The third annual The Contenders Emmys, Deadline’s television awards-season event, is now underway at the DGA Theater in Hollywood, where a total of 24 networks and studios are showing off 43 of their Emmy-contender programs to kick off Emmy season. The event is happening all day in front of a packed, invitation-only audience of Television Academy voters and PGA, SAG-AFTRA, WGAW and DGA members.

Presentations conclude at 5:30 PM after Hulu presents its slate that includes The Looming Tower with EP Craig Zisk, stars Jeff Daniels and Peter Sarsgaard

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As a denizen of New York, Peter Sarsgaard knew all too well the overwhelming emotions associated with the tragic 9/11 attacks. “In an emotional event like this, everyone’s first reaction is just to lick their wounds,” Sarsgaard said when he visited the L.A. Times video studio this week. “It’s completely understandable. But it’s just like if you have a relative who died of a drug overdose, not everyone wants to talk about the heroin problem on the day of the funeral. So, I think for a long time, I, like a lot of other people — I was scared a little bit, too, but also just not interested in talking about the hows and whys of what had happened.” Read More here

Hulu’s The Looming Tower tackles terrorism and the lead up to 9/11 that was 60 years in the making, managing to pack the multifaceted subject into ten episodes. The result is as riveting as the subject matter. Based on the Lawrence Wright book of the same name, one White House insider called it the definitive crash course on Al Qaeda. Read More here

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In a world where people say present-day politics are far more intense than any drama, The Looming Tower is breaking that stigma. Hulu’s miniseries is a dramatic retelling of the information war between the FBI and CIA in the late 1990s and early 2000s which unwittingly led to the destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. The miniseries has quietly become the best political drama on television right now for many reasons, and halfway through the series’ run, it isn’t hard to see why. Read More here

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The meticulously researched series reveals how the agencies’ bitter rivalry had a real cost: it allowed 9/11 to happen. Read More here

“I was in New York on 9/11. I was at West Broadway and Canal Street, and that time will always be a very emotional time to me,” says actor Peter Sarsgaard when discussing his role as CIA analyst Martin Schmidt in the Hulu limited series “The Looming Tower,” which explores the conflicts between the CIA and FBI during the years leading up to the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001. The series is based on the 2006 Pulitzer Prize-winning book of the same name by Lawrence Wright. Read More here