The Artistic Arts Emmy Awards on Saturday handed out trophies within the Excellent Casting for a Comedy Sequence, Drama Sequence and Restricted or Anthology Sequence classes. They went to FX’s The Bear (casting administrators Jeanie Bacharach, Jennifer Rudnicke, Mickie Paskal, and AJ Hyperlinks), HBO’s The White Lotus (Meredith Tucker, Francesco Vedovati, and Barbara Giordani) and Netflix’s Beef (Charlene Lee and Claire Koonce), respectively
Final yr, two of the winners within the casting classes, Succession for drama sequence and The White Lotus, which competed as a restricted sequence in Season 1, went on to triumph every week later as Excellent Drama Sequence and Restricted Sequence winners, respectively. The Casting for a Comedy Sequence Emmy was received by ABC’s Abbott Elementary whereas Apple TV+’s Ted Lasso repeated as Comedy Sequence Emmy winner. The yr earlier than, the winners within the three casting classes all went on to triumph within the marquee scripted classes.
The Bear and Beef are main most odds for Excellent Comedy Sequence and Restricted Sequence, respectively.
The White Lotus‘ win within the Casting For Drama Sequence class is considerably shocking because the newly-minted drama sequence went head-to-head with the fourth and closing season of HBO’s drama juggernaut Succession, which received the casting class for its second and third seasons in 2020 and 2022 and each instances additionally nabbed Excellent Drama Sequence.
Succession nonetheless is taken into account the odds-on favourite within the high drama sequence subject, with The White Lotus working second on many prediction lists. It’s doable that the latter’s anthological nature, that includes largely a brand new forged every season, tipped the scales in its favor within the drama casting class this yr.
Casting for a Comedy Sequence has been a comparatively dependable predictor for the Excellent Comedy Sequence Emmy winner. Earlier than final yr, the earlier seven exhibits to take house the Casting For a Comedy Sequence statuette all went on to additionally win the Excellent Comedy Sequence class every week later.
Nonetheless, TV Academy tends to point out inertia generally, sticking with favorites for awhile. Fashionable Household received Excellent Comedy Sequence for 5 consecutive years; solely the primary of these wins was proceeded by a Casting For a Comedy Sequence Emmy as voters moved on to acknowledge different exhibits.
Ted Lasso did the identical final yr with a second consecutive Excellent Comedy Sequence Emmy and will prolong its streak to a few although The Bear’s buzz is kind of robust.
Casting for Drama Sequence has efficiently predicted the eventual Excellent Drama Sequence winner in six of the final eight years, together with the final three years with Succession, The Crown and Succession once more.
The winners within the Excellent Restricted or Anthology Sequence (and its predecessors, Excellent Restricted Sequence, Miniseries, Miseries Or Film) have very carefully adopted the winners within the corresponding casting class during the last twenty years, with solely a few deviations, together with just one prior to now 10 years. The White Lotus, The Queen’s Gambit and Watchmen took the long-form casting class the final three years earlier than additionally successful the Excellent Restricted/Anthology Sequence throughout the primary telecast.
Succession tops the listing of packages with most Emmy nominations this yr, 27. The White Lotus is third with 23 nominations; The Bear sixth with 13.
