No to Half Man, yes to Matthew Rhys: this year’s biggest Emmy surprises

This year’s nominations saw a huge showing for Apple breakout Widow’s Bay but Richard Gadd’s Baby Reindeer follow-up and the final Stranger Things season struggled

The Pitt, Hacks and newcomers Widow’s Bay and Pluribus lead 2026 Emmy nominations

Emmy nominations 2026: the list of key categories

This year’s Emmy nominations have just been revealed in a colossal 118-category megadump. So with this in mind, let me be the first to say that Survivor was absolutely robbed blind for outstanding sound mixing for a reality program. Its lack of a nomination deserves nothing but scorn, and the 26,000 members of the television academy deserve to hang their heads in shame.

But, on the slim off-chance that you didn’t come here for an explosive 800-word screed about the injustice of failing to recognise a 26-year-old television programme in a category I didn’t know existed until about 15 minutes ago, the Emmys fortunately managed to ignore a wealth of bigger shows, too. Chiefly I’m talking about Stranger Things here.
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