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2018 Emmy Nominations May Be A Battle Among Old Favourites

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Last updated: July 10, 2018 9:44 AM
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Television industry watchers are expecting past winners to relive old glories Thursday as Hollywood’s awards season kicks into high gear with the announcement of the Emmy nominations.

The Television Academy’s 22,000-plus members were given two weeks in June to sift through a crowded field of several thousand entries for the small-screen equivalent of the Oscars.

Critics agree that it hasn’t been a vintage year for new TV, with very few shows breaking through. Still, perennial favourites have largely delivered and the medium continues to out-innovate cinema.

“As someone who has traditionally been more about movies than TV, the richness of the small screen landscape these days genuinely excites me,” Hollywood entertainment journalist and producer Simon Thompson told AFP.

“It’s taking risks that Hollywood is still hesitant to take, and so far they are paying off.”

Pundits say that while perennial awards darlings like Saturday Night Live have been tapped to bag the most trophies come September, the race for the most nominations remains up in the air.

The Emmys recognise shows that were on in the 12 months to May 31, meaning several big-hitters are absent, from Better Call Saul to House of Cards and Veep, shows that have earned almost 100 nominations combined.

Netflix’s House of Cards has been keeping a low profile since its star, double Oscar winner Kevin Spacey, became embroiled in Hollywood’s sexual misconduct scandal and returns next year minus its star.

HBO’s Game of Thrones made television history in 2016, becoming the most decorated fictional show since the awards began nearly seven decades ago, and returns after a year off.

That means the defending drama champion from 2016 will be pitted against last year’s winner, Hulu’s dystopian sci-fi series The Handmaid’s Tale, which is also the 2018 favourite.

Other nominations are likely to come from NBC’s family drama This Is Us and HBO’s dark sci-fi western Westworld, Netflix hits Stranger Things and The Crown, and FX Cold War spy show The Americans.

The most star-studded category, as ever, is the best actor in a limited series or TV movie.

The contenders include Al Pacino (Paterno), Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks), Benedict Cumberbatch (Patrick Melrose) and Michael B. Jordan (Fahrenheit 451).

The early money for the win in September is on a much lesser-known face, Darren Criss (The Assassination of Gianni Versace).

Versace is one of the few serious contenders this year that can claim to be entirely new, although it is part of FX’s American Crime Story brand from the mind of Emmys mainstay Ryan Murphy.

The follow-up to the acclaimed The People v. O. J. Simpson (2016) is expected to dominate the acting races among the limited series and TV movies with Penelope Cruz, Judith Light and Edgar Ramirez also hoping for nominations.

The absence of Veep is seen as a breath of fresh air by many critics, since the HBO comedy and its star Julia Louis-Dreyfus, out much of 2017 and 2018 with breast cancer, bag Emmys year in, year out.

Its mantle will likely pass to Atlanta, the FX comedy created by and starring Donald Glover.

Returning after a two-decade hiatus, Roseanne was one of the few depictions of working-class life on US television in the last 12 months, and also of Trump supporters otherwise largely ignored by Hollywood.

But its 65-year-old star Roseanne Barr a vocal Trump backer who has tweeted far-right and conspiracy theorist views was dropped by ABC last month after making a racist slur on Twitter.

“The fact that so many people in the show, on and off screen, will likely miss out on the acclaim they deserve because of Roseanne Barr’s action is a real shame,” said Thompson.

The New York Post’s Robert Rorke believes that one show that has gone somewhat under the radar, BBC America’s crime drama series Killing Eve, deserves to pick up the “dark horse” votes.

“Stars Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer deserve lead actress nominations for their refreshing, offbeat performances, especially given the usual suspects likely to be nominated,” he said.

Second round voting takes place in August while the ceremony itself will be beamed live from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on September 17 on CBS hosted by Saturday Night Live duo Colin Jost and Michael Che.

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