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Last year, the HBO hit “Succession” led all series with the most nominations for the Emmy Awards. Can it pull that off for a second year in a row — this time for its farewell season?
That’s just one of the possibilities we’ll be looking for when the 75th Emmy Award nominations are announced at 11:30 a.m. Eastern.
“Succession,” a two-time best drama winner, appears to be a lock for an outstanding drama nomination, as well as a slew of acting nominations for its cast. Jeremy Strong, Kieran Culkin, Brian Cox, Matthew Macfadyen and Sarah Snook. J. Smith-Cameron, Alan Ruck — and potentially Alexander Skarsgard and Nicholas Braun — may all score nominations for the show. How’s that for an ensemble?
That is likely to account for only part of a big day for HBO. In fact, the channel may pull off something no network has since NBC in 1992: four nominations in the best drama category.
In addition to “Succession,” “The White Lotus,” which already won big at last year’s Emmys, is all but assured a nomination for its sophomore season. And HBO has two other strong contenders: “The Last Of Us,” its popular zombie video game adaptation, and “House of The Dragon,” the network’s “Game of Thrones” prequel.
There will also be a new Emmy king of late night. After seven consecutive years of dominating the variety talk show category, John Oliver’s “Last Week Tonight” has been moved to the outstanding scripted variety category (where Oliver will compete head-to-head with “Saturday Night Live”). That leaves an open lane for late-night hosts like Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel or Seth Meyers to win the top talk award for their current late-night shows for the first time.
Other big questions: How many nominations will be racked up by Ryan Murphy’s “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story”? And can Netflix’s other hit limited series, “Beef,” outperform it?
And which comedy will score the most nominations? The final season of “Ted Lasso,” the big-hearted Apple TV+ comedy that has won the category for two consecutive years? “Abbott Elementary,” the hit ABC sitcom from Quinta Brunson? Or “The Bear,” which just released a critically beloved second season, though Emmy voters will be evaluating its rookie season, from last year.
