'Succession' vs 'Squid Game' vs 'Stranger Things';
'Hacks' vs 'Ted Lasso' and 'Only Murder in the Building', the Hulu comedy series that also sees Martin Short and Steve Martin as best actors: the Emmy Awards verdict for prime time shows is about to arrive .
The ceremony - SNL veteran Kenan Thompson star performer - will air on Monday 12 in prime time (not Sunday when the NFL championship begins), in Italy exclusively on Sky Atlantic and in simulcast on Sky Uno (and streaming on Now) .
Series airing between June 2021 and May 2022 are in the running: therefore popular titles such as 'The Crown' and 'Handmaid's Tale', whose new seasons have not yet been released, are excluded from the Oscars for TV 2022.
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With 14 nominations, the South Koreans of "Squid Game", released on Netflix and becoming an incredible success, have conquered the record of nominations for a series not in English.
Among the comedy series' Lasso 'he will have to face' Barry ',' Hacks', 'Only Murders in the Building', 'Abbott Elementary', 'What we do in the Shadows',' The Fantastic Lady Maisel 'and' Curb Your Enthusiasm '. The drama series competing are, in addition to' Succession ',' Stranger Things' and "Squid Game", also Netflix's' Ozark ', AMC's' Better Call Saul', 'Euphoria' (HBO), 'Severance' (Apple) and 'Yellowjackets' (Showtime).
Actors awarded in past editions will return to the competition,
Equally competitive is the competition for the best leading actresses: with laughter, the triumph of 2021, Jean Smart of 'Hacks', will compete against the 2018 winner Rachel Brosnahan of 'Mrs Maisel'.
And then Kaley Cuoco of 'The Flight Attendant', Issa Rey of 'Insecure', Elle Fanning ('The Great') and 32-year-old Quinta Brunson (Abbott Elementary): in her first Emmys, she has already made history with a record of three nominations, never in a single year to an African-American woman.
The category of actresses in the drama series is also crowded: Zendaya ('Euphoria') compete against Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh from "Killing Eve", Laura Linney from 'Ozark', Reese Witherspoon ('The Morning Show') and Melanie Lynskey from ' Yellowjackets'
while Colin Firth and Toni Collette compete for best actor and actress in the disturbing miniseries 'The Staircase - Una Morte Sospetta', Hbo's 'true crime' directed by Antonio Campos.
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