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With the 2021 Emmys in the rear view and the Fall television season is in full swing, what better time is there to look forward and make a few bold predictions about what we might see being honored when the Emmys roll around again come September of 2022? If this sounds like fool’s folly, think again. The Television…

And now we come to the grand finale of my prediction posts for Emmy’s key contests. The name of this category has evolved over the years — the new name is designed to find someplace other than Television Movie to showcase individual episodes of what are known as Anthology series. After Netflix continually triumphed…

In terms of past winners that might be in line to take the Outstanding Drama Series crown again, Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale is the only one of eight nominees in this category that has won before here — and that was in 2017, for its first season. With an impressive 21 nominations, the show seems to be having an Emmy…

In the past, Emmy voters tended to like one show and then let it repeat for several seasons as the champ in the Comedy Series category. Until very recently, just three series enjoyed multiple runs at the gold: there were three wins in a row for 30 Rock, followed by five wins in a row for Modern Family, then three wins…

There is history to be made again this year in a category that is as diverse as they get. With Mj Rodriguez aiming to be the first-ever transgender winner here, that could be quite a hard scenario to resist for voters who might want to throw a bone to Pose in its final go-round. Like Drama Series Actor, the winner…

Three past winners in the category meet three first-time nominees in an interesting showdown that does not include an opportunity for last year's winner, Jeremy Strong, to repeat, since his series Succession was delayed by Covid. This means that acting winners from other recent Emmy seasons do have a chance to come…

Like the Lead Comedy Actor group, this category only sports five nominees, including veterans Tracee Ellis Ross and Allison Janney, but also two new HBO Max shows providing sensational roles for a couple of TV sitcom veterans. Deservedly, the Emmy last year went to Catherine O'Hara of Schitt's Creek, showing that…

After last year's Schitt's Creek tsunami — the series completely dominated the comedy categories and crushed the competition in its final season, including a well-deserved win here for Eugene Levy — it's more or less back to normal in this category with just five nominees, including several veterans. These include…

An incredibly rich category where, fortunately, no one from the five year old production of  Hamilton qualified, leaving room for one of the strongest fields in a long time, boasting a shortlist that cut out the likes of Nicole Kidman in The Undoing, Thuso Mbedu in The Underground Railroad, Kate Mara in A Teacher…

When it comes to acting nominations in this newly named category for performers you might as well just skip the part about Anthology or TV movies. All the acting nominations—this year at least—are from Limited Series (formerly called miniseries), or in the case of those seven nominations for Hamilton actors, come from…

My coming week of Emmy predictions in key categories gets under way with Outstanding Television Movie, which will be presented this weekend at the Creative Arts Awards, rather than on the CBS primetime broadcast September 19. With that downgrade, and if there was more proof needed of the sorry state of the Television…

It's been a year like no other. Actually, make that two years like no other, since eligibility in the unusual 14-month Oscar calendar was extended by two months until February 28, 2021. This will be the first Academy Awards since the sixth edition, listed as 1932-33, that will have included one year and part of the…