywood production. Among the headline lots: the fake axe Jack Nicholson swung through a bathroom door in The Shining, a hoverboard Michael J. Fox rode in Back to the Future Part II, and a golden snitch from the Harry Potter franchise, The Sun reported . The single priciest item on the docket is not a costume or a weapon. It is a 15-inch stop-motion animation puppet from the 1949 film Mighty Joe Young, estimated to…Open
The Television Academy will honor Michael J. Fox with the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award at the 2026 Primetime Emmy Awards on September 14, recognizing decades of advocacy that turned a personal diagnosis into a multibillion-dollar research effort. Fox, the Canadian-American actor who won three consecutive Emmys in the 1980s for his role as Alex P. […] The post Michael J. Fox to receive Bob Hope Humanitarian Award at 2026 Emmys appeared first on American Almanac .
The Television Academy will honor Michael J. Fox with the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award at the 2026 Primetime Emmy Awards on September 14, recognizing decades of advocacy that turned a personal diagnosis into a multibillion-dollar research effort. Fox, the Canadian-American actor who won three consecutive Emmys in the 1980s for his role as Alex P. Keaton on NBC's Family Ties, has spent the past quarter-century building The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research into the world's largest nonprofit funder of Parkinson's science. The foundation has supported more than $3 billion in research programs and set a 2026 goal of $700 million in new commitments to fund scientific research and grants, The Hollywood Reporter reported . The…Open
Michael J. Fox is heading back to a television set for another season of Apple TV+'s Shrinking, a move that extends a comeback few expected from a man who retired from acting during the pandemic and whose foundation has now funded more than $3 billion in Parkinson's research. Fox, 65, confirmed he will return for […] The post Michael J. Fox returns to acting 35 years after going public with Parkinson's diagnosis appeared first on American Almanac .
Michael J. Fox is heading back to a television set for another season of Apple TV+'s Shrinking, a move that extends a comeback few expected from a man who retired from acting during the pandemic and whose foundation has now funded more than $3 billion in Parkinson's research. Fox, 65, confirmed he will return for Season 4 of the comedy series, where he plays a character who, like Fox himself, lives with Parkinson's disease. He is also currently nominated for an Emmy for his three-episode arc in Season 3, a run that marked the first time in his career he played someone whose Parkinson's was written directly into the role rather than worked around it. The Hollywood Reporter profiled Fox and his foundation co-founder Deborah W. Brooks in…Open