Emmy picks: Who will take home an award?
- 9 years ago
With the Emmys, you never know when the new is finally going to overtake the old.
There is certainly a lot of "new" to behold at this year's awards on Fox .
Amazon and Netflix play an expanding role in the nominations; new shows such as Better Call Saul, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Transparent hope to take their place with the winners; and new rules that abolished judging panels and opened the voting to the entire membership of the Television Academy.
While you never want to discount inertia as an Emmy voter's default position, there's a palpable sense that the time has come to move on from Modern.
Will that all be enough to stop Modern Family from claiming a record sixth consecutive Emmy for best comedy, or stop four-time winner Mad Men from reclaiming the best-drama prize it last won in 2011?
Odds are the answers are "yes" and "no," and in that order.
There is certainly a lot of "new" to behold at this year's awards on Fox .
Amazon and Netflix play an expanding role in the nominations; new shows such as Better Call Saul, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Transparent hope to take their place with the winners; and new rules that abolished judging panels and opened the voting to the entire membership of the Television Academy.
While you never want to discount inertia as an Emmy voter's default position, there's a palpable sense that the time has come to move on from Modern.
Will that all be enough to stop Modern Family from claiming a record sixth consecutive Emmy for best comedy, or stop four-time winner Mad Men from reclaiming the best-drama prize it last won in 2011?
Odds are the answers are "yes" and "no," and in that order.