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Tyler James Williams chats with The Hollywood Reporter at THR's Emmys Nominees Night and promises fans they'll get an answer about Gregory and Janine in the first episode of 'Abbott Elementary' season four. Plus, he dishes on meeting Tim Johnson Jr., who will play young Chris in the animated 'Everybody Hates Chris' series.

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00:00The season three finale of Abbott Elementary marked a major milestone for Gregory and Janine
00:05What can you tease about what's coming up in season four?
00:09You're definitely gonna get an answer as to
00:12What's going on with them? Like what is this now? That's one thing that I can promise. You'll know in the first episode
00:18That's that's for sure. We decided like okay, let's let's let's give this a an actual
00:23Not necessarily a punctuation mark because it never is that
00:27But at least a concrete answer you'll get that for sure. What was your reaction when you first read that finale?
00:34finally
00:35Like finally, like yo, it's at some point when you're like living in the skin of the character
00:40You begin to feel the anxiety build as well
00:43So it was really nice to be able to go. Okay, we can just pop the cork off of this and see what happens
00:49And then I think immediately I'm just like, okay, what was the next steps to make it different from every other?
00:53Well, they won't they moment?
00:55How does it feel heading into another Emmys with the show?
00:58Is it old hat by this point never is it never is it's like a lot of really good TV out there
01:03so the fact that we're nominated and considered and celebrated is
01:07It's always like super special and I think everyone works so hard every year that we never see each other
01:12So it's a really good time to see your friends and people you worked with before
01:16And you know all of that in a way that's like celebratory and it's it's it's something that every year you just kind of really
01:22look forward to
01:23Now everybody hates Chris is getting a animated series. I talked to the cast at comic-con. They were all there
01:29Have you gotten a chance to talk to the voice actor who's hoisting young Chris in the show?
01:33I have I met him at comic-con and he seems really excited and like I'm looking forward to seeing what he does with it
01:40But yeah, I'm just happy that they're on like this journey and beginning it again in a new way
01:45Have you gotten to see a sneak peek of it at all? I haven't I haven't seen anything
01:49So I'm gonna be, you know tuning in with everybody else to see you know what they put together
01:53And so many new shows are nominated for the Emmys this year
01:57Did you have a favorite new show that you enjoyed watching this past year? I mean, I think everybody like Shogun
02:03You know what? I mean? Like that's just it. I don't know if it actually made the nomination cut off but x-men
02:0997 was also like I
02:11would say
02:12One of the best shows of the year
02:14I think I'll go out on a limb and say that like structurally and execution wise one of the best shows of the year
02:19So I would love to see that get some love if it hasn't already
02:23Thank you so much. Have a great night tonight

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