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deadline.comA column chronicling events and conversations on the awards circuit. So now, as they say, is crunch time as this column leads into the first weekend where 20,000-plus eligible Emmy voters (I am but one of them) have ballots if not in hand then at least on their laptop and can begin voting in the categories they are eligible to judge.
All members get to weigh in on the program categories. Others, depending on their branch (I am in the Writers Branch and a former Governor there) also get to vote on their branch selections.
The ballots went live Thursday and of course have all the usual suspects and obvious front-runners to choose from. The sheer number of voters, and the overwhelming amount of content thrown at voters during the very long Emmy season that started six months ago, simply tends to favor the best-known and most-written-about programs.
So as my colleague (and Deadline TV critic) Dominic Patten and I have been discussing on our weekly TV Talk podcast, the leading candidates are obvious.
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