Emmy Awards predictions
Will “Saturday Night Live” keep its steamroller momentum going, and collect even more statues?
Will HBO’S freshman drama “Westworld” win prizes that might otherwise have gone to “Game of Thrones,” which wasn’t eligible this year because of a delayed premiere date? And will “This Is Us” defy cable dominance, and produce a major win for a broadcast network?
We’ll find out Sunday night. But we can already guess what Stephen Colbert, host of this year’s 69th Primetime Emmy extravaganza, will joke about.
After all, “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” saw its ratings spike this year as Colbert took nightly aim at Donald Trump, whose presidency Colbert pokes like low-hanging fruit. And after being overlooked in 2016, “The Late Show” is nominated this year for outstanding variety talk series.
Colbert has made no secret of his low opinion of Trump, and plenty of viewers and Emmy voters have given Col- bert a thumbs-up for his takedowns.
It’s not a stretch to think that Colbert’s Emmy monologue will also make room for jokes about the president, an approach likely to go over well with the reliably liberal showbiz audience who will gather in Los Angeles’ Microsoft Theater.
After years of boring everyone to sleep by choosing the same nominees year after year, Emmy voters have recently shown that they actually seem to be watching TV. How else to explain so many smartly chosen nominees?
Of course, I have my favorites.
The envelopes, please!