Pete Hammond’s Emmy Predictions 2022: Limited Series – Four Real-Life Shows Gang Up On HBO’s ‘White Lotus’, So Who Prevails?
deadline.comWithout question, the Limited Series area has become perhaps the most prestigious, and certainly the richest, of all the Emmy program categories.
There can also be no question that the range of Limited Series nominees — with only five allowed rather than the eight in expanded Comedy Series and Drama Series — is also limited, and there is a movement to bring it in line with those categories.
They should definitely do that, as it is a category that continues to explode with contenders representing the best work on television today.
Four of the five nominees this year — three of them from upstart Hulu — revolve around real people. And then there is the outlier, which stands out as the total opposite of the others but earned the most nominations by far.Dopesick, HuluDanny Strong’s critically acclaimed look at the opioid crisis in America, and the corrupt Big Pharma company behind much of it, is certainly powerful television, a project that its creator says has turned him from simply TV writer-producer to activist.
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