‘Severance’ leads Emmy nominees with 27 and ‘The Studio’ tops comedies with 23 as AppleTV+ dominates

By ANDREW DALTON Associated Press LOS ANGELES Severance separated itself from the field with Emmy nominations Tuesday while The Studio led comedy nominees with in a dominant year for Apple TV No other dramas came close to the dystopian workplace series Severance which achieved a convergence of acclaim and audience buzz for its second season Related Articles Daytime Emmy Award nominees revealed Nate Bargatze set to host the Emmy Awards Leading acting nominations came for Adam Scott and Britt Lower for what amounted to dual roles as their characters innie work selves and outie home selves Tramell Tillman got a supporting nod for playing their tone-shifting pineapple-wielding supervisor Ben Stiller got a directing nomination Apple s Hollywood satire The Studio was expected to make a big showing for its first season but it romped over more established shows like Hacks which got and The Bear which got The Studio co-creator Seth Rogen personally got three nominations for acting writing and directing Its A-list roster of guest stars brought in a bounty with nominations for Martin Scorsese Ron Howard Bryan Cranston Anthony Mackie and Zo Kravitz The Penguin HBO s dark drama from the Batman universe was also surprisingly dominant in the limited series category with nominations including nods for leads Colin Farrell and Cristin Milioti Netflix s acclaimed Adolescence got nominations including a supporting actor nod for -year-old Owen Cooper who plays a -year-old suspected of a killing Harvey Guill n and Brenda Song read the nominations in key categories Key nominees for the Emmy Awards The nominees for best drama series are Andor Paradise Severance Slow Horses The Diplomat The Pitt The Last of Us and The White Lotus The nominees for best comedy series are Hacks The Bear The Studio Only Murders in the Building Abbott Elementary Nobody Wants This Shrinking and What We Do in the Shadows The nominees for outstanding limited series are Adolescence Black Mirror Dying For Sex Monsters The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story and The Penguin The nominees for best comedy actor are Seth Rogen The Studio Martin Short Only Murders in the Building Jeremy Allen-White The Bear Adam Brody Nobody Wants This Jason Segel Shrinking The nominees for best comedy actress are Uzo Aduba The Residence Kristen Bell Nobody Wants This Quinta Brunson Abbott Elementary Jean Smart Hacks Ayo Edibiri The Bear Two categories were publicized early on CBS Mornings The nominees for talk series are The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Jimmy Kimmel Live and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert The nominees for reality competition series are The Amazing Race RuPaul s Drag Race Survivor Top Chef and The Traitors Severance delivers big for Apple TV Severance has become a signature show for Apple TV The streamer has gotten plenty of Emmy nominations for dramas including The Morning Show and Slow Horses and Ted Lasso was downright dominant on the comedy side But Apple has lacked the kind of breakaway prestige drama that HBO seems to produce perennially That could change when the Emmys are handed out in September Adam Scott and Britt Lower got lead acting nominations for what amounted to dual roles as their characters innie work selves and outie home selves Tramell Tillman also got a nod for playing their tone-shifting pineapple-wielding supervisor and Ben Stiller got a directing nomination Severance got nominations for its first season in but won just two for its music and its title sequence How streaming has changed TV and the Emmys All the shows are living in the splintered world of the streaming era and the like the Oscars its most of acclaimed nominees rarely have the huge audience they once did While an impressive average of million people per episode watched Wyle on The Pitt at several point on HBO Max according to Warner Bros Discovery years ago an average of million sat down on the same night and watched him on ER on NBC The broadcast networks have largely become Emmy non-entities with a insufficient shining exceptions ABC s Abbott Elementary has annually drawn plenty of comedy nominations and should get its share this year And Oscar-winner Kathy Bates is a front-runner for the best actress in a comedy Emmy for her role on CBS s Matlock She was the first person nominated in the category from a structure show since and would be the first to win it since CBS will air the th Primetime Emmy Awards from the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on Sept Nate Bargatze is slated to host