This episode is brought to you by Netflix, presenting Adolescence, nominated for 13 Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Limited Series, writing, directing, and casting.

Stephen Graham is recognized for outstanding writing alongside Jack Thorne and joins fellow acting nominees Owen Cooper, Aaron Doherty, Ashley Walters, and Christine Tramarko.

Deadline calls it a world-changing phenomenon, while Forbes hails its bold single-shot

storytelling as a technical masterpiece.

Adolescence for your Emmy consideration.

Hi, everyone, and thank you for tuning in to the 596th episode of the Hollywood Reporter's Awards Chatter podcast.

I'm the host, Scott Feinberg, and my guest today is a gifted and magnetic screen actor, who, over the course of some 30 years in the business, has enjoyed his greatest success on television,

most notably on Stars' Party Down from 2009 through 2010, NBC's Parks and Recreation from 2010 through 2015,

HBO's Big Little Eyes from 2017 through 2019, and since 2022, on two seasons of Apple TV Plus's Severance,

on which he plays Mark, a history professor grieving the death of his wife,

who opts to undergo a groundbreaking procedure called Severance that results in a total mental separation between one's home and work lives, resulting

in any and outy versions of oneself.

Adam Scott.

Back in 2002, the first season of Severance was recognized with 14 Emmy nominations, including

Best Actor in a Drama Series for Scott and Best Drama Series,

for which Scott as a producer of the show was also personally in the running.

Last month, the show's second season, which the New York Times recently described as the most ambitious,

batty, and all-out pleasurable show on TV, was recognized with a field-leading 27 Emmy nominations, including

those same two. But this time, unlike last time, it is the odds-on favorite to prevail in both

of those categories, which would make Scott an Emmy winner for the first time. Over the course

of a conversation in the offices of Get in Rad Productions, the production

company that Scott runs with his wife Naomi on the Radford Studio Center lot, just a few

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