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      Emmy Nomination Snubs and Surprises: John Mulaney, Emma Stone and More

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      Every year the Primetime Emmy nominations go a little more according to form, and Wednesday’s list was perhaps the most predictable yet, with only one very slight curveball in the main drama and comedy series categories (see “The Curse,” below). Here are some highlights from a very short list of notable snubs and surprises.Snub: ‘John Mulaney Presents Everybody’s in L.A.’The talk-series category went exactly as expected — the series nominations went to “The Daily Show,” “Late Night With Seth Meyers,” “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” and “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” — which is what the category is known for. But it was particularly galling that this year, when John Mulaney’s inventive ode to Los Angeles, rendered in a classic late-night format live on Netflix, offered an attractive alternative, that the voters went with the same old Colbert-Kimmel-Meyers lineup. (The show did receive a nomination for picture editing.)“The Curse,” with Nathan Fielder and Emma Stone, was shut out of Wednesday’s Emmy nominations.Richard Foreman Jr./A24/Paramount+ with ShowtimeSnub: ‘The Curse’Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie’s dark satire on marriage, home renovation and reality TV for Paramount+ and Showtime was thought to be in the running, if only marginally, for drama series. Its stars, Fielder and Emma Stone, were also borderline favorites for acting nominations. None of them broke though, however, which is getting to be a habit for Fielder: His previous attention-grabbing, opinion-dividing series, “Nathan for You,” received no nominations across its four seasons.Surprise: ‘Scavengers Reign’Joseph Bennett and Charles Huettner’s beautifully drawn, eerily calm science-fiction tale was dropped by its original streaming home, Max, and picked up by Netflix a few weeks before nominations voting ended. Did the move give it the boost it needed to grab an unexpected bid in the animated program category? While it is gratifying to see a show this unusual get a nomination, the bigger news here is a snub: no nomination for the seventh season of the two-time winner “Rick and Morty.”We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      Where to Stream 2024 Emmy-Nominated Series: ‘Shogun,’ ‘The Bear’ and More

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      Nominations for the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards were announced on Wednesday. The Emmys ceremony is planned for Sept. 15, on ABC.Nominations for the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards were announced on Wednesday. The FX drama “Shogun” had 25 nominations, the most of any series this year. The FX comedy “The Bear,” which streams on Hulu, broke the record for most nominations for a comedy series.“Only Murders in the Building” (21 nominations), “True Detective: Night Country” (19) and “The Crown” (18) also did well this year. The Netflix limited series “Baby Reindeer,” the year’s biggest surprise hit so far, earned 11 nominations.The Emmys ceremony is planned for Sept. 15, on ABC. Here’s how to watch the top nominees.Best Drama‘Shogun’The FX epic adapts the 1975 James Clavell novel. (Review)Stream it on Hulu.‘The Crown’Peter Morgan’s docudrama about the British royal family wrapped up in 2023. (Review)Stream it on Netflix.‘The Morning Show’Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon star in this glossy series set in a fictional TV network. (Review)Stream it on Apple TV+.‘The Gilded Age’This opulent costume drama is set in late 19th-century New York. (Review)Stream it on Max.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      Jon Hamm Talks Emmy Nominations for ‘Fargo,’ ‘The Morning Show’

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      Jon Hamm is back in the Emmy Awards saddle.Nine years after winning his first statuette for his performance as the philandering advertising executive Don Draper in the Madison Avenue drama “Mad Men,” Hamm picked up two more acting nominations on Wednesday, for his performances in “Fargo” and “The Morning Show.”The first, for lead actor in a limited or anthology series or movie, was for his villainous turn as Roy Tillman, a power-hungry Christian nationalist sheriff on “Fargo,” FX’s darkly comic anthology crime drama inspired by the 1996 Coen Brothers movie. The series, which was created by Noah Hawley, picked up 15 nominations for its fifth season, including best limited series.Hamm also scored a supporting actor in a drama nod for his role as Paul Marks, an Elon Musk-like, space-loving billionaire in Season 3 of “The Morning Show,” Apple TV+’s behind-the-scenes look at a fictional broadcast news program.In an interview shortly after the nominations were announced — on the way to a voice-over session in Lower Manhattan for the animated show “Grimsburg,” in which Hamm, 53, plays a small-town detective — he shared his inspirations for his characters and what he thinks of Netflix’s limited series contender “Baby Reindeer.”These are edited excerpts from the conversation.Congratulations! How did you find out you were nominated?I was walking the dog to go get coffee, and I came back and my phone had quite a few messages.Your characters on “Fargo” and “The Morning Show” both seem to have fairly clear politically charged, real-world analogues — someone like Elon Musk for Paul Marks and any number of blowhard, nationalist politicians for Roy Tillman. To what extent did you base your performances on real people?We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      Benj Pasek and Justin Paul Approach EGOT After ‘Only Murders’ Nod

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      Season 3 of the Hulu comedy “Only Murders in the Building” earned 21 Emmy nominations on Wednesday — adding to the 30 it had already amassed, along with four wins, for Seasons 1 and 2.But this season, the series could also produce an EGOT, the term for someone (or, in this case, someones) who has won all four major entertainment awards: an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony. When the 76th Emmy Awards air in September, the songwriting duo Benj Pasek and Justin Paul will have a chance to check off the E, having received a nod for best outstanding original music and lyrics for their tongue-twisting ditty “Which of the Pickwick Triplets Did It?”The series’s third season switched things up by moving much of its action to Broadway. Pasek and Paul, as along with a supergroup of Broadway collaborators, were brought aboard to write music for the new episodes. Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, who won Tonys for “Hairspray,” were also writers of the Emmy-nominated tune.The other awards contributing to Pasek and Paul’s potential EGOT came from their work on the comedy-drama film “La La Land” (a best original song Oscar for “City of Stars”), the stage musical “A Strange Loop” (a best musical Tony, as producers) and the musical “Dear Evan Hansen” (a Tony for best original score and a Grammy for best musical theater album).A running bit on the most recent season of “Only Murders in the Building” sees the former TV star Charles-Haden Savage struggle to perform “Which of the Pickwick Triplets Did It?” He finally gets through it in the eighth episode, “Sitzprobe,” but the actor who plays him, Steve Martin, nailed it within two hours, according to the songwriters.A win for Pasek and Paul would make them, as a duo, the second EGOT winners this year. Elton John joined the club in January when he won an Emmy for outstanding variety special for his live-streamed farewell concert.The episode “Sitzprobe” has also popped up in several other categories in this year’s Emmy nominations, including outstanding guest actress in a comedy series (Da’Vine Joy Randolph) and outstanding contemporary costumes for a series. More

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      Emmy Nominations: Our Critics on ‘The Bear,’ ‘Baby Reindeer’ and Delightful Surprises

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      The 2024 Primetime Emmy nominations were announced on Wednesday. James Poniewozik and Margaret Lyons, two television critics for The New York Times, discussed who made it and who didn’t, why Emmy categories are increasingly irrelevant and which nominations made them smile.JAMES PONIEWOZIK Happy Emmy day, Margaret! It seems like we were just talking about the Emmys — which we kind of were, the most recent awards having been handed out in January because of a strike delay.That strike pause — coupled with the recent retirement of some hall-of-fame shows like “Succession” — may have something to do with one of the larger trends this year: The cupboard feels a little bare. There’s plenty of good-enough TV (dare I say Mid?) on the prize list, not a lot of great. (Though we can discuss the exceptions: Very happy to see recognition for “Reservation Dogs.”)Still, there are simply a lot of awards, so there’s always something to talk about. It was a big year for “The Bear” in comedy (is it one?) and “Shogun” in drama series (it sure felt like a limited series when I watched it complete its story). It feels like there has been a lot more talk this year about categorization and category-gaming, but let me know how you’re feeling.MARGARET LYONS The categories are illegible and increasingly nonsensical. What do we gain by, for example, putting “Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates Jr.” in competition with “How To With John Wilson”? The double-dipping between talk and variety is snoozy, and the category gaming for “The Bear” and “Shogun” feels if not sleazy, then at least kind of dumb! The Emmys wax and wane in terms of legitimacy, and I wonder if it’s even possible for a structured awards format like this to retain meaning when TV itself is more flexible, its genres more porous.PONIEWOZIK Yes, the way to eliminate the arbitrary category divisions would be … just not have them. Just have best series! Best cinematography! Best directing! Unless we resurrect Aristotle to sort this out, I think any proposed tweaking (sort series by run time? broadcast vs. cable vs. streaming? weight class?) would just invite other absurdities. But the Emmys exist to give out Emmys, and I assume reducing the number of them would be the Hollywood equivalent of campaigning on entitlement cuts.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      Emmy Nominees 2024: The Complete List

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      The 76th Emmy Awards ceremony is planned for Sept. 15. See all the nominees below.Nominees for the 2024 Emmy Awards were announced by Tony Hale and Sheryl Lee Ralph, both Emmy winners, on Wednesday morning.With 23 nominations, “The Bear” broke the record for most nods for a comedy series, beating out “30 Rock,” which had held the record for 15 years with 22 nominations. “Shogun” has 25 nominations, the most in this year’s drama category.New shows including “Palm Royale” and “Mr. & Mrs. Smith,” as well as the limited series “Baby Reindeer,” also earned their fair share.The Emmys ceremony is planned for Sept. 15, and it will be the second of the year. Because of the writers’ and actors’ strikes, the 2023 ceremony was held in January, delayed from its original date in September.Here is the full list of nominees.Best Drama“Shogun” (FX)Read our review“The Crown” (Netflix)Read our review“The Morning Show” (Apple TV)Read our reviewWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      Elizabeth Debicki Discusses Her Second Emmy Nomination for Princess Diana

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      Elizabeth Debicki earned an Emmy nomination for outstanding supporting actress in a drama series on Wednesday, her second nomination for playing Princess Diana on “The Crown.”The Australian actress took over the role from Emma Corrin starting in Season 5 of the Netflix series about the British royal family and embodied Diana through the implosion of her marriage to Prince Charles. Season 6, the show’s final one, includes the 1997 car crash that killed Diana, her boyfriend Dodi Fayed and their driver, Henri Paul, as they fled the paparazzi in Paris.The final season of “The Crown” received 18 nominations overall, including for outstanding drama series. Other acting nominations went to Dominic West as Prince Charles, for lead actor in a drama series; Imelda Staunton as Queen Elizabeth II, for lead actress; Jonathan Pryce as Prince Philip, for supporting actor; and Claire Foy for reprising her role as a younger Elizabeth, for guest actor.Debicki will also be competing against Lesley Manville, who played Princess Margaret, in the supporting actress race.For Debicki, receiving the nomination was a bittersweet cap on the experience of playing Diana.“It dawns on you that it’s done,” she said by phone just after the Emmy nominations were announced on Wednesday. “You don’t get to go back. You know while you’re doing it that this will be a totally one-off experience. Nothing will touch this. Nothing is like this. That’s the pill to swallow as the actor.”In a brief interview, Debicki discussed playing Diana and receiving the nomination. These are edited excerpts from the conversation.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      ‘Baby Reindeer’ Star Jessica Gunning on Her First Emmy Nomination

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      Jessica Gunning is still a little stunned by the size of the audience “Baby Reindeer” has found, and the acclaim that has followed.A Netflix drama about a comedian and his stalker, “Baby Reindeer” picked up 11 Emmy nominations on Wednesday, including one for best limited series and one for Gunning, her first, for supporting actress in a limited series.The show follows the aspiring comedian, Donny Dunn, as he is tormented by a woman named Martha. Richard Gadd, the Scottish comedian who created the series and also received an acting nod, plays Dunn; Gunning plays Martha. The series is billed as a true story based on Gadd’s experience.In an interview shortly after the Emmy nominations were announced, Gunning said she and other members of the show are “still pinching ourselves” over the fact that so many millions of people have found their work. As to the 11 nominations, she added, “I literally can’t quite believe it.”“I think if someone had said three months ago when the show came out that it and the Emmys would even be included in the same sentence, I’m sure Richard would agree that we would have thought we were being pranked,” she added in a video interview from her parents’ house, several hours’ drive from her home in London.These are edited excerpts from the conversation.Some folks have called “Baby Reindeer” a surprise hit. Were you expecting this kind of audience and acclaim for the show?We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More