2024 Emmy Predictions: Outstanding Talk Series

We are going to replace this text all through the season, together with all our predictions, so be sure to maintain checking IndieWire for the most recent information from the 2024 Emmys race. The nomination spherical of voting takes place from June 13 to June 24, with the official Emmy nominations introduced Wednesday, July 17. Afterwards, last voting commences on August 15 and ends the evening of August 26. The 76th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards are set to happen on Sunday, September 15, and air reside on ABC at 8:00 p.m. ET/ 5:00 p.m. PT.

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It’s good that the Tv Academy not too long ago eliminated the phrase “selection” from the title of the Excellent Discuss Sequence class, however the nominations year-to-year have been something however. Conversations round this get difficult as a result of, in principle, it’s voters’ jobs to acknowledge what they assume is finally the perfect present, however many individuals argue that that’s been far more variable than what is usually recommended by the previous twenty years of winners.

Final 12 months was meant to be a recent begin. Gone from the class was “Final Week Tonight with John Oliver,” which received seven years in a row. However the TV Academy was finally satisfied by the argument that it was unfair for the HBO sequence that solely airs as soon as every week, and is predicated extra round scripted segments, to compete with the late evening applications that should placed on 5 exhibits every week, and are extra interview-focused.

In the end, in Oliver’s absence, the class went proper again to honoring “The Day by day Present.” The argument might be made that voters wished to honor Trevor Noah in his last season internet hosting the landmark Comedy Central sequence, however it is usually onerous to say they ever stopped honoring it. Since 2003, the one late evening hosts exterior of Jon Stewart to win the class are Noah, Oliver, and Stephen Colbert, who had been all “The Day by day Present” correspondents throughout Stewart’s historic Emmy-winning run.

With that type of chokehold the legacy of “The Day by day Present with Jon Stewart” has had on this Emmys class, it looks like there isn’t any query the present will win once more for this more moderen season the place, within the absence of securing a brand new full-time host, they satisfied Stewart to come back again for the Monday episodes.

However the consequence of the cable sequence’ complete dominance of the Excellent Discuss Sequence is that with out the inducement of profitable awards, it does really feel like the published nominees are on their final legs. A lot of the dialog round late evening has been what is going to occur when the hosts depart? We have already got seen James Corden exit, and CBS give his outdated timeslot to selection sequence “After Midnight.” Networks like NBC and ABC have given no indication of what the comply with up plan could be if Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, or Seth Meyers had been to ever cease internet hosting their exhibits.

It will be worst case situation, however it’s starting to really feel like with each Excellent Discuss Sequence and Excellent Scripted Selection Sequence, “The Day by day Present” and “Final Week Tonight with John Oliver” will simply win yearly till the exhibits they compete in opposition to die out.

Nominees are listed so as of their probability to win.

Energy Rankings:

1. “The Day by day Present” (Comedy Central)
2. “The Late Present with Stephen Colbert” (CBS)
3. “Jimmy Kimmel Reside!” (ABC)
4. “Late Evening with Seth Meyers” (NBC)

Will Win: “The Day by day Present”
Might Win: “The Late Present with Stephen Colbert”
Ought to Win: “Late Evening with Seth Meyers”

Extra Class Predictions:
Excellent Animated Program
Excellent Scripted Selection Sequence
Excellent Documentary or Nonfiction Sequence
Excellent Documentary or Nonfiction Particular

View IndieWire’s full set of predictions for the 76th Emmy Awards.

Final 12 months’s Winner: “The Day by day Present with Trevor Noah”
Nonetheless Eligible: Sure, however with out Trevor Noah.
Scorching Streak: Although the latest Emmys had been the primary time ever that Trevor Noah’s “The Day by day Present” received the Emmy, “The Day by day Present with Jon Stewart” and/or its earlier correspondents have received the class annually since 2003.
Notable Ineligible Sequence: “Final Week Tonight with John Oliver” (submitted as a Scripted Selection Sequence); “The Late Late Present with James Corden” (ended); “Hell of a Week with Charlamagne Tha God” (ended)