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After two postponements due to the recent Los Angeles wildfires, the 30th annual Critics Choice Awards were at last held on Friday — and it was a big night for Shōgun.

FX’s acclaimed drama, which went into the evening with the most TV category nods, ultimately won in four of the five categories for which it was nominated, including trophies for Best Drama Series, Actor in a Drama (Hiroyuki Sanada), Supporting Actor in a Drama (Tadanobu Asano) and Supporting Actress in a Drama (Moeka Hoshi). Anna Sawai, however — nominated for Best Actress in a Drama Series — ultimately lost out to Kathy Bates,...

Are the 2025 Critics Choice Awards about to be a repeat of the recent Emmys and Golden Globes?

Television awards faves Hacks, Shōgun, and Baby Reindeer are expected to dominate Friday’s ceremony, which was delayed twice in the wake of the devastating Los Angeles wildfires.

Season 3 of Max’s laugh riot Hacks is predicted to walk away with four trophies: comedy series, comedy actress (Jean Smart), comedy supporting actress (Hannah Einbinder), and comedy supporting actor (Paul W. Downs). In fact, the only category Hacks is expected to lose is Best Comedy Actor … because it doesn’t compete there. Instead, our odds-makers believe Adam Brody (Nobody Wants This) had better start preparing a speech.

Likewise, Season 1 of FX’s historical epic Shōgun has four races locked up, per our rankings: drama series, drama actress (Anna Sawai), drama actor (Hiroyuki Sanada), and drama supporting actor (Tadanobu Asano). The remaining statuette is Best Drama Supporting Actress,...

FX chairman John Landgraf explained why the network decided to bring What We Do In The Shadows to a close with season 6 of the supernatural comedy series. The FX series follows four vampires and their exhausted familiar sharing a home on Staten Island among other creatures of the night as they hide among everyday humans. Inspired by Taika Waititi's 2014 mockumentary comedy of the same name, FX's series was developed by the movie's co-director Jemaine Clement and stars Kayvan Novak, Harvey Guillen, Natasia Demetriou, Matt Berry, and Mark Proksch.

Despite the hilarious vampire comedy being a continued hit, What We Do In The Shadows season 6 brought the Staten Island vampire's story to a close. However, despite the decision confusing many fans, John Landgraf revealed why the network decided to end the comedy during FX's 2024 TCA panel, which was attended by Screen Rant. The chairman explained that the network had seen...

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As far as comedy TV shows in the last ten years go, it's hard to find one more beloved than "What We Do in the Shadows." Premiering on FX in 2019, the series was based on the movie of the same name by Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement. Yet, as good as some things are, they must inevitably end.

The "What We Do in the Shadows" season 6 finale served as the series finale, with the vampires saying goodbye after more than 60 episodes and over five years on the air. The decision was made before the season started, however, so it's not as though this came as a surprise to any of the creatives involved, nor for any viewers who stay tuned into the news.

Generally speaking, the show documented the nightly exploits of vampires Nandor (Kayvan Novak), Laszlo (Matt Berry), Nadja...

After Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi’s 2014 movie What We Do in the Shadows received positive response from the audience and critics, they created a TV series of the same name.

The sci-fi mockumentary drama that revolves around a vampire universe debuted on the FX network in 2019. The series, which was executive-produced by Paul Simms finally concluded with season six on December 16, 2024.

Over the years, the show became massively popular among the fans, so much so, that the creators threw in an extra episode in the last season instead of their regular 10-episode-a-season rule for their loyal fandom.

A snippet from What We Do in the Shadows | Credits: FX Network

The storyline of the plot follows a group of bloodsucking roommates living in Staten Island who are exploring their semi-normal lives. The series had a good run for six seasons with 61 hilarious episodes.

As the show ended, Waititi in an...

Long before his role as Nandor the Relentless in What We Do in the Shadows, Kayvan Novak made quite an impression in the British film Four Lions. Alongside co-stars Riz Ahmed and Adeel Akhtar, Novak plays an extremely dim-witted terrorist in this over-the-top comedy that successfully pulls off a satirical take on terrorism. While the film shows how terrorism is driven by ideology, it also shows that it’s stupid, and comically explores the flawed psychology behind the motivation. Ahmed plays Omar, the lead in the film, while Novak plays his cousin, Waj. The film depicts their mishaps as they train to become terrorists, and shows just how incompetent, misguided, and futile all of it is. Because the film uses humor to make a mockery of the threat of terrorism, to belittle it and therefore take a stand against it, Novak is allowed to play it silly, and does so with aplomb.

What We Do in the Shadows actor Harvey Guillén and The Orville’s Adrianne Palicki are set to lead the cast of the pickleball mockumentary film Pickleheads.

According to Deadline, Josh Flanagan and Pej Vahdat will co-direct the original comedy mockumentary Pickleheads, starring Harvey Guillén and Adrianne Palicki. Vahdat, who also acts in the film, will make his feature-length directorial debut with Pickleheads after appearing in featured roles on hit shows such as Jeff Bridges' The Old Man, Empire, and Bones. Other cast members include Kristine Froseth, Eric Nelsen, Ryan Cooper, Lindsey Morgan, Sam Humphrey, and Jared Bonner.

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This article contains spoilers for Season 6 of What We Do in the Shadows.

The time has come to bid farewell to our favorite vampires and one of the most inventive mockumentary-style TV shows: What We Do in the Shadows, created by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi. Over the course of its six-season run, the series captivated fans worldwide, consistently hitting the mark with its offbeat humor and unforgettable storytelling. From the hilariously bizarre adventures of the Baron (Doug Jones) to the iconic trial episode featuring Danny Trejo and Evan Rachel Wood, the show delivered countless noteworthy moments. Even in its final season, the creators didn’t disappoint, giving us Guillermo’s career shift, Laszlo’s most ambitious invention yet, and so much more, culminating in a finale that was equal parts satisfying, nostalgic, hilarious, and fitting.

Before diving into the series finale, let’s revisit what made season 6 stand out.

After six hilarious seasons, FX's What We Do in the Shadows has ended. What started out as one of the best comedy films of the 2010s from Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement became a celebrated, Emmy-nominated series. The show, like the movie, followed some rather helpless vampires, this time on Staten Island, and while the likes of husband and wife Laszlo (Matt Berry) and Nadja (Natasia Demtroiu) are one of the wildest sitcom couples you'll ever see, and the droll Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch) was actually the funniest character, the heart of What We Do in the Shadows was human familiar Guillermo (Harvey Guillén) and his desire to be just like his master Nandor (Kayvan Novak), a vampire who never sees Guillermo as his equals. For years, it looked like fans might get a romance angle for them, but instead, the series finale gave us something so much better.

Spoilers ahead for the finale of "What We Do In the Shadows."

"What We Do In the Shadows" is one of the best TV comedies of the past few years and an all-time great TV show based on a movie. For six seasons, it gave us delightful, weird, horny stories that looked at the dull immobility of immortality and mined comedy from the fact that the series' centuries-old vampires are so carefree due to their existence that they basically waste their lives away, oblivious of anything happening beyond their house and uninterested in anyone but themselves. In a sense, it's the anti-"Frieren: Beyond Journey's End," because rather than look at the fleeting nature of time and find melancholy in it the way that anime does, "What We Do In the Shadows" simply has its cast of lovable buffoons ignore all that willingly.

This is not to say that the...

Spoiler Alert: Spoilers follow for the series finale of What We Do in the Shadows

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One of the funniest sitcoms in recent memory has ended its six-season run at the top of its game. What We Do in the Shadows, the vampire-mockumentary series based on the film of the same name, aired its series finale on Monday night, and it undoubtedly closed things out on a high note. Unlike other beloved sitcoms like Seinfeld and The Office, which ended on relatively weaker seasons, the sixth go-around for What We Do in the Shadows saw one terrific episode after another; the cast and crew clearly understand that it’s always better to leave people wanting more.

Yet the final episode was particularly great, as it focused...

Make-up design doesn’t always mean prosthetics or extremes — that’s why the Emmy Awards smartly single out contemporary make-up design as its own category. But too often, those more immediately arresting designs are the ones that get all the attention. Not anymore. Join IndieWire in celebrating the make-up artists creating subtle, character-specific work for contemporary characters with our series, “Making Up Is Hard to Do.”

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“What We Do in the Shadows” has always been the rare delight of a comedy set in a contemporary setting that still gets to play with a cornucopia of mixed-up period details and fantastic monsters. It is as big and broad as it can be, in part because the comedy lives in its contrast between ordinary Staten Islanders and the Vampire Residence that has so fascinated us, and also, apparently, the Maysles brothers.

For six seasons, the...

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Much like "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "Fargo," and "M*A*S*H," it didn't take long for the "What We Do in the Shadows" TV series to justify its existence, step out of its movie counterpart's shadow, and turn into one of the best comedies on television. For six seasons, the show has followed the misadventures of a group of horny and buffoonish vampires who had long given up their mission to conquer the new world and simply lead static lives of hijinks, as well as the quest of their familiar Guillermo (Harvey Guillén) to become a vampire despite discovering he has Van Helsing blood in him. Season 5 even had Guillermo finally turning into a creature of the night, only to realize that it was not for him and transform back into a human.

Warning: Spoilers lie ahead for What We Do in the Shadows season 6, episode 11, "The Finale"!

Nandor and The Guide are figuring out what they want next from their afterlives in the What We Do in the Shadows series finale. Season 6 of the hit vampire mockumentary has seen the main group of vampires continue their wacky antics all while Guillermo has sought to figure out his life beyond being a familiar. Laszlo and Colin Robinson teamed to create a Frankenstein-like monster, Nadja and Nandor impede on Guillermo's workplace job, and their long-lost roommate, Jerry, resumed his plans for conquering the New World.

The What We Do in the Shadows series finale, entitled "The Finale", picks up directly after the previous episode, "The Promotion", in which Guillermo left his office job after being mistreated and accepted Nandor's invitation to become his vigilante partner. The finale, however, reveals that the documentary is coming to an end,...

It's over! After six very funny, very silly seasons, the vampire sitcom What We Do In The Shadows has come to an end, and the cast are ready to reminisce. “Six seasons, man. I mean I’m from the U.K., British people make eight episodes and they feel like ‘that’s it, it’s over,’” said Kayvan Novak, who played warlord vampire Nandor the Relentless. “We did 61 episodes. I’s incredible.”

Harvey Guillén played Nandor's long-suffering familiar Guillermo, who spent the the bulk of the show fruitlessly waiting for his master to turn him into a vampire before trying to chart a new path for himself in the final two. What We Do In The Shadows was mostly dumb fun, but the relationship between Guillermo and Nandor gave it a heart. “The show has made people feel good, and that’s our job. We created an escape, and we did that for six seasons,...

Warning: Major Spoilers lie ahead for What We Do in the Shadows season 6, episode 11, "The Finale"!Guillermo is in emotional disarray and Colin Robinson is somewhat there to help in the What We Do in the Shadows series finale. Season 6 of the FX comedy is bringing the spinoff of Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement's acclaimed vampire mockumentary to a close after a perfect streak of acclaimed seasons. The season has followed Guillermo as he began forging a life away from the vampires by entering the workforce, all while the vampires have done everything from summon the ghost of Laszlo's father to discover their long-lost roommate, who wants to conquer the New World.

The What We Do in the Shadows series finale, entitled "The Finale", sees Guillermo and the central group of vampires presented with the news that the documentary crew that has been following them for the past...

Warning: This post contains spoilers for What We Do in the Shadows' series finaleThe series finale of What We Do in the Shadows offers an ingenious and unexpected goodbye that's wholehearted and self-aware. As a standalone episode, it provides one of the most inventive structures in the entire series. Simply titled "The Finale", season 6, episode 11 starts out as any other outing between the vampiric crew – this time with a development about some particularly uncontrollable urges from Cravensworth's Monster. The series slams on the breaks when the documentary crew asks for their microphone packs back, as Guillermo begins to unravel at the reality that their "documentary" is coming to an end.

What We Do in the Shadows is a mockumentary-styled comedy series that follows the exploits of four vampires and a familiar living in Staten Island in the twenty-first century. Unrelated to the film of the same name, the show's vampires...

Warning: Spoilers ahead for What We Do in the Shadows series finale!What We Do in the Shadows star Harvey Guillén has addressed Guillermo's emotional ending and his potential future after the series finale. What We Do in the Shadows season 6 marked the end of the vampire comedy, the final episode seeing Guillermo (Guillén) highly emotional over the documentary on him and his friends' lives coming to a close. The familiar goes as far as to fabricate an ending where he plans to leave, tucking Nandor (Kayvan Novak) into his coffin. However, this turns out to be a rouse for the cameras, despite how emotional he is about the finale.

Speaking with ScreenRant, Guillén explained how What We Do in the Shadows' final scene was filmed on the very last day of shooting, heightening the emotions for the Guillermo actor. He said the day was just as difficult in...

Warning! Spoilers for the What We Do In The Shadows finale

The What We Do in the Shadows series finale has left viewers with plenty to ponder, particularly regarding Nandor’s future without Guillermo. FX’s beloved mockumentary series, which first aired in 2019 as a spinoff of Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi's 2014 cult-classic film, follows a group of vampire roommates navigating immortal life in modern-day Staten Island. Known for its absurd humor, endearing characters, and genre-bending creativity, the show earned widespread critical acclaim, including over 20 Emmy nominations.

In an interview with ScreenRant’s Grant Hermanns, actor Kayvan Novak reflects on Nandor’s life without Guillermo, offering an amusing perspective on where the character could go next. After the film crew following the vampire household around for the past six seasons decides they've had enough footage, the long-running dynamic between Nandor (Novak) and his human familiar Guillermo (Harvey Guillén) reaches...

[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “What We Do in the Shadows” Season 6, Episode 11, “The Finale.”]

Not that long ago, “What We Do in the Shadows” showrunner Paul Simms had a casual conversation with his son — one that could have easily been cast aside as the common, curious musings of a young, growing mind. Instead, it got the writer and producer thinking, once again, about the peculiar perspectives guiding his FX vampire comedy. “My son said to me, ‘You’re 56,'” Simms remembered during a past interview with IndieWire. “He’s like, ‘So you’ve lived five decades?’ And I’m like, ‘Yeah, more than that.’ And he goes, ‘Doesn’t it get boring?'”

“I didn’t know how to answer,” Simms said. “First, I gave the dad answer, which is there’s something interesting about each age. But then I thought back on the times of my life when I’d think, ‘This is...

This post contains spoilers for the series finale of What We Do in the Shadows, which is now On Demand from FX and will begin streaming on Hulu tomorrow.

“Things end. And it hurts!”

This is Nandor the Relentless (Kayvan Novak) early in the series finale of What We Do in the Shadows, trying and failing to bring Guillermo de la Cruz (Harvey Guillén) out of his grief from learning that the documentary crew that has been filming Nandor and his vampire housemates for years is packing up and going home.

[This story contains major spoilers from the What We Do in the Shadows series finale, “The Finale.”]

Nothing ever really changes at the “Vampire Residence” in Staten Island, New York.

The creaky, dusty floorboards and musty tapestries of the Victorian dwelling never get a makeover. Vampire familiar-turned-bodyguard-turned-private equity bro, Guillermo de la Cruz (Harvey Guillén), never fully realizes what it is to live as a blood-sucking creature of the night. The many goodbyes and gut-hollowing deaths endured over the six-season run of FX’s What We Do in the Shadows always end with the roommates of that shabby old house reuniting time and again for hijinks, petty arguments and farcical life-threatening quandaries.

Season six of the Emmy-winning show ended Monday wrestling with that idea, the cyclical nature of living — especially when you’ve been doing it for hundreds of years — as it tied the bow on a much-beloved 61-episode series run.

“For the vampires, I think that’s exactly the case,...

Spoiler Alert: This post contains spoilers from Season 6, Episode 11 of “What We Do in the Shadows,” “The Finale,” which premiered Monday, Dec. 16 on FX.

The Staten Island vampires of “What We Do in the Shadows” have closed their coffins for good.

The final episode of Season 6 was the series finale of the FX comedy, which was originally a spinoff of the 2014 mockumentary written and directed by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi. Like so many irreverent sitcoms, it ended without many lessons learned and the promise of an eternity of hijinks to come, even after the cameras are turned off.

The episode begins with Guillermo (Harvey Guillén), the human familiar of the house, lamenting that the documentary team has shot enough footage and won’t need to visit the vampires’ home anymore. While the eternal bloodsuckers — Guillermo’s master Nandor (Kayvan Novak), Laszlo (Matt Berry), Nadja (Natasia Demetriou), Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch...

What We Do in the Shadows Season 6 is coming to an end on Monday (December 16).

The show is one of FX’s most beloved series, with an incredible 96% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

The series follows the nightly exploits of vampire roommates Nandor (Kayvan Novak), Laszlo (Matt Berry), Nadja (Natasia Demetriou) and Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch) as they navigate the modern world of Staten Island with the help of their former familiar and current human friend, Guillermo (Harvey Guillén) as well as their vampire bureaucrat acquaintance, The Guide (Kristen Schaal).

With Season 6′s ending airing now, fans are curious whether they can expect to see a seventh season.

Keep reading to find out more…

Unfortunately, What We Do in the Shadows will end with Season 6.

FX chairman John Landgraf explained very simply why the network has decided to bring the show to a close during FX’s TCA panel: “The show came to a natural conclusion.

The end is nigh for the Staten Island vampire roommates Nandor (Kayvan Novak), Nadja (Natasia Demetriou), Laszlo (Matt Berry), and Colin Robinson (Mark Proskch) and their human pal Guillermo (Harvey Guillén) as FX‘s What We Do in the Shadows prepares to present its series finale episode on Monday, December 16th. In anticipation of the show’s ending, TV Insider caught up with stars Novak, Guillén, Berry, and Proksch alongside creatives Paul Simms, Sarah Naftalis, and Sam Johnson in our studio at New York Comic Con to discuss the final season. So, do they stick the landing? It’s a question that looms over the show as we anticipate the finale episode, but according to Proksch, they do indeed. @Mattdoylephoto “I think it’s hard on a comedy, based on history, to stick the landing,” Proksch says in the video interview, above. “But I feel like we accomplish that.” It...

Prep school vampires. Bronx bomber vampires. CitiBike vampires. JFK Tsa vampires. “What We Do in the Shadows” isn’t leaving any New York (or vampire) subculture behind in Season 6; this in turn has given costume designer Laura Montgomery the gift of delivering new twists for the FX series’ final run around Staten Island.

The biggest lift of the season was probably Episode 9, “Come Out and Play,” the show’s loving tribute to “The Warriors” and confirmation of the hidden, evil agenda of every Brooklyn barista/artist-and-writer vampire. Montgomery and her team needed to dress the episode’s huge background cast with enough distinctiveness that each group read quickly and comedically as part of the show’s quick-panning, constantly readjusting mockumentary style.

“The show is 22 minutes long and [the costumes are] purely a visual gag when you’re calling out all these vampires,” Montgomery told IndieWire. “Because we had to dress crew, [we had] Location Support On Camera vampires,...

Taika Waititi, the film director known for projects like Jojo Rabbit and Thor: Love and Thunder, says that the TV show What We Do in the Shadows has gone on "for far too long," but also says he's proud of the show he played a huge role in creating. And all we can say to that is: Make up your mind, Taika!

In celebration of the show's sixth and final season, Waititi spoke with Entertainment Weekly about the show's unique world and characters. And while some have argued that the series' premise has grown a bit tired, it still managed to stay fresh enough with man fans, thanks to its original narratives, extensive cameo list, and some of the best special effects on television.

"This went on for far too long, but I'm proud of it," Waititi joked. "I thought that the movie, when we were making the movie, I...

One part The Office, one part Dracula, and several parts the 2014 What We Do In The Shadows movie from Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement, this charming FX sitcom has been chugging along for the past six years, reliably producing season after season of quality comedy with a horror twist. What We Do In The Shadows occasionally earned a viral moment or a spike in popularity, but mostly it sank or swam by doing what sitcoms always did: introducing a great cast of memorable characters, finding hilarious people to play them, and then making merciless fun of them episode after episode, year after year.

The only minor difference is that most of the characters here happen to be vampires: ancient lunkhead Nandor (Kayvan Novak), quick-to-anger Nadja (Natasia Demetriou), smooth-talking Lazslo (Matt Berry), the boring-on-purpose energy vampire Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch), and Nandor's long-suffering familiar Guillermo (Harvey Guillén), who is more competent...

With just two episodes left in the series, What We Do in the Shadows continues to approach its last season with an air of finality. The season has been addressing some of the more important relationships of the show, like the complicated dynamic between Nandor (Kayvan Novak) and Guillermo (Harvey Guillen). It has also been taking on topics like Laszlo’s (Matt Berry) parent-child relationships with his father and Colin (Mark Proksch), as well as Colin’s deep sense of loneliness and desperation for connection. Nadja (Natasia Demetriou) has had significantly less to do than her housemates (up until her iconic fight scene in the season's ninth episode), but the season has still tried to emphasize her curiosity about humans.

For six seasons, What We Do in the Shadows has brought fans to tears with its hilariously unhinged shenanigans and shockingly crass and dry humor. Season after season, as the documentary crew has filmed and observed, it's clear that the Staten Island vampires, Nadja (Natasia Demetriou), Nandor (Kayvan Novak), Laszlo (Matt Berry), and Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch), are content with their way of life, which viewers and especially Guillermo (Harvey Guillén), their familiar, know is riddled with absurdity, foolishness and ignorance.

C Critics Choice Awards 2025 TV Nominations Revealed ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

Each year, fans look forward to a set of awards to see the best projects and talents of the past year be rewarded. The Critics Choice Awards is one such annual awards ceremony. The 2025 edition of the show is coming up next month and netizens have been eagerly waiting for the nominations.

The list of nominees helps them figure out who will sweep the trophies this time around. Whether their favorite shows and actors will get their due or will they have to deal with a snub? Here’s what we know about the 30th edition of the Critics Choice Awards, including the revealed nominees.

When Are Where To Watch 2025 Critics Choice Awards?

The 2025 edition of the Critics Choice Awards will be held on January 12, 2025, in Santa Monica, California. The ceremony will be broadcasted on E! and will stream on Peacock the day after.

“Shōgun” was the most lauded show among the Critics Choice Awards annual list of TV nominations. The FX series nods in six categories: drama series, drama actor (Hiroyuki Sanada), drama actress (Anna Sawai), supporting drama actor (Tadanobu Asano and Takehiro Hira) and supporting drama actress (Moeka Hoshi).

After “Shōgun,” six series tied with four nominations each: “Abbott Elementary,” “Disclaimer,” “Hacks,” “The Diplomat,” “The Penguin” and “What We Do in the Shadows.”

The Critics Choice Awards will take place on Jan. 12 and air live on E! at 7p.m. See the full list of nominated series below.

Best Drama Series

“The Day of the Jackal” (Peacock)

“The Diplomat” (Netflix)

“Evil” (Paramount+)

“Industry” (HBO/Max)

“Interview with the Vampire” (AMC)

“The Old Man” (FX)

“Shōgun” (FX/Hulu)

“Slow Horses” (Apple TV+)

Best Actor In A Drama Series

Jeff Bridges – “The Old Man” (FX)

Ncuti Gatwa – “Doctor Who” (Disney+)

Eddie Redmayne – “The Day of the Jackal...

Cosmo Jarvis as John Blackthorne and Anna Sawai as Toda Mariko in ‘Shogun’ (Photo Cr: Katie Yu / FX)

FX’s Shōgun tops the list of the 30th annual Critics Choice Awards TV nominees, earning six nominations including Best Drama Series. The Penguin, The Diplomat, Hacks, Disclaimer, Abbott Elementary, and What We Do in the Shadows followed close behind with four nominations each.

Chelsea Handler will return as host of the 2025 Critics Choice Awards airing live on E! on Sunday, January 12, 2025 at 7pm Et/Pt. Nominations in the film categories will be announced on Thursday, December 12, 2024.

30th Annual Critics Choice Awards TV Nominees

Best Drama Series

The Day of the Jackal (Peacock)

The Diplomat (Netflix)

Evil (Paramount+)

Industry (HBO | Max)

Interview with the Vampire (AMC)

The Old Man (FX)

Shōgun (FX / Hulu)

Slow Horses (Apple TV+)

Best Actor In A Drama Series

Jeff Bridges – The Old Man (FX)

Ncuti Gatwa – Doctor Who...

Television nominees for the 30th Annual Critics Choice Awards were announced on Thursday, and FX’s acclaimed drama Shōgun led the pack with six total nominations.

Shōgun was one of eight shows to earn a nod in the Best Drama Series category, while cast members Hiroyuki Sanada, Anna Sawai, Tadanobu Asano, Takehiro Hira and Moeka Hoshi all picked up nominations for their work, as well.

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The Critics Choice Association (Cca) announced today the TV category nominees for the 30th annual Critics Choice Awards.

The winners will be revealed at the star-studded Critics Choice Awards gala hosted by Chelsea Handler, which will broadcast Live on E! on Sunday, January 12, 2025 (7:00 – 10:00 pm Et / Pt) from the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica.

The show will also be available to stream the next day on Peacock.

(Courtesy of Critics Choice Association)

Shōgun (FX / Hulu) leads the television contenders for the 30th annual Critics Choice Awards with six nominations.

The show earned a nod for Best Drama Series, while the cast was recognized in multiple categories, including Hiroyuki Sanada for Best Actor in a Drama Series and Anna Sawai for Best Actress in a Drama Series.

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The Critics Choice Association (CCA) has announced all the nominees for the TV categories for the 30th annual Critics Choice Awards happening on Sunday, January 12, 2025 at the Barker Hangar in Los Angeles.

In the lead overall is the Emmy-winning FX series “Shōgun” with six nominations including Best Drama Series, Best Actor in a Drama Series for producer/star Hiroyuki Sanada, Best Actress in a Drama Series for Anna Sawai, and Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series — a category it was left out of at the Emmys — for Moeka Hoshi.

Other series recognized with multiple nominations include “Abbott Elementary,” “Hacks,” “The Diplomat” and “What We Do in the Shadows,” which have all been recognized by the organization in previous years, as well as new series like “Disclaimer,” “The Penguin,” and “English Teacher.”

Nominations for the film categories will be announced on Thursday, December 12, 2024.

The Critic Choice Awards 2025 will once again...

Hot off its record haul at the Emmys, FX/Hulu’s Shōgun leads the 30th Critics Choice Awards TV nominations with six, followed by a half-dozen other shows with four each: ABC’s Abbott Elementary, Apple TV+’s Disclaimer, HBO|Max’s Hacks and The Pengiun, Netflix’s The Diplomat and the final season of FX’s What We Do in the Shadows.

Eight other programs are next with three nominations apiece.

Netflix leads all networks and platforms with 23 Cca noms, followed by awards rival HBO|Max with 21. FX with 13 and Apple TV+ with 12 are the only others in double digits.

Nominations for the film categories will be revealed December 12, and the awards will be handed out Sunday, January 12, at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica. E! will air the Critics Choice Awards live.

Shōgun picked up a staggering 18 Emmy Awards on 25 nominations at the September 15 ceremony. It will face off...

The television nominations for the 2025 Critics Choice Awards have been unveiled!

The awards show celebrates both TV shows and movies, with the movie nominations expected to be unveiled one week from today on December 12. So stay tuned for those!

With the TV nominations unveiled today, it looks like FX’s Shogun has the most nominations this year with 6 total. Several shows came in second place with four nominations each including Hacks, Abbott Elementary, The Diplomat, and The Penguin.

The 2025 Critics Choice Awards will air on January 12, 2025

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2025 Critics Choice Awards – TV Show Nominations List:

Best Drama Series

The Day of the Jackal (Peacock)

The Diplomat (Netflix)

Evil (Paramount+)

Industry (HBO | Max)

Interview with the Vampire (AMC)

The Old Man (FX)

Shōgun (FX / Hulu)

Slow Horses (Apple TV+)

Best Actor In A Drama Series

Jeff Bridges...

The Critics Choice Association has announced its TV nominees for the 2025 Critics Choice Awards.

Shogun leads with six nominations, including best drama series, followed by Abbott Elementary, Disclaimer, Hacks, The Diplomat, The Penguin and What We Do In the Shadows, which all each garnered four nominations.

The most nominations for a platform came with Netflix’s 23, with HBO/Max finishing closely behind with 21. FX (including FX on Hulu) had 20.

Nominations for the Critics Choice film categories will be announced on Dec. 12. The Critics Choice Awards will air on E! on Jan. 12 and will be hosted by Chelsea Handler.

See below for the full list of nominations.

Best Drama Series

The Day of the Jackal (Peacock)

The Diplomat (Netflix)

Evil (Paramount+)

Industry (HBO | Max)

Interview with the Vampire (AMC)

The Old Man (FX)

Shōgun (FX / Hulu)

Slow Horses (Apple TV+)

Best Actor in a Drama Series

Jeff Bridges – The Old Man...

“Shōgun” topped Thursday’s 2025 Critics Choice TV Awards nominations with six bids, including Best Drama Series.

Fresh off its record-breaking 18 Emmy wins, “Shōgun” also scored five acting nominations for Emmy champs Hiroyuki Sanada and Anna Sawai in lead, and for Emmy nominees Tadanobu Asano and Takehiro Hira in supporting, while Moeka Hoshi was shortlisted for her supporting turn. In drama series, the FX epic is up against “The Day of the Jackal,” “The Diplomat,” “Evil,” “Industry,” “Interview with the Vampire,” “The Old Man,” and “Slow Horses.”

“Abbott Elementary,” “Disclaimer,” “Hacks,” “The Diplomat,” “The Penguin,” and “What We Do in the Shadows” each nabbed four nominations.

“Hacks,” which stunned “The Bear” for the Best Comedy Series Emmy in September, earned acting bids for Emmy champ Jean Smart, and Emmy nominees Hannah Einbinder and Paul W. Downs. “Hacks” will face off in Best Comedy Series against “Abbott Elementary,” “English Teacher,” “Nobody Wants This,...

The first season of FX’s Emmy-winning juggernaut “Shōgun” continued its roll through awards season on Thursday, leading all programs in nominations for the television categories of the Critics Choice Awards.

The series, set in 17th-century Japan, earned a new Emmy record by winning 18 awards in one season, receiving six nominations from the Critics Choice nominating committees. “Abbott Elementary,” “Disclaimer,” “Hacks,” “The Diplomat,” “The Penguin” and “What We Do in the Shadows” tied for second with four nominations each.

In the Best Drama Series category, “Shōgun” will be going up against “The Day of the Jackal,” “The Diplomat,” “Evil,” “Industry,” “Interview With the Vampire,” “The Old Man” and “Slow Horses.”

Comedy series nominees are “Abbott Elementary,” “English Teacher,” “Hacks,” “Nobody Wants This,” “Only Murders in the Building,” “Somebody Somewhere,” “St. Denis Medical” and “What We Do in the Shadows.”

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What We Do in the Shadows star Doug Jones opens up about early plans for his character's lethal exit from the series.

Speaking to ScreenRant, Jones discussed not only the unexpected longevity of What We Do in the Shadows as a series, but of his character Baron Afanas specifically. "I will say that my time on this show has gone longer than we ever thought it would," Jones noted. "I was never meant to be on the show this long. At the beginning, I was hired for the pilot episode in Season 1, to do that grand entrance in the attic... It kind of sets up that I had sent them to North America to conquer the New World, and they haven't done it yet. So, that was kind of the setup, that then they were going to find a way to get rid of me in the next episode."

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It’s been 10 long years since we last saw Alexander Skarsgård’s Eric Northman in the seminal HBO hit True Blood, but if you happened to catch last night’s episode of What We Do in the Shadows, you’d have recognized a familiar face. Skarsgård made an appearance in the latest outing of the FX series, which has only two episodes to go now before it wraps up its sixth and final season.

Titled "Come Out and Play," the Season 6 episode is a riff on the Walter Hill cult-classic film The Warriors, and features Skarsgård as a reluctant onlooker in a crowd of NYC vampires being addressed by Doug Jones' character, The Baron. When he asks if anyone has a question, a vampire raises his hand, only to get his skull crushed by Cravensworth’s Monster. When The Baron notes that Skarsgård also had his hand raised, he timidly replies,...

What We Do in the Shadows star Doug Jones discusses his reaction to meeting True Blood's Alexander Skarsgård on set.

Speaking to ScreenRant, Jones opened up about the experience of meeting Alexander Skarsgård — who played the vampire Eric Northman on True Blood — on set for a surprise appearance in an episode of the final season of What We Do in the Shadows. Jones noted that he was "tickled pink that we were going to get a pretty stormy vampire to show up in our goofy comedy show." Jones continued, "And when he walked onto the set, he was, like, 6'5", he's a little taller than me, and strappingly handsome, and everybody's going like, ‘[In awe] Oh.’ But he pulled the funny out in a way that we did not expect, I didn't expect. So, getting to banter back and forth with him was delicious for me."

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Warning: Spoilers lie ahead for What We Do in the Shadows season 6, episode 9, "Come Out and Play"!

Doug Jones is back as The Baron, but things are not all that pleasant, in What We Do in the Shadows season 6. Jones is one of the most iconic character actors known for his work in makeup and special effects prosthetics, namely his celebrated turns as Abe Sapien in Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy movies, Admiral Saru in Star Trek: Discovery and the Amphibian man in The Shape of Water, among others. Jones was introduced in the pilot of FX's What We Do in the Shadows as Baron Afanas, an ancient vampire who is the main group's leader, and has nearly been killed multiple times by Guillermo.

In What We Do in the Shadows season 6, it's revealed that The Baron has finally recovered from his latest near-fatal encounter with the sun, having...

[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for What We Do in the Shadows Season 6, Episode 9, “Come Out and Play.”] What We Do in the Shadows saw the vampires of New York City step into the light for a very special occasion as Baron Afanas (Doug Jones) prepared to accept an Eternal Lifetime Achievement Award. But as with most plans on FX‘s beloved mockumentary, the Baron’s moment didn’t go as planned as he was joined by his “kids,” the vampires of Staten Island, Nandor (Kayvan Novak), Lazslo (Matt Berry), Nadja (Natasia Demetriou), and Colin Robinson (Mark Proskch). When the Baron is invited onto the stage to receive his honor by presenter and former forgotten Staten Island roommate, Jerry (Mike O’Brien), the disgruntled vampire tore down the figure with demeaning words. Jerry called out the Baron for not fulfilling his promise to take over the continent, and Lazslo’s monster didn’t take too kindly to it,...

Warning: This post contains spoilers for What We Do in the Shadows season 6, episode 9.What We Do in the Shadows' final season features a major True Blood cameo, and one of the stars breaks down how it happened. The FX show, based on the 2014 mockumentary film by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi, continues to mix absurd comedy with vampire lore. Starring Kayvan Novak, Matt Berry, Natasia Demetriou, Mark Proksch, Harvey Guillén, and Doug Jones, the show follows the misadventures of vampire roommates in Staten Island.

In an interview with Screen Rant, Jones, who plays the narcissistic and ancient vampire Baron Afanas, shared his excitement about Alexander Skarsgård’s surprise appearance in episode 9 of the FX comedy's final season. Skarsgård, known for his brooding role as the vampire Eric Northman in HBO's fantasy drama series True Blood, appeared among the New York vampires summoned by the Baron, making for a brief comedic moment.

Unfortunately, What We Do in the Shadows is wrapping up in just a couple of weeks, and fans might be interested to know the series finale date.

Last year, it was announced that the FX hit would end after its current sixth season.

Now, we know the date the final episode will air.

Keep reading to find out more…

Season 6, episode 11, aka the show’s final episode, will air on December 16, 2024.

The series documents the nightly exploits of vampire roommates Nandor (Kayvan Novak), Laszlo (Matt Berry), Nadja (Natasia Demetriou) and Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch) as they navigate the modern world of Staten Island with the help of their former familiar and current human friend, Guillermo (Harvey Guillén) as well as their vampire bureaucrat acquaintance, The Guide (Kristen Schaal).

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Any episode of What We Do in the Shadows involving Laszlo Cravensworth (Matt Berry) and Nandor the Relentless (Kayvan Novak) attempting anything remotely practical is likely to be a comedic goldmine. In “March Madness,” airing Monday, November 18, our favorite Staten Island vampires turn their attention to demonic possession, specifically, a demon that’s taken up […]

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What We Do in the Shadows is one of FX’s most beloved series, with an incredible 96% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

The series documents the nightly exploits of vampire roommates Nandor (Kayvan Novak), Laszlo (Matt Berry), Nadja (Natasia Demetriou) and Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch) as they navigate the modern world of Staten Island with the help of their former familiar and current human friend, Guillermo (Harvey Guillén) as well as their vampire bureaucrat acquaintance, The Guide (Kristen Schaal).

Season 6 is now airing on the network, and now, fans are curious whether they can expect to see a seventh season.

Keep reading to find out more…

Unfortunately, What We Do in the Shadows will end with Season 6.

FX chairman John Landgraf explained very simply why the network has decided to bring the show to a close during FX’s TCA panel: “The show came to a natural conclusion. It was a great six year run.