Apple TV+ has probably the most nominated program on the 2025 Emmy Awards in drama Severance, with 27 noms for its second season, and most nominated comedy collection in The Studio (23), which broke the document of one other Apple collection, Ted Lasso, for many nominations a freshman comedy has gotten whereas tying The Bear‘s document for many nominations for a comedy collection in a single 12 months.
“It’s thrilling and gratifying,” Apple TV+’s head of improvement Matt Cherniss stated. “I feel most of all, I’m simply joyful for the reveals themselves, the expertise concerned, on a regular basis and energy that they put into doing one thing authentic and completely different, and all of the dangers that they take alongside the way in which. To see that rewarded in reveals like Severance and The Studio and Shrinking, it’s simply nice.”
‘Severance’s Season 2 delay, massive price range and Season 3 standing
Severance‘s massive Emmy displaying comes after a three-year hole between Season 1 and Season 2 of the sci-fi drama from Dan Erickson and Ben Stiller. Cherniss wasn’t too frightened about followers not coming again after the prolonged hiatus.
“I feel there was at all times such a passionate fan base for the present,” he stated. “You by no means know precisely what’s going to occur, and there have been actually challenges round Covid and the strikes that made there be a little bit of time between seasons. However I feel that’s only a testomony to the originality of the collection. And if there was ever a second the place you would possibly query that, all you wanted to do was to choose up a script or have a look at a lower and understand simply how attention-grabbing and bold and wonderful that present was. I feel it at all times gave us the boldness that this was a present that the viewers was going to return again to. The truth that it grew as a lot because it did in Season 2, I feel was much more gratifying.”
As Deadline reported in February, Severance surpassed Ted Lasso to turn out to be Apple TV+’s most watched collection with the launch of Season 2. It grew to become a Nielsen rankings and popular culture mainstay throughout its run.
Loads has been written about Severance‘s excessive worth level too, with Season 2 price range rumored to be round $20 million, fueled by the present’s elaborate units, visible look and high-profile expertise.
“I feel it goes past a worth level while you’re speaking a few present like this; I feel that you recognize the creators of reveals, they take a giant leap of religion once they resolve the place they need to make investments their time and make investments by way of reveals,” Cherniss stated. “After they do and once they select us, we’re simply going to work tirelessly to verify they’ve the help they want, the sources they should deliver their imaginative and prescient to life, and that each a part of Apple is dedicated to creating that present a hit. And I feel that that’s what occurred with a present like Severance. We knew it was particular, and we knew it wanted a certain quantity of sources to get there, and we have been behind it. It’s gratifying to see that the viewers enjoys the present as a lot as they do, and that it’s getting the kudos that it so effectively deserves.”
Making an attempt to keep away from such a big hole between Seasons 2 and three, “they’re all actually arduous at work,” Cherniss stated concerning the inventive group engaged on subsequent season. “I’m hoping they take not less than a time off at the moment to to rejoice all their arduous work.”
As for after we can anticipate Season 3, “It’s in course of,” Cherniss stated. “I don’t assume we’re ready to say far more than that, however everyone seems to be working as rapidly as they will to deliver the present again. It’s clearly obtained to return again at as excessive a degree as has been now the signature of the collection, and in order that’s not one thing that we’re going to sacrifice.”
‘The Studio’s attain Past Hollywood & Season 2
Hollywood responded to a present about itself because the TV Academy acknowledged The Studio with 23 Emmy nominations. It’s at all times a bet whether or not an “inside baseball” collection like Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s showbiz comedy would discover a huge viewers however Apple TV+ went after their pitch, outbidding different streamers for it.
“Seth and Evan had a imaginative and prescient for this present from the beginning that was evident the primary time we spoke to them about it,” Cherniss stated. “And, whereas it actually has rather a lot to say about Hollywood, I feel that we have been at all times compelled by their imaginative and prescient, how they wished to inform their tales, the characters that they’d created. And I feel that the tone of the comedy, all of these have been issues that transcended the office of all of it, I suppose you might say, and made us assured that they have been grasp storytellers, and we’re going to discover a option to deliver this world to life in an authentic and a resonant manner.
Whereas Netflix chief Ted Sarandos made a cameo in Season 1, Apple TV+ executives didn’t. Cherniss isn’t tempted.
“All I do know definitively is that I can’t be making a cameo in Season 2,” he stated. As for what’s in retailer subsequent season, “they’re arduous at work in determining the place issues will go,” he stated laconically.
‘Shrinking’s increasing Emmy footpring
Invoice Lawrence and Jason Segal’s Shrinking made massive Emmy strides with its second season, going from 2 to 7 nominations, together with the present’s first Excellent Comedy Collection nod and first profession Emmy nomination for Harrison Ford.
“It’s such a beautiful present, it’s life-affirming, it’s heartwarming, but I feel it permits us to take a look at ourselves within the mirror in a very highly effective manner,” Cherniss stated. “Invoice and Jason and everybody concerned have put a lot effort and time into bringing these tales to life. It’s obtained an aspiration to it that I really like, and I feel actually resonates with individuals. It’s wonderful to be a small a part of Harrison Ford’s lengthy resume and profession. That’s enjoyable for all of us right here, and I simply couldn’t be happier for the present..”
Cherniss wouldn’t elaborate on Season 3, which is in manufacturing, with Michael J. Fox taking part in a brand new recurring character.
“We’re effectively into Season 3 at this level. I don’t need to give something away concerning the present itself and the arc of these characters, solely to say, I feel the present simply continues to get higher and higher with each season,” he stated.”
‘Pachinko’s Future
Total, Apple TV+ noticed 14 applications nominated at the moment.
“It’s nice to see Pachinko be honored, Presumed Innocent, Brian Tyree Henry, it’s nice to see such a effectively deserved nomination for such a robust efficiency in Dope Thief,” Cherniss stated.
Pachinko‘s two Emmy nominations, for manufacturing design and cinematography, come nearly a 12 months after the second season premiered on Apple TV+. There was no phrase on a conclusion for the collection, which had been envisioned for a three-season run. I hear there was an overture to a different streamer to probably choose it up, which fell by means of.
“Pachinko is a present we’re extraordinarily pleased with. I don’t assume we’ve something to announce about future seasons presently, however joyful for all of them,” Cherniss stated. “And it’s a present that I feel has a lot hope and aspiration inbuilt.”
‘Ted Lasso’s massive return
Talking of aspiration, nothing beats beloved Apple comedy Ted Lasso in that division. A two-time winner within the Excellent Comedy Collection class, the collection is returning after a multi-year break with a fourth season, slated to start manufacturing this summer time. Wouldn’t it be prepared for 2026 Emmy consideration?
“I’ve excessive hopes for season 4 of Ted Lasso, so we’re simply getting down that highway,” Cherniss stated. “I don’t know what extra could be stated about Ted Lasso that hasn’t already been stated, and we’re so excited that it’s coming again.”
He would’t present specifics whether or not the comedy would reinvent itself because it shifts its focus from a males’s to a ladies’s soccer group. “I don’t assume I need to say something concerning the path that the present goes, solely that I feel when you love Ted Lasso you’re gonna love the following season.”
‘Your Associates & Neighbors’s development trajectory
Apple TV+’s new drama Your Associates & Neighbors starring Jon Hamm, earned a really early Season 2 renewal and has achieved effectively on the platform. It earned one Emmy nomination, for fundamental title music.
“The present’s been an enormous hit for us, I anticipate that may solely develop with time,” Cherniss stated. “I discover the present to be wildly entertaining, I feel Jon Hamm is wonderful in it. It’s thought upsetting, and as collection go, I feel offers the viewers leisure and in addition, it was actually resonant. I’ve seen some early days on Season 2, it’s solely persevering with down that highway.”
Coming down the pike
Cherniss, who has been at Apple TV+ for the reason that starting as the primary improvement govt employed by toppers Zack Van Amburg and Jamie Erlicht, mirrored on the streamer’s evolution as an authentic programming participant.
“We’re 5 plus years into this, we’re nonetheless a brand new service, we’re nonetheless rising,” he stated. “I feel we’re all actually gratified by what we’re seeing at the moment as an indication that we proceed to maneuver in the suitable path. I feel there’s plenty of nice collection coming within the subsequent 12 months.”
A number of that he highlighted embody Chief of Battle, starring Jason Momoa, which Cherniss known as “as bold as any massive epic style motion present that you just’ll see,” The Morning Present Season 4 and Vince Gilligan’s new collection.
“I feel that, post-pandemic, post-strike, we’re simply beginning to hit our stride,” he stated.
