What Was Ninth in Comedy Series this Year?

[wolfali Joined: Sep 4th, 2018 Topics: 181 Posts: 19078 View Predictions]

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Black-ish : 4 Emmy nominations including two for acting.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine : 2 Emmy nominations including one for acting.
The Great : 2 Emmy nominations including one for writing and one for directing
Ramy : 3 Emmy nominations including one for directing and two for acting.

FYC Emmys: "The Crown" in all categories, "I May Destroy You" in all categories, "It's a Sin" in all categories, "Small Axe" in all categories, Billie Piper ("I Hate Suzie"), Yvonne Strahovski ("Stateless") and Ruth Wilson ("His Dark Materials")

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[Disgraced Eve Polastri Stan Joined: Jul 29th, 2020 Topics: 1 Posts: 59 View Predictions]

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This is actually a hard one, there’s an argument to be had for all of these outside of Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

I’m going to say Ramy because of that Directing nomination. The Great seems relatively weaker given that Fanning was snubbed for Ellis Ross. I was about to say that Black-ish seemed weaker than Ramy given that it only hit in acting and tech categories, but it was able to manage a series nomination for 3 years with similar showings, so it’s a strong possibility.

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[Dan Backslide Joined: Apr 24th, 2016 Topics: 45 Posts: 3258 View Predictions]

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Probably Ramy, but maybe The Great.

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[wolfali Joined: Sep 4th, 2018 Topics: 181 Posts: 19078 View Predictions]

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Dan Backslide wrote:

Probably Ramy, but maybe The Great.

I actually think had there been a 2% rule The Great could have gotten nominated for Series because I think it can do exactly what Succession did last year and win Writing.

FYC Emmys: "The Crown" in all categories, "I May Destroy You" in all categories, "It's a Sin" in all categories, "Small Axe" in all categories, Billie Piper ("I Hate Suzie"), Yvonne Strahovski ("Stateless") and Ruth Wilson ("His Dark Materials")

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[Allan Veríssimo Joined: Feb 22nd, 2019 Topics: 30 Posts: 686 View Predictions]

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I would risk The Great because of the nominations in Directing and Writing.

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[Couverture Joined: Jun 16th, 2019 Topics: 0 Posts: 782 View Predictions]

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Probably one of Ramy or The Great. My gut says Ramy.

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[Riley Chow Joined: Oct 11th, 2010 Topics: 20 Posts: 2137 View Predictions]

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It was too soon for The Great to break out with its late release and young cast.  I only had it in writing because of comedy directing’s bias toward series nominees.  Ramy on the other hand had its stage set and it still missed writing.  I expect it to contract like Better Call Saul and This is Us did after capitalizing on the open field last year.  Voted black-ish.

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[Couverture Joined: Jun 16th, 2019 Topics: 0 Posts: 782 View Predictions]

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Riley Chow wrote:

because of comedy directing’s bias toward series nominees.

Weird how 4/6 shows they nominated missed Series.

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[Megan Joined: Dec 1st, 2019 Topics: 0 Posts: 11288 View Predictions]

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Black-ish was snubbed.

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[AayaanUpadhyaya Joined: Dec 15th, 2011 Topics: 1 Posts: 677 View Predictions]

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I think it was Black-ish. That Tracee Ellis Ross nomination is very telling.

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[Atypical Joined: Dec 1st, 2011 Topics: 38 Posts: 3131 View Predictions]

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“black-ish”

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[Rachel Joined: Sep 17th, 2018 Topics: 1 Posts: 490 View Predictions]

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The Great was only nominated for its pilot, right? I liked the pilot a lot, but I had to quit the show after episode 4. The show was too weird for me. Which is odd, because I loved The Favourite. I think Black-ish was probably 9th.

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[wilfredpickles Joined: Jul 15th, 2017 Topics: 1 Posts: 176 View Predictions]

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Voted black-ish since it’s the only show that overperformed out of these.

One thing to note about The Great and Ramy is that the former had 3 submissions in Directing (and 1 Writing) and got in both. Ramy had 1 Directing and 2 Writing submissions; would love to hear people’s theories about why it missed there. Did The Great simply submit more strategically, or was it actually stronger?

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