It’s about that point … awards season, and the Emmys is serving a chaotic menu.
At the moment, the Tv Academy introduced the 76th Primetime Emmy nominations with the assistance of Abbot Elementary’s Sheryl Lee Ralph and Veep’s Tony Hale, and the streamers, together with Emmy darling The Bear, dominated the information.
Netflix led the best way with 107 nominations, adopted carefully by FX, which had 93, and HBO, which had 91. In the meantime, The Bear, which remains to be staying within the comedy class, ended up breaking an Emmys document.
The seventy fifth Emmy nominations got here throughout a tumultuous interval amid the author’s and SAG-AFTRA strikes, and that is the primary 12 months since issues have gone again to regular. However, as they are saying, the present should go on.
Listed here are ADWEEK’s greatest takeaways from this 12 months’s nominations:
Streaming companies dominated Emmy nominations … once more
Streamers commonly dominate awards season, and this 12 months there was even much less left for broadcasters. Amid Netflix’s staggering 107 nominations, The Crown acquired 18 nods. In the meantime, different high-profile sequence equivalent to 3 Physique Drawback, Child Reindeer, Ripley and Griselda additionally acquired nominations.
Amongst different streaming companies, Hulu’s Solely Murders within the Constructing acquired 21 nominations, and Reservation Canines additionally acquired nods. Apple TV+’s Palm Royale, Gradual Horses, The Morning Present and Classes in Chemistry all acquired nominations, whereas Prime Video’s Mr. and Mrs. Smith and Fallout garnered some nods as effectively.
The Tv Academy nonetheless categorizes The Bear as a comedy—and it’s grow to be probably the most dominant comedy ever
Shōgun may need led all of the nominees with 25 nods, however The Bear stole headlines after breaking the document for comedy sequence with 23 nominations, together with a nod for Excellent Comedy Sequence.
Whereas the Emmys continues to categorize The Bear as a comedy, viewers on social media have continued to level out that—with the present’s exploration of drug habit, grief and PTSD—nearly all of its content material is much from humorous. However with the TV panorama turning into more and more crowded and extra sequence mixing genres, it shouldn’t come as a shock that studios proceed to seek out methods round submitting in crowded classes.
