Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVWriter-producer-director Eric Kripke has been working in genre television for almost 20 years.
His long-running “Supernatural” featured dramatic, awards-bait themes such as chosen family, religion, addiction and working through trauma (in addition to demon-hunting), but only picked up three Emmy noms, all in Creative Arts categories (two for sound editing and one for music composition).That show, which launched in 2005, was on the CW, though.
In more recent years, shiny new streamers and premium cable networks with big budgets to spend on talent and production value, as well as awards marketing materials, got into the genre game, piquing growing interest from the Television Academy.
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