Emmys Shake-Up Alert: Feinberg’s Post-Nominations Predictions Drop Truth Bombs That’ll Make You Rethink Your Faves!
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Well, well, well — here we are, just a week shy of the Emmy final voting curtain call on August 18, and the cosmic stars couldn’t be juicier. Since the nominations dropped on July 15, the TV universe has been shaking its glittery tail feathers with some seriously spicy maneuvers. Remember when CBS canceled The Late Show with Stephen Colbert? Oh, honey, that move sent waves rolling faster than a retrograde Mercury tantrum. And then, to add a little political pepper to the pot, Donald Trump did his little victory dance — talk about drama off-screen eclipsing the on-screen action.
Meanwhile, the Emmy cosmos are lighting up with Apple TV+’s The Studio and Netflix’s Adolescence flexing their comedic and limited-series muscles. But hold onto your zodiac charts — the drama category is the real battleground, with Severance snagging 27 nominations and HBO Max’s The Pitt lurking with love and some veteran star power in Noah Wyle. Is this the year Apple TV+ snags both Best Drama and Comedy? That’s rarer than a blue moon in a Leo’s birthday month!
So, as the final votes align and drama simmers hotter than a Mars-Pluto square, the question is: will the voters follow logic or let their zodiac natures decide? Stick around — this ride isn’t over till the last envelope is opened.
A note from Scott: It has been a few weeks since the Primetime Emmy nominations were announced on July 15, and we are exactly one week away from the Aug. 18 start of the final round of voting, so now seemed as good a time as any to provide my latest read of dozens of the highest-profile races. But first, a little context…
Since we last checked in, the best talk series category was jolted by CBS’ controversial decision to cancel The Late Show With Stephen Colbert and President Donald Trump’s public celebration of that news. Prior to that, my sense was that the defending winner, Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, was poised to win again. But since then, Stephen Colbert’s late night competitors have rallied behind him — several of those show’s hosts were in the audience at his first taping after the news was announced, and ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, a fellow best talk series nominee, even took out a billboard proclaiming, “I’m voting for Stephen!” This doesn’t mean that The Late Show is a sure-thing to win — after all, the show will not go off the air until next May, meaning that next Emmys cycle, not this one, will be the last one in which it will be eligible. But do voters know or care about that, or do they just want to give Colbert a pat on the back and Trump the middle finger? We will see.
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Meanwhile, Apple TV+’s The Studio and Netflix’s Adolescence are looking very strong in the comedy series and limited series categories, respectively. But the drama races are looking much more competitive. True, Apple TV+’s Severance garnered the most noms of any show this season, with 27, and one has to go back to 2017 to find a show that led or co-led the drama field in nominations but did not win best drama series (HBO’s Westworld, which had 22 noms, lost to Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale, which had just 13). But make no mistake about it: There is a lot of love out there for HBO Max’s The Pitt, and — for now — I still have The Pitt and its leading man, Noah Wyle (nominated for the first time in 26 years, since he was last up for ER), edging out Severance and its leading man, Adam Scott (who is also wonderful, and also happens to have joined me on the episode of my Awards Chatter podcast that posted earlier Monday).
If, however, Apple TV+ pulls out a best drama series win for Severance and a best comedy series win for The Studio, that would really be something — the last time one platform took home both of those prizes was nine years ago, when HBO won with Game of Thrones and Veep, respectively.
Lastly, I’ll direct you to a soon-to-post episode of the venerable Top Docs podcast for my detailed explanation of why I’m forecasting what I’m forecasting in the nonfiction categories.
Until next week…
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