LOS ANGELES (AP) 鈥 鈥沦别惫别谤补苍肠别鈥 could separate itself from the competition and reach the upper echelons of the Emmy Awards when nominations are announced Tuesday morning.
The dystopian workplace drama from achieved a convergence of acclaim and audience buzz for its second season that often leads to the kind of Emmy dominance enjoyed in recent years by and
But a flowering of Emmys tends to follow HBO's wherever it goes, and HBO Max's newcomer could challenge for nominations and for wins when the trophies are handed out in September.
All will benefit from the absence of which last year led all Emmy nominees with 25 and set a record for wins in a season with 18. Its second season is still in the early stages of production and it shouldn't be around for next year's Emmys either.
has become a signature show for Apple TV+. The streamer has gotten plenty of Emmy nominations for dramas including and and was downright dominant on the comedy side.
But Apple has lacked the kind of breakaway prestige drama that HBO seems to produce perennially.
Adam Scott and Britt Lower are virtual locks for lead acting nominations for what amounted to dual roles as their characters' 鈥渋nnie" work selves and 鈥渙utie鈥 home selves. Tramell Tillman is just as likely to get a nod for playing their tone-shifting, pineapple-wielding supervisor, and Ben Stiller is bound to get a directing nomination.
鈥沦别惫别谤补苍肠别鈥 got 14 nominations for its first season in 2023, but won just two, for its music and its title sequence.
Nominations will be streamed live beginning at 11:30 a.m. Eastern at . The reality competition series and talk series nominees will be announced earlier on 鈥淐BS Mornings" at around 7:45 a.m. Eastern.
What else may get 2025 Emmy nomination
Apple TV+'s Hollywood satire could draw a host of comedy nominations for its first season as it takes on previously dominant Emmy veterans like 鈥淗acks鈥 and 鈥淭he Bear.鈥
鈥淭he Studio鈥 star and co-creator Seth Rogen could get nods for acting, writing and directing, and the show's all-star guest stars, including Zo毛 Kravitz, Martin Scorsese and Ron Howard, may also add some novelty to the nominations.
鈥淗acks鈥 star Jean Smart has won best lead actress in a comedy for all three previous seasons of the HBO Max series, and is the favorite for the fourth. The show won best comedy series last year too.
set a record for comedy nominations with 23 last year for its acclaimed second season. This year, its third season is up for Emmys (even though its fourth has already aired). It got a more lukewarm reception, leaving its status coming into the nominations murky.
鈥淭he White Lotus,鈥 HBO's darkly comic resort drama, submits all the members of its big ensemble cast in supporting categories, which they tend to dominate. Its Thailand-set third season included ballyhooed performances from Walton Goggins, Carrie Coon, Parker Posey and Sam Rockwell among several others.
鈥淭he Pitt,鈥 HBO Max's prestige medical procedural starring 鈥淓R鈥 veteran Noah Wyle, had reached the top tier of most prognosticators' Emmy prediction lists by the time its first season ended in April. Wyle, who was nominated five times without a win for 鈥淓R,鈥 could join Scott to make best actor in a drama a two-man race. And the show's other doctors and nurses, played by lesser known actors, could draw nominations if 鈥淭he White Lotus鈥 cast leaves them any room.
Last year, the British Netflix production 鈥淏aby Reindeer鈥 was surprisingly dominant in the limited series categories. This year, it will surprise no one if the Netflix British crime drama does the same in the same categories. It was probably the most acclaimed show of the year. Fifteen-year-old Owen Cooper, who plays the 13-year-old accused of a killing at the center of the story, is likely to get one of several acting nominations.
How streaming has changed TV and the Emmys
All the shows are living in the splintered world of the streaming era, and the like the Oscars its most acclaimed nominees rarely have the huge audience they once did. While an impressive average of 10 million people per episode watched Wyle on 鈥淭he Pitt鈥 at some point on HBO Max, according to Warner Bros. Discovery, 30 years ago an average of 30 million sat down on the same night and watched him on 鈥淓R鈥 on NBC.
The broadcast networks have largely become Emmy non-entities, with a few shining exceptions. ABC鈥檚 has annually drawn plenty of comedy nominations and should get its share this year. And Oscar-winner Kathy Bates is a front-runner for the best actress in a comedy Emmy for her role on CBS鈥檚 鈥淢atlock.鈥 She would be the first person nominated in the category from a network show since 2019, and the first to win it since 2015.
CBS will air the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards from the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on Sept. 14. Nate Bargatze is slated to host.
