Will the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards be a red wedding or will the Game Of Thrones team see red if another show (improbably) steals its thunder?
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Where: ABC (WEWS Channel 5).
Not to worry, though: If you’re looking to impress your dog when you flip to the 2016 Emmy Awards while the latest episode of “Rob & Chyna” is on commercial, I’m here to help.
The Emmy Awards air on Sunday, Sept. 18 at 8 p.m. on ABC. But the jaw-droppers will be on glittering display, keeping even the shrewdest of pundits from batting a thousand in the prognostication department.
“SNL”, btw, is the most-nominated show ever, with 209; it’s in the running for Outstanding Variety Sketch Series, and – SPOILER ALERT! – it already won Amy Poehler her first Emmy, after 17 nominations, who with Tina Fey took home the prize for guest actress in a comedy series for their December hosting gig.
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This year’s Emmy nominees are a surprisingly well-chosen group, including “Game of Thrones”, “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story”, and, at long last, “The Americans”, the terrific FX series about Soviet spies living undercover as Washington D.C. suburbanites in the 1980s.
Kimmel told the People magazine, “In a way it’s better because I know nearly everybody in the crowd”, and he teased that he wants them to pretend to be enjoying the show or else there will be punishment afterwards.
Now, you hardly have time to watch entire seasons of shows before 7 pm this Sunday, but you might have time to knock out a few pilots.
Note: Winners will be added here as they come in on Sunday night. It claimed four Emmys: for casting, hairstyling, editing and sound mixing.
That shift likely gave “Game of Thrones” a lift in breaking through with its first best drama series Emmy past year in the HBO show’s fifth season, after being repeatedly nominated but overlooked. That gives the series a total of 35 Emmys – nine more than any other drama in TV history.
“Game of Thrones” also should add to its Emmy totals with wins for supporting actor in a drama (either Kit Harrington or previous victor Peter Dinklage) and supporting actress (Lena Headey). However, when it comes to lead actress, the HoC starlet Robin Wright (-150) has it in the bag – as far as the odds go anyhow.
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First year shows such as USA’s Mr. Robot, Netflix’s Making A Murderer and Masters Of None, AMC’s The Night Manager, FX’s Baskets, could upstage their more veteran counterparts in a number of key categories. Stewart’s true successor is John Oliver, the “Daily Show” alum whose HBO series is weekly masterwork of journalism disguised as black comedy. Yes, winter is coming outside, but on the screen, it finally arrived for Game of Thrones lovers and it did not disappoint. Those overall outcomes seem inescapable, but that doesn’t mean there won’t be a couple of shockers on the path to inevitability.
