Awards “stuff,” as Dan Fogelman calls it, has always been “kind of fun and a little foreign to me,” admits the double Emmy nominee, who’s up for best drama series as the creator of Paradise and best comedy series as an executive producer of Only Murders in the Building . Since 2021, Fogelman has had consecutive nominations in one of the two categories, dating back to the NBC drama This Is Us , on which Sterling K. Brown, who now leads his postapocalyptic Hulu thriller, starred. But as nice as the recognition is, Fogelman confesses, “We tend to never win.”
That could change with the acclaim that’s surrounding Paradise , which is already close to wrapping production on season two and also has seen its three leads — Brown (Xavier Collins), Julianne Nicholson (Sinatra) and James