Sound the Sirens. It’s awards season but once more, and the Emmys are nearly right here.
At present, What We Do within the Shadows’ Harvey Guillén, Working Level’s Brenda Track, and Tv Academy Chair Cris Abrego helped reveal the Tv Academy nominations for the 77th Primetime Emmys, and streaming companies continued to dominate.
Among the many prime highlights, The Bear was nominated for Excellent Comedy Collection once more, HBO and HBO Max continued to rack up numbers, and Apple TV+ broke its personal file.
See ADWEEK’s largest takeaways from this yr’s nominations:
Streaming companies are on prime once more
At this level, it might not be a shock that streaming companies have dominated the Emmy nominations as soon as once more. Whereas Netflix led the way in which final yr with 107 nominations, HBO and HBO Max dominated all platforms with 142 nominations for reveals similar to The Penguin, The White Lotus, The Final of Us, and Hacks.
Netflix got here in second this yr, with 121 nods for reveals like Adolescence, Sirens, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, and Black Mirror. Nevertheless, plainly Apple TV+ has emerged as a severe contender, with Severance scoring probably the most nominations at 27.
In the meantime, Disney+ and Hulu additionally had sturdy showings with nominations for Solely Murders within the Constructing, Paradise, and Andor.
The Studio beats Ted Lasso for most-nominated comedy in its first season
Apple TV+’s satirical comedy sequence The Studio, created by Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Peter Huyck, Alex Gregory, and Frida Perez, which stars Rogen as a Hollywood studio head balancing his love for movie with company calls for, obtained 23 Emmy nominations. That’s probably the most a comedy sequence has ever obtained in its freshman season.
The present’s whole even beat out Ted Lasso, which obtained 20 nominations in its first season. The Jason Sudeikis-led soccer comedy present went on to win seven Emmys, together with for excellent comedy sequence in 2020.
The Studio earned nominations throughout a number of main classes, together with Rogen for excellent comedy sequence, lead actor, writing, and directing. Together with Rogen, the sequence additionally stars Catherine O’Hara, Ike Barinholtz, Chase Sui Wonders, and Kathryn Hahn.
Hollywood is in on the joke
With Apple TV+’s The Studio and HBO Max’s Hacks each nominated within the Excellent Collection class, it appears as if Hollywood is on board with reveals that poke enjoyable at its personal trade. The Studio doesn’t maintain again on its satire of the trade’s obsession with greenlighting sequels, remakes, and blockbuster motion pictures, in addition to the skewering of interactions between enterprise executives.
In the meantime, Hacks, starring Jean Sensible as veteran comic Deborah Vance and Hannah Einbinder as rising comedy author Ava Daniels, each pays homage to and pokes enjoyable on the world of comedy and late-night speak reveals. The sequence additionally doesn’t maintain again at exhibiting how cutthroat (and misogynistic) the trade is.
However apparently, the Tv Academy doesn’t appear to thoughts in any respect.
The 77th Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony will likely be held on Sunday, September 14, 2025, airing on CBS and Paramount+.
