Robin Wright is also a repeat visitor to the category for Season 3 of “House of Cards” where her character Claire Underwood makes her own play for office and goes toe-to-toe with Francis (Kevin Spacey).
The Emmys would like to see the devotion being accorded TV – binge-viewing, anyone? – converted into ratings.
“Television right now is chock-a-block with great stories and performances so there is nearly too much great TV to pick winners”, said Mary McNamara, TV critic for the Los Angeles Times. He texted me, ‘Dude, you won!’ (The Television Academy) said, ‘Yeah, we’re going to send it to you tomorrow. And this year’s Emmys prove that top industry acclaim can follow, no matter how limited the audience. “Rarely”.
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“He has sentiment on his side, but he also has the goods”.
“The world has changed, and today I think the Emmy is a far stronger beacon for audiences, ‘ Littlefield said”.
The 47th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards arrived during a fascinating time in pop culture history.
Transparent, from left: Judith Light, Jay Duplass, Jeffrey Tambour, Gaby Hoffman and Amy Landecker. “In excess of 400 scripted series will be launched or returned this year”. A victory for Transparent would cap been a banner year for transgender visibility on television, which began when Laverne Cox became the first trans actor to win an Emmy, for Orange Is the New Black, and continued with the launch of Caitlyn Jenner’s reality show I am Cait, which charts her exploration of her new female identity. If I had to go with the one that I think has the slight edge, though, it would be Henson.
Last year’s victor : Julia Louis-Dreyfus, “Veep“. The Effen Vodka endorser is now calling out the Emmy’s for not recognizing the series, which just finished up their second season.
Henson told Entertainment Weekly that she was praying for a win for either Davis or herself at Sunday’s ceremony, to be hosted by comedian Andy Samberg. Though sci-fi and genre shows fare decently in the Creative Arts Emmys (all those cool costumes and special effects will do that), only a handful of sci-fi or fantasy shows have ever won Primetime awards. Or will they hold their noses and look forward, crowning Game of Thrones as the future of TV, even though it treats decades of television convention the way Ramsay Bolton treats his houseguests?
“It’s its last time to get nominated and as we saw past year , “Breaking Bad” swept the Emmys because it was a fantastic show and it was its last chance to get nominated”, she said.
The breakout hit Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt from the Creators of 30 Rock, Tina Fey and Robert Carlock picked up six Emmy nominations, including Best Comedy Series.
There’s a 60 per cent increase in the number of female writers and directors nominated in the comedy, drama and longform categories this year. This year’s Emmy telecast is scheduled in its “traditional” time – the evening just before the “official” start of the 2015-16 season on Monday (at least as it is recognized and measured by Nielsen).
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“That means people are interested in that [Netflix] content and are actually paying $8.99 a month to get it”, said Gold. Those same Emmy voters never warmed up to “Justified”, and they should be crawling over glass strewn across a red carpet to honor that sublime moment of storytelling excellence. “There were lucky if they got 2 million viewers an episode”.
Meanwhile, the TIME listed the scenes which are worth the win of Emmy’s. The series has clinched three nominations.
Arnaz was the only cast member from the main four actors of the show that wasn’t nominated.