TheWrap said that notable snubs included Girls and The Good Wife while shows receiving their first nominations included The Americans and Master of None.
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The shows claimed the top drama and comedy series prizes at last year’s Emmys.
As a series, “The Americans” will contend with “Better Call Saul”, “Downton Abbey”, “Game Of Thrones”, “Homeland”, “House Of Cards”, and “Mr Robot”. Not only did it fail to make the Drama Series nominations, but two-time Supporting Actress victor Uzo Aduba didn’t even get nominated this year.
But in a break from tradition, this year’s runner-up wasn’t one of the major broadcast networks but FX, a basic cable channel, which garnered 22 and 18 nominations for its limited series “The People v O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story” and “Fargo”, respectively.
HBO dominated the by-network nominations with 94 nods altogether, though this number is down from its record of 126 nominations at last year’s awards. Veep is fourth in line with 17 nominations, and Saturday Night Live has managed to scoop a total of 16. Additionally, Margo Martindale won Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series in 2015 after being nominated for the award in 2014 and 2013.
This year’s announcer Anderson was especially effusive as his name was called as a nominee for outstanding lead actor in a comedy series along with Aziz Ansari, Will Forte, William H. Macy, Thomas Middleditch and Jeffrey Tambor.
That category also saw nominations for Idris Elba for Luther, Benedict Cumberbatch for Sherlock and Tom Hiddleston for The Night Manager.
Mr Robot, which won Best TV Drama Series at the Golden Globes earlier this year, is eligible for the Emmys for the first time.
“Black-ish” actor Anthony Anderson, who helped introduce the awards from North Hollywood’s Wolf Theater with actress Lauren Graham and Television Academy President Bruce Rosenblum, heard his own named called for the second consecutive year, as a nominee for outstanding lead actor in a comedy series.
For Stephen Colbert, it was the inaugural season of his CBS late-night show that was overlooked, while network colleague James Corden earned a best variety talk series bid for his “Late Late Show”.
The show received 69 Emmy nominations over its six-season run. She will face Laurie Metcalf of “Getting On”, Ellie Kemper of “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”, Tracee Ellis Ross of “black-ish”, Amy Schumer of “Inside Amy Schumer” and Lily Tomlin of “Grace and Frankie”. “Game of Thrones” came in one shy of last year’s haul of 24 nominations.
Contenders for comedy series honors are ABC’s “Blackish” and “Modern Family”, Netflix’s “Master of None” and “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”, HBO’s “Veep” (the reigning champ) and “Silicon Valley” and Amazon’s “Transparent”. Jimmy Kimmel will host. And that meant finally bestowing nominations, five in all, on FX’s The Americans, the best drama on TV. But there were no major nods for the stars of “Fresh Off the Boat” or other Asian-American actors, or for Latinos, which has been a recurrent Emmy pattern.
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The series, which has been a fixture on “TV’s best” lists since its premiere, received first-time nominations for Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series (Matthew Rhys) and Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series (Keri Russell).
