‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ & ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Shine In TV At 2018 PGA Awards

If you’ve been privileged enough to watch Amazon’s original comedy series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel on Prime Video, then you already know how talented the acting is, not just from star Rachel Brosnahan, but practically everyone in the supporting cast as well. While Brosnahan took home her own Golden Globe earlier this month for Best Actress in a TV Comedy, each and every aspect of the show deserves recognition, from its script to production to directorial prowess.

The same goes for Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale, which stars the talented Elisabeth Moss and a supporting cast to brag home about that includes Samira Wiley, Joseph Fiennes, Yvonne Strahovski, Alexis Bledel and Madeline Brewer among others. Both streaming series newbies, each of which have only premiered one season to date, came away from last night’s 2018 PGA Awards ceremony with marquee honors.

During last night’s festivities at the Beverly Hilton, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel creator Amy Sherman-Palladino accepted the Danny Thomas Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Comedy for the show’s first season. According to Deadline, Sherman-Palladino dropped plenty of f-bombs in her acceptance speech which also recognized her co-producers Daniel Palladino, Sheila Lawrence, Dhana Rivera Gilbert.

About 30 minutes later, Warren Littlefield accepted The Norman Felton Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Drama for The Handmaid’s Tale, crediting Hulu for having the insight to develop this brilliant series and see to its release. Bruce Miller, Daniel Wilson, Fran Sears, Ilene Chaiken, Sheila Hockin, Eric Tuchman, Frank Siracusa, John Weber, Joseph Boccia, Elisabeth Moss, Kira Snyder, and Leila Gerstein have all received production credit for Season 1 of the series.

Other winners at last night’s ceremony included Disney/Pixar’s Coco, Abramorama’s documentary Jane, A&E’s Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath, NBC’s The Voice, Netflix’s Black Mirror and HBO’s Last Week Tonight With John Oliver.

In addition to the awards given, there were a number of memorable speakers including Get Out director Jordan Peele, Ryan Murphy and Ava DuVernay. In typical fashion, Jordan Peele – whose film was awarded the Stanley Kramer Award – once again compared our current state of political affairs to his film by declaring that “we are in the sunken place.”

Murphy, who was presented with the Norman Lear Achievement Award in Television, spoke about his inclusion of gay characters in television and DuVernay, who was presented with the Visionary Award, spoke about the importance of yesterday’s women’s march.

Michael is a music and television junkie keen on most things that are not a complete and total bore. You can follow him on Twitter — @Tweetskoor

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