The 2021 Primetime Emmy Awards was a “Crown” -ing achievement for Netflix. The streaming service won Best Drama Series (“The Crown”) and Limited Series or Anthology Series (“The Queen’s Gambit”) for the first time in their history. During this telecast alone, Peter Morgan’s generational drama series took seven Emmys, and “Queen’s Gambit” added another two to its formidable haul following the Creative Arts Emmy Awards last weekend.

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Well, here’s a kinda weird, but sort of awesome thing: Screen Junkies’ “Honest Trailers” have been nominated for an Emmy, in the YouTube category, which I didn’t even know was a thing. Huh. But if you think industry appreciation is going top these guys from taking potshots at everyone else, you’d be dead wrong.

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The latest Honest Trailers video takes on the rest of the 2016 Emmy nominees, focusing on the shows in the Drama and Comedy categories and “The People v.

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While you might pejoratively call it “The Oscars for TV,” the truth is that these days, television has some of the best storytelling going, and Emmys are taking on a prestige not unlike those of the Academy Awards.

However, the landscape has changed with Netflix and Amazon becoming serious challengers to veteran networks like HBO and AMC, which has made the awards all the more exciting to watch.

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If you’re an Oscar watcher and starting to come out in hives at the lack of awards speculation between now and the festival season kicking off at the end of August, you’re in luck, because this week sees the announcement of the 2016 Emmy Award nominations. With TV increasingly threatening to take the pop culture limelight from the movies (if it hasn’t already), the small-screen landscape has changed a fair amount over the years, but the Emmys still don’t quite seem to have the same glitz level as the Oscars.

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It’s Emmy season, and we’re just a week away from the Television Academy announcing their 2016 nominees, and as has been the case in the last few years, they have a wealth of stuff to choose from, with “Game Of Thrones,” “House Of Cards,” “Orange Is The New Black,” “Downton Abbey,” “Veep,” “Transparent,” “Silicon Valley,” and “Fargo” all expected to bring in mighty hauls of nominations.

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Well, here’s another reason why we don’t watch TV. Creator David Simon’s show got mostly shut-out completely from this morning’s Emmy announcements, which is pretty much cause to burn down your TV set and shoot anyone on their nomination board on first sight (we erred, it got a nom for writing — Simon’s teleplay for the finale — but that’s it??).

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