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 With reigning Emmy champ "Game of Thrones"
ineligible this year for the highest honors in television after
it moved its seventh season to this summer, the door opened to
five new shows vying for the top prize of best drama series.
The crowded race includes British royal series "The Crown" and
supernatural mystery "Stranger Things," both on Netflix; Hulu's
breakout dystopian women's series "The Handmaid's Tale" starring
best actress nominee Elisabeth Moss; and NBC's emotional family
drama "This Is Us."
Peter Morgan, creator of "The Crown," said he was "chuffed,
thrilled, proud, honored!" at the show's 13 nominations.
Television Academy Chairman Hayma Washington noted the
"explosive growth" in television, where more than 400 scripted
shows vie for attention across streaming, cable and broadcast
networks.
"The creativity and excellence in presenting great storytelling
and characters across a multitude of ever-expanding
entertainment platforms is staggering," Washington said in a
statement.
The nomination for "This Is Us," which also received acting nods
for stars Milo Ventimiglia, Sterling K. Brown and Chrissy Metz,
make the show the first from one of the four leading U.S.
broadcast networks to enter the Emmy drama series contest since
CBS's "The Good Wife" in 2011.
"For our show to even be in a general conversation with these
other stellar programs - it’s beyond our wildest dreams," said
Dan Fogelman, creator of "This Is Us."
Among networks, HBO again had the highest overall tally, with
111 nods, mostly because of multiple nominations for crime drama
"The Night Of" and female-driven murder mystery "Big Little
Lies."
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“When we started on this journey, we never thought the series would
connect on such a big way worldwide," said "Big Little Lies" star
Nicole Kidman, who was among four actresses on the limited series to
get Emmy nominations.
Streaming upstart Netflix followed with 91 nominations and NBC at
64.
Perennial Emmy favorite "Saturday Night Live," which has been on a
ratings roll with its parodies of U.S. President Donald Trump and
key figures in his administration, earned nods for Alec Baldwin,
Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones and Vanessa Bayer as
well as a best variety sketch series nomination.
Talk show hosts Stephen Colbert, Samantha Bee and John Oliver, who
also have mercilessly skewered Trump and his policies, won
nominations in the variety show category.
The comedy series race features more familiar faces, with two-time
Emmy-winning political satire "Veep" nominated again. Millennial
hip-hop show "Atlanta," family racial comedy "black-ish," "Modern
Family," "Master of None," "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" and tech
comedy "Silicon Valley" round out the competition.
First-time Emmy nominees included Oscar-winning actor Robert De Niro
for his role as disgraced financier Bernard Madoff in "The Wizard of
Lies," 13-year-old newcomer Millie Bobby Brown for "Stranger Things"
and Britain's Claire Foy for her portrayal of a young Queen
Elizabeth II in "The Crown."
The Emmy awards will be presented at a ceremony hosted by Stephen
Colbert in Los Angeles on Sept. 17.
(Reporting by Piya Sinha-Roy and Jill Serjeant; Editing by Lisa Von
Ahn and Leslie Adler)
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