Netflix’s Bela Bajaria Lauds History Makers Sofia Vergara & ‘Baby Reindeer’s Nava Mau As Streamer Celebrates Broad Emmy Nominations Haul
deadline.comNetflix content chief Bela Bajaria will be making a lot of pleasant phone calls today after the streamer landed 107 Emmy nominations across 35 different shows.
It’s not the streamer’s biggest nomination haul – that was 160 in 2020 – but it put it firmly in the lead with FX coming in a surprise second with 93 nominations, higher than HBO and Max.
There were sizeable hauls for British shows Baby Reindeer and The Crown, and Ripley, which it picked up after it had been produced, but Bajaria is most pleased about the diversity of its nominations.
Shows such as All The Light We Cannot See, Blue Eye Samurai, The Gentlemen, The Greatest Night In Pop, Griselda, Love on the Spectrum U.S., 3 Body Problem and The Upshaws were all recognized, highlighting its “breadth” of programming, according to Bajaria. “It’s amazing to see the nominations across 35 different titles, from animation to unscripted to docs, and obviously a strong showing from our UK slate so I’m really looking at the breadth of programming,” she told Deadline. “We really work with best-in-class creators across every different kind of genre of programming.
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