The 2019 Emmy landscape could have looked pretty bleak, considering the number of decorated shows that ended last season (e.g., The Americans and Portlandia) or were off the air this season (e.g., Atlanta, The Crown, The Handmaid’s Tale, Homeland, Silicon Valley, Stranger Things and Westworld) — but it doesn’t, thanks to the considerable number of high-quality new shows poised to fill the void.
Now, as nomination voting gets underway, the question is, which ones are pretenders and which are real contenders? An early clue is often the three awards shows that take place roughly a half-year before TV Academy members get to weigh in: the Golden Globes, the SAG Awards and the Critics’ Choice Awards. While their voting bodies do not directly correlate with the TV Academy’s, their picks do…
