TV Talk Podcast: In Emmy Comedy Race Is It ‘Ted Lasso’s To Lose, ‘Hacks’ To Capture, ‘Abbott Elementary’ In First At-Bat, ‘Black-ish’ In Its Last, Or…?

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Comedy is the subject today for this week’s edition of Deadline’s podcast, TV Talk. Deadline TV critic Dominic Patten and Awards Columnist and Chief Film Critic Pete Hammond take on the Emmy Awards race for Best Comedy Series, where Apple TV+’s juggernaut Ted Lasso is looking for a two-peat after taking the category in its first season last year.Certainly it is not uncommon to see shows repeat in the winners circle year after year.

In fact, ABC’s Modern Family took the prize five years in a row, followed by multiple victories by HBO’s Veep. However, it seems that in recent seasons voters have wanted to spread the wealth with Best Comedy Series one-time winners like The Marvelous Mrs.

Maisel, Fleabag and Schitt’s Creek, the latter pair winning the top prize for their first and only times in their final seasons.Are we looking at a realistic upset against presumed front-runner Ted Lasso?

If so, we speculate that HBO Max’s Hacks could be primed to do that, having already beaten Lasso for last year’s Comedy writing and directing Emmys (in addition to its Lead Comedy Actress win for Jean Smart).