Throughout the year, actress Emma Caulfield keeps a TV diary on EW.com. She uses this space to talk about what shes loving, hating, or tolerating. Currently, shes into the second season of NBCs sitcomThe Good Place, which airs Thursday nights. Credit: Colleen Hayes/NBC; Gabriel Olsen/FilmMagic I love when Fall TV returns. Its television Christmas for me. (I feel this way everyGame Of ThronesSunday, but thats another article.) With year-round programming on every gear, its not the magical annual event it once was....

Forget the social propriety commonly associated with 18th century England and prepare for a vicious competition between two ruthless corset-wearers. The Favouritecenters on the fragile Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) and her close friend Lady Sarah (Rachel Weisz), who governs the country on her behalf. When a new servant Abigail (Emma Stone) arrives, Sarah finds herself competing for the Queens attention, leading to her waging a vicious battle to secure her connection to the throne....

Emma Stone isnt known for playing vicious characters. The Oscar-winner has spent most of her career portraying cheerful heroines in films likeLa La LandandThe Help. EW talked to Stone about getting dark, physical comedy, and, naturally, rabbits. Credit: Yorgos Lanthimos/Fox Searchlight They all feature such a range of emotion that it was just a dream. Abigail is probably the meanest character youve played. How was it taking a walk on the bad side?...

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The ripple effect fromSkydance Animations hiring of John Lassetercontinues. The cast for the film, directed by Alessandro Carloni, isnt public knowledge yet. Thompson had been set as the head of good luck. Credit: James Gourley/REX/Shutterstock Skydance Animation had no comment. Skydance CEO David Ellison held multiple town halls to address the decision internally. A source claimed toTHRit was no doubt a reaction to the backlash on hiring Lasseter last month....

Travers in 2013sSaving Mr. Banks. Varietyfirst reportedthe news about Thompson. Gisela Schober/Getty Images; Nicholas Hunt/WireImage

But Thompson also has a long history with another great British writer: Shakespeare. Until recently, Thompson hadnt done Shakespeare on screen since, not that it was a personal choice. Nobody asked, she tells EW. Credit: Ed Miller/Amazon Studios I never intentionally take a break from anything. It just happens, you know? ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What about this adaptation appealed to you? We had always said, Whenever we get the chance, lets do something else....

For decades nowEmma Thompsonhas redefined what it means to be a triple threat. ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: How did you first get involved with this project? Were you a fan of Ian McEwans work already?EMMA THOMPSON: Yes! Credit: A24 I was always a fan of Ians and met him years and years ago actually. We were both doing a strange talk show back in the day. At that time, he was more established than I was, and he was terribly nice to me....

Emma Thompson has questions about Skydance Animations recent hire of John Lasseter. Formerly the chief creative officer of Pixar Animation, Lasseterstepped downlast year after several allegations of misconduct. When reached by EW, Skydance had no comment on this story. Rich Polk/Getty Images In the letter, she also states her respect forLuckdirector Alessandro Carloni. Read Thompsons full letter at theLos Angeles Times.

Beyond the land of laughs, Im very happy that Jesse Plemons (our Landry of yesteryear!) is continuing his rise to monument status with a nomination for his freaky performance inBlack Mirrors U.S.S. (Though Im sad the TV Academy couldnt find room forthe real hero of Callister, Cristin Milioti.) Curtis Baker/FX Also,Queer EyeandBlue Planet IIwere nominated in their respective Unstructured Reality and Nonfiction categories. All my favorite unscripted 2018 shows, getting Emmys love?...

Some major snubs were unleashed Thursday morning as the nominations for the 70th Emmy Awards were announced. Below are the biggest shows and actors left out in the cold and the most unexpected nominations too. SNUBBED:Modern Family.This is a big one. This is the first time in the history ofModern Familythat it wasnt nominated. More surprising: None of the shows stars were nominated either. Star Laurie Metcalf, however, wasnt collateral damage and picked up a supporting actress nomination....

I wasnt expecting any of it. [Co-creator] Alec Berg and I are both kind of like, Whoa, Hader tells EW. Im just happy HBO let us do it, and Im glad people are digging it. John P. Johnson/HBO Its a weird concept, so its cool that people are on board. He got nominations for all three of those tasks even though it was his first time directing anything. Hader says hisSNLexperience taught him how to balance so many different creative tasks at once....

Fiona Gallagher is saying goodbye. “See, in real life, unlike Fiona, I’m an only child. I never had a big family. Paul Sarkis/SHOWTIME “But even off set, it feels real. We’ve watched the kids grow up into the strong, talented, independent human beings that they are. I taught Emma to shave her legs. I was there when Ethan learned to drive. Shanola and Jeremy and Joan and Bill danced at my wedding in New York last year....