Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVEven with 71 years of history behind them, the Primetime Emmy Awards managed to find a way to still have a first: The first time the number of nominees in key categories wouldn’t be known until the nominations-round ballots were released.This year, due to the steady rise of the number of submissions in certain categories, the Television Academy announced that the number of drama and series nominees would be expanded to allow for eight, while others would be determined by the total number of submissions in the category.
For those with 1-19 submissions, there would be a “sliding scale” of zero to four nominees, while 20-80 submissions would result in five nominees, 81-160 submissions would net six.
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