Emmys 2017 Preview: 'The Crown,' 'Stranger Things,' 'The Handmaid's Tale,' THR Award's Analyst Breaks Down Emmy Drama Category

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Scott Feinberg said the top shows in the running all prove a relevance to today's social and political climate.

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00:00I'm Tiffany Taylor for The Hollywood Reporter and welcome to our Emmy season preview.

00:10With voting about to kick off, we're looking at what could be one of the most unpredictable

00:13Emmys in years and we have The Hollywood Reporter's awards expert Scott Feinberg here to take

00:17us through it all.

00:18Thank you for being here Scott.

00:19Thanks for having me.

00:20So first, let's take a look at the upcoming Emmy dates that we need to watch out for.

00:23Yeah, the nominations period starts June 12th and runs through July 13th and then there's

00:28a bit of a wait until the actual Emmys itself which will be September 17th, but a lot of

00:33campaigning goes on before June 12th and then after we learn the nominees.

00:38So let's talk about the drama category which is missing a pretty big piece this year with

00:41Game of Thrones.

00:43Season 7 was pushed back until July, so what does that mean for the category this year?

00:47There's a big gap there.

00:48This is the show that won the last two years in a row for Best Drama Series.

00:52It was a dominant player as far as most nominations, most wins and now that's not going to be there.

00:58So I expect that the other nominees that were in the mix last year will have a pretty strong

01:03case this year.

01:04You're talking about Better Call Saul, The Americans, Homeland, House of Cards and Mr.

01:09Robot.

01:10But there's a healthy dose of new shows that are also in the mix.

01:13Definitely.

01:14What shows do you think we need to watch out for that are those first year shows that might

01:17sneak in there?

01:18Well, actually the streaming services have come on strong this year.

01:21So Netflix has given us both The Crown and Stranger Things, either one of which could win.

01:27And Hulu is surprisingly, really for the first time, a big player with The Handmaid's Tale,

01:32which has come on late and come on strong and has a lot of support.

01:36So we could see one of them sneak through.

01:38No show from a streaming service has ever won a series Emmy.

01:42So how far away do you think we are from that happening?

01:44This could very well be the year.

01:45I think they've never had more good options from streaming services and they've never had

01:50less of an HBO impediment to getting there.

01:53With the current political climate, how do you think that will affect nominations and

01:56wins for shows like The Americans and House of Cards and Homeland?

02:00It's going to be interesting to see because in the age of Trump, House of Cards, the corruption

02:06and things that seem so crazy and dramatic no longer seem as implausible.

02:11The Americans maybe seems more prescient and an insight into what's going on.

02:16Mr. Robot, we're talking about hacking.

02:18We're in the middle of looking at a nationwide international investigation into how that may

02:23have shaped the election.

02:24So there's certainly a sense of timeliness about a lot of these, Homeland too.

02:28This is about terrorism around the world and we're certainly dealing with that.

02:33Do you have a list of nominees who you think will be nominated for this category?

02:36It's a little early to start committing, but I think that I would be very surprised if

02:41The Crown, Stranger Things, and some of the past nominees like House of Cards, which Netflix

02:48is still very much behind.

02:49If they're not back in the mix, I think it's more on the bubble for shows like Better Call

02:54Saul and even Mr. Robot.

02:56Just again because the excitement factor of a Mr. Robot may now have transferred to something

03:02like The Handmaid's Tale.

03:03So I think we'll have a healthy mix of new shows, new nominees, first-time nominees,

03:09with returning contenders.

03:11There's no way that we don't see at least a few of the past nominees returning to the

03:17mix.

03:18Probably Homeland, I would say, is looking good as well.

03:20Well, we'll find out more when the Emmy nominees are announced in July, but until then, for more

03:24Emmy's coverage from Scott Feinberg, you can go to THR.com slash The Race.

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