Emmy, Eve Lockdown Edition Awards

(by Alessandra Baldini) (ANSA) - NEW YORK, 19 SEPTEMBER - Very current dystopias such as "Watchmen" and "The Handmaid's Tale" which evoke the political tensions of our days but also shows characterized by lightness such as "Schitt's Creek" and " Marvelous Mrs. Meisel ".

   No red carpet, no theater crowded with insiders, maybe even really special evening dresses: because of the Coronavirus, Emmy night, broadcast in prime time on ABC TV, will be different from past editions in format, but this does not mean that the awards they will be no less relevant than the past.

    With the curtain down on the great favorites of past editions such as "Game of Thrones", "Veep" and "Fleabag", Netflix dominates with 160 nominations but Apple TV and Disney + arrive at the appointment with their dose of nominations respectively for the series "Morning Show "and" The Mandalorian ": confirming an increasingly crowded television scene.

    For the 72nd edition, productions made between June 2019 and last May could compete, therefore finished before the outbreak of the pandemic.

But to frame the evening of the Oscars for television will not be only the health challenge that has kept billions of people in lockdown and in front of the small screen: this edition comes under the banner of Black Lives Matter events: and here is the importance of shows such as " Watchmen "(Regina King protagonist) by Hbo, based on a DC Comics comic set in Tulsa, Oklahoma under a Robert Redford presidency threatened by white supremacists.

    The miniseries set the 2020 edition record with 26nominations, followed by twenty for "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel", "Ozark" and "Succession" (18 at par) and 15 for "TheMandalorian".

By snatching the lead from Hbo, which had maintained it 19 times out of twenty in the past, and which this time came second with 107 nominations, Netflix promises to make a clean sweep by winning placements in ten of the eleven categories.

   (HANDLE).