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With just five days remaining in the Emmy voting period, the race for television’s top honors remains remarkably competitive across major categories. Final ballots opened on August 17, with winners set to be announced over Labor Day weekend and during the live telecast. Despite HBO Max’s commanding position as the most-nominated network this year, history suggests that leading the field in nominations does not guarantee victory in the top prize races.
HBO Max’s medical drama “The Pitt” holds the record with 25 total nominations, while the network’s comedy series “Hacks” follows closely with 24 nominations—the most ever for a comedy program. However, data shows that when a single network dominates both drama and comedy categories, it wins at least one of the two top series prizes only 22 percent of the time. The most-nominated program overall has a stronger track record, winning its category 56 percent of the time, though this streak was broken last year when the heavily favored “Severance” lost to “The Pitt.”
In the limited series category, HBO Max’s “DTF St. Louis” aims to overtake Netflix’s “Beef” for the top prize. Despite holding 16 nominations compared to its rival’s 13, the nomination frontrunner in this category has proven least reliable, winning only 36 percent of the time since the category’s current format began. Recent years have seen upsets consistently, with the most-nominated limited series losing four of the last five ceremonies.
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Originally reported by Variety →
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