Leave it to the Television Academy to make major rule changes just two weeks before voting for the 2020 Emmys is scheduled to begin.
The big news out of the new guidance is that both the Original Comedy Series and Original Drama Series will have eight nominees each this year.
In 2019, under previous Emmy rules, only the Drama Series category qualified for that large a field. According to the organization, the fact submissions were up 15% over the previous competition year led to the change.
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