The Pitt won best drama at last year's Emmys. Returning winners often won again.
The Pitt, last year's drama winner, led the 78th Emmy nominations on 8 July with 25. It is nominated again for the top prize, decided on 14 September.
What happened
The Television Academy announced the 78th Emmy nominations on : HBO Max’s The Pitt, the incumbent drama winner, led all programmes with 25 nominations, including Outstanding Drama Series and a lead actor nomination for Noah Wyle; Hacks led comedy with 24.
The Emmy winners are named on Monday at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. NBC shows the ceremony and Mariska Hargitay hosts it. In comedy, Hacks has 24 nominations, the most ever for a comedy series.
The Pitt won Outstanding Drama Series, the Emmy for best drama, last year. On Wednesday the Television Academy, which runs the Emmys, gave it 25 nominations. That is more than any other programme and up from 13 a year earlier. They include best drama again and best lead actor for Noah Wyle.
Seven other shows are nominated for best drama: The Diplomat, The Gilded Age, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Paradise, Pluribus, Slow Horses and Your Friends & Neighbors.
Sources: Variety, Guardian, Television Academy
The Pattern
Since 2009, the best drama winner was nominated again ten times. We checked the Television Academy’s records to see whether each one won a second year running. The last eight are shown below.
Show the other 6 cases
The Read
History favours the champion. Five of the last eight winners who were nominated again won again. The Pitt also has the most nominations this year, and each show that won twice here was the most nominated drama of its year. The market opens at 58%, a little below that record, because eight shows are in the race.
The three losses show where the champion is weak. Two champions lost to a famous series at the height of a long run, and one lost to a new show in its first season. This year Pluribus, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and Paradise are all new, and Emmy voters have chosen a fresh show over a winner before.
The vote on decides it. The Pitt loses if voters see its second season as more of the same, which is how Homeland and The Handmaid’s Tale lost.
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