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UPDATED: June 6, 2023
2023 Emmy Predictions:
Excellent animated program
“ARCHER” — “Distraction Action” — Season 13, Episode 7 (Airing October 6) Pictured (L-R): Cheryl/Carol Tunt (voice of Judy Greer), Cyril Figgis (voice of Chris Parnell), Pam Poovey (voice of Amber Nash), AJ (voice of Kimberly Woods), Lana Kane (voice of Aisha Tyler), Sterling Archer (voice of H. Jon Benjamin), Algernop Krieger (voice of Lucky Yates). CR: FXX
Weekly commentary: Scott Mescudi, better known as rapper and musician Kid Cudi, is in this year’s Emmy race for his groundbreaking animated series ‘Entergalactic’, which was streamed on Netflix. Playing the role of Jabari, for which he was recognized as an honoree of the Critics Choice Association’s Celebration of Black Cinema and Television in December 2022, the Grammy winner looks poised to add another industry award nomination to his credits. He’s taking on his Netflix counterpart “Big Mouth,” alongside classics like FX’s “Archer,” Fox’s “The Simpsons,” and Comedy Central’s “South Park.”
Coincidentally, the huge success of Sony Pictures’ “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” seems to have put the industry in a very animation-friendly mood.
Voting for Emmy nominations runs from June 15 to June 26. The Primetime Emmy nominations will be announced on July 12. Check back every Thursday for the latest updates. All information is preliminary and subject to change.
And the predicted nominees are:
- “Big mouth” (Netflix)
- “Bob’s burgers” (Fox)
- “Entergalactic” (Netflix)
- “The Simpsons” (Fox)
- “Archer” (FX)
Next in line
- “South Park(Comedy Central)
- “Mike Judge’s Beavis and Butthead” (Paramount+)
- “Rick and Morty” (adult swimming)
- “Family man” (Fox)
- “Solar Opposites(Hulu)
Other top level features
- “Star Trek: lower decks” (Paramount+)
- “Central park” (Apple TV+)
- “digman!” (CBS)
- “Little devil” (FX)
- “Primal by Genndy Tartakovsky” (adult swimming)
- “Harley Quinn(HBO)
- “Duncanville(Hulu)
- “koala man(Hulu)
- “The legend of Vox Machina(Prime video)
- “American father(TBS)
All eligible titles (alphabetized by network)**
- “Primal by Genndy Tartakovsky” (adult swimming)
- “Rick and Morty” (adult swimming)
- “Central park” (Apple TV+)
- “digman!” (CBS)
- “South Park(Comedy Central)
- “Star Wars: The Bad Batch” (Disney+)
- “Bob’s burgers” (Fox)
- “Family man” (Fox)
- “The Great North” (Fox)
- “The Simpsons” (Fox)
- “Archer” (FX)
- “Little devil” (FX)
- “Harley Quinn(HBO)
- “Velma(HBO)
- “Duncanville(Hulu)
- “koala man(Hulu)
- “Solar Opposites(Hulu)
- “Agent Elvis” (Netflix)
- “Big mouth” (Netflix)
- “Cyberpunk” (Netflix)
- “Entergalactic” (Netflix)
- “Mulligan” (Netflix)
- “Mike Judge’s Beavis and Butthead” (Paramount+)
- “Star Trek: lower decks” (Paramount+)
- “Fairfax(Prime video)
- “The legend of Vox Machina(Prime video)
- “American father(TBS)
** This official list and/or category entry is not yet complete or confirmed and is subject to change.
Category winner 2022: “Arcane” (Netflix) – Episode: “When These Walls Come Tumbling Down” — Christian Linke, executive producer/story by; Marc Merrill, Brandon Beck, Jane Chung and Thomas Vu, executive producers; Jerôme Combe and Melinda Wunsch Dilger, co-executive producers; Pascal Charrue and Arnaud Delord, co-executive producers/directed by; Alex Yee, co-executive producer/written by/story by; Ash Brannon, co-executive producer/story by; Conor Sheehy, story of; Barthelemy Maunoury, animation director; David Lyerly, voice director
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