Emmy Awards 2018: "Game of Thrones" and Netflix lead the dance

Prizes will be awarded on September 17th.

Due to the timing of his previous season, "Game of Thrones" was not included in the Emmys last year, opening the door to Hulu's dystopian drama. "The Handmaid's Tale" took the advantage, becoming the first show of a streaming platform to win the best drama.

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But "Game of Thrones" is an Emmy favorite. One point against: his seventh season started almost a year ago, a long time especially compared to the second season of "The Handmaid's Tale", which comes out in April and which is more more relevant for many left-wing voters.

Or maybe things will go in another direction

Last year was a year of change at the Emmys with rookie shows like "The Handmaid's Tale", "The Crown "," Stranger Things "," This Is Us "and" Westworld "while typing the best drama nominations. They were all among the seven nominees in the best drama category, with FX's favorite darling "The Americans" also receiving a nod for their last season. It's not uncommon for Emmy voters to give a big trophy to their release: series like "The Sopranos", "Breaking Bad" and "Everybody Loves Raymond" have all won awards for their last seasons.

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The last time the Emmy of the best actress in a comedy went to someone not named Julia Louis-Dreyfus, President Barack Obama was in his first term

With the last season of "Veep" delayed because Ms. Louis-Dreyfus was treated for cancer (good news: the filming will start with Ms. Dreyfus next month), there will be a new winner of the best actress in a comedy category for the first time times since 2011.

The race is wide open. Rachel Brosnahan, who plays the role of a 1950s housewife turned comedian in "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" of Amazon, is one of the favorites. (She won the Golden Globe in the same category in January.) Others in the race are the two-time nominee Tracee Ellis-Ross of "black-ish," the seven-time Emmy winner Allison Janney for the CBS sitcom "Mom," HBO's Issa Rae "Insecure", Lily Tomlin of Netflix's "Grace and Frankie" and Pamela Adlon of FX's "Better Things".

The absence of "Veep" also means that there will be a new winner in the best comedy for the first time in four years. (Since 2007, there have been, remarkably, only three best comedy winners: "Veep", "Modern Family" and "30 Rock".) Donald Glover's comedy limit, "Atlanta", will be a favorite, with "The wonderful Ms. Maisel."

Superstars, indeed

NBC's "Jesus Christ Superstar" could make history of pop culture. There are three people attached to the NBC musical who are on the doorstep to join the EGOT Club – the exclusive and somewhat random assortment of people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony.

John Legend, who played Jesus Christ in the musical and was nominated for Best Actor in a limited series or film, won an Oscar in 2015 for Best Original Song for "Glory" from the movie "Selma ", and a Tony to serve as producer for" Jitney, "who won the best revival of a play last year. He has also won several Grammys.

The musical has been nominated for the best live variety. Andrew Lloyd Webber and his long-time collaborator, Tim Rice, producers of the TV musical, are both shy Emmy of an EGOT

There have been a dozen EGOT winners, including Audrey Hepburn, Whoopi Goldberg, Mel Brooks and Scott Rudin. . Robert Lopez, the acclaimed songwriter behind "Frozen" and "Book of Mormon" of Broadway, was the last person to join the club four years ago. This year, he became the first to win the so-called "double EGOT". His wife and regular collaborator, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, has won two Oscars and two Grammys

Netflix is ​​getting closer to HBO.

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Netflix's growth at the Emmys is staggering. In 2015, the streaming service had 34 appointments. In 2016, it had 54. Last year, this figure had risen to 91, just behind HBO.

This year, he reached 112th place, finally marking the series of 17 consecutive appointments of HBO in the nominations.

It represents a change of guard, even though the Netflix shows are not supposed to capture the best dramatic and comic prices.

And the end-of-era feeling becomes even more pronounced with HBO's new ownership of AT & T. The telecommunications company said that changes are coming to the network for the purpose of Increase subscriptions.

As usual, Netflix spared no expense in its Emmys campaign. He opened a 30,000 square foot space in Los Angeles in May and June, organizing more than a dozen events for the crowds that, he hoped, had a lot of Emmy voters. Netflix has also recently purchased a few dozen billboards along the Sunset Strip, where it can broadcast even more commercials.

But if Netflix is ​​the most extravagant marketer, he is far from the only one.

So-called Events For Your Consideration – screenings and roundtables funded by networks and studios to get stars and free food and booster in front of Emmy voters – have expanded to an incredible clip. Last year, there were 61 Television Academy sanctioned events in Los Angeles and New York during the Emmy campaign. According to a spokesman for the Academy, this year, she almost doubled to 116.

Let's watch the late night battles.

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John Oliver is clearly the favorite in the category of talk shows, with his weekly HBO series, "Last Week Tonight", winning the last two years.

Colbert, the CBS host whose show became the most watched late in the evening, breaks this series? Omedy Central's Trevor Noah returned to the category after being snubbed last year. "The Daily Show" once dominated the variety category, winning 11 times with Jon Stewart as a host. Jimmy Fallon, who has seen his public "Tonight Show" shrink, made a pretty aggressive campaign point this year but was not nominated.

"Saturday Night Live," which has historically not been a favorite of Emmy voters, had the best price performance in its 43-year history last year. The NBC sketch show brought together nine Emmys in 2017, the largest number of performances. The praise for the show cooled considerably last season, but they still had 21 nominations, one less than last year.

In any case, the show will have an important role: Colin Jost and Michael Che, who will host this year's Emmys, and who will likely bring several cast members to participate in what will be a "refueling" ceremony. .

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