Netflix tops Emmy nominees
CBS All Access’ excellent drama “The Good Fight,” which received just one nomination for music. Critically acclaimed Netflix comedy “One Day at a Time” was shut out of the competition entirely.
NBC’s “The Good Place” scored a deserved Emmy nomination for lead actor and Carnegie Mellon University grad Ted Danson, but the series deserved more Emmy love.
Showtime’s“Twin Peaks” may have been partially a victim of timing, long forgotten in the sea of series that have premiered since its run last summer. “Twin Peaks: The Return” scored nine nominations but none in the top categories (series, lead actor, actress).
Long-running comedy “Modern Family” fell out of favor with Emmy voters, failing to get a best comedy series nomination for the first timein its nine-season run.
BBC America’s “Killing Eve” failed to score a best drama series nomination or attention for co-star Jodie Comer but star Sandra Oh made history as the first actress of Asian descent nominated for lead actress in a drama series.
A month after its host’s death, Anthony Bourdain’s “Parts Unknown” received six Emmy nominations, including best informational series or special.
Among all prime-time series, “Game of Thrones” had the most nominations (22) in all categories, followed by “SNL” (21) and “Westworld” (21). “This Is Us” landed eight Emmy nominations, down from last year’s 11.
This year’s Emmy race is marked by the return of “Game of Thrones,” which didnot air episodes during the eligibilityperiod for last year’s Emmys. This year HBO’s “Veep,” AMC’s “Better Call Saul” and Netflix’s “House of Cards” were sidelined becausethey did not air episodes duringthe eligibility period.
For the first time in 18 years, per The Hollywood Reporter, HBO was not top dog in total nominations, bested by Netflix’s 112 nominations to HBO’s 108, followed by NBC with 78 and FX Networks with 50.
Colin Jost and Michael Che, “Weekend Update” anchors on “Saturday Night Live,” will host the “70th Primetime Emmy Awards” at 8 p.m. Sept. 17 on NBC.
MNT fall schedule
My Network TV, which airs in Pittsburgh on WPNT (Channel 22), will add backto-back reruns of “Chicago P.D.,” “The Good Wife” and “CSI: Miami” this fall on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday nights, respectively.
The new schedule, kicking off Sept. 24, brings back “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” on Mondays and “Dateline” on Wednesdays. Reruns of “Law & Order: SVU,” “The X-Files” and “American Ninja Warrior”will exit the schedule.
Channel surfing
Provocateur writer/director/star Sacha Baron Cohen (“Da Ali G Show,” “Borat”) returns to TV this weekend in Showtime’s seven-episode “Who Is America?” (11:59 p.m. Saturday), presumably introducing a new persona who conducts interviews with notablefigures (a trailer released features former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney). … Houghton Mifflin pulled the plug on 28-year-old classroom news service Channel One News, which helped launch the broadcast careers of Lisa Ling, CNN’s Anderson Cooper and 2002 Plum High School grad Steven Fabian (“Inside Edition”). … AT&T will launch Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine video ondemand channel July 17 on DirecTV (Channel 1112) and DirecTV Now with “Shine on With Reese,” where the actress interviews other entertainers. … CBS canceled “CodeBlack.”