Final Emmy Predictions: Comedy Series and Acting Categories

By: Abe Friedtanzer, Chris James, Cláudio Alves, Nathaniel Rogers

Can "Ted Lasso" continue its winning streak at the Emmys? Will it also dominate the Supporting Actor category again with four nominees?

The Emmys tendency to nominate old favorites may come back to bite them. As noted previously, 14 previous nominees for Outstanding Comedy Series are vying for slots again this year. With only eight slots, it is impossible for them all to make it. Complicating matters more are buzzy new series, such as Peacemaker, Julia, Abbott Elementary, Ghosts, Only Murders in the Building, I Love That For You and Our Flag Means Death, among others. It doesn’t get any easier when moving down to the acting categories, particularly the stacked fields for Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress. Lots of Lone Votes of Faith among Team Experience. Tomorrow we will round out our Emmy predictions with the Limited Series categories. Nominations for the 74th annual Emmy Awards will be announced at 8:30am on Tuesday, July 12th by Melissa Fumero and JB Smoove.

Find out who Team Experience predicts will be nominated for the Comedy categories after the jump...

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Back to 'Broad City'

Let’s take a short break from film news and reviews and check in with TV. After a long wait the funniest show on TV is coming back. Which one is that you might ask? Why Broad City of course. Ilana (Ilana Glazer) and Abbi (Abbi Jacobson) are back after being away for than a year. And how our world have changed since they’ve been gone. However they seem to have remained as funny as ever. This time they will find themselves entangled with RuPaul, Jane Curtain, Steve Buscemi and Wanda Sykes. They will leave their beloved New York to gun-loving Florida. And Abbi’s nemesis Bevers is somewhat unrecognizable! We are beyond delighted at the prospect of a few hours on our couch with these hilarious women. You will be too after checking the trailer.

Broad City returns on August 23rd. In the meantime tell us what is your favorite moment from the previous three seasons.

Emmy FYC: Best Comedy Series - Girls

Emmy nomination voting begins Monday. For the next week or two we'll be sharing FYCs of some kind. Here's Chris...

Once a series falls out of Emmy's favor, it's rare for a show to bounce back into competition when up against unwavering favorites and shiny new toys. No show on television deserves to be welcomed back as much as HBO's Girls.

This year's fifth season was the show at its most character-driven, putting aside its zeitgeist grabbing self-referential devices in favor of a more laid back pace. Though its downshift in cultural focus arguably took it out of the headlines, there's now more breathing room to keep the antics organic and the progressions satisfying. Each episode is a self-contained gem with the story lines flowing coherently between them while it takes characters to emotionally rewarding places. It's the kind of payoff you only get from a incisively directed show in its prime. It's the kind of payoff that only comes from a show that knows its characters to the core. [More...]

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