“Succession” is expected to clear the first hurdle in its quest to go out on top when nominations for the 75th annual Primetime Emmy Awards are announced Wednesday morning.
The HBO series about a well-to-do family that owns a global media company, which ended its four-season run May 28, received nominations for outstanding drama series in each of its first three seasons and won the last two.
Of last year’s seven other nominees in the category, two are eligible to be nominated again this year — the AMC legal crime drama “Better Call Saul,” which ended its run Aug. 15, and “Yellowjackets,” the Showtime series about a New Jersey high school soccer team whose flight bound for a national tournament in 1996 in Seattle crashes in the Canadian wilderness.
The 2021 winner, “The Crown,” is again eligible for a nomination after not releasing any new episodes during last year’s eligibility period. The Netflix drama about the life and reign of Queen Elizabeth II was nominated in each of its first four seasons.
The HBO Max black comedy-drama anthology “The White Lotus,” is likely to receive a nomination after winning the Screen Actors Guild Award for outstanding performance by an ensemble in a drama series and Producers Guild Award for outstanding producer of episodic television, drama, those ceremonies versions of the outstanding drama series award.
Four series that made their debuts during the 2022-23 season are contenders to fill out the field of eight nominees including Disney+’s “Star Wars: Andor,” a Producers Guild Award nominee for outstanding producer of episodic television, drama; the HBO “Game of Thrones” prequel “House of the Dragon,” the Golden Globe Awards winner for best television series, drama; the Apple TV+ Irish black comedy, “Bad Sisters,” a Writers Guild of America Awards nominee for outstanding new series; and the HBO post-apocalyptic drama, “The Last of Us.”
No series from a major broadcast network to be nominated in the category since the NBC family drama “This Is Us” is 2019. A series from the major broadcast networks has not won since Fox’s “24” in 2006.
Apple TV+’s “Ted Lasso,” the outstanding comedy series winner each of the past two years, is expected to receive a nomination for its third and likely final season.
Six other nominees from last year are also eligible this year — “Abbott Elementary,” “Barry,” “Hacks,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Only Murders in the Building” and “What We Do in the Shadows.”
First-season series that are contenders for the eight nominations include the Hulu comedy “The Bear,” the Producers Guild Award winner for outstanding producer of episodic television, comedy; the Peacock murder mystery “Poker Face,” submitted by its producers in the comedy category; and Apple TV+’s “Shrinking,” which stars Jason Segal as a grieving therapist who starts to break the rules and tell his clients exactly what he thinks.
The most recent time a series from the major broadcast networks won in the comedy series category at the Emmys was 2014 when ABC’s “Modern Family” won for the fifth consecutive year.
Contenders for the five nominations for outstanding limited or anthology series include the Netflix biographical crime drama “Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story,” a nominee for the Producers Guild Award for outstanding producer of limited or anthology series television; Netflix’s “Beef,” which follows the aftermath of a road rage incident between two strangers; the Apple TV+ crime drama “Black Bird”; the Amazon Prime Video musical drama, “Daisy Jones & the Six”; the Max crime drama “Love & Death”; and the Hulu miniseries “Fleishman Is In Trouble,” about a recently divorced 41-year-old man (Jesse Eisenberg), forced to deal with the disappearance of his ex-wife (Claire Danes); and the Showtime biographical drama about the country music stars George Jones and Tammy Wynette, “George & Tammy.”
The shift of the outstanding game show category to the Primetime Emmys has promoted the renaming of the outstanding competition series category to outstanding reality competition program in an attempt to avoid confusion.
“The Amazing Race” is expected to be nominated for the 20th time in the 21 years the category has existed. It was nominated in each of the first 17 years, was not eligible in 2020 because CBS did not air a new season during the eligibility period, then nominated again each of the last two years. It is a 10-time winner, including each of the first seven.
VH1’s “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” is expected to be nominated for the seventh consecutive year. It won for four consecutive years, but lost to the Amazon Prime Video dance competition “Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrrls.”
There were no new episodes released of “Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrrls” during the eligibility period, June 1, 2022-May 31, 2023.
Bravo’s “Top Chef” is expected to be nominated for the 17th consecutive year and NBC’s “The Voice” for the 12th consecutive year.
The fifth nomination could go to the Netflix baking series “Nailed It!’ a nominee for five consecutive years, or Peacock’s first-season murder mystery game “The Traitors.”
Emmy-nominated actress Yvette Nicole Brown and Television Academy Chair Frank Scherma will announce the nominations at a virtual ceremony at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, which will be streamed live on Emmys.com/nominations.
Brown received an outstanding guest actress in a comedy series nomination in 2021 for her portrayal of Judge Harper on HBO’s “A Black Lady Sketch Show,” a role which was again submitted for consideration for a nomination this season.
The 75th annual Primetime Emmy Awards are scheduled to be presented Sept. 18. The bulk of the awards will be presented at the Creative Arts Emmys planned for Sept 9-10. Those awards are mainly in technical categories, such as picture editing, costuming, hairstyling, makeup and sound, but also include awards for guest acting.
All three ceremonies are in danger of being postponed because of the Writers Guild of America strike and would also be threatened if the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists goes on strike.
The Daytime Emmy Awards ceremonies, which were scheduled for June in downtown Los Angeles, were postponed in May because of the writers strike. New dates have not been announced.