Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVIt may be the dawn of a new era: Freshman series, especially in the unscripted categories, are having their moment with the Television Academy.Of 15 nominees across competition, unstructured and structured programs, almost half (seven) were newcomers to the Emmy race, with six of those seeing accolades their first time eligible.
In unstructured, this includes Food Network’s remotely produced “Amy Schumer Learns to Cook”; Netflix’s “Cheer” and “Kevin Hart: Don’t F**k This Up”; and HBO’s “We’re Here” while in structured the new nominees are Netflix’s “Love Is Blind” and HGTV’s “A Very Brady Renovation.” Fox’s “The Masked Singer” finally broke into the competition-program category its second year.
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