What Was Ninth in Comedy Series this Year?

[wolfali Joined: Sep 4th, 2018 Topics: 224 Posts: 8938 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 MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL, SUCCESSION AND THE CROWN IN ALL CATEGORIES. Tony Shalhoub ("Maisel"), Cate Blanchett ("Mrs. America"), Matthew Macfadyen, Jeremy Strong, Sarah Snook ("Succession"), Tracey Ullman ("Mrs. America") and Louis Gossett Jr. ("Watchmen")

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[Disgraced Eve Polastri Stan Joined: Jul 29th, 2020 Topics: 1 Posts: 27 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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[Human Bartender Joined: Apr 24th, 2016 Topics: 53 Posts: 4561 View Predictions]

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Probably Ramy, but maybe The Great.

Let’s Go Bucks

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[wolfali Joined: Sep 4th, 2018 Topics: 224 Posts: 8938 View Predictions]

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Human Bartender 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 MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL, SUCCESSION AND THE CROWN IN ALL CATEGORIES. Tony Shalhoub ("Maisel"), Cate Blanchett ("Mrs. America"), Matthew Macfadyen, Jeremy Strong, Sarah Snook ("Succession"), Tracey Ullman ("Mrs. America") and Louis Gossett Jr. ("Watchmen")

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[Allan Veríssimo Joined: Feb 22nd, 2019 Topics: 8 Posts: 407 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: 4 Posts: 730 View Predictions]

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

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[9 Joined: Oct 11th, 2010 Topics: 156 Posts: 17221 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: 4 Posts: 730 View Predictions]

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9 wrote:

because of comedy directing’s bias toward series nominees.

Weird how 4/6 shows they nominated missed Series.

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[Sade Joined: Dec 1st, 2019 Topics: 0 Posts: 6088 View Predictions]

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Black-ish was snubbed.

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[AayaanUpadhyaya Joined: Dec 15th, 2011 Topics: 15 Posts: 2104 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: 346 Posts: 20917 View Predictions]

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“black-ish”

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[Rachel Joined: Sep 17th, 2018 Topics: 6 Posts: 1783 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: 3 Posts: 556 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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