Hacks: a record 24 nominations and a lead actress win every season, and it still lost comedy series to a first-season show. Voters love Deborah Vance more than they love Hacks.
“Meanwhile, Jean Smart made Emmy history with her fifth Lead Actress win for playing Deborah Vance on "Hacks," having now won the category for every season of the HBO Max comedy — a feat not even "Veep" six-time winner Julia Louis-Dreyfus accomplished.”
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Widow's Bay won six, directing and writing included. Not a fluke.
The figures are clear: 27.7% of people 15 and older read for fun on an average day in 2004, 16.1% in 2025. The headline is doing more work than the data, though. “Disappearing” means gone. This is roughly one in six people, every day, still reading for pleasure. That’s a steep fall, not an extinction, and “less than ever before” only covers what this chart covers, 2004 to 2025.
Before the 90,000 gets shared as the jobs number: it isn't. ADP counts private companies only. The Labor Department's count, public and private, comes out Friday.
